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It wasn’t any better but it was a hell of a lot simpler.
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The emotion that seized him then was terror, desire, a love and a hatred bigger and worse than them both.
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An exercise in lateral imagination. (Or: Martin Odegaard kicks on at Real Madrid.)
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It doesn’t sound half as tender as it should, coming out of his mouth.
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Ibiza back to Colney, and everything in between.
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“I don’t think you ever bought your own cigarettes in the six years I knew you.”
“You’ve known me eighteen years,” Art corrects, instinctively.
(anyway don't be a stranger!)
Bookmarked by evenings (offshores)
02 Feb 2026
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It just creeps up on you, like a shadow.
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28 Jan 2026
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And you wish that you could know everything by the way he chases you on the pitch, the way he can cut away and back and then come up ahead of you just where you need him, but you know even that can fade. Even that can fool a man, give him reassurance about something that does not exist.
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Jannik’s not sure how they ended up here. Five minutes ago, he’d been coming back from the awkward post-victory photoshoot in the Center Court lounge, stopping by the deserted cafeteria for a coffee and to massage his aching quads. He hadn’t expected anyone else to join him except maybe Darren and Simone, though they’d said their goodbyes already. If anyone, it certainly would not have been Ben Shelton, who by all logic should have skipped town after Jannik avenged his Shanghai loss.
But here they are. And what’s he supposed to say—no?
Schlutzkrapfen, sambuca, and the seventeen hours between Vienna and Paris.
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08 Jul 2025
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08 Jul 2025
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I think maybe I should lose to you more often. / No. Then you would be like everyone else.
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"Are you staying tomorrow?" Jannik asks as fireworks go off overhead, the stadium illuminated red and violet and gold. The adrenaline of the final is starting to fade, but enough remains for him to say: "If you are—tomorrow, we're going to the coast. If you want to go with us?"
Carlos leans closer, brow wrinkling slightly as he tries to hear over the noise. "Tomorrow? Go where?"
"There's a beach, a little north of here. It's very beautiful. They have jet skiing." Ba-boom. Brilliant fiery flowers spiral across the night sky. The explosions of smaller fireworks syncopate with the suddenly rapid beating of Jannik's own heart. "If you're still here tomorrow, do you want to go? With us?"
Colors in the sky reflect in the smiling eyes looking up at him. "Yeah, of course." Carlos sounds as happy as if he were the one holding the winner's trophy. "Let's go!"
Jannik, Carlos, and a life-changing day in 2022.
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- Part 1 of like a river flows surely to the sea
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08 Jul 2025
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So tell me, Jannik Sinner. What are you afraid of?