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  1. Rec 28

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    How long since the bubbles had died? It felt too long, a deadly eternity. But Stephen couldn't count, and didn't: he simply rolled himself over the edge of the gaping hatchway and fell.

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    22 Jan 2026

  2. Rec 44

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    From a prompt by alltoseek: In the 21st century, Dr Stephen Maturin, an Irish physician working in rural Spain, and Captain Jack Aubrey, an officer of the Royal Navy stationed in the Indian Ocean, strike up an unlikely but persistent friendship through their participation in an online forum for chamber music aficionados.

     
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    17 Jan 2026

  3. Rec 84

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    Stephen took hold of Jack's face again, but not this time to cherish. He held him still—Jack making a mild complaining sound—and moved back far enough for the lantern-light to fall upon Jack and bring him into focus. There—there, on his jaw, where Stephen's hands had grabbed him—a faint smudge of the silvery dust. And on the side of his neck where the shirt lay loose, another trace of it, glittering like assassins' knives; Stephen remembered how he had combed all of his treacherous fingers through Jack's hair, stealthily savouring him. Contaminating him.

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    14 Jan 2026

  4. Rec 5

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    “I’m going to fill you up,” James breathes, “till you’re absolutely aching with it.”

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    01 Nov 2025

  5. Rec 61

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    James bit into a laden slice of toast with the undamaged side of his mouth. “I thought we agreed that thinking was very dangerous,” he said, and though his voice was light Francis could feel a weight behind it. It was a weight made up of sleepless nights and crying jags; of Francis punching a solid wall and of James shouting himself hoarse; of the unbearable social calls and wrenching letters and pitying looks which they could not avoid. They carried a great many heavy things with them, now.

    London, 1848: Francis and James try to put themselves back together.

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    31 Oct 2025