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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    In his PTSD-scorched psyche, no moral dilemmas arose. The order had never been canceled. Laura was a tool, an accomplice to the terrorist attack. A viable target. A witness. Trash that needed to be cleaned up. According to protocol, he should have crushed her trachea ten minutes ago and burned the room.
    And he would eliminate her. Without question.
    But not yet. She could die anytime. While she was still alive, while her pulse hammered in hysteria and her body was paralyzed by his presence, he would test on her this new, malfunctioning reflex in his system. To him, it was like field-stripping a new weapon.
    Inhale.
    The dirty fabric of the mask sucked wetly and deeply into his mouth, clinging to his teeth.
    Exhale.

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    14 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 25

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    Six years after the nuclear holocaust, out from the ashes arises a European ex-soldier and a sheltered American -- both of whom that have become foreign in the wake of the devastation across a radiated America.

    And at the heart of it all lies Boston, Massachusetts.

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    14 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 7

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    His mutter had scared him often as a child, coming home still high, with bruises scattered all over her body, eyes glassy and unseeing. She never wanted to be touched, would always reject his clumsy attempts at seeking affection or giving comfort. So instead, he would climb on the kitchen counters to reach the cabinets with his favorite snacks—animal crackers and juice boxes—and bring her one of each. He remembers the way her eyes would focus, then, when he held them out to her with a quiet, “Here, Mama. For you.” She would look at him, and for just a moment, she would see him—her child, her son, the baby she had brought into the world already addicted to heroin and dangerously underweight—and the awfulness of it all would dawn on her. He didn’t understand then why she would whisper apologies to him until she got distracted by the drugs in her system once again, but he does now. When he closes his eyes, he can still feel the ghost of her lips pressed against his forehead and her hand cupping his cheek, because the only time she could stand to touch him was when she was overwhelmed by guilt.

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    23 May 2026

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    You are out of place and out of your element. You are sent to tend to your grandmother until the changing of the guards—just until your parents arrive. Until then, you endure the ancient cold, the dead air, the suffocating stillness of Germany. There's no Wi-Fi, no television and you hardly speak the language.

    But the forest whispers. The floorboards creak. And it's so dark and cold. And you are so, so, so tired. And you don't know why. You're so tired you can't explain why things go missing. Why the window opens itself at night. Why you keep seeing a towering shadow through a sleep-filled haze at night. Why you sometimes feel the mattress shift beneath your body, but you can't find enough strength to wake.

    And when Kortac Forces flood the town, Oma stops letting you out. She nails your window shut and writes to your parents immediately to come. Her voice trembles when they come to the door, and she tells you not to make a sound. To hide. To be still.

    But it's too late.

    Because he is already watching you.

    And hunting you.

    And you are running out of places to hide.

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    19 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 39

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    Simon nods at you. He’s tall enough that, at the angle your phone points, the slant of light only reaches his neck, face still obscured in shadow. You can make out, through the barest changes in shades of gray, the suggestion of a nose, the theory of a brow, hypothesis of the lips. Indistinct enough that you could not draw him, defined enough that you can recognize him.
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    When you cannot trust your own memory, alone on a trip in the woods, what else is there to do but submit?
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    the incomprehensible monster who haunts your campsite is an alcoholic

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    16 May 2026