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    Simon gets frustrated with Ryland not picking up on his flirting whatsoever. He decides to do some research on Earth's courting traditions to close the communication gap. Thankfully, Stratt packed the Hail Mary with a copy of the entire internet.

    Hijinks and shenaningans ensue.

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    03 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 58

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    Grace is beautiful and brilliant and, inexplicably, always has a smile for him. He's an angel to Simon's dog and Simon will spend the rest of his life groveling at his feet.

    He doesn't mind.

    [Or: Simon believes he needs to give Grace something in return for everything. Along the way, he falls in love, all while thinking Grace views their arrangement as something purely sexual.]

    [Read the first work in this series first! It's essentially chapter 1.]

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    02 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 23

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    It's maybe a day into this new thing between them that Ryland gets a question stuck in his head. The type of question that keeps him up at night, wondering and working out logistics. He turns it over and over again in his head until it gets knocked out of his chest by sheer force.

    Or; Ryland wants to lick Simon’s ribs. They learn some things about themselves.

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    26 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 63

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    He is welded into the submarine. He dies. He is welded into the submarine. He dies again. He is welded into the submarine, and he dies, and he is being welded into the submarine, gasping as if his lungs were rotting and drowned in blood.

    Simon isn't sure if God is real; Hell certainly is.

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    25 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 56

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    (Sequel to Ruin My Life)

    Papers are contracts. Stratt signs hundreds every day. Their marriage certificate was not special in that regard; just a document to legally bind them together, as Ryland had wanted.

    It wasn't what he wanted though. Or, it wasn't all of it. With every day that passed that Stratt seemed no more inclined to let him past her walls than before, he came to the sinking realization that she had little intention of actually being married.


    Here are some things that make being married to Eva Stratt exceedingly difficult:

    • She wants for the world, but not herself; trying to do nice things for her is like pulling teeth
    • She trusts Dr. Grace with the mission, but she does not trust Ryland with her heart
    • And this really should not hurt so much, because it's Stratt, but— she cares about him the way she cares about a coworker; or the way she cares about every human in the damn universe. She does not care about Ryland. Attraction does not equal affection. And with every day she does not acknowledge their marriage, it becomes clearer that towards Ryland, she feels neither.
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    24 Jun 2026