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whisper a little prayer for me by orphei for nickclose
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
23 Feb 2026
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Katya recognizes her, she realizes — she’s the wife of Sasha’s American. She catches Katya staring and smiles.
She looks lonely. Or maybe that’s just how Katya feels.
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lonely days are through by orphei for clomp_froyo
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
18 Jan 2026
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Florence, Freddie, Svetlana, ten years of chess tournaments, and one ill-fated pair of pen pals.
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“You could have contacted me earlier. Why now?”
“The challengers’ tournament is in Athens this year. They asked me to go along.”
Walter looks at him expectantly, as if he can tell this isn’t the full story.
Alexander sighs. “I don’t intend to return home once it’s finished.”
Scenes from a brighter future.
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mysterious and important by orphei for sovietmayachine
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
19 Oct 2025
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Flo's life is watching other people play chess.
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Your presence at my graduation would mean a lot. Some people here do miss you, still.
Yours sincerely,
Sofia Anatolievna SergievskayaTen years after the events of Bangkok, Anatoly goes home.
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thirst for the goodness i do not have (with this thirst, i am slowly learning) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
14 Mar 2022
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Quietly, he asked: “How’s your wife? Or… ex-wife?”
“Better off,” Molokov grumbled behind his spoon.
He knew his family quite well. Leonid liked them, truthfully. He’d teach chess to the little one, though not often as he had his hands full a lot of the times. His gaze travelled downward to Molokov’s left hand. He kept his ring as a memento, like he wasn’t able to comprehend leaving his family behind.
“How is America?” Molokov asked.
“Not the same… but it’s okay. You come to tolerate it after a while.”
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Lies and Loss, or A Treatise on Sir Toby's Many Flaws and Faults by sparrow_writes
Fandoms: Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
27 Nov 2022
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Being The Drunk is easier than being a man who lost his brother only a year ago, a man who doesn’t know how to mourn the nephew he never really knew, a man who feels like he’s inhabiting the skin of a stranger most days, who feels more monster than man, who maybe isn’t a man at all. (Gender and grief make a confusing tangle when you can’t recognize your hands either way.)
Sir Toby & grief, in 7 parts.
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Let the Chips Fall Wherever by ovidgf for fantasyandfreedom
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
18 Jan 2026
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"Go all out in romance and let the chips fall wherever" (Jenny Holzer)
Things had gotten bad. So much for everything Molokov had told him, Walter thought. The blockade had been implemented, sure, which seemed to be the most nonviolent course of action that Kennedy could have taken, but that wasn’t going to solve everything. Especially not when everything was at DEFCON 2, and the president was still authorizing missiles to be loaded onto ships to perform the first air strikes on the Soviet Union, just in case. The blockade was working, according to McCone, and Stevenson had gotten them a press win with the shit he had pulled at the UN, but that hadn’t made anyone less worried. Walter had been at work since six that morning and hadn’t left even at eight that night. He was going to plan on sleeping at his desk, just to feel useful, but Molokov called him from his home phone, announcing that he had already made it to Walter’s apartment and expected to see him at home. Apparently, Alexander had ‘things to discuss.’
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If there was one thing Nastya's kid brother didn't need, it was to be told that he was a god. But here he was, wrapped in dark leather with makeup lines of black lightning spiderwebbing across his face, surrounded by a massive crowd of worshipful enablers.
(Every ninety years eight gods return as young people. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are all dead. It's happening now. It's happening again.)
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- Part 1 of lies we tell the universe
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i don’t see a reason to be lonely by nickclose for orphei
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
10 Jun 2023
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“I know who you are. I’m… sorry, I guess? I don’t know. I can leave.”
“You don’t have to go. You look sad.”