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“Look at him, Samira,” Jack says. The words seem lodged in his throat. He's forcing them out. “Sweetheart fucking face. And they were gonna kill him.”
He kisses the dog on the top of its head. And Samira usually finds that sort of behavior foreign and disgusting, but she puddles just a little more when she sees Jack Abbot do it.
“So you took a chance on him?” she says.
“What can I say?” Jack lifts the tags on his dog’s collar with a crook of his finger. Samira watches as they slide, metal on metal, identifying information, dents and dings—and she sees it, she aches as she sees it, that scrape of metal limbs and dog tags in gray matter memories. “I'm a sucker for lost fucking causes.”
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Jack rescues a tripod dog with a history of violence. Samira learns what they each have in common.
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24 Jul 2026
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“Sometimes the grief-" She motions both hands in a wide cradle at her gut. "Feels like a stomach. And it's not hungry anymore, but it's not empty either. It's just been digesting for decades and nothing is moving, it's just simmering and building and it burns."
It takes a moment, but she steels herself enough to meet his eyes again.
She doesn't think she has any right to ask, but she's already cracked open- more than she's ever been with someone- so she does.
"Do you still feel that way?"
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5 times they connect and 1 time she sabotages it
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02 Jul 2026
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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28 Jun 2026
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Samira and Jack, learning to blossom.
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27 Jun 2026
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He presses her against the wall and just for a second she thinks he’s going to lift her, encourage her to wrap her legs around him, and then fuck her in the west stairwell in the middle of handover.
That is not what happens, but the kiss he gives her is full of heat and possibility. Here, the slant of his mouth on hers says, take this hunger and build on it, then give it back to me. And she does.
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What’s it going to take for her to just let herself be loved.
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- Part 2 of Other Desert Cities
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25 Jun 2026