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    It'd all started after the funeral.

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    He can barely think, his brain switched off from exhaustion and terror, reduced to sheer instincts, following orders and a horrible routine, ingrained into his very body by now. He is carrying Lewis, a grown man thrown over his back like a sack of potatoes. He has no idea how far he has been walking, focused solely on the next step and on hopefully avoiding shells falling all over them. There is an ambulance in sight, waiting for them, hands reaching to help him take Lewis off him without injuring him farther, and settle him promptly into the back of the car. He raises his head to look at the driver and freezes in shock, certain that he finally has snapped, that his mind could not take it anymore and went straight into hallucination.
    The driver is a woman, not an uncommon sight those days, but this particular woman has no business being here, in the middle of most literal hell.
    “Mary?” he rasps, disbelieving.  

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    02 Dec 2025

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    “I bet you’d pretend not to know me if we bumped into each other.”

    “I would never pretend to not know you, Belly.”

    (In which Conrad never writes the letters, and he and Belly reunite in California, five years after the failed wedding).

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    04 Nov 2025

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    Isabel Conklin is sitting in the passenger seat of a beat-up truck that smells of burnt leather, a remnant of the arson it survived two weeks prior. She’s beat up, too, violet bruises blooming on her knees. At least, she tells herself, glancing toward the boy at the wheel, they match his.

    Conrad Fisher would kill a man for her. In fact, he almost did.

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    (or: Belly Conklin is privileged, and the beach house is hers. Conrad Fisher lives and works on his family's peach orchard. She still loves him, chooses him. His demons, too.)

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    30 Oct 2025

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    Conrad's texts arrive at odd hours, slipping into her phone while she sleeps. Belly's voice notes play in his sterile kitchen as he makes coffee, her laughter bouncing off surfaces too clean, too empty.
    If there are infinite worlds, every version of me chooses you, Belly told him on that speeding train to Brussels, still catching her breath.
    In the spaces between, they create them.

     

    (between Paris and Palo Alto, Belly and Conrad begin a game where they get to choose each other again and again)

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    21 Sep 2025