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    There was a body on the beach. Face-down in the sand … Who knew how long it had been there, but Haru had been staring at it for at least the past five minutes now, and still did not move to touch it yet.

    He'd been taught to caution everything, most especially things that had washed up on shore without explanation — things that had no business being in the ocean in the first place.

     

    In which Haru finds himself burdened with taking care of a human, and the sea has bigger plans.

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    Pulling open his apartment door, he let out an involuntary shout when something was quite literally thrust into his chest hard enough to have him almost tip backwards. He managed to right himself while keeping hold of what had been shoved at him and looked up in time to see his neighbour striding back towards his apartment.

    “You’re going to fucking kill yourself.”

    His door slammed.

    Stiles blinked at the other man’s door, utterly confused, and looked down at what he was holding.

    It was a plastic bag, full of what felt like tupperware, which made no sense to Stiles because when had his neighbour broken into his house to steal his tupperware?

    (SNYE - January 11th - Neighbours)

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    26 Feb 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 72

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    As the demon spoke, Wade felt it slither out of the fire-blackened pit within him where it lived. The hole that was singed with fraud and corruption, rotting with old anger and loss, putrid with self-loathing. The dead pool of a place that the Malebranche had found, recognized as home, and crawled into, all those years ago. 

     

    It’s the roaring 20s, but in the small upstate New York hamlet of Middle Grove it sounds more like a snore. Peter Parker grew up in the Methodist church there, raised to follow his uncle and grandfather into the ministry. Preaching the word to a restless flock and trying to write for the local newspaper, Peter has little time left to himself and his own ambitions.

    Then a traveling snake-oil salesman rolls into town. This smooth-talking man with the scars covering his body seems to actually be helping people, somehow. Is it the sweet soda water he's hocking as medicine? Or is something deeper going on, something that defies both the religion Peter grew up in and the science he's adopted? Mr. Wilson’s sideways glances and joking innuendos are infuriating. And captivating. Peter needs to learn his secrets, but the journey to knowledge will take him down a dark path.

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