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Thirteen years after leaving the orphanage that shaped him, Karen lies dying on a battlefield, watching his life unravel through a series of memories. From the loss of his parents and the trauma that followed, to the quiet bond he formed with a shy orphan girl named Malakeh, each memory reveals another piece of the person he became.
As war closes in around him, Karen reflects on love, freedom, faith, cruelty, and hope. Through friendships, grief, childhood dreams, and the scars left by those who claimed to protect him, he searches for meaning in a world that repeatedly chose violence over compassion.
Now, as Karen's life slips through his fingers, he is left with one final question:
If you could relive your entire life in your last moments, would you remember the people who hurt you...
or the ones who gave you a reason to stay alive?
A story about surviving loss, being truly seen, and holding onto hope even when everything else is taken away.
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战争结束了。
但有些东西没有。
月光还照在那间猎人小屋的木板墙上，照着你留在他的面罩上的泪痕，照着他覆在你手背上的手指。
你们在那里待了一个多小时。
你抱着他，亲了他的额头，把脸埋在他的颈窝里，说“别离开我”。
他没有推开你。
他知道你看的不是他。
但他不在乎。
因为在那一刻，有人需要他。
不是需要他开枪，不是需要他掩护，不是需要他当那个永远不会出错的狙击手。
只是需要他活着。他活下来了。
但你走了。
你没有告别，没有消息，没有留下一句话。
只有一件黑色的外套，挂在他的衣柜里，左袖上有干涸的血迹，袖口有一小块撕破的痕迹。
他每天都会打开柜门，用指尖碰它的领口。
他喝你提过的茶，在证件照上看你的脸，在黑暗里躺在自己的床上，想象你还在他怀里。
他没有去找你。
因为他知道，如果你不想被找到，他找不到你。但他会等。
他是一个狙击手。
他可以在没有补给的情况下等待十二天，不吃不喝，一动不动。
他可以等更久。
等你在某一天突然想起——
你曾经抱着一个人说“别离开我”。
而那个人，从未离开。这是一个关于失去和不敢再失去的故事。
关于两个把自己包裹得很紧的人，
在错误的时间、错误的地点，
给了对方最正确的东西。你的体温。
他的等待。
还有那句始终没有说出口的——“抓住我。”
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Umbren Kaelthorn is a blood sorcerer, a narcissist, and — as of five days ago — a man with nothing left to lose. Freed from his father's imprisonment and armed with information that could topple nations, he infiltrates Heliorya under a false identity. His mission: stop Valerius Kaelthorn from handing the Sealed Archives of Maelcor to a church that would see Vharosk burn; and find out why his father wanted him gone badly enough to orchestrate it.
Elior Lyrhaven has been the Guardian of Aurelion since he was seven years old. The sun answers to him. The church venerates him. And lately, something has been going wrong.
They meet in the middle of someone else's war. Guardians across nations are losing control of their powers. Something old is waking beneath Vharosk. And two men who have spent their lives performing certainty — one as a saint, one as a weapon — are running out of time to figure out the truth. Including the parts they've been hiding from themselves.
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"Something called her, compelled her to stand once more. She meant to get a drink of water, but there was suddenly something more important. It whispered from the hallway, 'Come here. To the mirror. Come and see me.'"
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Callie shares what might be her final night with her very closest friend.
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- Part 2 of Every Day is April Fools
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The Penumbra of a Dying Star by Zeptzy
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
21 Jun 2026
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"Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form."
In the wake of calamity, the world held its breath—and then exhaled at the sight of one boy, fist raised against the dark. Izuku Midoriya ended an era. He didn't mean to become a legend. He just refused to stop moving forward.
Eight years later, he walks the same streets as anyone else.
No lightning in his veins. No weight of the world on his shoulders. Just a man with a history. Deep and rich, but slowly fading from the public memory, replaced by simpler stories told about simpler people.
All Might's legacy had been built to last. Carved into monuments. Rendered in bold lines and primary colors. The kind of legend that gets taught in schools and painted on walls, passed on in stories of grandeur, and illustrated by the bold and proud.
But Izuku was never a monument.
He was something harder to name and easier to lose.
This is the story of what he left behind and why it took him so long to see it.
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After Hours (a Lois & Clark Story) by lesvagabondes
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025)
20 Jun 2026
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At first, Lois is unconvinced. She’s been since the moment she flipped through his file. His résumé is riddled with vague location markers— Jarangpur, Nepal, Patagonia—and small-league writing credits. His work isn’t bad, per se— it’s just not memorable. Then, we have to talk about that web search. Seriously. The man might as well live under a rock for all she knows. She had expected, at the very least, a LinkedIn profile, but what she got instead was: “Clark Kent wins tractor pull at Smallville County Fair” — courtesy of the Smallville Gazette, population 47,000 (give or take a few cows), and whose website hasn’t been updated since 2015. As unredeemable proof was a photo of a grinning young man in flannel and what looks like an extremely offended chicken. No, she's not making that stuff up.
This is my take on Lois & Clark, which are, in my opinion, one of the greatest couples in fiction. It is mostly an office romance with lots of fluff and a bit of hurt/comfort and family drama. In other words, when Superman meets "Friends" and "the Office". Loosely inspired from the James Gunn movie.
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“You should get back home to your wife,” she says carefully, slowly, like it’s a reprimand she doesn’t trust him to register as one unless she draws attention to it.
He pretends he didn’t hear her.
It’s only later, at the bus stop, that a firm sense of certainty washes over Frank for the first time in a very long time. He’d gotten it all wrong. Mel clearly has someone else to preoccupy herself with. It was embarrassing, really, to assume she would want a fuck up like him. At that moment, like the punctuation to some cosmic joke, the wedding ring he’s been fingering absentmindedly slips off his finger and skitters around in a circle between his feet. He crouches down to pick it back up as the last bus home flies past. He half wishes it had hit him; it probably would have hurt less than the realisation that he has feelings for Mel King, and she doesn’t feel the same way.
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Frank wants Mel so badly he's willing to fuck up his whole life to have whatever crumbs of her he can scrape together. The question is: how many people is he going to hurt on his way to her, and will he stop before she becomes one of them?
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No longer burdened by the jinx or hidden feelings, Dan and Jaekyung are free to explore what actually works for them.
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After waking in an unknown abode owned by a nobleman of Sharlayan, Estinien realizes the Eye of Nidhogg is gone. Estinien has come to in an unfamiliar place, with unfamiliar people who call him 'friend'. And the war he once bled for no longer exists.
Cast fourteen years into the future, Estinien searches desperately for answers, only to find himself confronted by old allies, impossible truths, and a peace he never expected to confront. Yet with every revelation comes a greater question still: why was he brought here at all?
As the boundaries between past and future blur, Estinien must decide whether to keep fighting the life that awaits him—or finally allow himself to claim it.
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Everlasting Summer by Phantomismine
Fandoms: Phantom of the Opera - Lloyd Webber, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux, Phantom of the Opera (2004)
21 Jun 2026
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The cicadas would not stop singing.
Marcelle prayed to God for peace. For silence. For an end to the endless summer.
Erik answered instead.
Or perhaps there was never any difference.
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A Traveler’s Guide to the Indignities of the Coast by Trashpanda_404
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Jun 2026
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A wizard walks into a waypoint. This is not the beginning of a joke, though Gale Dekarios would be the first to admit it has all the hallmarks of one.
He had a plan. The plan involved a remote location, a dignified end, and perhaps a final vintage of wine before the literal bomb in his chest ferried him to the Fugue Plane. It did not involve getting abducted, a parasite in his eye, or a woman who hoards everything and nothing with her forsaken bag of holding.
And yet.
His only hope for survival is currently prying the floorboards from a blighted apothecary. Gale is, apparently, following her.
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Phenomaman is sad, and also his mutton chops are bothering him.
Coupé is fairly certain she can only fix one of those problems with her skillset.
CH 2 is smut! :)
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Ben isn't sure why Bill brings his son around; there's always an air of a fight about to start when the two are on the soccer field, Travis watching the girls run with the eyes of a boy seeing shadows run.
In the year 1995, Ben makes a bad decision, and the consequences follow him.
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Look At You, Strawberry Blonde, Fields Rolling On, I Love It When You Call My Name, Can You Hear The Bumblebees Swarm? Watching Your Arm, I Love It When You Look My Way by Angel_Babygirl for EvernightTown
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
21 Jun 2026
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Little Haruna is so happy to have a new friend that she made all by herself at the pool and what’s even more special is that her new friend wants to play a game about finding candy in the water too!
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Wrong Side of the Screen (Book Two): Off-Script by Sophia_Va1entine
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jun 2026
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Hawkins is quiet. That's not the same thing as safe.
In the weeks after the holidays, something that felt temporary starts to feel real — a house that holds people, relationships that stop performing themselves, a group finding its shape around shared weight. Sophia knows what's coming. She's less sure she can stop it.
The list has names on it. And the silence Vecna has been keeping was never peace — it was preparation.
Off Script is the second book in the Wrong Side of the Screen series. Start with Book One: Screen Test — it won't make as much sense without it.
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- Part 2 of Wrong Side of the Screen
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She didn’t want to make him worry. She hates when he gets that way. So overbearing, so mean and impulsive. Just like Hopper. Just like every Alpha she has met.
Maybe she’s not made for Alphas. She’s a Beta, after all.
“How do you even know I was in here? I never told you I was going to get out today.”
“Will said something—” She started lying, under the big pressure of Mike's intense stare. She wonders that if she had a proper nose she would feel drowned by the bitter coffee scent flying around them. But it just bothers her now.
“Don't lie to me, El. You know I hate lies.”
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Mike and El's relationship couldn't be worse, but the girl is too afraid of losing the few things she knows can bring her comfort, so she ends up making a plan. It's simple, really, she just needs to redirect the Alpha's attention from Will, an Omega, to her, a Beta. She'll realize bonds go way deeper than having inner wolves with desires, because Mike and Will's fate was already written in the stars, even before she came into their lives.
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the space between by myrcella_schroder
Fandoms: Original Work, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Jun 2026
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Two strangers wake up in impossible places. A garden. A train station. Endless hallways that shouldn't exist.
They don't know each other's names. They don't know where they are. They only know that no matter how strange the place, they keep finding each other.
Outside the Backrooms, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are NHL rivals who can't stand one another.
This is a story about what happens when two people slowly become the only place where neither of them has to pretend and everything that happens in the space between.
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Sebastian Sallow never meant to find a hidden chamber beneath Hogwarts containing a necklace like a Time-Turner. When a confrontation with Head Girl Irene Rosier turns violent, the artifact is dropped and reality fractures.
He wakes in the past, and everything has changed: Anne is alive, his uncle lives, and the tragedy that shaped him never happened. But this Hogwarts is unstable, ruled by pure-blood politics and shifting alliances—with Irene Rosier at its center.
Now trapped in an altered timeline, Sebastian must navigate a dangerous new reality while uncovering the truth behind the girl tied to the artifact that broke time itself.
Can he fix what’s been broken without losing himself in the process?
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Wemmbu finds a book in his base.
The book is written in his handwriting. The problem is that he hasn’t written it yet.
As strange structures begin appearing across the server and memories stop lining up correctly, reality starts to unravel in ways no one can explain.
Parrot finds a tower that should no longer exist.
Eggchan remembers conversations that haven’t happened yet.
MinuteTech watches as parts of the world quietly revert to older versions of themselves.
And at the center of it all, the same name keeps appearing in places it shouldn’t.
Wemmbu.
Something is wrong with the server. Something is wrong with time.
And somehow, it all leads back to them.
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“What kind of photos do you usually take?”
Yushi shrugged. “Just things I want to remember.”
Sion doesn’t realize until much later that Yushi never planned on remembering anything after this trip.