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  1. Rec 12

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    A tale of two Stephens.

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    15 Feb 2026

  2. Rec 18

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    It takes a while for Jon and Stephen to get to know each other well, but they manage it. And Jon knows himself well enough to recognize -- eventually, at least -- when things with them stop being a game. The problem is knowing what to do about it. (Crossposted from original location. Written for a holiday exchange.)

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    03 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    Jon and Stephen are returning from a conference in L.A. when bad weather cancels their flight. The end up driving from Des Moines to New York.

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    03 Feb 2026

  4. Rec *

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    “Nancy, we gotta go, we can’t save him,” he hears Jonathan say, and just as he watches Nancy raise her gun, something tears through his back.

    It’s heat and pain and blackness ripping through his chest, it’s tears on Jonathan’s face, it’s Nancy pulling the trigger, and they need to move they need to move they need to move and he can’t move and everything is going black and breathing doesn’t exist anymore so with whatever breath his lungs can gather, he yells.

    “Run,” he gasps out, more wheeze than word, and he feels warm blood soaking his abdomen. The thing in his chest is holding him up now, his body limp, every nerve screaming as his vision blurs. He can feel its body pulsing inside him.

    Nancy’s wide eyes narrow. Steve hears a bang, and he’s dead.

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    Steve never really thought he'd get a second chance.

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    22 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 25

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    "You planning on brooding this whole time, or what?" Steve asks from across the booth. The bar they're currently sitting in is no longer called The Hideout; at some point in the last fifteen years, it's been rebranded to On The Rocks Bar And Grill. There's a fresh coat of paint on the walls and a layer of new laminate flooring over the old asbestos tile. Draft taps and an honest-to-god raised stage instead of the grimy corner where the old band used to play.

    Or: fifteen years after the world doesn't end, Eddie returns to Hawkins. Steve goes with him.

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    20 Jan 2026