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    "Again, their breath moves together, only instead of a sigh of relief it holds still, caught in their throats. They seem to both acknowledge a door half-open, a window just cracked. Sometimes it’s like this—working on the Bear, talking about Mikey when they have to, when they mention the money or the inspiration or the afternoons Carmen has to plan around in order to attend the AL meetings.

    They are always on the edge of talking about it. Sometimes Carm feels it like a lighter, finger pressed down flat, letting all the gas out, never making a spark. It never catches, it never burns, but it’s there, fucking up the ozone layer or some shit like that. He’s always fucking up something."

    OR: After months of hard work, The Bear is nearing opening, with a inaugural write-up in the Tribune to go with it. The only problem is: Carmy can't talk about the restaurant without talking about Mikey, and he can't talk about Mikey without talking about himself.

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    23 Feb 2026

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    “I guess—I guess he was not very much different than anyone else,” she says. She sounds like she’s talking about someone she knew in college, and not someone who she’d lead through the afterlife. “Five stages, and all that. I’d say he was a fighter.”

    Layla snorts.

    “Yeah,” she says, thinking of the way Marc’s fists make a clean line up his arm, body tense, stretched tight. The way he used to sleep like that, too. Wake up with an arm over his face, blocking invisible blows. “That sounds like him.”

    OR: In the space after saving the world and reconnecting with her once-missing, once-dead husband, Layla talks to Taweret about how death changes a person, and also how it doesn't. A snapshot of how Marc and Layla might begin to heal.

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    22 Feb 2026

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    In which Carmy is haunted by the ghosts of addictions past, present and future.

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    21 Feb 2026

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    “Paul Wilson,” says Sam, slowly, and his voice sounds different when he says it. Younger, thicker, more like it belongs in this city and in this house, more clear that it had grown from it, that it carried with it the very wind of this place. “Loved three things. Us, the boat, and broken ass clocks.”

    OR: In which Paul Wilson had a penchant for fixing up broken old clocks, Sam Wilson has a penchant for fixing up broken old boys, and Bucky's nightmares are taking new and terrible shapes. Post-FATWS.

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    20 Feb 2026

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    Title from Good Will Hunting :)

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    19 Feb 2026