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    It's 1986 and for Xie Lian, a deaf college student, the world keeps getting bigger. For the first time in his life, he’s putting himself out there and experiencing things his overprotective parents would never imagine, including four consecutive dates with Hua Cheng, a 21 year old Harley enthusiast whose laid back personality and fluent sign language make him irresistible.

    As overwhelming as his newfound independence is, Xie Lian is happier than he's ever been.

    All of this changed on November 12th, 1986 — the day he disappears without a trace.

    Xie Lian is kept bound in his captor’s basement — a man he cannot identify due to the mask he wears. When he manages to escape, he discovers he has been missing for nearly four years, and nothing in his life is the same. Worst of all, his captor remains a free man unless Xie Lian can find a way to identify him.

    Though his entire world has turned upside down, one thing remains the same: Hua Cheng’s affection for him. Together, they work through the events of the past four years to help Xie Lian come to terms with his trauma and find a way to catch his captor. It becomes clear before long that until the man is caught, Xie Lian is far from safe…

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    11 May 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 16

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    Lio deals with 'phantom pain' (because despite your limbs regrowing after the fact, according to the doctor's it still counted as that) with the help of Galo.

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    10 Dec 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 10

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    Nights without the Promare seemed quiet, but sometimes Lio remembered how loud everything was when he was dying.

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    10 Dec 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 3

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    Meis shot up in a cold sweat, his stomach lurching. God, no. Not again. Not again. He kicked the blankets off, stumbling to the bathroom and throwing the door open before locking it behind him. He dropped to his knees gagging, but nothing came up. Whimpering, he pulled his hair back, a shudder rippling through his body. He was so cold. How he longed for the Promare just for a moment. They'd burned the illness from the Burnish from the inside out. Meis hadn't been sick since...

    He wretched again. Nothing. He fell back against the wall, no warm arms to wrap themselves around him this time. No smell of cheap cigarettes and summer time sweat, no sun on his neck... Hyperventilating, he curled in on himself. No Gueira.

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    Meis has trouble coping when hard memories come back with a vengeance.

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    10 Dec 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 15

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    Lio’s traumatic Burnish awakening left him alone in the world and vulnerable… until he embraced his fire. What does his dark and complicated past mean for his burgeoning relationship with Galo?

    For the “Burnout” fanzine NSFW supplement

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    10 Dec 2023