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In 1989, Hob Gadling gets stood up. He waits.
A story about meticulously constructing an inn with soft focus, 80's goths and Berlin, a folding chair, The Princess Bride, blondes, blood, fear, Fates, and what was always written. What will always be.
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20 Feb 2026
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“You bring me low,” Dream whispers against his neck, licks along the reddened lines he’s left. “You make me burn for you. I enter this place and feel what it is to approach godliness."
Hob Gadling plants some poppies, pays his servers overtime, and navigates the complicated maze that is an anthropomorphic representation of dreaming with PTSD.
Takes place after "aulon raid."
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17 Feb 2026
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The manner in which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body (often, but not always, an outer layer or covering), either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.
The door swings open, and Hob looks up, as automatic as a blink or a breath. He’s not expecting anything. It’s been three months and four days, six hours and thirty-nine minutes, and all he had been told was more than once a century.
Dream is standing in the doorway.
He looks like hell.
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17 Feb 2026
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Dream finds himself lost in London, in the middle of a winter storm, with no memory of how he got there. There is only one place he can think to go.
Set six months after Blue Moon and will not make total sense without it (but that and this can stand alone from the rest of the series).
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- Part 9 of Standing Invitations
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15 Feb 2026
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On his sister's advice, Dream spends 24 hours as a human. He and Hob have a wonderful day (until they don't).
Can 100% be read as a standalone.
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- Part 8 of Standing Invitations
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14 Feb 2026