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  1. Rec 28

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    After the events in Derry, the creature that haunts the very echoes of the town should be dormant. Instead, it finds itself watched.

    Dick Hallorann’s shine brushes against something ancient and wrong – and instead of feeding it, the contact unsettles it. Weakens it. Pulls its attention in ways fear never has. It begins to linger.

    It knows what makes Hallorann afraid. It knows how to hurt him. What it doesn’t understand is why Hallorann affects it. Why his presence disrupts the careful hunger it has always obeyed.

    What begins as a threat curdles into fixation, and fixation into something far more dangerous: attention that won’t let go.

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    03 Feb 2026

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    “Are you ready for death then?” His stranger asked with something like resignation clipping the end of each lilting word.

    It was then he looked up, taking in the last face he would behold in this life.

    Colors seemed so long ago, too long ago to remember clearly, but here they were, sitting before him. His stranger, Death, sat glowing in the fire light like a burning sun. Black and grey, with white pure skin, a ruby of blood blazed at his breast, and eyes that gleamed like living sapphires so vibrant Hob could barely maintain eye contact as he nodded an affirmative.

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    The one where Hob chose to die in 1689 and joined Morpheus in the Dreaming, commencing one hundred years of slow burn.

    Chapters one and two now with artwork!!

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    28 Aug 2025

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    “You and Dream will leave, but you shall do so without a guide, no one will give you directions, no one will address you, no one will lay their eyes upon you. You will be on your own, Robert Gadling. Much like beautiful Orpheus was. As for Dream… he will follow after you, but you cannot look back at him or you’ll sentence both of you for eternity of damnation. Only once you pass over to the Dreaming, will you be free of my rules.”

    Hob frowned, not knowing what to make of Lucifer’s proposal, so he uttered the one question that seemed the most pressing among the others “But how will I know that you held up your end of the deal? How can I be sure that Dream will be with me?”

    Lucifer’s bright smile transformed into a grin, as they proudly stated “You can’t. That’s why it’s going to be so interesting, Robert Gadling.”

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    22 Aug 2025

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    “I’ll win him over,” he says, resolute. “I’ll woo him.”

    In 1889, Hob Gadling has a falling out with his friend. He spends the next century coming up with a way to make it up to him.

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    12 Aug 2025

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    The young man turned, and asked, determination and cowardice both flickering in his eyes, “Professor, do you think it’s wicked to help the devil?”
    For a moment, Hob thought - and tried to not let his mind dwell overly long on an entity he had long thought demonic.

    Is it wicked to help the devil? Less than to love one, surely.

     

    A story in which Hob becomes a history professor a century earlier, Alex receives some inspiration towards bravery, and Dream is very grateful indeed.

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    11 Aug 2025