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  1. Public Bookmark 16

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    No thin, skin-warm glass sits against the inside of his wrist or his palm where he usually tucks up his token when he works. They must've cut if off of him. Or, he lost it when—

    What about the tattoo?

    Burn it off. It doesn't matter anymore. Either way…it's all gone. He's one of ours now.

    They grab him by the hair and force his head to the side. They shove rubber over his tongue and callous fingers close his jaw shut around it with a muttering to preserve his teeth. Something touches his neck. He thinks he hears himself cry out, or it's a hundred, other dying voices doing it for him. He can smell cooked meat—actual food, not dried rations, not things pulverized and cubed and lifeless.

    It doesn't stop.

    He reaches for Eden and she no longer answers.

    An account of the Convict's life prior to the final expedition of the SM-13.

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    10 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 16

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    A hypothetical cat in a closed box is both alive and dead until the box is opened, and its true condition is ascertained. Simon takes a one-way trip to the bottom of a blood ocean, thinking of cats and boxes.

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    08 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    There's been a dead bird outside Michael's window for three weeks.

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    06 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    The Quiet Rapture exsanguinated your people. They were Raptured in wrath, caught in the middle of an ages-old feud between the universe’s celestial bodies and something far more sinister – something far more ancient. Or, Simon, if you have the nerve to wonder – submerged in the life essence of humanity – might it be you who has been Raptured?

    Simon wants to live. Even if the universe itself is giving up, Simon will not; hope becomes one hell of a drug when there is nothing worth hoping for other than your life.

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    05 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 34

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    In a dry, raspy voice, Simon croaks, “Fuck.”

    Immediately, the blurry figure’s head snaps over to look at him. “Are you awake, or just talking in your sleep again?” an unfamiliar voice demands—low, with a twitch of an accent that Simon doesn’t recognize.

    Simon blinks, but his vision only clears minimally. The ceiling is an off-white blur that smears as he turns his head to look at the stranger. He doesn’t recognize him; bandages obscure the details of his face. “I talk in my sleep?” he asks.

    “A lot. It’s annoying.”

    Simon wakes up in sick bay, quarantined with the man he accidentally irradiated and permanently blinded. Mutual hatred (of a sort) ensues.

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    05 Feb 2026