6 Works by ginger0bread
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He could feel the pounding headache, the burn in his lungs and his organs failing him one by one.
But he couldn’t think about any of that.Thinking meant slowing down. And slowing down meant dying.
He had to keep walking, until he was the only one still walking, their winner.
Then they would all see him for what he was: the best. Better than all the other boys.or: Barkovitch and Parker are the last ones walking in the Long Walk.
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Through the years, Collie and Gary keep crossing paths, watching each other grow and change.
or; 5 times Collie Parker and Gary Barkovitch met by accident + 1 time it was planned
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Gary groaned into his pillow, and ignored the look that Rank had shot his way. Two fucking hours of his life wasted on going through online dictionaries just to learn that Parker introduced himself like a normal fucking human being.
He had figured it out, he could close the laptop, forget about it all and go to sleep. But… He could also go through the fingerspelled alphabet, just in case Parker needed to spell something to him again. It would be easier that way, that's all. It didn’t mean anything more.
He didn’t close his laptop until he had all the letters of the alphabet memorized.
or; gary barkovitch finds one person on campus who doesnt immediately hate him and he is determined to change that. even if it means learning a new language
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He remembered the gunshot.
He remembered dying. He had died, he was sure of it. How was this possible? Was this his life rewinding itself, some montage before his death?
But it didn’t feel like a memory. It looked so real. He was there.Then, the guards barked their orders. The Major gave his speech. And the Walk began, exactly like it did before.
What the fuck?
Stuck in a time loop, Collie Parker didn’t expect to find himself watching Gary Barkovitch. He definitely didn’t expect Gary to look back.
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the world is ugly (but you are beautiful to me) by ginger0bread
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
23 Sep 2025
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‘Olson told me that when him and his wife said their goodbyes when he left home for the Walk, they said each other’s Words. That’s when they both knew he wasn’t coming back.’
‘Oh shit.’Everyone had the last words that your soulmate will say to you tattooed on their skin from the moment they were born. Some people had a long streak of words, something memorable. Sometimes it was Words that could point them in the direction of their soulmate, to make finding them easier. He only had one word, and it was his name. Ray. Written in a neat handwriting above his heart.
Or: Ray Garraty falls in love in a place where only one person can make it out alive.
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time mystical time (cutting me open then healing me fine) by ginger0bread
Fandoms: Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)
27 Mar 2025
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In the aftermath of the Orpheum concert, Trevor pays Julie and her band a visit. He has to learn to navigate this new reality that he lives in, facing the ghosts of his past, mending friendships, and finding that part of himself that he thought was long lost: his old self, Bobby.
And maybe, just maybe, he falls in love along the way.
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Julie's hologram band is starting to appear, and he sees them again.
He sees their forever immortalized youth and is reminded of his own mortality and of how, when he was their age, he’s never been that free and happy as they are on that stage. He’s lost the rest of his teenage years to grief and he’ll never get another chance to relive it, and now they’re here, being given another chance. And he’s so happy for them, he really is, but he feels like he’s suffocating when he watches them perform. He can almost imagine being there on this stage with them, singing his heart out with them. He’d come up to Luke and share his mic, feeling magnetized by his presence. He’d turn around and throw a huge smile Alex’s way and go up to Reggie to dance with him, while they all played their instruments.
He’d do anything to play with them again.