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Tom runs a small, quiet bookstore and insists he doesn’t celebrate dates. Maverick—once a regular customer, now his husband—knows better.
He comes home with a surprise: a shy kitten hiding among the books.
Rayo curls up on Tom’s chest, and Mav’s gentle, inevitable kiss undoes him more than any birthday ever could.
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- Part 54 of Icemav
- Language:
- English
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- 924
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
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Elouise seemed like someone who wore her heart on her sleeve.
The truth, however? She was very careful not to.Her life moved in gentle routines: shelving books at the shop, volunteering at the nursing home, filling her days with small, dependable connections. Predictable. Safe. Enough to keep the loneliness at a manageable distance.
Then he appeared.
A stranger with a lemon-print umbrella, whose visits to the bookshop followed a peculiar, almost ritualistic pattern. He never lingered too long. Never explained himself. Yet each encounter left Elouise curious in a way she hadn't felt in years; drawn toward something she didn't fully understand, but couldn't stop noticing.
And behind her, the past waited.
Not her mistakes, but the wreckage of someone else's. A history she's spent years avoiding. A voice she never wanted to hear again. Memories that refuse to stay buried, no matter how carefully she's built her life around them.
As grief resurfaces and lines between strangers begin to blur, Elouise is forced to reckon with the question she's spent a lifetime dodging:
Can needing someone ever be safe? Or does love always come with a cost she can't afford?
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Gravity and Glue by Evya
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
02 Feb 2026
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“Your name is Dick?”
He nodded. “Richard, but no one ever calls me that.”
She raised an eyebrow and looked at him through her dark bangs. “Got a middle name you could go by?”
Dick shrugged. “It’s a family name. After my uncle.”
“Do they call him Dick?”
“No.” A shadow flickered across his face. Then, he seemingly pulled himself together and beamed at her yet again, leaning forward slightly. “What do they call you?”
“Melinda.” She offered him her hand. “Melinda Munroe.”The small town, bookstore, slow-burn romance nobody asked for and I'm going to write anyway.
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Not everyone can deal with all the joy and energy that comes with being the firework x-man. That is, until a misterious men with firework powers himselve makes her smile. What's left but to face the unfathomable task of knowing and being know, even when anxieties tell you you shouldn't.
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Do not look into that closet there by tuesdaycoming
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
02 Feb 2026
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"Ivan," Ilya remembers crowing for, "Tsarevich Ivan!" and getting the same handful of tales over and over. He flips the book open and immediately it falls to one of those flat, colorful pictures of Ivan Tsarevich pulling a feather from a firebird, and Ilya cannot touch it. He wants to snap the book shut, but he forces a breath through his nose and closes it gently, two hands on the cover when he straightens up and rolls his shoulders back.
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Alone in Ottawa, Ilya finds a copy of a book from his childhood and tries to cope with being alone in a new city with a boyfriend who is still so far away most of the time. -
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Since a devastating storm ripped the world apart, Yaz has been hiding out in the bookshop where she used to work, trying to hold her life together and help those who pass by.
Things change when the enigmatic Theo Smith breaks into the shop, triggering feelings Yaz has been trying to suppress for years.
But Theo is running from her own demons, and with another storm coming and both their pasts returning to haunt them, everything is at stake.
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- Part 1 of my thasmin fics
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Phillip's manuscript is rejected. Again. He tells himself he expected it but that doesn’t stop the spiral or the silence that follows.
In the quiet, Phineas is there with steady hands and patience.
Between the bookshop’s warmth, the quiet presence of found family, and the slower, messier parts of healing, Phillip begins to find his way back to the page and to himself.
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- Part 2 of Happily Ever Chapter
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désolé by innominatta (ineptia) for KittKatAttack
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
01 Feb 2026
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The jingle of a door opening. Warmth of overworked heaters against the cold winter of the outside. The scent of paper books and incense somewhere deeper in the bookstore. Kevin stomps the snow off his boots at the door's entrance; the cashier behind the counter ignores him in favor of reading a book in their hand.
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- Part 3 of kevjean drabble exchange
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A charming town in Vermont, a cranky cat, a fire, a bookshop.
All Our Firsts is the story of two men falling in love and their life together, one “first” at a time. Some are tender or silly, some are painfully vulnerable, other moments arrive before either of them is ready to name what’s happening, and some of them blaze.
Told in non-chronological order. Each chapter can be read on its own.
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Read Between the Lines by WhisperedWorries
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 Feb 2026
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Shane is still coming to terms with the ending of his hockey career - he recently moved back to Ottawa to open a bookstore. His childhood friend Rose Landry is in town for the next few months, filming a new movie... with co-star Ilya Rozanov?
The one that got away will be right on Shane's doorstep for six months. Will they reconcile or keep things the way they ended?or
Shane and Ilya have retired from hockey, both for their own reasons. Shane has chosen a quiet life, out of the spotlight and Ilya has made a name for himself in Hollywood - when their paths cross, how will they handle their reunion?
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A sleepy town, a bakery that smells like cinnamon, and a bookshop with a “Help Wanted” sign.
Minho isn’t looking for friends - or love - but somehow he finds both.Featuring:
☕ soft mornings, found family, slow burn minsung
📚 bookshop–bakery–bnb interconnected chaos
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Kate Whistler, a former DIA agent, owns a bookshop now. She enjoys the calmness. Then Lucy Tara walks in, an NCIS special agent looking for a new hobby. Or maybe she just likes looking at the pretty woman who owns the bookstore. Either way, Lucy has spent too much money on books she'll never read, and Kate is sure she has never met anyone so beautifully chaotic in her life.
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Hermione Granger refuses to run her bookshop like a business that doesn’t care about people.
Theo Nott specializes in saving businesses that are “operationally sound but structurally bleeding.”
Compromise, it turns out, lives in the margins.
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Being 18, freshly graduated, and relatively directionless while everyone else around you had big plans (or even just plans) for their lives made you feel stuck. Really stuck.
So, the best course of action, you figured, was to at least apply for the local Barnes & Noble. Just so you didn’t appear as lazy as you felt you came off.
You didn’t expect to actually get the job.
Watching Mikey walk in as a fellow new hire? You expected that even less.
(Alternatively; your long standing rivalry with Mikey Way is given life beyond graduation, while you’re busy with trying to stay afloat as a newly functioning adult.)
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Remus and Sirius have been in love for years - they just haven't met yet. Or so they think.
By day, they actually work together in a little bookshop in the middle of nowhere, Wales, handling together nosy customers, questionable bookclub picks, and a stray dog who follows them around.
By night, they write long, rambling email to each other, not knowing it's the other, who they're pouring their heart out to. -
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“Would you like some help?” Scaramouche turned sharply towards the source of the disturbance, remembering that he needed to be nice to customers before he recognized Kaedehara.
Scaramouche rolls his eyes and turns back towards the bookshelf in front of him, now seeing what likely prompted the other man’s question; Scaramouche couldn’t reach the rest of the shelves that needed restocking from where he was sitting. He huffed an annoyed sigh before shortly responding, “I don’t need your help.”
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A modern bookstore AU where one persistent customer teaches Scaramouche that it’s okay to want help and that not everyone he loves will choose to leave him.
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The Book Place by VicMarie
Fandoms: Wicked (Movie 2024), Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman
31 Jan 2026
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Elphaba handed Galinda Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. A personal favorite of hers. It was a tale of many things, but at the heart of it was loneliness and longing. Elphaba wasn’t exactly sure why, but she felt as if this woman might need a story like that right now.
“Um… right. Thanks” Galinda said, as softly as she’s spoken today, and it was almost adorable.
Elphaba had to leave, she was so tired and delirious that she was thinking ridiculous thoughts.
Or; Elphaba works at a bookstore, Galinda becomes a repeat customer, gay shit ensues.
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Dean Winchester is just trying to keep his shit together. Being a firefighter keeps him busy, his friends keep him laughing, and no one asks too many questions.
That is until the day he walks into a little bookstore and meets Castiel, a man who has plenty secrets of his own, and seems just as weird as the shop he runs.
Or: A story about finally letting yourself want more, and trying not to run when it actually shows up.
Updates every Sunday evening!
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literature, lattes, & other excuses by sebs_homemade_waffles
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
31 Jan 2026
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Going to Laura’s was only fun because it had books, coffee, and was a great studying spot. It had nothing to do with the fact that Zelda Hyrule could often be seen at the front desk, checking out books and coffees.
At least, that’s what Link told himself.
Sequel to the pen, but you can read it by itself, enjoy <3
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- Part 2 of Soulmates In Every Life (Zelink hs au)
- Language:
- English
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- 1,289
- Chapters:
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You Don't Have To Be Sorry For Leaving And Growing Up by Lonely_Parrot for everythingsbetterunderthestars
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
30 Jan 2026
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Lily stays at her student job for the Christmas holidays, she admits about trouble with her family. It sparks an interest in Narcissa.
Small bits of conversation starts.
Something grows between lonelinesses.Series
- Part 2 of Winter Fest - A Christmassy collection