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  1. 19

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    The “What If” story of Sadie Adler & Arthur Morgan, following an altered storyline of the game RDR2

    ~ My second life promised blood. His promised redemption. We kept both promises in the end. ~
     

    “If Colm wasn’t alive,” Arthur finally said, voice gone distant, “what would you want?”

    “Breakfast." I smiled because it hurt less than telling the truth.

    “After breakfast?"

    “Clean hands that still know what to do,” I said, and the second smile surprised me more than the first. “A horse that likes me more than not. A little time where the only thing that needs killin’ is silence. No one callin’ me Miss anything.”

    He nodded like he’d been handed a map that didn’t promise roads. “I could stand that."

    “And you? If Dutch’s ‘one last score’ didn’t end with all of us in holes or heatstroke?”

    “Quiet… a river with fish that ain’t clever. A place where a man can come inside without lookin’ over one shoulder and then the other. No parades. No letters.” He didn’t look at me when he said that, and I didn’t make him.

    “You there, if you want,” he added, so bare it almost weren't words.

    “I ain’t pretty company, Arthur."

    “I ain’t either. We’ll make an ugly peace.”

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    Marcus Tilman followed the red line because someone wanted him to. Nick Valentine followed it because someone else was watching them do it. The Railroad doesn’t recruit with riddles. It recruits by deciding whether you should be alive by the end of the day. But in the end, everything is about the choices you make…including who you keep choosing over and over again.

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  3. 5

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    Your days are numbered.

    Trapped by a debt you can’t possibly repay, you're forced into a lethal gamble to clear your name and save your own skin. It’s a high-stakes game where the ultimate prize is none other than the Red Hood.

    Kidnapping the current owner of the Iceberg Lounge—one of Gotham’s most feared criminals—seems like a plan destined for a body bag, but for you, it’s the only way out. What you didn't plan for was the fallout when you finally came face-to-face with your target.

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    Newly stationed on Coruscant, you navigate a tedious desk role in the fragile New Republic while unknowingly being assigned a politically sensitive Mandalorian case that will gradually erode your professional detachment and draw you into a web of secrecy and moral compromise.

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    Tsunade’s gaze turns to Kakashi, her eyes narrowing.

    “Why are you late?” She glares.

    He blinks at her.

    “Didn’t wake up.”

    Tsuande picks up an ornate paperweight, hefts it in her hand, and then flings it at his head.

    Kakashi steps neatly out of the way and spins to watch it fly into the wall with a loud slam.

    Sakura’s jaw is hanging wide open.

    “Sakura,” Tsunade purrs, her eyes flashing with something feline, “meet your new team partner, Kakashi Hatake.”

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    blood-soaked Kakashi Hatake is used to scrubbing himself raw, a new mission opens him up in another way altogether.

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    Zyanya Mondragon, known simply as Reyna, is the Queen of the underground in Radience City. After a year imprisoned, she returns to her kingdom ready to rule it as she once did. However, there is a new Jefe in town and things are not as simple as they once were. Wei Ling-Ying is a resident doctor, having worked hard to earn her place with her status. Overworked and underpaid, her stress comes to a head when one of her friends reveals their relationship with a local gang member. The two worlds collide with a devastating force, meanwhile violence and growing police pressure threaten to rip everything apart.

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    Jaden has spent his entire life in Coruscants underworld, he has lived on level 1313 for as long as he can remember and has tried getting out for just as long. But things aren't so easy for people like him, to escape your crappy life you need credits.

    One day a Job goes badly for Jaden and he ends up injured in a part of the level he'd never been to before, however as luck would have it there were two dead Jedi just begging to be looted. Using the Jedi's outfits and weapons to get passed the republic checkpoint and to the surface, things go badly once more as before his Ship Lands all available troops are called to assist with the Civil war that had just broken out on Jabiim. Confused for a Jedi he is taken to a Ventaur class destroyer and enlisted into the clone wars.

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    One journalism assignment stands in the way of you escaping the hellhole that is Gotham City—but after a frustrating interview attempt, you get thrown into a web of lies and corruption when you accidentally discover Bruce Wayne’s secret identity.

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    Taylor Hebert has only ever wished to be one thing, but in Night City it is harder to accept your own weakness, then to prove yourself strong enough to die.

    A canon divergence where a different Main Character gets the Sandevistan, and a different world results.

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  10. 10

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    In the heart of the fire, Eddie loses his grip.
    In the quiet that follows, he refuses to let go.
    He swears it’s all just procedure — the hands, the steady voice, the way he stays until Buck wakes up.
    The rest of the 118 aren’t buying it.

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    A hundred years ago, the mysterious Phobos Event occurred. Classified by the UAC as a "mining accident," Phobos is now permanently quarantined while Deimos is just gone. No bodies or survivors were ever found.
    The year is 2149, and the UAC holds dominion as the undisputed superpower in the Solar System, leader in the fields of energy, aerospace, and defense. Their crowning achievement, Argent Power, has revolutionized physics and brought clean renewable energy to a world in crisis.
    But that is about to change. Deep in the heart of the UAC Mars Base, recovered directly from a prison tomb in Hell itself, is a lone stone sarcophagus. Containing not artifacts, not demon, but a man. A living human being in perfect hibernation. The man has been identified as a long-lost Space Marine, the only known survivor of the Phobos Event.

    Warning: Day of Wrath contains profanity, graphic depictions of violence, mature themes, and potentially disturbing content. Please read at your own discretion.

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  12. 13

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    Sebastia is a naive unstable woman who escaped a lab that put a creature inside of her. This story follows her journey of trying to get rid of the creature that Sebastia has given the name ‘Miracle’ with the (brutal) help of Toby and the other Creepypastas. As she’s thrown into this new and hopefully temporary life, Sebastia must learn to fight and how to control Miracle as new dangers come to find her. Along with that she’ll go through brutal situations with the other Creepypastas she’s staying with as relationships develop. Not a natural killer like the rest of them, she’s often a target of cruel treatment. Can she make it out? Is she cursed to stay here? Or will she be dragged back to the lab that got her here in the first place?

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    Bruno Buccellati seems to enjoy picking up strays from the gutter. He shouldn’t have bothered with Abbacchio.

    The Ribbons, Napoli underbelly thugs, drag them down together, and tie them closer than he ever thought possible.

    NEW: Please enjoy THIS WONDERFUL ART by Stonetin to accompany Chapter 12!
    NEW NEW:Please enjoy THIS ADORABLE ART by Stonetin to accompany Chapter 13!!

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    The story of Carrie Kelley, a young girl trying her best to survive life on the streets of Gotham in any way she can. Her journey across Gotham brings enemies, allies, the first hints of something unknown that moves through the city in the darkness.

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    It only took a few days for Wille to find his answers, and he learned that the boy was mostly telling the truth. He waited outside the small house, the morning chill nipping at his fingers, until the mother came out in scrubs. An hour or two later, the boy and his sister traipsed out of the house, clad in school uniforms and carrying backpacks. Hillerska kids, he quickly realized. They were far from the type. Wille concluded, then, that the boy and his sister must be exceptional in some way.

    Or: Wille has to settle a debt with Micke, and encounters his son instead.

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    In Kensington’s grand Victorian Mansions, seventeen-year-old Henry Fox lives in wealth. In Kensington Gardens, he meets Alex, a sharp-tongued American teen busking with a sign: "Anything Helps." Homeless, Alex’s raw world challenges Henry’s privilege. Drawn by empathy, not pity, Henry returns daily, their talks forging a slow-burn bond. Can Henry, despite his insulated life, truly grasp Alex’s struggles? Amid High Street Kensington and Holland Park, their connection deepens, shadowed by Alex’s mysterious past. Why is a young American adrift in London? A tale of resilience and hope, where love grows from broken lives.

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  17. 51

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    “Caitlyn!”

    Caitlyn froze halfway across the porch. She whirled around, eyes frantically scanning the darkness at the sudden, desperate shout.

    The Ford pickup had made it about a quarter of a mile down the winding dirt road, still idling with its red taillights lit up. The driver’s side door had been flung wide open.

    Vi was running back to Caitlyn in a dead sprint.

    Caitlyn’s blood began pounding in her ears once her heart kickstarted back to life. She raced off the porch, charging over the loose gravel of the driveway, dirt kicking up around her heels when she hit the main road.

    The cheerleader kept going, legs churning, lungs burning, heart nearly ready to burst. She barely had time to brace herself for impact, mouth open as she panted from the exertion.

    Vi collided with her. The force of it knocked the remaining air out of Caitlyn.

     

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    Grease meets Arcane. Vi is the leader of her loyal high school gang, The Slicks. Jinx and her pals are the Blue Crew. Caitlyn is the new girl in town, just trying to find her place.

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    A brutal counteroffensive on the Day of Black Sun alters the trajectories of Zuko and Katara's fates, changing their lives forever.

     

    This work delves deeply into the world of Avatar, staying true to much of the source inspiration while taking liberties so as to age it up and break down so many of those amazing themes and questions brought up in the show. Specific focus on trauma, guilt, and PTSD; on the moral gray area that war creates and the inevitability of having to do the hard thing over the right thing. Early chapters set the framework, but later chapters are some of my best writing.

    Sprawling, long-form character study (mainly 3rd person, with 1st person flashbacks).

    Rated M (read tags). Ignore AO3—work first published in August 2022.

    Join the discord at https://discord.gg/5nwnV3Vdvn

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    Dean Winchester fixes things. Keeps his head down. Follows orders, mostly. Doesn’t ask questions. He can’t afford to, not with a father watching his every move, a brother he’s desperate to protect, and a past sealed behind a NDA.

    So when a repair job sends him to a brothel on the edge of town, he tells himself it’s just work. Just another job.

    But the android he’s sent to fix doesn’t behave like the others. It looks at him too long. Hesitates before it speaks. And when it touches him, Dean forgets that machines aren’t supposed to feel.

    He knows better than to get involved. He does it anyway.

    Now he’s tangled in something bigger. He’ll have to decide if being human is about what you’re made of or the choices you make.

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    Harris clears his throat. “There is one more part to this. They also were hoping that after you do your intro you’ll goof around with their mascot, Gritty, on the ice for a bit.”

    Shane rolls his eyes, not that Harris can see him over the phone, but still.

    Clocking the silence, Harris continues, “He’s the most popular character in the league, you know. He has more followers on socials than some NHL teams. Within 24 hrs of his reveal he was tweeting death threats at Pittsburgh’s mascot. Having a Gritty moment could be really good exposure for the foundation.”

    “Can’t Ilya do it? He’s good at threats," Shane says morosely.

    **Shane and Ilya are ready to share their relationship with the world, and everyone has a different idea of how to make it happen. It’s a high pressure situation, and they are both so over it. Still, despite the craziness of their lives, Shane never thought that the big reveal would come because of Ilya’s jealousy towards a 300 pound, 7 foot tall, googly-eyed orange muppet, but here they are…

    A love letter to always being there for your partner, even if that includes starting a fight with the opposing team’s mascot.

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