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Madeleine Perez doesn’t need a bodyguard.
She’s been navigating her own life since before anyone knew her name — the rooms, the cameras, the specific weight of being watched everywhere she goes. She knows how to handle attention. She’s built a career on understanding it, managing it, using it. Whatever situation her team thinks requires a solution, she is more than capable of being the solution herself.
Rue Bennett is not interested in Maddy’s opinion on this.
She shows up at eight-fifteen on a Tuesday, drinks neither of Maddy’s coffees, says less than anyone Maddy has ever met in a professional context, and notices absolutely everything. She’s been doing this job for seven years. She has a ground rule. It’s the same one every time: don’t make my job harder than it needs to be.
Maddy immediately makes it harder.
At Close Range is a story about a celebrity who is used to being the most observed person in every room and the bodyguard who changes what being observed means — told in the specific, slow, maddening space between professional and something else entirely.
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02 Jun 2026
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After the escape goes horribly wrong, Elphaba lies dying in the desert. As her consciousness begins to slip, a pink bubble appears in her delirium, Elphaba strains to see whether it’s real… or just the last illusion of a dying witch.
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13 Dec 2025
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Cortese attacks Amphipolis and young Xena tries to defend her city, but she is defeated and enslaved. Cortese continues his raid, attacking Potidaea and also enslaving Gabrielle. These enslaved women follow different paths in their lives, but they meet again and perhaps, together, they may change their tragic fates.
Originally published on 01/12/2022.
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08 Dec 2025
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Post Wicked: For Good, Glinda is convinced that Elphaba is still alive out there.
It's unfortunate that she has to put herself in mortal danger to test this theory.
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26 Nov 2025
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The Beauty of Scars by EaManning
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
27 May 2026
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Elphaba spins around toward the source of the sudden sound, only to lose her footing and crash to the dirty ground in an awkward heap, knocking over a pile of empty crates she hadn’t noticed before.
“Sweet Oz, what–”
But her words die in her throat when she turns her head and finds herself face-to-face with the strangest little droid she’s ever laid her photo-receptors on. The one wheel that serves as Its body is a light shade of pink, with even lighter purple markings dotting it at random intervals.
“H-He-Hello. I am GLN-D4. Wh-Who are y-you?”
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Or: Elphaba is a newly liberated droid who dreams of freeing others of her kind and fighting the oppression of the Empire while also enjoying her solitude. What happens when she frees a tiny pink droid who takes an immediate shine to her?
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09 Nov 2025