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  1. Public Bookmark 39

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    It started during Arthur’s first year with the gang. He’d seen Dutch covet before: a pocket watch, a wool coat. A pair of ladies giggling to one another under the same parasol. But that word, covet—it was Hosea who’d first taught him what it means. Pocketed away together on some far corner of camp, they mucked through a reading lesson with King James and the very last candle.

    “‘For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through... with many sorrows…’”

    “What’s wrong, Arthur?”

    “What’s ‘coveted’ mean?”

    “Oh, ahh… Greed. Coveting means wanting something that isn’t already yours.”

    “‘Covet’ means ‘greed?’”

    “Well, yes. I’d say… to covet is to want something a little too badly.”

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    10 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 34

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    04 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    "On a bright March morning, the morning of the 12,410th day since he swam across the ocean while his friends—the sweetest, most courageous people in the world—screamed and burned and died behind him, the Deserter crawls out of bed and makes himself a mug of coffee."

    The world turns. The Deserter watches.

    [Artwork by Sibek]

    [Written for A Primer for Not-so-Small Children (An A-Z Fic Challenge)]

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    30 Apr 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 7

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    A lifetime later, you lay beside him. Your too-large hands with their gnarly and swollen joints rest on Kim’s hip bones, making only the smallest indent.

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    15 Jan 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 91

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    Harry spends the week engaged in a thought project to determine whether his soul might, in fact, be too vast.

    Or: a handful of conversations with friends, colleagues, and one very beleaguered Frittte clerk about the nature of the soul.

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    13 Jan 2025