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  1. Public Bookmark 42

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    It’s a Hail Mary more than anything, but Doug made his choice. With little to no plan, for that matter. But he couldn’t just leave him there. He deserved more than whatever She had planned. Now Wheatley finally has his first chance at redemption, but how can he properly navigate that when he can’t even navigate himself? Caught between the past and the present, it’s hard to know how to move forward. But they both have to try, right?

    or: Post-Portal 2, two mentally unstable men have to escape Aperture together and learn a bit about being human along the way.
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    11 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 38

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    Arthur frowns down at his glass. “So it didn’t mean anything to you, then? You like tryin' to hook up with truckers or something?”

    John realizes he’s digging himself into a bigger hole than he’d meant to. He runs over his options but when he looks back at Arthur, he can see a tinge of hurt under his curiosity.

    “I don’t hook up with truckers,” John says flatly. “I don’t do much hookin' up at all, actually. I just read some signals wrong that night. Thought maybe... Well, you’re a nice man. I knew that since I met you.”

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    John is adrift. Twenty-five and nothing to show for it, he’s a college drop out, his car barely runs, and his trailer leans to one side. He works a dead-end warehouse job in the hottest town in the desert. All in all, he’d call himself a failure.
 The moments he looks forward to most are when trucker Arthur Morgan passes through town. It’s not enough, though. John wants more out of life, and he wants more from Arthur Morgan.

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    08 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 27

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    After surviving a fire that changed both their lives, Shane is doing everything he can to keep himself together and his little girl alive, even when the sight of her face makes him ill. She looks too much like her parents, too much like a ghost.

    Harvey, a combat medic turned small-town doctor, carries his own trauma like a second heartbeat. When Jas becomes Harvey’s patient, he volunteers to start weekly therapy sessions to help her cope with her past. He didn’t imagine that he’d start to help Shane through his, too.

    Jas, meanwhile, is just hoping everything gets better. That her uncle smiles more, that she gets new shoes, and that nice Mr. Harvey sticks around, he makes things better, somehow. That, she supposed, is what doctors did, after all.

    Our title comes from the song Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros! <3

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    03 Oct 2025