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  1. Public Bookmark 45

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    "But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness". 

    1 John 1:9

     

    Edward Teach knows sin and guilt. He's got success and fame, a life that most would envy professionally, but his personal life is another matter entirely. He's shit at relationships, shit at finding happiness, in general, Ed's always been a bit shit. He knows he's floating through life, and eventually floats back into the same city he went to college. The same city he once crushed a sweet guy all for the sake of winning a bet.

    And meets Father Stede Bonnet, a man who seems to see into his guilt-laden soul and offers to wash his sins clean.

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    06 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 34

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    04 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    Ed’s seen plenty of folks run a marathon.

    He’s also seen plenty of folks walk a marathon.

    But he’s never seen anyone race walk a marathon. Until now.

    Ed notices the cadence before anything else. It’s all hips. Hips swiveling and dipping like those of a supermodel, if that model were crossing a football field at the same pace the others made it down the catwalk. Arms pumping double time but no bounce in the shoulders—eerily smooth from the chest up. And while on the topic of chest…this might be the broadest chest Ed’s ever seen on an endurance athlete. A luminous pink shirt hugs his biceps, the swell of his tits, the small peaks of his—Jesus. With the rain and the chill, someone’s gonna get an eye poked out.

    Ed hopes it’s him.

    He doesn’t need both of his eyes.

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    This blond guy race walking a marathon is the sexiest person Ed Teach has ever seen. And Ed's...fascinated.

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    04 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    Stede sells soap. Ed sells soup. Their adjacent holiday market booths give them a chance to become fast friends. A sudden emergency has Ed offering a wild solution—a quick sham marriage to allow Stede to keep accessing his much-needed medication.

    Ed’s never planned to get married. Stede never wants to be married again. It’s an easy choice, as long as no one’s heart gets involved.

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    21 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 23

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    Sometimes it’s like Stede can read Ed’s thoughts—except for all the times when it’s painfully obvious that he can’t.

    Especially the whole, y’know, Ed being in love with him thing.

    Ed flicks some ash into the daffodil bed. “Thought you quit.”

    “I did.” Stede says, all eyelashes and dimples as he makes a “gimme” motion with two fingers.

    Ed sighs and hands over the pack and a lighter. He isn’t present as he does it, not really. He’s thinking about that other life, where Stede takes Ed’s cigarette from his lips without asking.


    A modern AU based on Lucy Dacus' album, Forever is a Feeling.

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    19 Mar 2026