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    “He wants doll brushes because he’s seen the girls at the park brushing their plushies with them. Their dolls too, obviously. But he wants to brush that pelt you brought him-”

    David sets his crossword book down, giving Yuna his full attention.

    “What?”

    “The pelt of fur? Looks like a wolf, or maybe one of those big cats?” Yuna says, waving her hand dismissively. “Either way, I don’t think doll brushes are the right choice. We can look into getting him a set of actual grooming tools, he needs to learn that the right tools for the right job are an important-”

    “Yuna. Sweetheart.” David interrupts. “I did not buy our son a piece of dead animal as a souvenir from Russia.”

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    Ilya loses something important at the airport; years later, Shane gives it back to him.

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    08 Oct 2026

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    Ilya is not going to do anything. He knows this. He's also standing very still.

    He thinks about his mother's arm, hanging over the side of the bed. He was twelve. He'd thought she was sleeping.

    He closes the cabinet.

    The face in the mirror is someone he recognizes in the way you recognize a city you lived in as a child: the basic geography is familiar, but you can't find anything you're looking for.

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    Or: A closer look at Ilya’s first year in Ottawa, set against his first in Boston—featuring a long-lost answering machine he claimed he’d never listen to, the family inevitably left behind when you move, and the mostly self-imposed pressure of loving a man as large and looming as the great Shane Hollander.

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    02 Oct 2026

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    Shane was fourteen the first time a number felt like safety.

    The nutritionist worked out of an office in Kanata, framed certificates, a calm voice, laminated charts with columns. She explained it simply: fuel in, output required, timing of each. She said it was a starting point.

    Shane took notes in the margins the way he took notes on everything—completely, past what was required. Yuna had found the nutritionist herself, sat beside him, and took notes too.

    Like mother, like son.

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    Or: Shane’s system works until it doesn’t; Ilya notices first.

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    02 Oct 2026

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    “Hm,” Ilya says. He’s watching Shane’s dick get hard, impossible to hide in his slutty go-go dancer shorts. “You wanted to swim. You were going to pee in the lake?”

    “You fucking asshole,” Shane says, immediately beet red. Ilya thrills. “I knew you weren’t going to let that go.”

    “Nope,” Ilya says, delighted, popping the ‘p’ just to piss Shane off more.

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    Ilya has an idea.

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    02 Oct 2026

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    In 2025, the NHL dropped the mandatory suit and tie on game day as a part of the league’s new collective bargaining agreement. Let’s imagine this happened in the MLH about ten years earlier, and that Shane Hollander fucking hated it.

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    01 Oct 2026