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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    Nikto is troubled by the fact that he’s fallen head over heels for a convenience store cashier who’s just doing her job.

    Meanwhile, you’re enjoying the rare eye candy that he provides during your night shift.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    Nikto was not a good man. He’d seen the vilest things that this bullshit called humanity had to offer, and he’d done worse, and he’d had worse done to him.

    She seemed smart… that could be more of a challenge, more dangerous, but he would prefer smart to stupid.

    Nikto hated stupid people. Nikto was not a good man.

    Sputnik came up and bumped his nose against Nikto’s gloved hand. He gave the hyena his requested scratch behind the ears, then he stood and turned for the door. It had been long enough. Time to see if he was about to have to dispose of a body, or if the universe had finally seen fit to reward him for all his suffering.

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    04 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 8

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    Mr Stevens takes a different route through the West Country.

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    01 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 1

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    The detective stepped off the train and into the set of what an Old-Worlder might've called a 'spaghetti western'. Sandrock. From the crumbling, sun-weathered and sand-beaten architecture right down to the errant tumbleweeds, the place was on the verge of becoming a ghost town. It looked bleak. Then again, when the world was black and white, things tended to look that way.

    Solving the mystery of Sandrock’s disappearing water was supposed to be the final case before taking a well-deserved vacation, and things were starting out great—that is, until an unfortunate accident completely derails the investigation, forcing the detective to lie low until suspicions blow over.

    While she waits and plots the downfall of the forces bleeding Sandrock dry, there's plenty of other small-time cases to keep her occupied and plenty of shady characters to throw more obstacles in her way…

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    29 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 42

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    Freshly graduated Dr. Aranell Doll, an Appalachian archaeology PhD candidate, is struck by lightning while testing a gaming rig at a Chicago Gaming convention. She awakens shivering in a Russian airbase in Kazakhstan, bewildered, thrust straight into the 'Cliffhanger' mission from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

    She's in the world of COD:MW, 9 years in the past, just 6 days before the countdown to World War III begins.

    Despite some interesting skills, she's just an academic who wrote her dissertation on the very game she's now in. She knows everything: Price rotting in Petropavlovsk gulag. Shepherd plans to betray TF141. Makarov’s massacre at Zakhaev International Airport. And Soap will die.

    Yet her arrival has splintered the timeline. The two COD:MW storylines are merging. As the timelines change, bonds form. Soap, the charming Scottish captain, wins her over with humor and passion. Ghost, once Shepherd’s unwavering shadow, questions everything when Aranell tests his loyalty. Price, hollowed by 3 years in the gulag, begins to see her not as a tool but as an anchor. What develops is not a simple romance but a connection between four wounded souls seeking solace as the world teeters on the edge.

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    22 May 2026