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    The second that the notification went off, damning and intimately familiar, Jack's head snapped over and Robby, wide-eyed, flushed a deep shade of red as he fumbled with his phone to turn the sound off. Surely he'd misheard. There was no one else around to corroborate, otherwise Jack might've turned to them with a questioning look, a, did you hear that too?

    The blush on Robby's face was telling enough, muttered apologies falling from his lips as he tucked his phone away again, steadfastly refusing to meet Jack's eyes.

    A lot of things crossed his mind at once. Chief among them was the dawning realization that Robby's once-upon-a-time hookup with some guy in college wasn't, apparently, a drunken mistake. And behind it, something darker — jealousy.

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    robby's phone pings with a grindr notification, and jack's normal about it.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    All Jack knew was he didn't breathe from deep in his chest again until Robby picked up his stethoscope from where it hung on the railing and put it back around his neck.

    Robby decides to get therapy. Jack decides to be a little too obvious about his feelings. That turns out okay, because Robby shares them.

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    19 Jun 2026

  3. Rec 10

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    Robby looked up at him, eyes landing on Abbot’s face for the first time. “Abbot… do you think there are any sins too big for God to forgive?”

    Swallowing, Abbot answered carefully. “Not if you earnestly believe in Christ.”

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    Jack Abbot is a monk and the only survivor of his plague-swept monastery. He’s white-knuckling his last scrap of faith in God and on the verge of ending his life when an injured knight appears on horseback.

    Sir Michael Robinavitch is a knight grieving the loss of his squire, tortured with guilt over all the people he’s killed, and afraid of dying unforgiven.

    Abbot tends to Robby and hears his confession. But will Robby’s sins finally push him over the edge—or pull him back into safety?

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    Set in 1300s France, this is a story about how to remake society when all the rules are thrown out, how to balance the person you want to be with the person you are, and all the types of Hell that exist.

    There’s also a horse named Huckleberry and a fox named Trinity.

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    17 Jun 2026

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    Six weeks after finally stumbling into a relationship thirty years in the making, Jack and Robby are still figuring out what domesticity actually looks like for them.

    Domesticity currently includes a deeply antisocial, orange senior cat with anger management problems.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    "Why would you need to be on PrEP?" Robby asked slowly, suddenly feeling like he was floating outside his body, watching this scene from a distance.

    Jack looked at him obviously. "'Cause I'm planning on getting railed and it's the responsible thing to do," he said, like this should be no surprise at all rather than Jack coming out to him. At Robby's silence, Jack narrowed his eyes. "Got a problem with that?"

    Robby blinked, slamming back into his body, aware of his elevated heart rate, the sweat prickling along his lower back and at the backs of his knees, making his dress slacks clammy. "Nope," he said, because he didn't. He didn't.

    He just...hadn't known, that was all.

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    15 Jun 2026