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  1. Public Bookmark 57

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    “I want you,” he blurts, without even realizing what he’d just said before he hears himself rasp the words through his dry throat.

    “You have me,” you say, like it’s that easy.

    Alternatively: Jayce unlearns shame.

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    24 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    Bǎi Hé had been twelve years old when her life had been irrevocably changed.

    Twelve years old when cold and death had forced its way inside her body and used her as a living puppet to serve its own twisted ambitions.

    She had been painfully aware of everything her body had been forced to do - from her distasteful expressions to her rigid posture to her cruel tongue - but she hadn't been able to feel any of it.

    She couldn't feel her hands clasped together but she knew that they were, she couldn't feel her legs move but she knew they were walking. The best description she had for it was that it felt like she was a ghost trapped a millimetre under her own skin - unable to feel her body but forced to contort to whatever shape it took.

    Bǎi Hé's story didn't end with the Lady Bone Demon.

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    04 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 7

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    It was with some consternation that Niú considered his father's head, still proudly mounted in his trophy room over a millennium after he'd torn it from his neck.

    The title of Demon Bull King was one earned by overthrowing, and usually killing, the previous titleholder, and with little exception it was normally a son forcibly taking it from his father. There were rare times a daughter or a grandchild had taken up the mantle instead but generally it was a bloody race between sons.

    Niú had but one child, the Samadhi Fire leaving his beloved unable to provide him with any more, and he could not understand why his only son had not yet tried to claim his birth right. He had been nearly half his age when he had rightly taken what was his!

    So, with a sixth sense for when the shadows were listening, he asked, "Why has my head not joined my father's on this wall?"

    Short stories exploring various relationships from Shadow.

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    23 Mar 2025

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    Wukong’s excuse, later, would be that it was surprisingly cold that night, and his Master was right there, and he smelled—comforting or whatever, and he just looked really soft, okay, and shut up.

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    Monkeys don’t sleep alone. Monks definitely sleep alone. And Sun Wukong is a monk, now.

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    26 Jan 2025

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    When Xuanzang spotted the bundle of monkey skins dangling from the trapper’s pack, his first instinct was to flinch. But his second was to catch the man’s arm and say, urgently, “Your pardon, honored sir. Would it be possible to ask you a few questions about your line of work?”

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    Tripitaka acquires a manual entitled "On the Training of Monkeys." Bizarrely, this does not backfire on him.

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    22 Oct 2024