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  1. Public Bookmark 77

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    In the car, Holly holds her breath, tasting the word dyke on her tongue sweet like sugar.
    In the car, the world flows past but she keeps on moving too.
    In the car, Mr. Healy clears his throat. "Okay."

    A study on birdsong and growing older. On parents and anger. On love and loss. On endings and beginnings. On Holly's three months of summer vacation and the family forming around her.

    Or: Holly's summer of gay understanding

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    14 Jun 2026

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    Stuck without a place to sleep while the club that houses his apartment is remodeled, Jackson finds himself camping out on the March's couch, and then somehow, he migrates to Holland's bed. He blames Holly. But, as they're working opposite shifts on a stake-out case, it's not like Holland is using it at the same time. And then he's got more things to worry about, like their seemingly simple case taking quite a left turn, not to mention Holland's penchant to make rash decisions... They'll figure out the bed thing later.

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    12 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 94

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    Jackson Healy is not a family man, nor is he a relationship man. He learned that one the hard way after the divorce.

    So, can someone tell him why he’s standing at the cash register of a dollar store, watching Holland March fiddle with his wallet with a giant poster board under his armpit, while a pile of markers of all colors and stationery sits on the conveyor belt? Though he supposes that’s another one of life’s great mysteries, and something he’ll wake up every morning asking himself.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    March had his palm read once, years back, by a hack psychic in a gaudy tent at some old timey carnival Holly had begged to go to. She'd taken one look at his craggy hands – two fingers bandaged at the time - and told him, in no uncertain terms, that if he didn't slow down, boy, he was gonna hurt himself. He tipped her very badly.

    Suffice to say, he did not often have the appearance of a man in control of his own destiny.

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    09 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 88

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    Holland was so heartbreakingly obvious, Jack almost felt bad for him. Sometimes, the urge to take pity and swoop down—grab Holland by the tie, or the colorful lapel—and just plant one on him was almost too strong to bear.

    But he couldn’t be sure whether Holland wanted him because he wanted him, or if it was because Jack was already there, steady and useful and safe. If it was only because of that, then it wasn’t worth the risk of losing the good thing they already had going, no matter how much Jack wanted him, too.

     

    previously titled “walk away with victory”!

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    08 Jun 2026