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    Daniel sees life like a river. Thinks he is caught up in a current that only goes one way, that will eventually sweep him out to sea. It’s easier for him to think so. It keeps him alive to think so.

    He doesn’t know that he could stand up and reach the bottom. He doesn’t know he has a choice.


    Drugs don’t work, sex doesn’t work, New York hasn’t worked. Somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, an improbable number of suicides have taken place. Somewhere in a bar in New York, Daniel hears about them. He wants to fill a void. The difference between what is real and what isn’t matters as little to him as the things he’ll find to throw into the darkness. Which, as it turns out, is quite a lot.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    Daniel is painfully nonchalant the first time he brings it up. Hardly more than a distracted aside while they’re walking past a hospice home.

    “You know I don’t want to live forever, right?”

    Armand has a tongue, has vocal chords. Has lungs that expand, a diaphragm that can force air. Has everything he needs and still, sound does not bend to his will. He’s fairly certain he was moving, was holding Daniel’s hand, but now—

    “Ah shit, that’s not—”

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Daniel is sprawled out across the bed, loose-limbed and lazy, somehow filling all the open space it has to offer and leaving Armand to nestle into the gaps. His cheeks are flushed, blood pooling like it knows what comes next. Maybe it does. Armand was reading about classical conditioning the other day. About dogs who become accustomed to getting food when their handler rings a bell.

    Perhaps Daniel is the dog, Armand’s teeth sharp bells reverberating in his veins. Or perhaps Armand is the dog, Daniel’s blood a song rattling in his ears. He has been a dog before. He runs his tongue along the bow of Daniel’s collarbone, gathers the salt-sweat there and imagines what it tastes like because Daniel does.


    Armand remembers he loved Daniel, once, and that Daniel loved him. Or a version of them did, at least. It isn't his intention to go back to that, but it's not not his intention, either. Such is the prerogative of an immortal: to hold two contradicting desires simultaneously. If nothing else, it passes the time while he waits for this miserable interview to end.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Six months after his transformation, Daniel is slowly adjusting to his new life of immortality. The book tour for his bestselling biography - which everyone thinks is fiction - doesn't distract him from his increasing loneliness.

    When Armand starts showing up at the locations Daniel visits, he brings a strange sense of deja vu with him. Though he knows better than to entertain the manipulative bastard, Daniel can’t shake the feeling that Armand’s visits are motivated by more than a maker checking in on his fledgling. And, Daniel being Daniel, he means to find out what it is.

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    If you like messy Devil's Minion dynamics, Daniel confused by emerging memories of a past he didn't know he'd had, Armand being creepily ethereal, and a dollop of philosophy thrown in for good measure, you're going to enjoy this.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    “I’m going to kill you,” Feng Xin says furiously, glaring at the dismembered corpse of the incubus. “It fucking bit me – you were supposed to have my back, you piece of shit – it fucking bit me!”

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    (or: Feng Xin has an amazing time.)

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    14 Apr 2026