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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    The church basement smells like instant coffee and grief, and Darry Curtis is standing at the top of the stairs holding his baby sister like a shield.

    She's wearing a dress that cost seventy-five cents at a thrift store and took a week to restore. Soda did her hair. She's perfect. She's ridiculous. She's the only thing keeping the three of them from coming apart at the seams.

    Five months since the funeral. Five months of checking locks three times and reaching for coffee cups that aren't there anymore. Five months of learning that love, in the aftermath, doesn't look heroic—it looks like folding chairs and macaroni salad and letting strangers hold what you can't bear to put down.

    Or: the Curtis brothers take Pone to her first church social.
    Nothing happens.
    Everything happens.

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    15 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 21

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    Foster kid Pony and his collection of nicknames.

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    13 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    '"Did you have a bad dream?"

    Soda nodded weakly.

    "Wanna tell me what happened?"

    Instinctively, his older brother gripped his hand harder. Then Soda gazed back up at the ceiling and closed his eyes. "It—it ain't important, Ponyboy. You can go back'ta sleep."

    Pony didn't like that. Not one bit. "You always say it's good to talk about them. S'healthy."

    Soda said that a lot, actually. His words were always something like: "There ain't no reason to be embarrassed about this, Ponyboy," and then he'd wipe his tears with his thumb and grin that toothy, lovable grin of his. "You can talk to me. Always. Tell me what happened."

    Pony always told him about his dreams. The good and the bad.

    But now, he was only met with silence. Then, Soda sniffled. "I-I guess I do, huh?"

    His older brother looked like he was struggling to find the words. Then he looked like he didn't want to speak at all. Finally, he settled on a deep breath. "You... you never came home."'

    Or: Soda has a nightmare. Pony talks him through it.

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    13 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 20

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    And even as much as it annoys him to admit, Pony wishes this Darry - the kind, gentle one in the sunsoaked truck rumbling down Peoria Ave - could be bottled up forever. He selfishly just wants this moment to last forever. He wants to spend time with this Darry. Watch TV with him, do homework with him, play solitaire with him, toss a football around with him.


    Ponyboy is used to hearing all ends of arguing from his older brother but when he and Johnny walk themselves right into trouble, Darry doesn’t chew them out like he should. Like he normally would have. Something ain’t right, and Pony’s got to figure out what.

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    11 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 57

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    Sighing, Pony lifts his head just enough that Darry can see the unfocused look in his eyes. “My head hurts real bad, alright? Everything’s too loud and the lights keep doing weird stuff.”

    Darry’s brow furrows. “What do you mean ‘weird stuff’?”

    Pony gives another small shrug. “I dunno, like…going in and out or something.”

    The pieces are starting to fall into place in Darry’s addled brain and the picture they’re revealing isn’t a very pretty one. Just like their mother, Darry’s been getting migraines on and off ever since he hit puberty, but so far both his brothers have been spared the family curse.

    It looks like Ponyboy’s luck has finally run out.

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    09 Jun 2026