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Hamid wanted nothing more than to never have to see Gideon Langdon again. But when his parents invite Gideon to Cairo in the hopes that they'll be able to reconcile the differences between their two families, Hamid has to think fast to avoid falling back into Gideon's arms. Enter: Zolf Smith.
Pretending to be in a relationship with one of his best friends should be easy, shouldn't it?- Language:
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10 Jun 2026
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It’s Melanie who finds the tape.
"Statement of Fiona Law, regarding the death of Angus Stacey, her subsequent release from the role of Archival Assistant, and her decision to continue regardless."
It is wedged between a fissure in a groaning filing cabinet and the tiled edge of an ancient fireplace. To access it, she has to peel back a bit of woodworm-ridden panelling and flick it out with a pen. It clatters to her feet and she almost crushes it underfoot because even though she no longer has the phantom resonance of a gunshot in her veins, it sings to her a song of slaughter.
She laughs, humourlessly, just once, and the gleeful roar of a gallows crowd echoes.
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AU in which everyone finds out early that the death of the Archivist would lead to freedom. The decisions that are made in the aftermath.
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25 May 2026
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Martin is going to wake up soon.
Any moment now, he will open his eyes and be greeted by the hazy low-light outline of the stained navy-and-star lampshade that has migrated from his childhood bedroom to his Stockwell flat. There will be a patch of damp beside it, and Jane Prentiss will be knocking on the door, and the sleep deprivation and hysteria caused by that recurrent fact will be the reason for the strange and vivid dreams he will be waking from.
Martin is going to wake up soon, because there is absolutely no way that he is sharing a sofa, and sharing a blanket, and sharing the last of a family bag of Magic Stars from the service station, in rural Scotland, with a sock-footed Jonathan Sims, who looks so soft, and so nervous, and there is absolutely no way, no possible way in the whole world, that he, and sock-footed Jonathan Sims, are preparing to have a conversation about relationship boundaries.
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At the safehouse, an important discussion takes place about what "doesn't" means.
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25 May 2026
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The long and short of it is, Martin’s usually in for eight these days.
He, as usual, lumbers his yawning way into the breakroom, and today is unfortunately one of the approximate three-out-of-five working days that he forgets about the sticky-out-bit on the doorframe. He bashes his hip on it, snaps a choice word and digs his squashed Tesco croissant out of his bag, then dumps the bag beside the offending door. He flips off the sticky-out-bit, and faces the room, and –
Nearly jumps out of his skin.
Because Jonathan Sims is dead asleep on the beaten-up sofa.
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A sleepy Jon, a chat that explains some things, and a memory.
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25 May 2026
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Five vignettes of Jon's life, captured at 1:17am.
A torchlight project, a shift of the tides, a new beginning, a phone call, something trembling on a knife-edge.
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25 May 2026