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    Lance is Twitter-famous for live-blogging porn in the most non-sexual way. While he doesn't really understand it, he also won't deny how much he enjoys the attention. The attention - to be exact - of one mysterious @heykogane. The more he pursues the mystery, the more he finds, and the more he likes.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    There's a lot to learn about the tourist trap that is Styx Beach; that it's a dry town, that it's made up of strange and interesting people, that its beholden to the only hotel generating any kind of tourism and it's stubborn owner, but there's one thing Hermes only starts to figure out five months into his time there:

    He might be falling for that boat guy.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    "Lance had watched Keith Kogane win a bar fight with a broken hand, rip open a keg with a knife, and complete a whole wretched ensemble of activities you definitely shouldn’t do with a beer in hand.

    And yet here he was, glittery Sharpie in hand, waiting to sign Lucy’s copy of Altea.

    Lance opened his mouth to say something arguably rude and not appropriate for their current audience. Until he remembered that he himself had either watched or participated in these activities and was now holding a four-year-old containing his DNA. So Lance didn’t have much of a leg to stand on either."

     

    When Lance runs into his ex-boyfriend at a children’s book signing, he not only finds out that Keith Kogane ages like fine wine, but he also apparently wrote his daughter’s favorite book. As Keith lingers in town, Lance frantically tries to keep his daughter from realizing that the writer is not only a person from Lance’s past, but a character in her bedtime stories as well.

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    17 Jun 2026

  4. Rec 72

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    She nearly ran into him, and Keith blinked back to see her blushing brighter than she had in years.
    “Goose?”
    She jolted at the name, grabbing his wrist and tugging him in the opposite direction.
    “Oh my god,” she whispered, staring at the floor in horror. “Oh my god, oh my god.”
    “What’s happening right now?”
    “Tyler’s here,” Lucy chewed furiously on her lip as she marched them forward. “He mentioned going to something this weekend, Sara said she thought it was this but I thought she was just messing with me, I never thought–”
    “Who’s Tyler?”
    Lucy blinked, coming to, and spared a side-eye his way. “No one.”

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    Five years of Lucy's life featuring laughs, tears, and an incomprehensible amount of love

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    17 Jun 2026

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    “Let me guess. Body horror.”
    There was a delicate eyebrow raise. “Impressive guess.”
    Lance offered a halfhearted wave to Keith’s SAW T-shirt. “I’m sure you sit in your cave and drink blood and think of all the ways a human body can break in half.”
    That earned him a smile with teeth. And yeah, sure, Lance could see what James found attractive. If he squinted. Chugged more wine.
    “And I’m sure you spend your time thinking of the least outrageous age gap you can have between your love interests.”
    Lance’s eyes narrowed.

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    If you were to consider some towns sleepy, then Luna Falls spends most of the time snoring. The only time Luna Falls wakes up is while it hosts its annual writer retreat. Aspiring authors from all over the United States travel to New England for the three week seminar, gunning for a publication deal awarded to one lucky writer. Lance, a Luna Falls local, has spent his entire life preparing, saving, and writing. He joins the fellowship of writers in hopes to not only leave with publication prospects, but to also show the power of the commonly underrated romance genre. Imagine his displeasure when a brooding horror writer steals the spotlight right out from under him.

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    22 Jun 2026