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    It had taken the jury six hours to deliberate.
    It takes the court six days to arrange a sentencing hearing.
    The judge listens for an hour before he puts them all out of their misery.
    And that is how, as a cry of relief hits his ears from across the room, Nick Nelson’s life changes forever.

     

     

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    Nick has always tried to be good, to do the right thing. But restarting life at Truham after his life falls apart was not part of the plan.

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    05 Aug 2026

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    “Me finding out that instead of mysterious and cool, people think I’m autistic and lesbian.”

    Ilya and Shane get Reddit’s advice under the aliases Lily and Jane. Things spiral from there….

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    22 Jul 2026

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    ILYA: i think something is wrong with me

    SVETA: yes, many things are but what are you talking about

    ILYA: i may not like gay people? it makes me sick i think

    ILYA: I am horrible friend

    ILYA: he was so scared to tell me he likes men in college because i am muscular russian straight man but i assure him i am not like those russian muscular straight men who hate gay people

    ILYA: and now that he gets a boyfriend i find out i am wrong

    SVETA: does it upset you when you see me and rose touch

    SVETA: and dont fucking say its hot or ill beat you for that too

    SVETA: or scott and kip?

    ILYA: no i dont really think about it like that

    SVETA: …

    SVETA: im turning off notifications for you for the rest of my trip

    Or, Shane gets a boyfriend. His roommate struggles.

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    07 Jul 2026

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    It’s the most famous cold case in hockey history. Up-and-coming Russian phenom Ilya Rozanov mysteriously vanishes the summer before his rookie season. Despite extensive police work, no trace of the young superstar is ever found.

    Shane Hollander remembers Ilya Rozanov. Better than most. And now, several years retired and with two highly successful hockey biographies under his belt, he’s taking a crack at the mystery that’s haunted his own career with strings of what-ifs and memories revisited so often they’ve softened like old cotton.

    Perhaps now, with the long eye of perspective between him and those memories, he can unravel the short lifetime of the man poised to become his biggest rival and best kept secret. Travelling to Russia he searches for stories and the answers they hold.

    If only this damn dog that’s apparently a local cryptid would stop raiding his trash cans.

     
    It has wandered this place for years. It knows every stream, every hill, every tree. Every pale, flat face in the place of straight lines. It does not know this face.

    But it remembers dark eyes and star-dots across the cheeks.
    It cannot remember its own name.

    But it remembers him.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    “Why are you here?” Ilya asked, very quietly.
    It still felt like a slap.
    Shane must have let out a sound of some sort, because Ilya turned to look at him, finally.
    “Did not mean it like that,” Ilya said. “Just… surprised.”
    Shane shifted awkwardly from one foot to the next, as if he was suddenly coming to the realization that he had no right to be here at all. “I got a call from the hospital,” he explained. “They told me I’m your emergency contact.”
    “Sorry,” Ilya said, in such a quiet voice it was almost impossible to hear him. “I forgot to change it.”
    Shane could only frown. That did not make him any less confused. “I guess I just… I don’t understand why you put me down as your emergency contact in the first place. It’s not like we…”
    Ilya took a couple of deep breaths. It looked like they were painful. His eyes slid away from Shane, like he couldn’t bear to look at him. “Did not have anyone else,” he admitted, and now his voice was the smallest Shane had ever heard it, like Ilya was trying to disappear as the words left him. “I’m sorry.”

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    Or: Ilya has a car accident. Shane is his emergency contact... even though they're no longer seeing each other.

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    13 Feb 2026