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    Three weeks before Henry Fox's tour for his fourth, highly anticipated, awards-bait novel A Brief War in December begins, his publicist Janella breaks her foot on a bunny slope at Windham.

    Alex can't be mad at her, even though he kind of is. Saying it out loud would be like kicking her when she was down, and she already went down a literal mountain in the worst way possible.

    Now crammed in Rafael Luna's corner office, Janella is shooting Alex extremely apologetic looks while slumped on her crutches, wearing a bright orange cast. The conversation about who is going to be joining Henry Fox on his multi-city trek across the U.S. is also going downhill. Alex is feeling the same sort of free fall while standing still.

    Because out of all the publicists available in their tiny underfunded department, the only one left to escort their company's best-selling author is regrettably him.

    The problem is, well, Alex absolutely hates Henry Fox.

    Or: Alex is the publicist for Mountchristen Publishers, and is stuck on a two-week tour with their best-selling, but frustrating, author Henry Fox.

    UPDATE: complete and now with art!

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    30 Nov 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 14

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    Henry sank onto a nearby rock, his movements stiff and deliberate. “You two can keep going,” he said, his voice low. “I’ll catch up.”

    Alex frowned, crouching in front of him. “Not a chance. You’re not in any shape to stay behind.”

    Henry’s eyes flashed with stubbornness. “I’ll slow you down.”

    Alex sighed, rubbing a hand over his face. “Look, I get it—you’re not used to having people watch your back. But out here, there’s no solo act. You’re with us now, so you’ll move when we move. Got it?”

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    or alex is a former MP surviving in a world overtaken by the dead. trust is scarce, but when he meets sasha—a tough, wary kid—and henry, a history professor who’s somehow still kind, the three form an unlikely bond. together, they carve out a fragile shelter against the world, finding in each other a flicker of family, and in the quiet, unexpected warmth between alex and henry, the possibility of love in a place that barely remembers it.

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    21 Nov 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 25

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    Everything is the same, again.

    Henry is alive. Impossibly. Improbably.

    He’s not one to complain, but Alex has no idea what is going on.

     

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    Or: Alex gets caught in a time loop where he keeps killing Henry. He doesn't know how to stop it.

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    18 Nov 2024

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    “It seems I’ve inherited a diner.”

    “Yes, I knew that.”

    “That’s been closed and left to rot for years.”

    “I knew that as well.”

    “I’ve decided to keep the place. Renovate it, get it running, see where it goes.”

    “That is certainly a decision.”

    “It gets worse. It seems I’m going into business with Alex Claremont-Diaz.”

    Pez is silent for a long moment. “The Alex Claremont-Diaz? The one that has been featured in Food & Wine four times. The one that Carme Ruscalleda and Enrique Olvera have called the next big thing? Your uni sweetheart? The love of your life? The man whose heart you shattered into a million pieces? That Alex Claremont-Diaz?”

    “Do you know of another?”

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    15 Nov 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 71

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    “What are you doing here?” he asks.

    Alex grins, wicked and bright. “I’m just a guy in a bar,” he says.

    Henry looks at him for a long, searing moment, like he’s sizing him up.

    “Would you like to be a guy leaving a bar?” he asks.

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    14 Nov 2024