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  1. Public Bookmark 61

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    Science has warned us of what might be
    Dangers that drift through infinity
    Comets may call or meteors fall
    And nobody knows what lives out there at all

     

    Grace squinted at the telescope’s texture-screen. He could clearly make out Threeworld, but not quite the blob floating next to it.
    “Do we have a light-screen?”

    ♩Yes, yes.♩ The astronomer hit a button and a regular light-screen came to life.

    ♬Does that look like Earth’s probe, question?♬ Rocky asked, standing to his side.

    Grace stared stock-still at the screen. “Absolutely not.”

     

    Informed about a strange craft found orbiting Threeworld, Rocky and Grace are sent to investigate.

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    07 Jul 2026

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    How old was he, even? He’d been thirty-five when he left Earth — would that make him seventy-five, or forty-six, or forty-two once he returned?

    Grace is returning to Earth, but what will that mean for him?

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Grace has to handle First Contact with an alien planet with what meager Eridian his one set of vocal chords can make.
    This Is Fine. This is totally, completely, utterly fine.

    (Grace sounds like a pebble. This, alongside Eridian's extended lifespans, kicks off a chain of misunderstandings that Grace would find utterly mortifying if he knew what the heck was going on.)

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    4/?
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    29 Jun 2026

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    In which two universes are eerily similar, apart from one thing: their order of magnitude. Unfortunately for Simon, his universe is on the smaller side- much, much smaller, in fact.

    (Simon is 5 inches tall and scared out of his mind. Grace and Rocky are just trying to help.)

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    11/?
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    19 Jun 2026

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    The journey to Tau Ceti is a long one.

    Or: For the low low price of clicking a red button, you can pilot the Hail Mary.

    [A HTML-fied interactive game.]

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    Chapters:
    1/1
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    18 Jun 2026

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    An alien vessel approaches Erid requesting to land. The transmission uses the strangely flattened Eridian voice of a crew member long presumed dead.

    Erid denies the request. The vessel lands anyway.

    (AKA: Rocky and Grace save their stars. It doesn’t stop them from becoming Erid’s most enduring horror story.)

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    31 May 2026

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    Every screen in the room blazed with the same breaking news feed. An alien voice had just asked for him by name on live television.

    “Mr. Grace?” little Jamal whispered from the front row, eyes huge behind his glasses. “Is that really you they’re talking about? Like, you you?”

    Ryland’s mouth opened, but nothing came out. His heart slammed against his ribs like it wanted to escape and hide under the desk with the class hamster. He was just Mr. Grace. The guy who drew cartoon planets on the board, who stayed late helping kids glue together messy dioramas of the solar system, who once spent an entire lunch period comforting a sobbing girl because her goldfish had “gone to the great fishbowl in the sky.” He graded spelling tests on vocabulary words like photosynthesis and asteroid. Aliens did not know his name. Aliens did not ask for science teachers.

    The marker slipped from his fingers and clattered to the floor.

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    27 May 2026

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    It's been years since Doctor Ryland Grace saved Erid and Earth. He is content with his life, happy just to teach the next generation of Eridians and have the occasional game night with Rocky and Adrian in his dome. For the most part, nothing changes.

    And that's the problem. Shouldn't Grace, y'know...age? When Rocky indicates that he should be sixty human years old by now, Grace can't reconcile the young face in the mirror with the time that his friend has religiously kept.

    Things get more complicated when another undoubtedly human ship shows up at the edge of the 40 Eridani system. Suddenly Grace is playing ambassador between the two species, and tensions are rising between them. Will this be a successful second contact, or is the peaceful life Grace just wants to live too much to ask for?

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    26 May 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 74

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    By the time Ryland Graces returns to Earth, he's almost 70 and has spent more time on Erid than his home planet.

    Meanwhile, on Earth, nearly 100 years have passed. A lot can change in a century.


    “It’s um. A religion. A small one! But - yes. There’s a portion of Christians who hold the belief that you are the second coming of God. God the Son.” She pauses. “Jesus,” she clarifies, unhelpfully.

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    18 May 2026

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    Grace squeezes out a wet chuckle, thick with emotion, before suddenly falling silent. Its mouth does that strange up-down up-down movement, like it’s trying to figure out if it’s perplexed or amused. “Wait a minute—“ The human flops on its side to face them.

    “Rock, that almost sounds like I’m your kids’ \.\\.”

    “New word.”

    “Uh… companion animal.”

    —————

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    Grace and Rocky talk about evolution, family dynamics, and dogs.

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    11 May 2026

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    It's not every day you wake up with five arms and no eyes, but Ryland Grace stopped having normal days a very long time ago.

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    Chapters:
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    11 May 2026

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    Grace is repulsive.
    Grace is disgusting.
    Grace is a creeping horror made manifest.
    And Rocky wants Grace so badly it makes him look stupid.

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    04 May 2026

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    The people of Erid understand discoveries and science can take time, but there is only so much hope they can grasp onto after so many years. There are only so many prayers to be said and only so many scenarios that can be dreamed.

    They are expecting a dejected crew -if anyone returns at all, not an alien ship and an even more alien person, supported by the only Eridian survivor, an antisocial engineer who knows nothing but facts and how to make anything he wants tick.

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    8/?
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    14,151

    25 Apr 2026

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    50 years after the Astrophage problem got solved, humans finally visit their neighbors to establish an alliance. It's a joyful day for everyone, except for one specific Eridian.

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    Chapters:
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    25 Apr 2026

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    When the burger factory was first commissioned, I was promised it would be for therapeutic cloning only. Muscle tissue for meburgers; organs if I needed them; but no experimenting with brain tissue. And absolutely no reproductive cloning – that is, making a whole other me. My provisions were ratified by the Eridian legislative body over a decade ago, and it's the reason I gave up my stem cells willingly – well, that, and I missed meat. A lot.

    I mean, I miss hugs too, but not so badly I would condemn another human to live his entire life inside this dome with me. Don't get me wrong, I like Erid; I'm happy here. But to never know Earth, to only have yours truly for human company… that's a pretty raw deal. I couldn't conscience bringing a new life into the wrong world – and neither could my Eridian hosts.

    Or so I thought.

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    24 Apr 2026

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    Grace starves on his way to Erid.

    All Rocky can do is make him comfortable when he goes.

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    24 Apr 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 6

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    They’ll breed flies and maggots and feed rats and snakes until all thats left is bones. Bones that twine with each other, ribs and vertebrae mixed up in torn upholstery.

    Maybe stray cats will live in The Impala when they’re gone.

    Maybe skunks or raccoons.

    Maybe nothing.

    Maybe it’ll just be them until the day they’re found, it’ll be impossible to tell Sam from Dean by then.

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    20 Apr 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 2

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    “November, as soon as it starts getting frosty they get in the building.” The explanation is halfhearted, but Sam takes note of it. “I think there’s already some in my friends dorm over north.”

    “Really? That’s horrible.” Sam hopes he doesn’t sound excited, hopes he doesn’t sound strained, hopes he sounds earnest. He really does think it’s horrible for the girl. Not everyone has the guts for disposing of pests in the most effective way: by eating them.

    “Yeah, they’re keeping her up all night. Her grades are already dropping.”

    A hum. “Hey, what dorm is hers? I might be able to help her out with her rodent problem.”

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    26
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    20 Apr 2026

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    A genuine horror story.

    Language:
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    14,120

    21 Mar 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 78

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    The BAU hunts a string of strange suicides.
    The Winchesters hunt what’s behind them.
    One artefact binds their paths, forcing two men to face each other’s lives.
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    A weird case and a freaky friday scenario- what could go wrong?

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    Chapters:
    6/?
    Comments:
    98
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    287
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    4,405

    18 Mar 2026

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