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"I guess I’m not really used to thinking about options,” he admits, which feels like an unbelievably dumb thing for an adult—a father, a teacher, an ex-husband, an addict—to say out loud. “I just do the thing that seems like what you’re supposed to do."
Leanne hums in the way that Frank has come to learn, two stints in rehab later, is therapist non-verbal speak for “you’ve said something very troubling and therefore fascinating. Prepare to learn about yourself.”
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- Part 2 of and they were CO-TEACHERS
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08 Jul 2026
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"But I don't want this to end, Mel," Frank admitted softly.
Mel's words faded as she stared at him, at the warmth and tenderness in his eyes as he shifted closer to her. "Like… you don't want the wedding to end?" she asked as he drew near. He shook his head slowly.
"No, Mel. This. Us. I want… us to continue. Exactly as we are now."
In which Abby is remarrying a mere year after the Langdons divorce. Mel convinces Frank that they should attend the wedding as a fake couple, so as to show his ex-wife that he has fully moved on, but she does not anticipate the turn their evening takes when the two friends follow their roles a little easier than expected...
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- Part 3 of Kingdon Week 2026
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08 Jul 2026
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"Hey, Mel," he offered her, his voice weak. Mel tilted her head to one side. For just a moment, the shadows of the ambulance bay cast a darkness over his left eye like a bruise.
"Hey, Frankie," she whispered.
Frank Langdon looked down at his feet, shaking his head slowly. Mel found herself walking over to him before she had even decided to move. They stood alone, together in the silent bay.
"No one's called me that in… a very long time."
An alternate universe in which 12-year-old Melissa King meets a strange boy in the woods behind her home. Over the course of the carefree summer they spend together, the unlikely friends begin to realize that they needed one another more than they knew. When late August takes a dark turn and the two are separated, seemingly for good, it takes many years and a surprise reunion before the old friends fully understand just how much they changed one another's lives.
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- Part 1 of Kingdon Week 2026
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08 Jul 2026
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“Take a breath for me, sweetheart—”
“See! You’re still mad at me!” she snaps.
“Why the fuck would I be mad at you, Mel?” he huffs out his breath, frustrated. “I feel like I’m talking gibberish or something. Because why would you interpret that as me being mad at you, Melissa?”
[or Mel freaks out when Frank calls her any pet names. But especially... that.]
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08 Jul 2026
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Mel King has a crush. A silly, childish crush on Frank Langdon. It's a secret she has resolved to keep to herself, content to live on stolen glances, even if its eating her alive.
That is until Langdon is injured during a flag football game. In his dazed, concussed state, Mel learns that maybe it isn't all in her head after all...
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- Part 1 of Vital Signs
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08 Jul 2026