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The sidewalk bit into Niall's thrashing body like teeth. Every deep breath sat cold and dry in his lungs, every muscle drawn painfully taut beneath Ruben. Their limbs tangled frantically as they fought to overpower each other.
They writhed on the ground together like a dance without music, its disjointed rhythm bordering on intimacy in spite of itself.
or: what if Ava never came outside?
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Niall doesn't remember Ruben beyond a few hazy recollections. Knows him mostly by name — Maura's son, the one with problems. But when Ruben appears in a teenage Niall's life once more and seems to take an interest in him, Niall needs to figure out if all attention is good attention or if sometimes loneliness is the best option.
aka Ruben is 20 years older than Niall
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09 Jul 2026
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They both go still for a minute, breathing through it hard as they settle into the weight of what they’re doing. After all this time, what they’re finally doing.
It hangs there between them, huge and ugly, ripped open like a raw nerve, this unacknowledged thing they’ve danced around for decades now laid bare in the way Niall can feel the throb of Ruben’s heartbeat inside of him like this.
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(They fuck in the barn. They die in the barn. One way or another, it was always going to end up like this.)
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05 Jun 2026
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Randy Bradley is bad at saying no.
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05 Mar 2026
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Fifteen or thirty-two, Niall’s a wiry heap of fried-nerves.
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20 May 2026
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Ruben is out of prison.
Niall answers the phone.
That's where they start again.
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