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  1. Rec 21

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    On 'being Tan' and all the different things that can mean, all of them good

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    Fai says the thing on one random day, after Fang nearly burned down the kitchen while trying to cook something more complex than spaghetti and needed help from someone who both, wouldn’t laugh at the fact (so Phum was out of the equation) and who actually knew their way around a kitchen (so pretty much all his other friends were out of the equation except, maybe, Tan; and Tan was precisely the one person who couldn’t know about this).

    “I’m sorry, but that’s such a Tan thing to say!”

    And Fang doesn’t understand what it means to be ‘Tan’ (he doesn’t in the moment), but he takes it as a compliment anyway.

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    24 Aug 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 91

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    Nathan's fingers collide with something smooth and cold, a ring of metal tucked into the darkness of the compartment. His heart drops.

    Youssef is married.

    (He is not.)

     

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    Mr. Farouk and Mr. Ajayi get the opportunity to become quite close to one another before Paris. It's interesting what a graduation ring and an assumption will do to a person.

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    08 Aug 2023

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    Charlie struggles to eat his dinner that night. He and Nick figure out something new.

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    25 Jun 2022

  4. Public Bookmark 47

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    “Please go,” comes on a strained whisper, the air of it sour with tactfully placed lies leaving Carlos to step over the threshold instead. TK’s knuckles turn white around the lip of the counter, arms trembling under the weight of the pretense of it all.

    Or: TK struggles to be loved while healing from severe hypothermia.

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    05 Jun 2022

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    There’s a little cafe down the road. One that’s a little tucked away, just off a street that feels too busy for it, where so many people walk past it without a thought. It’s almost as though it’s invisible, only seen by those who truly want to and missed by those moving too quickly through their day. It’s like another world, one that radiates homely warmth and always smells like bacon and fresh coffee and pastries baked on little trays and displayed in glass cases with little handwritten labels. It’s an oasis, somewhere that feels so out of place in a little borough of London but it’s there, and it stands, waiting for someone to need it. And evidently so many do, because there’s always someone sat at one of the little tables crammed into the space, a student nursing their fifth coffee and looking barely alive, or a couple holding hands across wood, space in between them but none all the same. 

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    or- callum owns a coffee shop and is intruiged by the man that he keeps seeing outside.

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    17 Feb 2021