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*** PLEASE NOTE *** Again, characters in this book are CHARACTERIZATIONS Certain political figures are exaggeration, or take theorized actions based on a fictitious set of circumstances Please keep commentary focused on the story and characterizations in it. Let's not give our Mods grey hairs. Good morning
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CHAPTER FIVE: THE COYOTE ON WALL STREET & THE FISHER OF RIDEAU Location: The Grill, Seagram Building, Midtown Manhattan. Time: 12:30 PM EST. Status: The Belly of the Beast. The air inside The Grill smelled of truffle oil, dry-aged beef, and the kind of money that didn’t just talk; it whispered commands that toppled governments. It was a cathedral of mid-century power, a space of Philip Johnson bronze and Mies van der Rohe lines, where the masters of the universe came to eat $400 lun
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He still does, yes, I admit sometimes I make mistakes. I do tend to go really fast with the text, so if I forgot to mention it it was probably because I was focused on the rest of the plot. It was a very... large pair of chapters put together into one. It is implied that a part of Garrett's pain was neuropathic and as his mood improved so did his ability to walk improve. If you note in the last few chapters it was Thump-Step rather than Tump-drag. Nothing magical, just the power of being happy in his life and in himself.
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Tabby Katz, Orc Slayer!
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They tend to be, but caution and fair use wins the day. As long as I don't name directly any living member of the family, and make sure they are used fictitiously, and since the name falls under the historical fact of a town... It is the same as using, say, the name Washington for characters. Nah I am being mindful and looked into it, and as long as I keep a firm line between fiction and fact, I should be fine.
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Between Tabby and Alvin, Kenny and Steve, and now Garrett and Kyle, poor old Pastor Jensen's going to be busy.
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Oliver is honest to a fault, locked into a family where that is seen as a detriment. He's protecting his very fragile brother. And a keen foil for Lydia, who is impressed when people stand up to her.
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Lydia, needs a date for her brother's wedding. Her target? Orel, the reclusive Merrick brother who catalogues graveyards and barely speaks. To get to him, she blackmails her mechanic cousin Finn into a double date with Orel's brother, the tightly-wound auditor Oliver. But Finn and Orel share a decade-old secret, a trauma orchestrated by the charming, predatory Eldest Merrick brother Tarquin. To stop Tarquin's rise, this unlikely alliance must weaponize their past against him—and in the process, reclaim the love stolen from them in a rotting barn, that drove one to the streets, the other to hide. A story of revenge, rust, and rebuilding on broken ground.
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I can hear the Sylerikon weeping over their shattered, anachronism riddled time line now.
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Which reminds me, there needs to be a 3-way brawl over who gets Hugo's hat... Thomas isn't letting go of it, and there 2.0 and 1.0 both have a claim.
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Thank you, now I know what I keep doing wrong Thanks.
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If you scroll up, to where you like/react to the chapter, right beside it is a black and white button that looks like a white medal, push that button and it will show you how to do it.
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You're the first person to ever catch that little detail, twenty odd years and you are the first
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This site fascinates me some times, the complexity of it must be a nightmare behind the scenes. It's as much a piece of art as the stories in it. thanks @Myr @Cia @wildone and all the admins/mods.
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Not allowed to touch publish button, forbidden, disallowed, not even to look at it... not till tomorrow. Nope, not going anywhere near it... resisting fiddling... denying urge to automate the evil process that. Wait, ok forgive me, but If I click publish story... does it automatically publish the first two chapters? I've been running on the assumption that I have to publish those separately, and so it is going live when i am trying to set timers on the wrong thing.... I'm an idiot. I think I know what I have been doing wrong all this time. * Still not touching it till tomorrow * I don't trust my addled techno-incompetence. Don't worry I only discovered it by accident a little while back.
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Gotta get my recommendation fix somehow... and there are lots of 'em out there reading, loving the story and pretending I don't see them slinking past the recommendation button without clicking it... I SEE YOU over there!
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She's Steve's Mom, she learns... and her and West's scene in a future book make up for being mixed up here. Brad, Brad also gets his. Twice, once from Jason who is far braver than we know here, and once from West in a snowy street in Ottawa, where West sends him back to jail after kicking his ass.
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So tomorrow a new story, and another glimpse back. Please leave me a recommendation, and a review if you liked this story. It helps me tremendously, and a small favour to ask. Just go to the black and white button beside where you like the chapter, click that... go on, you love me, you love Merrickville and want more stories... no clicky, no story It's a hostage now! .
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Kyle is ambitious, and highly motivated to try and get Garrett pregnant... which is going to take him a LOT of trying. And (Insert rant about AI editing again, I've had a day of it... now it changed Katz to Henderson for some reason beyond my comprehension) I fixed it back.
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Chapter Thirteen: Ghost in the Machine The citrus solvent had stopped smelling clean. It smelled like failure now, like the chemical ghost of things that wouldn’t come out. Finn was on his knees in the middle of the garage bay, scrubbing at a patch of concrete that was already spotless, his knuckles white around the stiff bristles of the brush. He’d been at it for twenty minutes. The circular motion was a mantra, a stupid, physical prayer: erase, erase, erase. The midday sun was a
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Jason's dad is a ... nasty piece of work. It is Heavily implied in later books that Andrew and Clovis had to "deal" with him. We don't come out and say it, but our lads dealt with a problem. Jason is a tragedy that should never have happened, but later, he saves West's life. So he finds his bravery, even though it costs him dearly.
