Walfridsson
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Driving, dogs barking, how you get used to it, how you make
the new streets yours.
Trees outside the window and a big band sound that makes you feel like
everything's okay,
a feeling that lasts for one song maybe,
the parentheses all clicking shut behind you.
— Siken, "Meanwhile"***
John has returned to Chicago and struggles with what to do with himself next. Robby opens a window.
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- Part 5 of All of a Piece
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20 Jun 2026
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It was a good plan. Pity she waited too long.
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15 May 2026
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“I haven’t really been to a wedding where I’ve, uh… let loose. But, hey,” Dennis shrugged, “maybe I’m doing it wrong.”
“If I hadn’t already agreed to go to this conference, I’d offer to go with you,” Robby said casually. “Show you how it’s done. I’ve got a good track record as a plus-one, too.” Dennis had to say something. To interrupt. To shut this down. But what was he supposed to say? No, you can’t be my plus one, because I lied about my cousin, and there is no wedding, and it seems a little weird to bring a date to a fucking funeral– “Apparently parents love it when you bring home a doctor.”
And just like that, the bubble popped.
“I’m not gay,” Dennis snapped.
He had never hated the sound of his own voice as much as he did right then.
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Or, Dennis is anxiously headed home for a "wedding" in Broken Bow, Nebraska, the details of which are increasingly fuzzy. Robby's got a medical conference in Omaha that same weekend. So they carpool. Seventeen hours both ways in an enclosed space with no way out except a tuck and roll. This'll go great.- Language:
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06 May 2026
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”You want a better story. Who wouldn't?
A forest, then. Beautiful trees. And a lady singing.
Love on the water, love underwater, love, love and so on.
What a sweet lady. Sing lady, sing! Of course, she wakes the dragon.
Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly
flames everywhere.”- Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"
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Nearly 25 years after they'd last seen each other, John takes a trip to Pittsburgh to visit his older brother. He should have known that the Carter Luck would follow him there, and that Mike changing his name wouldn't make him immune.
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- Part 3 of All of a Piece
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03 Apr 2026
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“Come home,” Dennis says, like he even has any right to ask it.
“Why?” Robby’s voice cracks through the phone speaker. It sounds so tiny. So soft. So far away. “What's going on?”
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Or, Robby gets a call that cuts his sabbatical short.
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22 Mar 2026