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    Ilya started the list when he was seven years old. Then, it was a single sheet of lined paper, the header Потрясающие вещи written in blue marker. Potryasayushchiye veshchi. Brilliant things. Wonderful things, amazing things.

    The first few entries were easy. Simple.

    #1: Пломбир. [Ice cream.]
    #2: Собаки. [Dogs.]
    #3: Катание на коньках. [Ice skating.]
    #4: Жёлтый цвет. [The color yellow.]
    #5: Библиотекарь в школе. [The librarian at school.]

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    Ilya makes a list for his mother, a list of everything in the world that is brilliant. Of course, he didn't know then how it would continue to change his life more than twenty years later.

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    14 Apr 2026

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    After Shane's plan to come out to Ilya in Tampa falls through, the pair have a falling out. There is no cottage. Instead, Ilya is forced to wait and see Shane at a charity event being held in New York. Ilya hopes that, after a miserable summer apart, he and Shane can reconcile.

    There's just one problem.

    Jordan Bragg, a forward for the New York Admirals, has also come out as gay. Stunningly handsome, funny, and just what a heartbroken Hollander needs, Jordan makes it clear that Ilya Rozanov isn't the only one after the Metro's star centre.

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    29 Mar 2026

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    18 Mar 2026

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    Rose had lied when she said this would be “just another reading” to promote Shane’s new chap book... he couldn’t have possibly guessed she was scheming something of this caliber. Something so broad and all encompassing, something that smokes up the room. Something he can’t escape... Now Shane is feeling like he wants to throw all of his books into the bottom of a lake and let it freeze over, because Ilya Rozanov is holding a stack of his own, flipping through pages to find the words he wants to say. Smoking up the room.

    OR Shane Hollander is a poet/fan of renowned queer refugee poet Ilya Rozanov

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    15 Mar 2026

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    “Rozanov score…82,” the judge reads.

    The man, Rozanov, sneers, clearly unhappy with the number. He waves off the judges with his hat before stalking out of the rodeo arena. It’s a damn good score for a bareback bronco. Since coming to watch the event, the highest of the night that Shane’s seen so far.

    He knows a killer, hell bent on victory when he sees one and the man with the black shirt, black and turquoise chaps, and the black cowboy hat is the definition of it.

    And Shane wants to meet him.

    Or: when Shane Hollander, rodeo prince, is infatuated with the Russian newcomer who is dead set on snatching his crown

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    16 Feb 2026