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    There is a ghost loose in the Archives, and it likes to steal pens.

    Martin is annoyed, Tim is having fun and Sasha investigates whether work ethic still applies to someone who is, for all intents and purposes, deceased.

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    21 Apr 2024

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    why did i never bookmark this

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    The year is 2011. Michael Shelley is living his life in circles, blissfully unaware of the betrayal that awaits him in the summer. Gertrude Robinson has plans to enact and plans to destroy. Emma Harvey is hiding a book in the dark place at the back of a cupboard.

    When Gerard Keay walks into the Magnus Institute - two years sooner than he was meant to - everything changes.

    This is an (eventual) Archivist Michael AU, exploring how certain events might have played out, had one key player been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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    16 Oct 2023

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    “Oh, I get it,” Melanie says to her. “It all makes sense now! You know, for the record, I was completely wrong about you, too. Like, I thought you didn’t have a sense of humour: I could never get you to laugh, no matter what I did. You were just absolutely uncharmable.”

    “Hey!” says Georgie, offended, and hits her clumsily across the arm, “Don’t be rude! I make you laugh all the time.”

    “You do,” says Melanie, and she sounds buzzed and completely fond in a way that sets Georgie’s stomach rolling.

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    Georgie and Melanie, down the years. Written for What the Girlfriends Week 2020.

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    31 Aug 2023

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    Michael looks back at Gerry. “You’ll text?” he asks quietly.

    They stand only an arm’s length from each other. Gerry’s mouth goes dry. He licks his lips, and he doesn’t miss the way Michael’s gaze flicks downwards. He doesn’t miss the fact that they’re saying goodbye, and if things were only slightly different, there might be an expectation of how this evening would end.

    If it starts raining right now, Gerry might choke on the cliches.

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    A college AU in which the gang forms a band, Gerry falls in love with an art student, and everyone has to grow up eventually.

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    26 Aug 2023

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    im insaneee. crazzyy. assyylum.

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    Michael Shelley is sacrificed to the Spiral before he has the chance to come out, even to himself. Now, as an avatar of the Spiral, his identity is even MORE painful and confusing. Alone and filled with pain he doesn't even know how to name, he searches for acceptance in the one person who ever really knew him-Gerry Keay.
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    “What do you want to be called then,” Gerry says and wraps his arms around Michael’s back.
    This conversation hurts. This question hurts. Everything hurts, so long as no one knows about his gender, so long as he has to go on being someone he’s not, someone he just can’t be anymore. He doesn’t know how much longer he can stand it.
    “I dunnooooo,” he says, grinning, but inside he knows his name isn’t Michael. It’s just not. He doesn’t have a name. He never has. And it’s absence is like a hole in his chest.
    The creature that might as well be called Michael, it supposes, if you have to call it anything, thinks about this conversation while it sits on the ceiling of its hallway and slowly digs grooves into the plaster with its fingers.
    Gerry, it thinks desperately. I have to find Gerry.

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    26 Aug 2023

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    somehow this described my gender experience