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  1. Public Bookmark 23

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    A botched exfil leaves Mac and Jack injured and stranded when their plane crashes. Or: my attempt to cover several Cairo Day 2023 prompts in one go.

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    Mac's seen the local roads and they’re too rough to make a fast getaway by land. “You get to the plane and get the engine started. I’ll distract them with these, and follow.”

    Jack looks unhappy with the plan, but there’s really nothing else to do except run back to the unkempt wilderness zone at the edge of the property and hope they can disappear into the trees. And that plan still sounds worse. “Fine,” Jack agrees. “But you better be quick about following me. I’m not flying out of here by myself.”

    Mac gives him a pat on the shoulder as he picks up his three half-constructed smoke grenades, balancing them on one arm so he can pick up the jug containing the final component in his other hand. “I’ll be right behind you. As long as you can fly that plane, we’ll be fine.”

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    12 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    The first time Gale saw Elizabeth, he had no doubt that she was John's.

    She had the same dark brown hair, just a shade closer to chestnut. She had the same big ears that stuck out slightly, the kind John used to joke would help him fly better. And the same prominent nose, though hers curves slightly upward at the end like a delicate button. The same stubborn set to her jaw, even at six years old.

    He'd thought he was ready for this, but having seen John's features replicated in miniature two years ago didn't prepare Gale for its fuller version, now standing in front of him.

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    Gale babysits for John.

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    09 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 57

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    When your days are numbered, a peculiar truth emerges: no matter how much time you have, it can never truly be enough.

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    07 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    The dark of the night finds them shoulder to shoulder on the balcony of the handstand, watching as the enlisted men shoot off red flares around a bonfire right into the midnight sky. A color that once meant blood spilled on the deck of a B-17. A man screaming for morphine, for their mother, for God. Now, it’s fired not in a signal of death but in celebration. Deliverance from evil.

    Or, The Clegan Spin-off to "Here I Am (Right here with you)".

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    25 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 5

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    金繕い — kintsukuroi, literally “golden repair,” the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. Rather than hiding the broken, it highlights the repair — rendering the piece stronger and even more valuable because of its scars.

    Gale suffers a life-altering injury only steps from the place where he’s finally meant to be safe. He and John build a new home together, filling in the cracks of their previous life with gold.

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    20 Sep 2025