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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    Erik is reincarnated as one of those dancing inflatable tube thingies that you see outside of car dealerships and shady accounting offices. As he flails in hellish synthetic limbo, only one thought compels him onward: just what has become of Christine Daae?

    That’s it.

    That’s the plot.

    Written for POTO Crack Week 2022. My dumb ass ended up taking it way too seriously.

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    17 Dec 2025

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    All That is Solid Melts Into Air by Les_gnossiennes

  2. Public Bookmark 59

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    Erik has been alone for most of his life, but it's been bearable. Enriching himself with the vast world wide web, he finds that he can be anyone he wants to be while finding the solution to social needs that he's severely neglected.

    Stumbling onto a small YouTube channel run by a beautiful young woman, he wonders if it's possible that he doesn't actually have to be alone forever.


    Christine Daae has led a relatively sheltered life. Despite her father's chronic illness and their poverty, she has always had a knack for looking on the bright side of everything. In the hype of social media, she creates a small VLog channel to function as her living scrapbook. She doesn't understand just how dangerous it could be.

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    17 Dec 2025

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    Like and Subscribe by ShameWithoutSin

    On ch 2

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    Despite his best efforts after Christine leaves, Erik finds himself alive and well and turning fifty. Well, if he’s bound to stay alive, he may as well start living. Of course, any great undertaking requires a first step, which Erik takes literally as a nice morning walk. He may not have a wife to take out on Sunday, but it seems as good a place to start as any.

    Nora Farley has enough money and years on her to live life on her own terms. And if one of the things she wants to do in life is walk by herself to and from early morning mass at Notre Dame, she will. And if she wants to say, “Good morning, Monsieur!” to the shy man who covers his face every Sunday…

    Well, everyone must learn to live with the consequences of their actions, mustn’t they?

    A quiet romance in which Erik takes it upon himself to learn how to live and may, perhaps, find someone to share that life with.

     

    Chapters 45 through 49 are new, for the tenth anniversary.

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    14 Dec 2025

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    A Stroll on Sunday by Antiquarianne

    On chapter 47

  4. Public Bookmark 2

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    15 Dec 2025

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    All Imaginable Pangs by Les_gnossiennes

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  5. Public Bookmark 32

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    Tales of a young man's angelic voice carry far beyond the Russian fairground he sings at. The police chief of a whole province in Persia is sent on an errand beneath his station. And a farmer’s daughter marries into the fringes of the Shah’s court. Three lives brought together in one place, at one point in history. It could be said that Persia made Erik into Erik, for good or ill. A tale of how even the darkest night can give way to sunlight.

    The Sultan's crown, with priceless jewels set,
    Encircles fear of death and constant dread
    It is a head-dress much desired—and yet
    Art sure 'tis worth the danger to the head?
    (Hafez)

    Chapters 1-33 follow Erik during 'the rosy hours of Mazandaran.' Chapters 34 to the end pick up after 'the whole affair of the Opera Ghost.'

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    14 Dec 2025

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    The Sum of Earthly Happiness by Antiquarianne

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