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When Jax Briggs calls in his last favor, Sonya Blade finds herself dragged into a mission that ticks exactly zero of her boxes: find a missing OIA agent named Kenshi Takahashi, navigate the treacherous politics of Outworld, and do it all with Johnny Cage as her unwanted shadow.
The man is a walking liability. Loud, reckless, and armed with a smile that suggests he's never been told no in his entire life. He's also frustratingly connected to everyone she needs to talk to and infuriatingly capable in a fight.
But the trail is getting colder, the Black Dragon is somehow involved, and every lead she follows suggests Kenshi's disappearance is tangled up in General Shao's rebellion. With no backup, no clear exit strategy, and a partner who keeps looking at her like she's the only person in the room, Sonya's in way over her head.
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The Briggs farmhouse still feels familiar. That’s the problem.
Johnny Cage arrives for a Christmas weekend he never thought he’d be invited to again, armed with gifts, good intentions, and hard-won restraint. Sonya is there—sharp-eyed, guarded, and devastatingly familiar—and the space between them hums with everything they haven’t said since the divorce.
This is only the beginning. The feelings are unresolved, the attraction very much alive, and there are far too many meddling people with the best of intentions and the worst of execution.
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Francesca reflects on everything that's happened to her over the past few weeks, the presences—and most poignantly, the absences.
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It's been several months since Hollywood actress Sonya Blade went on a publicity stunt-turned-date with US Army 1LT Johnny Cage. They've kept in touch, and a flippant invitation to come thaw out brings Sonya back to Texas. Everything's bigger in Texas - the cars, the landscape, the problems... and the emotional complications. But she's a Hollywood girl. She can come out on top...
Right?
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Started for CageBlade Week Day 6 "On Vacation"... and then, uh, yeah.Series
- Part 2 of Goldfish in the Privacy of Bowls
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Cat's Paw by ktbl
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime)
06 Jan 2026
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But it was after the garden party that the cough seemed to stick to Jinshi like glue; as the season passed and Princess Lingli grew, so did his cough. Gossip raced through the court like wildfire, that Jinshi was not just coughing. It was tuhua, they whispered over the laundry basins and the drying-lines, tuhua that was murmured in the gardens, tuhua when the ambassadors arrived and the elegant eunuch was nowhere to be found (though Maomao knew it was not tuhua that kept him away then, though few would believe what had).
She did catch him in the act, only once, face hidden behind his sleeve. There were no petals, no buds, no whole-blooming flowers in his wake. It was a long-running cold, perhaps an allergy.
That was all.
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Paper Rings by ktbl
Fandom Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020), Mortal Kombat (Video Games)
20 Jun 2025
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Page by Page by ktbl
Fandom 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu
19 Oct 2024
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Shades of Time by ktbl
Fandom Mortal Kombat (Video Games 2023-), Mortal Kombat (Video Games)
09 Oct 2024
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I could teach you, but I'd have to charge by sporkmetender
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
06 Nov 2025
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Rumi is still not a hundred percent sure why she agreed to this objectively ridiculous “tutoring” session.
When it comes down to it, she thinks she's mainly doing this for Zoey, because Zoey is the only kind, genuine person at this whole damn school, and Rumi wants to help her. Zoey is absolutely hopeless with boys, and she needs help with her confidence before she tries to date one. Rumi sort of…didn’t mention the fact that all her own experience is with girls, but she’s pretty sure Zoey already knows. Kissing is a gender-neutral skill anyway, and Mira is going to handle the other part (thank god).
It’s definitely not because Mira made intense eye contact with her in the bathroom mirror last week while applying lipstick way too slowly. Or because of that time Mira coolly demolished the boy who was trying to score points by talking shit about Rumi at lunch.
Nope, it’s definitely not any of that. Rumi just wants to be a good friend to Zoey. A best friend. A friend who has never once been paralyzed by the desire to find and kiss every single one of Zoey’s freckles.
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03 Mar 2026
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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant for sophiahelix
Fandoms: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF
24 Dec 2025
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The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
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14 Jan 2026
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For Guidance, Please See the Corporate Interpersonal Relationship Policy by suspiciousflashlight
Fandoms: Naruto
13 Aug 2019
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What Sasuke Uchiha wants is an indeterminate EC-02 Step 2 position with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation that offers a decent salary, health benefits, paid vacation, and a manager who won't break all his Excel spreadsheets. What he gets is Naruto Uzumaki, an improbably attractive and unbearably annoying co-op student who eats way too much instant ramen and doesn't understand that "casual Friday" doesn't mean varsity sweatpants.
Official CBC Canada Reads Selection 2019, made possible by the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ottawa Tourism Board.
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25 Oct 2025
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Hockey is full of famous families. The Bridgertons are one of them.
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06 Oct 2025
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scraped up off the pavement by missparker
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
05 Sep 2024
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After Penelope falls out with Eloise over her popular gossip blog, all the Bridgertons cut contact with her. It's the worst thing that has ever happened to her, but after a few months of wallowing, Penelope moves to Scotland and buys a book shop and gets on with her life. It turns out she can live without the Bridgertons and she's happy enough with the new life she's cobbled together. No one knows anything about her here and that's how she likes it: complete and total separation from her life back in London and her old online persona.
That is, until she spots Colin Bridgerton at the coffee shop next door.
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- Part 1 of scottish bookstore au
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03 Oct 2025