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    Joel Miller owns The Back Shelf, a bookstore located in Back Bay. He has no idea that his life is going to change when a girl walks into the store on an oppressively hot Boston day.

    (the bookshop!au nobody asked for)

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    27 Jul 2025

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    Joel’s plumb out of luck, it seems, because running after the dog is the little girl. She’s out of breath, still halfway laughing, and for a few seconds she doesn’t notice him. In those seconds, her face is wide open in a grin, dark hair wild and posture loose. She can’t be more than thirteen, maybe a small fourteen, and she’s clumsy in the way teenagers are right after a growth spurt. There’s a knife in Joel’s chest, the one that’s been there for twenty years, and it twists.

     

    (or, joel accidentally gets a dog. apparently, the dog comes with a mouthy fourteen-year-old kid, and maybe also a reason for living again.)

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    23 Jul 2025

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    Joel sounds a thousand miles away. “Ellie? Are you listening? I said, don’t you *ever* do that again.”

    Well, she thinks deliriously, that won’t be a problem after all.

    “Ellie, what—?”

    It feels like she has no control over her body anymore, like it’s someone else who is extending her arm, pulling back her sleeve, and exposing a ring of broken skin. She hears Joel stop breathing when he sees it too.

    She's been bitten.
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    AU where Ellie is already traveling across the country with Joel when she gets bitten.

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    23 Jul 2025

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  4. Rec 59

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    “Jesus, he’d destroy the world for you,” Jesse says with a laugh.

    Jesse’s joke hits Ellie like a gut punch from an angry drill instructor. Ellie can’t breathe for a second, but then a weight she didn’t realize she was carrying lifts off of her chest. Oh shit. Fucking shit. Joel had destroyed the world for her. And she thinks she might have known this whole time.

    (Or: Ellie learns the truth about Salt Lake City and struggles with it.)

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    22 Jul 2025

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  5. Rec 22

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    “Will you play dinosaurs with me?"

    No, the answer was most definitely and could only be – no.

    His legs wouldn't budge. He pinched the bridge of his nose, the familiar hum of a mounting headache building behind his right eye. Where the hell was her mother this time? He would not get stuck helping this kid again. Absolutely not.

    “Didn’t your mama tell you not to talk to strangers?”

    “You’re not a stranger,” she said. “You’re Pancake Man!”

    “No,” he said, one hand resting at his belt as he faced her again. “I’m Joel. And you’re gonna be trouble when your mama finds you.”

    She smiled and shook her head with enough force to bounce her pigtails around her face. “Mama’s not here.”

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    or the one where Joel keeps running into young mom Anna and her toddler bebe Ellie until they become a strange little family

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    22 Jul 2025

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