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“I guess I always knew he’d be the one to ruin my teenage dream.” He laughed, but it was so dry that Minho didn't know where it came from. “I really thought that was it: I’d just pack my stuff, vanish, crawl back into whatever hole I came from, or, maybe you’d call the cops, and we’d drift off into separate lives. End up buried one day in different graves. But, for a moment, you gave me hope, Minho-hyung. That everything would be okay, even though I knew it wouldn't. And that… That was the cruelest thing you could have done to me.”
Just as the police prepare to declare a missing boy dead, Minho begins to feel the past creeping back in.
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in the sleepy seaside town of samidare bay, kei and fuma's relationship fell apart.
five years later, they keep a practical distance, live and work separately — but not unhappily, you know, muddling along.
now, thanks to the altruistic and only moderately power-crazed Parent-Trapping Team of romantic washouts, mischief-makers and children of divorce — that is about to change.
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Minho never planned to come back. Four years away from his small coastal hometown and from Jisung should have been enough—enough time to move on, enough time to forget the way things ended.
But winter break pulls him back, and so does the past he tried to outrun. He doesn't expect to run into Jisung so soon, let alone under flashing stage lights, guitar in hand, and a striking shade of blue in his hair.
Minho was prepared to face the memories. What he wasn't prepared for was the way Jisung still makes his heart race—like nothing has changed. But everything has.
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Minho visits his hometown and falls in love with his ex best friend.
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Charles swallowed, the words heavy on his tongue.
"Oscar likes you," he repeated, though saying it aloud felt like a confession he hadn’t prepared for.Max stared at him, a look of utter confusion spreading on his face, "Yeah? Oscar and I get along. It’s not that complicated. So what?"
Charles felt a twinge of frustration. "So what? What? You’ve barely looked at me since I came back, and you’re spending all your time with him."
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a lestappen slice-of-life au where charles returns to his small town hometown after 7 long years and things go as well as you'd expect :) -
A Beginners Guide to Seducing Librarians by Phanganronpa
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - Fandom
01 Oct 2025
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“Oh. Well I need a library card, then.”
“You don't have one?”
“No?” Sirius scoffed. “Do I look like I read?”
After many years focusing on his career as a librarian, Remus Lupin had reserved himself to a life without partnership and, most importantly, without love.
When he meets Sirius, a tornado of a man who likes leaving books on the floor, Remus finds his daily structure and plans for the future completely swept up in him. How could he have feelings for a man who was such a mystery, a man who was irritating beyond belief, a man who came in every week just to get a book on a completely different topic to the last one?
One thing was for sure; Remus Lupin did not do feelings, and he almost certainly did not do them for people who leave books on the floor.
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I can lead you to bed (but I can't make you sleep) by Rune05
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 Oct 2025
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When Barty first met Evan, he thought he was the most interesting boy he’d ever seen. It was the first day of school, at the shitty public primary on the worst side of town.
He was all excited green eyes, sun-bleached curls and a wide, scrunched-up grin. So, Barty did what he always did: moved and made noise and filled the empty spaces between people. Little Barty had no sense of personal space – maybe still doesn’t when it comes to Evan – so he had no hesitation in grabbing a curl with a sticky finger and twirling, giggling when it sprung back into place.
“Hey, get off me, stupid,” Evans words were covered by a slight lisp, and Barty couldn’t help but think it was the most fascinating sound he’d heard. He leant closer, spotting a missing tooth at the front of Evan’s mouth.
“Wait, say that again,” he giggled. “Get off me, thtupid”
Evan replied with a fist to the nose, and Barty spent the rest of the day in the sick bay.
After that first meeting in year 1, Barty clung to Evan like the red sand constantly sticking to their skin.
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Dean expected his temporary garage job in small-town nowhere to be simple. Fix cars, avoid monsters, take a break for a few weeks. Instead, he finds himself drawn to the enigmatic café owner next door. When people start dying in ways that don't add up, Dean's hunter instincts kick in whether he likes it or not. Apparently, he's terrible at staying uninvolved.
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there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin by yaiza
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
01 Oct 2025
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are you destined to die on the only soil you've ever known?
keegan x reader ─ southern gothic au
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Leech Bound by Summersoverinterlude
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), Satosugu - Fandom
01 Oct 2025
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They were meant to face the future side by side.
One night, drawn by the quiet thrill of ambition, two eager students slip into a building abandoned by time, where silence inhales and the walls never forget. But in the end, only one returns, haunted by the memories. Now, as candles flicker on a cake meant to celebrate life, they find themself older than their friend ever will be.
The past, whatever it was, never did like sleep.
And the dead have a way of refusing rest.
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Sunghoon and Riki are best friends in a small seaside town. Their days are filled with laughter, wind swept hair and cold treats to beat the summer heat.
It shouldn't have been complicated.
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Jongho is struggling to find purpose after his dreams fall through and he isn't accepted into the fancy music school he applied to - the only school he applied to. His parents are disappointed in him and the only work he can get is as a part-time assistant at the library. He is miserable and has no idea what to do with himself. His secret wish is to ruin his life and fall into the misery that surrounds him, but that requires courage he doesn't have.
When he meets a local skater, Yeosang, he finds that someone in this world is able to understand him. They become closer, meeting at the park after dark and sharing cigarettes in the dim light, but Jongho is starting to feel things he hasn't in years. He's scared, but it feels like he might be allowed to be happy for once.
Yeosang seems to be hiding his own hurt, one that Jongho isn't sure he can help with.
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In the summer of 1993, after a public scandal destroys his world, Yamashita Teruaki reluctantly withdraws to his small seaside hometown to restart his life, as he grapples with the fallout of his damaged reputation and crumbling marriage.
While trying to come to terms with his past, he finds himself in the middle of an active serial murder investigation, led by his childhood best friend and police chief, Miwa Masashi and the reclusive local doctor, Matsumoto Takanori.
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Rode Hard, Put Away Wet by Draconian_Dream for Tempest_Death
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
30 Sep 2025
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But the last day was what everyone was looking forward to. It was the day of the first calving. A day that would make a new generation. The day that the whole festival was about. The fight.
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Bulls compete to win the chance to breed the towns heifers and cows!
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Burned out and aimless, Spencer takes a bus to nowhere and ends up in Milk Town, a place where time stands still, strangers don’t notice you, and the quiet feels too perfect.
Two locals, the charming Mr. Topp and the sharp-eyed Mrs. Miller, take an interest in him. But the longer Spencer stays, the more he wonders: did he find the escape he wanted, or a town that won’t let him leave?
(based on the song Milk Town / Mr. Carter by nep! listen before reading :] )
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A series of grisly murders rocks a small town in the 80s. A gang of kids put it upon themselves to investigate the crime to chase away the boredom of the summer. Meanwhile, FBI agents descend upon the town, and it's a race to see who will solve the case first.
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After waking up in a random forest with his wrists slit, bleeding out to die and no memory of how he got there, 17 year old Gerard Way is told by the nurses at the hospital that him and his family are going to have to relocate to a small town in the middle of “Fuck-Nowhere-Alberta”.
The move was supposed to help him recover from what everyone around him is convinced was a suicide attempt, but despite all signs logically pointing to him attempting to take his own life, Gerard knows something isn’t right, and the longer he stays in Dawesbury, the more things don’t seem to line up.
Things become increasingly more complicated when he meets Frank Iero, the peppy boy from his English class that he can't seem to understand, and tries to figure out what it is about Frank that unsettles him.
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Life At The Cat Nap Cafe by TwistyTexts
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
30 Sep 2025
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Katsuki is trying to find peace, while Shouto is simply trying to find... something. And as they get to know one another, with a little help from their friends and Shouto's possibly over invested family; they start to realise what it was they were trying to find, may just've been standing next to them since Katsuki arrived at Summers End.
A sweet, but comedic romance about two people who are struggling to understand love, for two very different reasons.
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i have loved you since we were eighteen by antliiae
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
30 Sep 2025
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“I just wanted to—”
“To talk? You thought sitting here, all sad and tragic, in our spot, would spark some nostalgia?” Chuuya scoffed. “That I’d come running back like some pathetic—God, I can’t believe I even came down here.”
“I know you hate me,” Dazai said, standing up. “But—”
“Hate you?” Chuuya tilted his head, as if he was considering it, with the kind of detachment that hurt worse than fury. “Nah. I hated you for about two years. Now I just… don’t really think about you at all. Or at least I didn’t, until you decided to make a grand comeback no one fucking asked for.”or, dazai comes back to his hometown at twenty-two, four years after leaving Chuuya without a word, trying to fix what he broke between them. In which, he isn’t particularly good at.
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Call You Mine by SlowburnMeDaddy
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
29 Sep 2025
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You never meant to come back.
After leaving behind a controlling ex and a city life that felt more like a cage than a home, you return to her grandmother’s old vineyard. the only place that ever felt like yours. But starting over is harder than you imagined, and soon you're knee-deep in brambles, heartbreak, and too many ghosts.
Katsuki Bakugou doesn’t need complications. He’s got enough to handle with a herd of stubborn cattle, a ranch that eats money faster than it makes it, and a past love that left him with scars deeper than any barbed wire fence. The last thing he wants is a new neighbor, especially a soft city girl with wide eyes, a sharp tongue, and curves that keep him up at night.
But love doesn’t ask permission.
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𝑺𝑴𝑶𝑲𝑬 𝑺𝑰𝑮𝑵𝑨𝑳𝑺 // 𝑨 𝑺𝑼𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑩𝑨𝑻 𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑹𝒀 by battinscnz
Fandoms: DCeased (DC Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics), Superman (Movie 2025), The Batman (Movie 2022)
29 Sep 2025
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Clark Kent has spent his life running into fire without hesitation - but nothing prepared him for the slow burn of seeing Bruce Wayne again. Now a respected firefighter in Smallville, Clark lives for service, silence, and the aching memory of the boy he once loved.
Bruce Wayne returns to his childhood summer town broken and barely breathing, carrying more baggage than belongings and hiding scars he refuses to speak of. He didn’t plan to stay. He didn’t plan to see Clark again. And he certainly didn’t expect the heat between them to reignite into something he can’t ignore.
Living in the same town for the summer brings shared coffee, sleepless nights, and the kind of intimacy that feels too dangerous to name. But some flames don’t die quietly - they wait for the right spark..