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Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
Greg Veder had rules.
He went over them on the bus the way other people checked their phones. Do not talk too much. Do not correct anyone unless they ask, and they will not ask. Do not sound too excited — excitement is a smell, and they can smell it. No anime examples, no game examples, unless...
Threadmarks: CHAPTER ONE The Day I Failed in Public
I used to love ranking boards.
There was a time — not so long ago that I cannot remember it clearly, because I remember everything clearly, which is its own particular curse — when I would walk into an assessment hall and feel something close to hunger. Not nerves. Not dread. Hunger. The clean...
The alarm went off at 6:14.
Not 6:15. He'd tried 6:15 for three weeks in February and something about the round number made his brain decide the whole morning should be round, which it never was, so he spent every single walk to school that month feeling like the day had already broken a...
Threadmarks: 1.1 Waking Up With a Sun in His Chest
Greg woke up already tired.
Not the kind of tired that went away with a yawn and a stretch, but the bone-deep, system-level kind. The kind where his body had technically been horizontal and unconscious, but his brain refused to believe in the concept of "off."
Light speared straight into his...