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Move Over, The Notebook—My Boyfriend Moved to a Shithole For Me
Romeo drank poison for love.Jack froze to death in the North Atlantic.Allie gave up wealth and status for Noah’s sweaty carpentry chest. And Matthew?Matthew moved to Abilene, Texas. And that, dear reader, is what we call a real-ass love story. Let’s be honest—every great romance needs a setting.Pride and Prejudice had the English countryside.When Harry…
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My Birthday Curse Is Back, and This Time It Brought Reinforcements
Tomorrow, I turn forty-one. Which means, statistically, something will either break, catch fire, go missing, bleed, ghost me, explode, or die. No need to sugarcoat it. The birthday curse is real. I don’t care if you’re religious, spiritual, or just one of those people who puts rose quartz in their bra and calls it healing.…
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The Vanishing Act: How Texas Democrats Ghosted the Capitol and Left Republicans Screaming into Empty Chairs
In Texas, redistricting isn’t about lines on a map. It’s about territory. Ownership. Power acquisition disguised as census math. And this summer, as heat warped the asphalt and rural roads shimmered like fever dreams, the Texas GOP came back for more. Never mind that the ink from the last census hadn’t dried. Never mind that…
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Traditional Family Values: The Proposal Was a Lie—But the Applause Was Real
A closeted Senate candidate proposes on live TV. His ex—the ghostwriter behind the speech—must decide if telling the truth is worth losing everything. A devastating queer political love story about optics, erasure, and survival. Read Traditional Family Values. #Booktok #AmReading #BookLover #BookWorm #BookTwitter #booksky #bookrecommends #2025TBR
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We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Panic: Hurricane Season, Sponsored by Anxiety and Sandbags
Ah, August. That magical time of year when the air turns to soup, your dog refuses to go outside, and your neighbor starts casually mentioning evacuation routes like it’s small talk. Yes, friends—it’s officially Hurricane Season™. The East Coast is once again flirting with Mother Nature’s wrath, and this year she seems especially cranky. Maybe…
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Ghislaine’s Great Escape: From High-Security Headlines to Minimum-Security Hill Country
Somewhere between the sound of cicadas and the scent of institutional brisket, Ghislaine Maxwell is adjusting to her new reality: a minimum-security federal prison camp in sunny, suspiciously welcoming Bryan, Texas. Yes, Bryan. The town best known for its proximity to literally anything more interesting and now, apparently, for hosting the disgraced socialite convicted of…
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Loyalty, Glitter, and Crime: Why You’ll Fall Hard for the Found-Family Chaos of Hell’s Kitchen Sink
Hell’s Kitchen SinkAlso by Brandon Cloud What if your second chance came with a busted boiler, cartel surveillance, and a drag queen crying behind the bar at 2am? That’s where the story begins in Hell’s Kitchen Sink—a gritty, sharp-witted, deeply human novel about queer survival, found family, and the kind of loyalty that sometimes slides…
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Top 10 Most Absurd Things That Have Happened So Far in 2025 (And It’s Only July)
Well, it’s official: 2025 has politely asked 2020 to hold its drink and then shoved it down a flight of metaphorical stairs. We’re barely halfway through the year, and already the timeline reads like a rejected Black Mirror writer’s fever dream. From AI scandals to legislative cosplay, here’s your semi-comprehensive list of the ten most…
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Lone Star, Shady Lines: Texas GOP Dusts Off Crayons for Another Round of “Find the Democrat and Move Him”
If you thought gerrymandering was a once-per-decade tradition—like the census or Taylor Swift re-recordings—think again. Texas Republicans, fueled by barbecue, brazen ambition, and a deep-seated allergy to representative democracy, have decided to crack open the redistricting map early, because why wait for 2030 when you can tilt the scales right now? Welcome to mid-decade redistricting,…