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    “It’s weird, not having Robby here,” Mel is saying, dragging Samira back into the conversation between the residents. “And Dr Al-Hashimi hasn't shown up either.” That is strange, Samira thinks absently. Dr Bryan is back from semi-retirement to cover as attending, but the absence is noticeable. “I'm sure we can figure out how to be good teachers, but it’s a little harder when you don't have your mentor to help."

    “I don’t know,” Samira mutters before she can stop herself, still staring at Dr Abbot’s letter on her screen. “Just do the opposite of whatever Robby would do.”

    It’s only in the expanding silence afterward that Samira realizes she has said that it out loud.

     

    In the wreckage left after the 4th of July shift, Samira starts gathering the shattered pieces of her life. The question now is in what order does she want to put them together.

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    Mystery Work

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    This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!

    09 Jan 2026

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    Christine Daae. Known professionally as Christine, 30, singer-songwriter. Four Grammys, all between 2010-2015, 20 billboard singles, 10 studio albums. 1 stalker.

    Erik could already feel the headache forming beneath his mask. If Nadir hadn't called in his favor, he would still be at home, enjoying the silence that comes with years of solitude.

    But it was good money. Money enough to earn a lifetime of peace and quiet. All for 6 weeks of babysitting some pop star with too much money and not enough rules.

    What could go wrong?

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    30 Dec 2025

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    TL; DR: What if someone gave Christine Daaé a knife instead of singing lessons and told her she was her own means of production

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    Paris, 1890: In the soot covered streets of the French Empire, Christine Daaé is a factory girl with nothing left to lose, sold to a brothel, orphaned, desperate to be rid of the burden that is her life. In the quiet shadows of the Paris catacombs, Erik is leading a rebellion that is slowly falling apart with nothing to give them hope, clinging to recruits from brothels and work houses, starved, desperate to destroy the people that keep them on their knees. When fate brings the two of them together, when Christine Daaé is handed nothing but a rifle and a fever dream, when Erik takes on the scrawny brothel girl as his protégée, the path of their stories might change, but only if they are brave enough to face their tangled emotions first.

    This is basically a clashing of my two special interest, Phantom of the Opera and communism. So let's get in losers, we are seizing the means of production, opera-style!

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    Lady Elizabeth Harlander has lived almost all the life she can recall within the safe, secluded walls of Saint Margaret's, a convent school for girls of means in Calais, France. Despite her dear uncle's attempts to wed her off, she remains-- but tragedy strikes. The wind blows cold from the North. And soon... something finds her.

    Or: Elizabeth Harlander gets her happy ending.

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