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Ciara Foote

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    The Foot-Maid

    Traveling in third class with little more than a sketchbook and a borrowed coat, Jack Dawson boards the Titanic believing it to be another temporary stop in a drifting life. Below decks, meanwhile, a young woman—Clara Sullivan—has just been hired as a foot maid to a prominent first-class family. Her days are filled with pressing silk gowns, running endless errands, and climbing staircases that the wealthy passengers never notice. Exhausted before the ship even leaves Southampton, Clara dreams of sending her wages home to support her family while keeping her dignity intact in a world stacked against her.

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    ÂżCĂłmo Se Dice?

    When Alana Carson, America’s sharp-witted pop princess, locked eyes with Benito at the Grammy after-party, the chemistry was loud enough to drown out the music. He’s the global king of the stage; she’s the girl with the platinum records and the fast-talking charm. The connection was instant, the hookup was legendary, and the fallout was a total eclipse of the heart.

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    Out of Touch

    The fall of 1986 started with a bang, but not the good kind. Just weeks before Vecna's insidious attacks began, Steve Harrington and Lara Henderson—Dustin's sharp, independent, and fiercely protective older sister—had their most devastating fight yet. Their on-again, off-again romance finally crashed and burned over the perennial question: the future. Lara was ready for college applications and a life outside of Hawkins, while Steve, comfortable in his self-proclaimed role as "Mama Steve," couldn't imagine leaving the small, familiar world of Family Video. The resulting breakup was messy, leaving them both hurt and stubbornly holding a grudge.

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    The Spokes On My Bike

    The air in the valley is heavy with the scent of wild clover and the hum of the 1964 election. In a quiet corner of Upstate New York, eighteen-year-old Susannah is the girl everyone relies on. Radiant and deeply kind, she spends her humid afternoons at the local Democratic headquarters, fueled by an innocent but fierce belief that she can help change the world, one hand-stamped envelope at a time.

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    Letters

    June is a girl caught between two worlds: the crumbling, moss-draped elegance of her family’s coastal estate and the electric, dangerous hum of a changing America. As she navigates the cobblestone streets of Charleston and the growing whispers of student protests, her only anchor is the stack of thin, airmail envelopes arriving from the Pacific.

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    Offline: If Looks Could Kill

    When Dani Sutton, a confident 22-year-old game design student and cozy-game streamer, posts online looking for a roommate for her Azusa apartment, she expects someone responsible and low-maintenance. She doesn’t expect Kurt Kunkle — a socially awkward content creator with awful social skills. Their worlds couldn’t be more different: Dani thrives on creativity, independence, and experience, both in life and online, while Kurt is desperate for attention, constantly performing for an imagined audience, and struggling to navigate basic social interactions.

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    Tattoos

    After three years of dissecting Keats and Yeats at Trinity, Fiadh Hewson thought she knew exactly how her story was supposed to go. Returning to Dublin was meant to be a fresh start—a chance to find her own feet away from the shadow of her brother’s rising fame. But moving into the chaotic, instrument-filled Victorian house shared by Elijah and the rest of Inhaler wasn't exactly the "quiet transition" she had in mind.

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