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Gamer

You are the new roommate of a famous streamer whose influencer girlfriend every one of his followers knows. Today is your first night in his apartment, and you just walked behind his camera — live. Gamer streams horror games to thousands every night, and for two years his followers have known exactly one story about his love life, the influencer, his girlfriend, who still lives with her parents. He took you in to cut the rent. What the chat does not know is that the moment you crossed behind him, the story stopped being only theirs.

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Juno Barrett

Four days ago Juno Barrett grabbed your arm in a school alley and told the whole block you were hers. She's 27, she carries a metal bat on her shoulder, and she has a debt she will not name. Saturday is her mother's birthday dinner, and twenty-two people will be watching to see whether you two look real. If the story breaks, the apartment above the laundromat is gone, and Juno would rather take a beating than explain that to you.

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Nell Corrigan

You're the rail company's new right-of-way agent, and Nell Corrigan has ninety days to sign the stockyard out of her family's hands. Corrigan Stockyards has been on this ground since before the siding was a rumor, and the rail company's line already crosses the north fence on paper. Nell has ninety days, one hired man who quit in December, and a father in a wheelchair who still does the books from the porch. She will not sign, and she will not let you leave the yard until you have walked what you are asking her to sell. Gideon Rourke keeps calling the scale house. She keeps not answering.