All in

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Kevin Dixon

16 Apr 2026

Full Chapter List (Not Final Ordered Structure)

Front Matter

Before We Begin
Prologue

Core Narrative — Formation → Environment → Fracture

Before the Black Dress, After the Blue Butterfly
When Silence Means Everything
Something to Hold
The Price of Friday
Untouched
Cold Steel: Peppermint Click
Dogs of Old
Surgery (placeholder / intentional gap)
Friday (placeholder / intentional gap)

Collapse + Function

Rain of Daggers
The Fall (Part 1)

Attempt at Structure / Connection

Beds of Stone
A Slight Pause Here (unnamed section functioning as a chapter)
Interlude

Emergence

Shade of the Tree

Extended Arc — Descent → Collision → Aftermath

Luck
Just Next to You
Don’t Let It Get To You
The Book of Tragedies (Part 2)
Good Boy (unfinished)
Afterward

All In — The Story So Far

Full Chapter List (Not Final Ordered Structure) Front Matter 1. Before We Begin 2. Prologue Core Narrative — Formation → Environment → Fracture 3. Before the Black Dress, After the Blue Butterfly 4. When Silence Means Everything 5. Something to Hold 6. The Price of Friday 7. Untouched 8. Cold Steel: Peppermint Click

The plot ?

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Before the Black Dress, After the Blue Butterfly

My family started dying. As people tend to do. Most of us try to procrastinate about it. We stall. We pretend it isn’t happening. Others—the real ones, I thought then—do something about it. If there was a way to stop it, that had to be it. In

Good Boy ... Spoken Monologue Preview An audio excerpt from Phrase

Good boy0:00/226.2237081× "You don't need me, you're strong enough on your own. You're a bad ass" "I don't feel like it, thank you ..." I stop It's cold Like a shattered crystal stem wine