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Jennifer Luce
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Writer ✍️ | Mother ❤️ | Gamer 🎮 | 🇰🇷🇺🇲

🩷 2025 SmoochPit Mentee
🖤 GUMIHO (Adult Korean folklore-inspired fantasy)

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · 1d
Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance!

✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program
✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest
✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest

#A #F #H #R
An Agent Guide to GUMIHO 86,000 word adult folklore fantasy blended with horror and romance By Jennifer Luce The pitch: Cursed with a vengeful gumiho, Mina has spent centuries feeding it souls to become a god—and now she needs just one more, but when she falls for her final target, she must choose: face her demons and sever the curse before the gumiho consumes her from the inside out, or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something truly monstrous. For fans of... SUCH SHARP TEETH by Rachel Harrison - physical transformation & emotional vulnerability THE FOX WIFE by Yangsze Choo - East Asian Folklore MY DEMON - Redemption through connection THE GLORY - Morally gray anti-hero First Lines Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white snow. A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would lead to his demise.
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1984 x BLACK MIRROR

When Owen’s husband dies in a home invasion, the killer must move into her heavily surveilled home with her …

My RTM WIP with a critical eye on:

⚙️ A!

⚙️ imm!grant treatment

⚙️ pr!son system

Too timely for our times?

#QuestPit #A #W #SF #D
Nine-picture black and white grid courtesy of Canva. All photos mine. Top left to bottom right: Head of a girl possibly lying down, with her long hair obscuring most of her features Cloudy sky Patch of skin with a bunch of horizontal scratches Dark, hilly skyline with ominous haze A sign saying “Security Alert. 24 hour video surveillance. All activities are monitored An empty, ominous tunnel with tiled walls, eerie lighting and concrete floor A person’s neck with a black cord around it and a small box-shaped device in the middle A little plant breaking through asphalt Bottom of a pillar / pipe bolted into a concrete floor
January 31, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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Sammy is running from his mother's ghost, but there's only so many places to hide in his small town. When a charismatic newcomer shows up, he finds the escape he's been looking for – but the further Sammy's drawn from his family, the more the edges of reality begin to blur.
#Questpit #Agentguide #YA
January 31, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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snackswrites.bsky.social
MEALS ON WHEELS

When your boss already owns your soul, its hard to argue for better work conditions.

🔪 unhinged protagonist
🌲 PNW vibes
👻 horror with giggles
🫦 offbeat romance

Urban fantasy. Seattle backdrop. Middle aged leads.

Magic. Murder. Spice. Coffee.

#QUESTPIT #W #A #F #RF #PR #H
January 31, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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With the bodies piling up and their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted, Andy realizes they’re being hunted by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s stolen the life they’re desperately trying to leave behind.

#QuestPit #AG #YA
January 31, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Hallmark Meets Poly: THREE'S THE SEASON

Grieving lawyer Charlotte enlists her 2 best friends to finish her late husband's last wish: the Christmas List. When unexpected romantic feelings emerge she'll have to decide whether to risk her found family for a second chance at love.

#QuestPit #W #A #R
In red text on a holly themed background: An Agent's Guide to Three's the Season! On the far left side is an image of two women and a non-binary person in front of the US Congress building. A red Santa hat caps off the title. Comps for a new novel: Three's the Season. These include KISS HER ONCE FOR ME due to the sapphic yearning with all the feels. TRIPLESEC for the polyamorous romance. A MERRY LITTLE MEET CUTE for the spicy yuletide shenanigans. The pitch: After suffering a humiliating public meltdown, grieving lawyer Charlotte seeks solace with her two best friends- only to be caught off guard by unexpected romantic feelings. By Christmas Day, she'll have to decide between starting fresh in a new city or risking her friendships for a second shot at love in this holiday RomCom set in Washington DC. The Snippet: I slide into my office: Charlotte Sanders-Stewart Esq. emblazoned on the door. The vinyl lettering is a bit chipped, but that’s to be expected after ten years. I take out my laptop from my sensible Kate Spade tote, slip out of my sensible sneakers and into my slippers. Yes, I have a pair of office heels in my bottom desk drawer, I wasn’t raised in a barn. But most meetings are on zoom anyway so my black Jimmy Choo's that I bought with my first ‘big girl’ paycheck have mostly been collecting dust for the last five years. By the way, my office is gorgeous, the floor to ceiling windows with an amazing view of the Washington skyline. Real romantic comedy shit. Like Katherine Heigl should play me in the movie they make about my life. Just make sure that it ends seven years ago with the big white wedding and not like now with the dead husband. Kind of puts a damper on the whole Nancy Meyers vibe you know?
January 31, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Witcher meets Whitten: A village witch teams up with the vampire she vowed to protect her village from in order to take down the child of a god who has been terrorizing them both.

#DIS/#ND protagonist ⚔️
#POC/#TR vampire 🧛‍♀️
#LGBT love 🥀
#Gothic vibes 🌘
#KillGod plot ⚰️

#QuestPit #Q #F #DF #A
January 31, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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CRYING IN H MART x I'M LAUGHING BECAUSE I'M CRYING

👩‍👧‍👧 Mother-daughter dynamics
🇰🇷 Korean adoptees
🍜 Food & travel writing
📖 History of US/Korea relations
🇺🇸 Mixed Korean/American identity
🧪 DNA test surprises

WHERE THE TIGERS DIED: coming soon to agent inboxes!

#W #NF #M #QuestPit
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January 31, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Alpha and beta reader feedback for AT YOUR PACE, a new adult contemporary sports romance.

It's made three people other than me laugh aloud so far, and hopefully more one day! If you want an ARC just dm me I just want people to enjoy this thing I wrote :)

#QuestPit #Q #R #NA
screenshots of the following pieces of feedback on google docs: this all feels really believable. the setting, the college, gym, classes, all of that feel like I am very firmly there. This is HOT. This is great! Like the best friend already. Soooo cute I love this passage. EEEK, they kissed! Great line! LOL I love this joke, Literally I chuckled out loud. So funny. I chuckled too! I love that they will fall in love while working out together. It's sexy!
January 31, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Emerson's tired of being single. But as he enters junior year of college, is he finally ready to bend his disciplined ways and do the work to overcome what's been holding him back from finding love?

AT YOUR PACE is an 87,000 word new adult contemporary romance. #Q #R #NA #QuestPit
images of a classroom, latina young woman with brown curly hair and closed eyes, a baseball on a field, a bookshelf, a close up of a young white male with green eyes, a study group, a couple holding hands, a university brick building, and a neutral toned bed on an orange background, tropes listed include classmates to lovers, puerto rican FMC, college baseball player MMC, he falls first, and cozy autumn vibes
January 31, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN: Speculative Fiction
A group of elementary teachers fight a charter takeover by playing a D&D game with real-life corollaries
For fans of The Grimoire Grammar School PTA, D20, and Roll for Romance
Vibes and scenes in this mood board
Querying Soon
#QuestPit #W #A #S #F
Moodboard for Anti-Charter Campaign with an apple for a teacher, an elementary school, a nametag that says "evil corp," a fistful of money, butterscotch candy, cheersing beers, ants, happy kids in a hall, a magic book, D&D dice, map of PA
January 31, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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#questpit here’s my #agentsguide to 99 WAYS TO GET EXSPELLED (WITHOUT COMMITTING MURDER), a sapphic ya satirical dystopian fantasy that dares to ask the question:

What if The Bomb gave people nuclear magic?

#w #d #f #lgbt #ya #ownvoices
75k YA Satirical Dystopian Fantasy 99 WAYS TO GET EX-SPELLED (WITHOUT COMMITTING MURDER By Victoria Jayne 星星亚 The Pitch Anarchocommunist, OCD-ridden Posey Peabody has been drafted into the American Army Academy for Powerful Witches. By entry stats she's the Winner--First Rank of her class. All is well as can be until Amelia Appleton takes her Rank with reckless, dangerous, wrong magic. And then Appleton doesn't get expelled. Competitive streak activated, Posey and Appleton engage in reckless, rule-breaking acts of magic and mischief. While trading First Rank between each other, Posey realizes that Appleton might not be such a weirdo after all. In fact, she's annoyingly pretty. That said, Appleton's got her eye on that government position through all this, and Posey would rather die than work for the fascists in charge. Posey's intention is to truly get expelled. She wants to be the first one to do it. Meanwhile, an underground betting ring rises up, classmates betting on whether or not Posey will have to kill someone to get expelled. Posey hopes it's not true, but whether or not she finds out is entirely up to her. FIRST LINE SNIPPET Somewhere behind the stage, Headmaster Josephus Crimble is puking his guts out. I remind myself that it's okay if I start to count and stop myself after the limit, so long as I don't make it to ten. If you make it to ten, the limit goes down by one, Posey. Don't forget. I started at five hundred. Drifting through the rest of the day in this half-there state, I sit with my feelings locked tight in a jar of my own design. Ґ1l preserve my emotions like lemons, until they're laden with salt and mellowed in their sourness. That feeling, or lack thereof, feels warm as home to me, and my deep yearning for Nukeville ebbs into a soft ache that gently rubs my heart into a smoother, steadier rhythm. There will be no need for counting when there's no feeling to (dis)regulate.
January 31, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Welcome to LAST CHANCE MATCH! A gov’t-funded dating show where the deadly game play of SQUID GAME + tech horror of BLACK MIRROR meets the summer romance of LOVE ISLAND.

𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧?

#questpit #w #revising #A #S #SF #R #H #D
Villa with camera lens overlay showing “recording” Lights, CamBot, Bloodbath Adult Speculative Sci Fi Psychological Horromance LAST CHANCE MATCH Now revising with WriteHive
January 31, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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I KNW WHT U DID LST SMMER x HILL HOUSE x SCOOBY-DOO (2002)

🎢 reunited friends
🎢 abandoned theme park
🎢 haunted by ghosts of guilt
🎢 dark secrets of the past
🎢 friends to strangers to lovers
🎢 for those who wished Daphne and Shaggy had a chance

#questpit #W #H #S #R
Movie poster with hand over scared woman’s mouth at top, abandoned theme park ride beneath Five can keep a secret… if all of theme are dead MYSTIC MOUNTAIN The secret unleashes late 2026 SEVEN YEARS AFTER CUTTING TIES WITH HER COLLEGE FRIENDS, WHITNEY'S TRICKED INTO REUNITING WITH THE GANG AT THE ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARK WHERE HER BROTHER VANISHED, BUT WHEN THEY'RE LOCKED IN OVERNIGHT, THE PAST ISN'T THE ONLY THING THEY'RE RUNNING FROM.
January 31, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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In honour of #QuestPit and the upcoming #SmoochPit showcase, here's an updated #agentsguide for THE BOG PRINCE, my upper #YA #RF about a necromancer who reanimates the bog body of her kingdom's long-lost prince. 💀👑

Maybe some secrets are better left buried... 🖤 #agentguide #Q
"An agent's guide to THE BOG PRINCE by Julianne M, a 99k word YA fantasy romance." The pitch... Eighteen-year-old Everin Lockett’s dreams of returning home from ruthless Wyverith College are shattered when she manifests a forbidden necromancy magic that reanimates the bog body of her kingdom’s lost prince. If the college discovers the truth about her abilities, she will be conscripted into their brutal army, doomed never to see her family again. Desperate to guard her secret, Everin strikes a deal with the long-lost Prince Byrnan: if he helps keep her power hidden, she will help him solve his centuries-old murder. But when Byrnan’s quest for justice could be the very thing that endangers her last hope of going home, Everin will need to confront the true cost of falling for a lost prince with nothing left to lose—and a kingdom to reclaim. Pictures of book and album covers in ornate antique frames. The text reads: For fans of... Yearning and bog bodies (Hozier's debut album) Dark academia and lyrical prose (A Study in Drowning and Curious Tides) Haunting gothic atmosphere (One Dark Window and Florence + the Machine's Lungs album) Slow-burn romance (Divine Rivals) Snippet... A fork of lightning split the rain-soaked sky in two, and the ground trembled with a deafening clap of thunder. But even after the rumbling faded, the bog still shuddered beneath me, swelling and quaking like a pair of lungs drawing their dying breath. I lurched away, my heart jolting against my throat as I scrambled back through the mud. Another crack of lightning. And in its wake, silhouetted against the flash of violet light— A single grasping hand, clawing its way out of the earth towards me.
January 31, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹

🏄‍♀️ California vibes
😡 Frenemies to enemies
🎭 Opening night drama
❣️ Romantic debacles

#QuestPit #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Q #F #YA #Querying #witch
Early Magic; images: images of young women, a magical book, a coastline, bottles on a shelf, a dark forest
January 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Sager x MEX GOTHIC w/o the mold and gore
When a tormented writer treks to his mountain estate to write his next novel, a sentient house, an intruder, and a psychopath collide. He must unearth the key to this madness, or his sister will arrive in time to write his eulogy.
#QuestPit #Q Psych #T #H #A
January 31, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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EVERY SUMMER AFTER X HAPPY PLACE

When her ex shows up at her sister's wedding, a heartbroken woman faces the tragedy that broke them up 10 years ago at the cottage, is pulled into a spiral of distrust that brings out her worst and an HEA may not even be worth it. #questpit #q #a #r
January 31, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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prahajess.bsky.social
🔎The Alchemist's Last Recipe🔎

An introverted book restorer unravels an alchemy-infused murder in a close-knit Prague courtyard community.

#QuestPit #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #W #A #MY #WF
The Alchemist's Last Recipe - A Mala Strana Courtyard Mystery; images: pretty parked bike with flowers in the basket, vials of tinctures, a wrapped book, socked feet hugging a mug of tea
January 31, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS

She planned to be the terror in his life.
He planned to ignore her.
Neither planned on saving a crumbling empire from a tyrant—or falling in love.

91K-word adult fantasy romcom / Smoochpit '25 mentee
#questpit #A #RF #Q
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January 31, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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jundlife.bsky.social
THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO

Chris is haunted by Shadows since almost dying.
They are increasing in power.
A Red Eyed God talks of change.
A Shadow with a hat seeks to use him for his dark purposes.

🍂 New England
💽 2000's nostalgia
🧹 Witchcraft
🌕️ Cosmic Horror

#Questpit #H #Agentsguide
"Hat" 84K cosmic horror. Join the beta. Querying soon. Pitch: Chris is cursed to see Shadow people since almost dying as a child. Now, as the new MILLENNIUM dawns they are INCREASING in FREQUENCY and GAINING power. His peers think he is psychotic, The Red Eyed God in the woods speak of a great change, and a HATEFUL shadow wearing a hat seeks to use him for his own ends. Tropes: 2000's setting Space and Nature WitchCraft Spooky New ENgland Stoner Goth kids Madness possession Vibe Comps: The Bababook, Donnie Darko, The Exorcist
January 31, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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juliannejh.bsky.social
When a noblewoman helps a condemned pirate escape prison so his sentient ship can find her missing brother, she never expects to fall for the criminal—or to discover that he caused her brother’s disappearance in the first place.

#questpit #A #RF #litagents #writingcommunity #amquerying #romantasy
January 31, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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IN REVISIONS AS A WRITEHIVE MENTEE 2026
Big Five Editor request x 2
20 agent requests
#questpit
victoriajayneoh.bsky.social Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 1d
WICKED X LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS X ROMEO & JULIET
#questpit #w #ya #f #lgbt
An autistic, trans garden witch with a brown thumb works with a rival music witch to care for an ancient flower. When a meltdown turns the flower sentient, she must regulate her emotions to turn it back before the festival.
Flowers garden harp collage blonde and curl haired girl
January 31, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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AITA?

…Find out what happens next when the black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family pursues a forbidden romance with the banshee who’s haunted his estate for generations, even as the black plague closes in.

💌 SmoochPit 2025 Mentee

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #Horrormance
Screenshot of a reddit post reading: AITA for predicting my aunt will die? The other day I [M20] heard the banshee, meaning someone in my family will die, and obviously it's going to be my aunt. She's pretty sickly and I can't imagine any other option. But when I told my family, they called me a disgrace. Naturally I tracked down the banshee and demanded answers, but she was totally useless and couldn't tell me shit, so I stole her comb. Sweet revenge. But I didn't anticipate that she'd try to get it back... and when I tried to get her out of my bedroom (hello, personal space???) I accidentally touched her and she had this weird seiuzure. Now this creepy, undead (but lowkey hot) chick is insisting that "my touch brings her memories back" and "she craves more". I can't lie, I'm temped (just because I want to find out who'll actually die and prove my family wrong... no other reason). If my dickhead cousin finds out about this I'm totally screwed. AITA? Gothic mood board depicting a skull, an ancient Irish chieftain with a hunting dog, hands reaching through a ghostly gauze, a yearning man kissing the hand of his lover, a thurible spewing incense, hands clasped in prayer with a rosary, a woman in white facing a vast forest, and hands ripping a hole in the center of the owner's chest. Text reads "The Banshee of Clan Murtagh, 82,000 words, adult gothic horror"
January 31, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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#QuestPit #W #F #R

an adult pirate x knight fantasy:

A FATE INKED IN BLOOD x A Knight's Tale

🌊immersive worldbuilding
⚔️stone cold knight FMC
🏴‍☠️bloodthirsty pirate lord MMC
⚓️deadly bargain + mineral magic
🏰high stakes political intrigue
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January 31, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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A guide to my #WIP 🌊 SCULPTOR OF THE WINDS 🌊
Book 1 in a planned duology, it has:
⚓️ Seafaring adventures
🌋Roots in animistic religion
⚡️A physics based magic system
🐙 Sea monsters large and small
🏠 Complex family dynamics
🌎 Accessible worldbuilding

#questpit #A #F #RF #FR #W #LGBT #OV #AG
Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image. In white text: Guide to Sculptor of the Winds by Ivy T. Woods Book 1 in the Sea of Sorrows Duology Romantic Pirate Fantasy Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image. To the left in white text: Pitch When Minna is offered a place weaving the winds—and protecting the ship from monsters—on one of the largest ships in the Fleet, it comes with a catch: her betrothal to the Deckmistress’ son. Bullied by her mother, Minna takes the deal, surprised to find that her betrothed and her new Deckmistress are actually quite tolerable. But when they capture one of the monsters terrorizing the Sea of Sorrows, Minna is forced into the role of jailer while they interrogate the monster, trying to force her to give up the location of the monsters’ lair. But as Minna’s monstrous prisoner proves herself to be surprisingly human, Minna becomes intent on saving her from her inevitable execution, going against her Deckmistress, her betrothed, and the entire crew. But the other monsters are drawn to their own. And they are coming. To the right is a picture of a tall ship with two sails up on the main mast against an orange horizon, with rocks in the foreground on the right Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image. In white text: Comps & Tropes Seafaring adventure Arranged marriage Monster love interest Yearning Bisexual main character Images of the covers for The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Bury our bones in the midnight soil by V. E. Schwab Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image. In white text: First Lines The first body they found was bloated, thick veins of black running beneath the dark skin, branching out and away from the missing chunk of flesh in the dead man’s shoulder. The corpse’s sun-bleached trousers were caught on a rocky protrusion, leaving the body to rise and settle with each rush of water up the golden sand. “Fucking seas,” Minna muttered. “Is he washing in or out, do you figure?” Her father grunted, squatting down beside the body, plucking the torn and bloody pants away from the rock that kept the body anchored to the shoreline. The next wave rushed in to claim its prize, sucking the body back down the beach as it withdrew. “I suppose we’ll see soon.” Her father shielded his eyes with one hand, silver hairs shining in the sun as he squinted inland. “Body can’t have been too old.”
January 31, 2026 at 1:16 PM