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Past & Presents
Novella about Ty & Zane, Nick & Kelly
Available on the author's website
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Abigail Roux
51 books4,990 followersAbigail Roux was born and raised in North Carolina. A past volleyball star who specializes in sarcasm and painful historical accuracy, she currently spends her time coaching high school volleyball and investigating the mysteries of single motherhood. Any spare time is spent living and dying with every Atlanta Braves and Carolina Panthers game of the year. Abigail has a daughter, Little Roux, who is the light of her life, a boxer, four rescued cats who play an ongoing live-action variation of 'Call of Duty' throughout the house, a certifiable extended family down the road, and a cast of thousands in her head.
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October 30, 2023
never gonna stop loving Ty and Zane
September 20, 2020
Just found this (6 years later!)
I love these guys!
I love these guys!
December 25, 2020
And with this, my dear friends, I completed my 2020 reading (edited to double) challenge. And now I'm gonna take a break 😎. Merrt Christmas and Happy reading!
October 16, 2020
Ty ve Zane ikilisini ve Sidewinder ekibini ne kadar sevdiğimi bir kez daha anlamış oldum.
Çok özlemişim hepsini...
Noel temalı kısa kısa hikayelerden oluşan, beni yıllar öncesine götüren keyifli bir kitaptı.
Çok özlemişim hepsini...
Noel temalı kısa kısa hikayelerden oluşan, beni yıllar öncesine götüren keyifli bir kitaptı.
August 10, 2020
An anthology of twelve free ficlets in the Cut & Run universe revolving around Zane and Ty and Ty's Sidewinder team, which Abigail Roux posted on her Tumblr page.
The Series
"Hot & Bothered", "Tumble & Fall", "Wet & Wild" (before Cut & Run , 1)
"Yours & Mine" is a year after Fish & Chips , 3
Mean & Green" is before Ball & Chain , 8
"Glitter & Shine" (Cut & Run, 8.75)
"Twist & Shout" (Cut & Run, 8.8)
Definitely after Cross & Crown , (Sidewinder, 2), "Comings & Goings" is followed by "Fourth & Long", which I think is followed by "Catch & Release" with all of them after "High & Tight", 7.75
The Stories
" Glitter & Shine" finds the retired Ty wrapping Christmas gifts when Zane gets home from work. Cute with hints about their family hang-ups.
" Comings & Goings" finds a frustrated Nick aboard the Fiddler's Green, concerned about that gift that won't be ready for Christmas. Not, in fact, until April! There's some give-and-take about family, gifts, expectations...and then, what do you know, "Here Comes Santa Claus"...
" Hot & Bothered" finds the Sidewinder team — Kelly "Doc", Digger, Eli, Nick, Ty, and Owen — battling an unexpected fire out in the yard...that Digger...
" Yours & Mine" finds Ty "Bulldog" in his cartoon jammies and Zane sitting in front of their Christmas tree on Christmas Eve, their first Christmas together since Fish & Chips , 3. And it's a gift that is so very much "yours".
" Fourth & Long" finds Kelly and Nick "Lucky" in Kelly's cabin in Colorado...with Nick hoping to find a Patriots game on the telly, even as Kelly does his best to distract him, lol.
" Wet & Wild" is pre-Cut & Run with the Sidewinder team — Tyler "Six", Eli, Digger, Owen, Kelly, and Nick — sharing a house before Christmas. It's Kelly who's feeling wistful about Christmas when he invades Nick's shower to ask him his plans. And it gets steadily more crowded in that shower, as the team remains consistent in their friendships, lolololol.
" Mean & Green" find Special Agents Zane Garrett and Ty Grady still in the FBI office where Santa is being grilled. Under the rules of a bet you will not believe. Yep. You'll be laughing too.
Other agents in the office include Fred Perrimore and Scott Alston. Special-Agent-in-Charge Dan McCoy gets burgled.
" Missiles & Toes" requires strenuous testing with the snow toys that Nick got for Kelly. Better get a hot cuppa something for reading this one!
" Tumble & Fall" is, I suspect, pre-"Wet & Wild". It's Thanksgiving weekend and Eli Sanchez is fed up with waiting for Ty "Six" to wake up. The lightweight! Despite the warnings from Nick, Digger and Owen who are studying, and Kelly "Doc" who's rescued two kittens, Eli heads up for that attic window to start by hanging that wreath. Ooops... Mr Franklin is one neighbor glad not to be Eli.
" Twist & Shout" find Beaumont "Ty" and Zane at the Gradys' place for Christmas along with Deuce, Livi, and Amelia. It's a hoot with that combination of dragging in a wildlife-filled Christmas tree that's too big, the baby learning new, ahem, words, and Ty's panic. Too, too funny.
" Catch & Release" is a thoughtful piece on Kelly's part as he thinks back to the Christmases of his childhood and the many handmade gifts he exchanged with the "fireflies" from his past. It takes place shortly after "Comings and Goings".
" Past & Present" is that literally — keep an eye out for the "==". The part before it is of a past Christmas morning with Eli, Digger, Owen, Ty, Nick, and Kelly with those two rescued cats (from "Tumble & Fall"). Two cats that put up a howl that night, the night Nick used a fruitcake to battle an intruder.
And it all leads up to the second half of the story that takes place in the present with Zane there, but not Eli. With a fun reminiscence about past Christmases.
I'm guessing the timing in this, for Roux says they had "lost Eli in the fall" and that "Zane could imagine what that first Christmas had been like", must have been Zane referring to the Sidewinder team's first Christmas after Eli was murdered but before Zane came into Ty's life. With the second half of the story afterwards.
The Title
The title is a way to gather in the Past & Presents story bits.
The Series
"Hot & Bothered", "Tumble & Fall", "Wet & Wild" (before Cut & Run , 1)
"Yours & Mine" is a year after Fish & Chips , 3
Mean & Green" is before Ball & Chain , 8
"Glitter & Shine" (Cut & Run, 8.75)
"Twist & Shout" (Cut & Run, 8.8)
Definitely after Cross & Crown , (Sidewinder, 2), "Comings & Goings" is followed by "Fourth & Long", which I think is followed by "Catch & Release" with all of them after "High & Tight", 7.75
The Stories
" Glitter & Shine" finds the retired Ty wrapping Christmas gifts when Zane gets home from work. Cute with hints about their family hang-ups.
" Comings & Goings" finds a frustrated Nick aboard the Fiddler's Green, concerned about that gift that won't be ready for Christmas. Not, in fact, until April! There's some give-and-take about family, gifts, expectations...and then, what do you know, "Here Comes Santa Claus"...
" Hot & Bothered" finds the Sidewinder team — Kelly "Doc", Digger, Eli, Nick, Ty, and Owen — battling an unexpected fire out in the yard...that Digger...
" Yours & Mine" finds Ty "Bulldog" in his cartoon jammies and Zane sitting in front of their Christmas tree on Christmas Eve, their first Christmas together since Fish & Chips , 3. And it's a gift that is so very much "yours".
" Fourth & Long" finds Kelly and Nick "Lucky" in Kelly's cabin in Colorado...with Nick hoping to find a Patriots game on the telly, even as Kelly does his best to distract him, lol.
" Wet & Wild" is pre-Cut & Run with the Sidewinder team — Tyler "Six", Eli, Digger, Owen, Kelly, and Nick — sharing a house before Christmas. It's Kelly who's feeling wistful about Christmas when he invades Nick's shower to ask him his plans. And it gets steadily more crowded in that shower, as the team remains consistent in their friendships, lolololol.
" Mean & Green" find Special Agents Zane Garrett and Ty Grady still in the FBI office where Santa is being grilled. Under the rules of a bet you will not believe. Yep. You'll be laughing too.
Other agents in the office include Fred Perrimore and Scott Alston. Special-Agent-in-Charge Dan McCoy gets burgled.
" Missiles & Toes" requires strenuous testing with the snow toys that Nick got for Kelly. Better get a hot cuppa something for reading this one!
" Tumble & Fall" is, I suspect, pre-"Wet & Wild". It's Thanksgiving weekend and Eli Sanchez is fed up with waiting for Ty "Six" to wake up. The lightweight! Despite the warnings from Nick, Digger and Owen who are studying, and Kelly "Doc" who's rescued two kittens, Eli heads up for that attic window to start by hanging that wreath. Ooops... Mr Franklin is one neighbor glad not to be Eli.
" Twist & Shout" find Beaumont "Ty" and Zane at the Gradys' place for Christmas along with Deuce, Livi, and Amelia. It's a hoot with that combination of dragging in a wildlife-filled Christmas tree that's too big, the baby learning new, ahem, words, and Ty's panic. Too, too funny.
" Catch & Release" is a thoughtful piece on Kelly's part as he thinks back to the Christmases of his childhood and the many handmade gifts he exchanged with the "fireflies" from his past. It takes place shortly after "Comings and Goings".
" Past & Present" is that literally — keep an eye out for the "==". The part before it is of a past Christmas morning with Eli, Digger, Owen, Ty, Nick, and Kelly with those two rescued cats (from "Tumble & Fall"). Two cats that put up a howl that night, the night Nick used a fruitcake to battle an intruder.
And it all leads up to the second half of the story that takes place in the present with Zane there, but not Eli. With a fun reminiscence about past Christmases.
I'm guessing the timing in this, for Roux says they had "lost Eli in the fall" and that "Zane could imagine what that first Christmas had been like", must have been Zane referring to the Sidewinder team's first Christmas after Eli was murdered but before Zane came into Ty's life. With the second half of the story afterwards.
The Title
The title is a way to gather in the Past & Presents story bits.
February 2, 2026
I just discovered this today on the author's website, and it made my day. It's a series of 12 ficlets featuring Ty and Zane, as well as Nick and Kelly, and some other members of Sidewinder.
I can't ever get enough of Ty and Zane. 💜
1. Cut & Run ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Sticks & Stones ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. Fish & Chips ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
4. Divide & Conquer ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
⭕️ The Warrior’s Cross ⭐⭐⭐ (standalone)
5. Armed & Dangerous ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
5.5 Dine & Dash ⭐⭐⭐
6. Stars & Stripes ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. Touch & Geaux ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍀1. Shock & Awe ⭐⭐⭐ (Sidewinder trilogy)
8. Ball & Chain ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍀1.5 High & Tight ⭐⭐⭐ (Sidewinder trilogy)
🍀2. Cross & Crown ⭐⭐⭐ (Sidewinder trilogy)
9. Crash & Burn ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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I can't ever get enough of Ty and Zane. 💜
1. Cut & Run ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Sticks & Stones ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. Fish & Chips ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
4. Divide & Conquer ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
⭕️ The Warrior’s Cross ⭐⭐⭐ (standalone)
5. Armed & Dangerous ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
5.5 Dine & Dash ⭐⭐⭐
6. Stars & Stripes ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. Touch & Geaux ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍀1. Shock & Awe ⭐⭐⭐ (Sidewinder trilogy)
8. Ball & Chain ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍀1.5 High & Tight ⭐⭐⭐ (Sidewinder trilogy)
🍀2. Cross & Crown ⭐⭐⭐ (Sidewinder trilogy)
9. Crash & Burn ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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August 29, 2022
Tytanium
Any revisit to Ty and Zane's post-series lives is always such a treat. How did I not know this existed?
Excuse me while I go re-read books 1-9 to fulfill my Ty/Zane fix...
Any revisit to Ty and Zane's post-series lives is always such a treat. How did I not know this existed?
Excuse me while I go re-read books 1-9 to fulfill my Ty/Zane fix...
October 15, 2024
why does it have to end 😭
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April 21, 2022Ho quasi pianto, mi mancano ogni giorno 😭
July 2, 2019
Un pur délice de retrouver les chouchous et les Sidewinder dans 12 petites nouvelles autour de Noel.
June 7, 2020
12 collected short stories from Ty & Zane, Nick & Kelly, and Sidewinder. It's good stuff!
December 3, 2022
2022: 3 stars
1. Characters: ★★★★★ (Love them)
2. Atmosphere: ★★★☆☆ (Miscellaneous, we were in the past, in a mountain, in a house, etc., not very discriptive)
3. Writing: ★★★★☆ (Good)
4. Plot: ★★★☆☆ (Collections of ficklets, some real cute, some boring)
5. Enjoyment: ★★★☆☆ (It was okay, not my favorite christmas read, but not the worst)
1. Characters: ★★★★★ (Love them)
2. Atmosphere: ★★★☆☆ (Miscellaneous, we were in the past, in a mountain, in a house, etc., not very discriptive)
3. Writing: ★★★★☆ (Good)
4. Plot: ★★★☆☆ (Collections of ficklets, some real cute, some boring)
5. Enjoyment: ★★★☆☆ (It was okay, not my favorite christmas read, but not the worst)
January 20, 2026
Having to read this on tumblr is such an aesthetic. Didn’t know about these short stories since they weren’t tagged alongside the Cut & Run series, but I am very glad to have noticed them on the author’s page. I definitely have a preference for Ty and Zane over Nick and Kelly, but I still enjoyed each of the stories.
January 19, 2021
I miss Ty and Zane! I found myself smiling while reading their scene. Also, I still hate Zane calling Ty "doll". So not romantic!
Nick and Kelly are alright too. I don't love them as much as I do Ty and Zane, but they're still my boys.
April 24, 2021
I really enjoyed a few of these little short stories, but for the most part they just didn’t seem super necessary.
January 9, 2023
Reading this makes me wanna start the whole series again from the beginning. I love me some Ty and Zane.
April 30, 2023
I missed Ty and Zane and also Sidewinder team! The stories were too short but they were just like holiday treats truly <3
July 2, 2019
La méthode pour avoir moins chaud ? Lire une nouvelle de Noël sous 35 degrés. J'ai adoré cette nouvelle ! On y retrouve Ty et Zane, Nick et Kelly, et le passé de nos chers héros durant la période des fêtes. J'ai dévoré les douzes chapitres ! C'était génial ! Drôle, sexy, émouvant ! L'auteur est une génie ! ❤️ Je saurais quoi relire en décembre 😍
September 7, 2019
Funny shorts for the holidays with Ty and Zane, Nick and Kelley, or Sidewinder. They had me laughing out loud, however; they didn’t really add anything to the over all story.
November 4, 2023
Gracias a la autora por estas pequeñas historia,ame toda la serie cut & run.Ty y Sabe son la mejor pareja que he leído.Y he leído muchoooo en mí vida.
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