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ZK: I'm not a victim. And I didn't go through anything. I willingly put myself in a situation that turned out pretty fucked up, that's all.
KD: I know it's easy to blame yourself, but—
ZK: I'm not blaming myself. It's just what it is. You reap what you sow, and all that shit.
KD: [SIGHS] There's no shame in admitting that your experience changed you.
ZK: It didn't change me. I've always had these… issues. And they're completely unrelated to that part of my life.
KD: So they didn't start after you were rescued?
ZK: Fuck, no. I've been this way for as long as I can remember."What," Carol breathes, hunkered down in her chair, shoulders locked in a slouch like she's some sort of lurking cave creature, eyes frantically darting back over the words she's just typed. "What are you talking about."
KD: Alright. So you've never…
ZK: Never had an orgasm.
[SILENCE]
ZK: For a sex coach you seem awfully uncomfortable with that word.or
the one where Carol transcribes therapy sessions for a sex coach and becomes infatuated with one of his mysterious clients, ZK. What could possibly go wrong?
(or, a Big Swiss AU)
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16 Jul 2026
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“Double espresso, Chantilly cream and Armagnac. On the house. I hope you don’t have any allergies.” Carol doesn’t realize her hand is shaking until she sets the coffee onto the table.
There is one quick beat of silence. She expects a thank you or a nod of appreciation.
Instead Zosia says, “Just to mediocrity.”
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Carol Sturka, head chef at one of Toronto’s hottest restaurants gets an abrupt reality check when she gets a surprise visit from local but notable food critic and influencer, Zosia Nowak.
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11 Jul 2026
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After the death of her wife, nihilistic and closeted romance author Carol Sturka descends into a stupor of drunken depression which is only compounded when her fanbase finds out she’s a lesbian and erupts in outrage and deems her disingenuous. Her publicist has the perfect solution to rebuild Carol's public image and free her from the "romance slop" genre forever, but Carol isn't going to like it.
She's right. Carol hates it. (Until she doesn't.)
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07 Jul 2026
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Carol Sturka is the forty-seventh President of the United States, and the most convincing thing about her presidency might be her marriage to Julian Vane, which is warm and genuine and entirely platonic. Helen Umstead, who serves as her Press Secretary, is the woman who sees through all of it, and who Carol cannot stop noticing in ways that have absolutely nothing to do with press strategy. After a Republican senator starts questioning the true nature of the marriage and an emergency in the Arctic forces the administration into intense scrutiny, Carol or Helen learn that the White House contains no space more hazardous than any room that leaves the two of them alone.
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07 Jul 2026
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“Have you wanted to sleep with a woman?” Karolina asks and well, that’s it, this conversation isn’t muddy water anymore, but was it ever?
“I…don’t know how to answer that,” Rhea says, putting her forehead in her hand. The second she breaks eye contact Karolina moves.or: the one where there is wine, lesbian tension and they fuck on a couch
and: the third and second one, where things... keep going.
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27 Jun 2026
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“I want you as my graduate advisor.”
“What?” Carol’s hands fell from her bag. “You – what?”
Zosia smiled, teeth on display now. “I want you as my advisor next year. Like I said, I have been waiting for this class the entirety of my time here. I don't want anyone else claiming you before I do.”
So, Carol was fine. She was fine and the fact that she repeated that constantly, a mantra in her head, probably should have raised some red flags, but it didn't.
She published her books under her pen name, taught at the university, and did not let an unhinged graduate student blow up her life. Just for the fuck of it, it seemed like.
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25 Jun 2026
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Carol and Zosia have loved each other since they were nine. They have a game to make sure they never have to say so.
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- Part 4 of Close Quarters
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24 Jun 2026
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Unfortunately, Carol could only watch helplessly as the garment fell away from the woman's flawless skin. From her vantage point, Carol could see the woman's breast in outline – taut skin, pink nipples, and a devastating lack of a tanline.
The two books in her hand fell onto her towel with a double thump. The woman's eyes slowly met her own in amusement. Carol immediately glanced away in embarrassment – it was a miracle she didn't give herself whiplash.
Europeans and nude beaches shouldn't mix – or, at least, that was Carol Sturka's opinion before a literal Polish model got her claws into her sunburnt skin.
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09 Jun 2026
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BEEEEEEEEEEP.
The honk comes without warning. For half a second, Carol thinks she has been shot.
Then it keeps going. A sustained, unbroken, eat-shit honk. The kind LA people deploy when they want to fuck you up as a person.
The honking stops. The Range Rover's window comes down.
"Are you leaving the space or not." The woman says it flat, and bored.
Carol puts her own window down. Slowly, for the fuck of it.
“No, lady. I'm not leaving. I’m parked. This is a parking space, and I have parked a car in it. Like a human being is allowed to. Your response to that was to put your hand flat on a horn for what, an hour? What the fuck is wrong with you?”
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A feud for the ages. Two strangers let a parking incident burrow into their minds and slowly consume their every thought and action
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- Part 3 of Close Quarters
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27 May 2026
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Myosotis: (/ˌmaɪəˈsoʊtɪs/), genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae, colloquially known as forget-me-nots.
Two love stories give rise to another.
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25 May 2026
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Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person by bladeruiner
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
20 May 2026
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Two years after the Unjoining, she saw Zosia in London, of all places – nearly unrecognizable in her winter attire – bundled up to her nose. But Carol felt her presence like a sawed-off shotgun wound to her stomach. The sight of her eyes peeking over the edge of her scarf, sparkling with mirth as she shouldered the woman she was walking with –
Well, it was fucking devastating.
‘Who is Carol?’ Spray-painted in canary yellow, stood out against the rain-darkened concrete of the building across the street from The Ritz where Carol was staying.
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18 May 2026
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“Carol."
Zosia Bartoś has said Sturka on panel shows and she has said my colleague on Twitter and she has said "the anchor at Liberty" in interviews and she has said "Carol Sturka" the full two-word name in writing, but she has not said Carol, just Carol, since a hotel room in Cincinnati ten years ago.
"You can say gay on television.”
Someone in the audience gasps, another says oh my god too loudly into a mic that should have been dead and the room comes apart.
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Carol Sturka is a closeted conservative anchor. Zosia Bartoś is her progressive ex. Netflix has them on a stage in 8 swing states for 4 months.
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First in a series of Stursia Romance/Smut AUs and one-shots. Different genres.Series
- Part 1 of Close Quarters
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22 Apr 2026
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Carol finds it in the third week of living alone with an unhived Zosia: a New York Times article, “To Fall In Love With Anyone, Do This.” An intimacy experiment involving thirty-six increasingly personal questions and, at the end of it, four uninterrupted minutes of eye contact, which sounds fake and humiliating and somehow still not bad enough to stop her.
Carol, obviously, prints it out.
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16 Apr 2026
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“Ms Sturka, as a company we are very excited about your upcoming book tour and the opportunity to expand promotion of your latest release in the UK and Europe.”
She didn’t bother to nod, just staring back blankly at him.
“However, we’d really prefer to make this experience more…smooth sailing?”
Carol snorted. “I think for such stormy weather, the fact that we’ve not capsized should be celebration enough.”
He raised an arrogant eyebrow.
“We’d rather disagree with your assessment, Ms Sturka. After the… disaster that was your US book tour, we’ve decided the best course of action would be a change of management perhaps?”
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Novelist Carol Sturka is still grieving the loss of her beloved wife when the management at her publishing house force her to work with a new manager on her Europe/UK book tour after the disaster that was her US tour.
Shenanigans ensue.
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08 Apr 2026
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i like my girls just like i like my honey (sweet, a little selfish) by nutmeg101
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
09 Jun 2026
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“Careful, Detective,” Zosia says lowly, taking a deliberate step forward. She places her hand on the metal bar next to Carol’s and their fingers brush together. Neither of them pulls away. She tilts her head down ever so slightly. “That almost sounds like a compliment.”
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All you need to know is that Detective Carol Sturka is a little sad, a little sarcastic, and a little horny.
And Lieutenant Zosia Nowak is rude and hot.
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07 Apr 2026
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Zosia never meant to fall for the woman behind her grandmother’s favorite romance novels.
Carol Sturka writes sweeping straight love stories and guards her private life carefully. But one late-night message turns curiosity into connection, and connection into something neither of them can ignore.One lives in New York. The other in Albuquerque.
And falling in love might cost more than just the distance between them.- Language:
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30 Mar 2026
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Carol stays at her lake house for the summer, in desperate need of finding inspiration to write the fifth Wycaro novel. When she meets her neighbour who looks exactly like the female version of her famous character Raban, more than inspiration strikes Carol.
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28 Mar 2026
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“Look, I don’t have time for this! If you lost my eggs, or let them defrost or something it’s fine. I don’t need ‘em anymore. So you can—“
“They were implanted in another woman.” Clifton speaks quickly, rushing so fast to make his confession that the words almost blend together.
Carol finds out her eggs were wrongly implanted in to a stranger, and her life is turned upside down overnight when she's drawn in to the woman's world.
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- Part 1 of Baby Stursia Series
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27 Mar 2026
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After Memphis, Deborah decides that getting laid is the secret to the new material working. Lucky for her, Ava selflessly offers to help her out for the rest of the tour. (Or: they try the friends-with-benefits-thing. Set after season two's "The Click.")
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25 Mar 2026
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Carol misses those nights when she took silence and sleep for granted. It’s been two weeks since they have stopped, and the repercussions are starting to show in the sluggish way she moves about in the morning. In the headaches that remind her of the worst kind of hangover. And in the irritation she feels at the slightest inconvenience, or even at her lack of inspiration when she sits in front of a blank document on her computer.
Well, maybe that last part isn’t entirely someone else’s fault. But still, she should do something about the fucking noise.
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“Well, then? Do you need something?”
Carol takes a deep breath. For the first time since moving in this awfully sleazy apartment complex, she’s about to be the wet blanket everybody hates – or maybe appreciates for the intervention, she hopes.
“Yeah,” she mutters and points to the door. “Could you turn it down? I – I’m trying to get some sleep.”
The other seems to ponder her request for a second before shrugging. “It’s not that loud.”or
a new tenant moves in the upstairs apartment. She's loud, careless, annoying. And hot. And Carol has a hard time dealing with that.
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- Part 1 of the menace upstairs
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22 Mar 2026