wonderofasunrise Does Pluribus Week 2026
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"There were voices, many voices. And now it’s gone,” Zosia explains, the words flowing in more easily as she continues speaking, though the pain intensifies with the clarity of each word. “I’m hurting, Carol.”
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Zosia struggles with silence after being separated from the hive mind, and Carol tries to help.
Written for Day 1 of Pluribus Week 2026 (prompt: unhived!Zosia/hived!Carol)
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- Part 1 of wonderofasunrise Does Pluribus Week 2026
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“Jesus, Sturka,” Carol mutters to herself again and shakes her head at the blank space on her screen. She is supposed to be working, thinking that a day out would cure her from writer’s block, and instead she is sitting here watching and making speculations about a laughing European woman she has not even talked to.
Really, she cannot help it, for some reason.
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Novelist Carol Sturka is trying to work on her new book. A laughing European woman makes it impossible, however.
Inspired by this particular piece from Karolina Wydra's portfolio and this absolute banger of a tweet by Rhea Seehorn.
Written for Day 4 of Pluribus Week 2026 (prompt: Alternate Universe)
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- Part 2 of wonderofasunrise Does Pluribus Week 2026
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He has sung the adhan since he was very young, and each time he always reminds himself to never take it for granted. Especially now, with the call being one of the only things that resemble solace to him, and he is still willing to do the best.
On better days, he thinks, people would repeat nearly all of his words in supplication. He cannot imagine them doing so now, though there is always a possibility of them doing it just so they can make him happy. It pains him, but he keeps going.
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For Abdul Kareem Alsharei, 37-year-old muezzin from Aden, Yemen, the new world he has found himself in prompts an array of questions about faith.
Written for Day 6 of Pluribus Week (prompt: The Other Immune)
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- Part 3 of wonderofasunrise Does Pluribus Week 2026