Marina AU-gust 2026
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AU-gust Day 1
Prompt: Pretend RelationshipMaya Bishop’s day went spectacularly wrong when she accidentally spilt not one, but two coffees over a complete stranger inside a Seattle coffee shop.
To make up for it, she replaced the drinks, lent the woman her spare shirt… and somehow ended up agreeing to be her fake girlfriend for a family wedding that evening.
It was only supposed to be one night.
One wedding.
One little lie.
One fake relationship.The only problem?
Pretending turned out to be far easier than noticing the moment it became real.
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- Part 1 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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AU-gust Day 2
Prompt: Childhood FriendsWhen eleven-year-old Maya Bishop moves to Seattle, Carina DeLuca is the first person to make her feel like she belongs.
Over the next twenty years, they grow up side by side through childhood, the Olympics, medical school, the fire academy, and every milestone in between. They become each other's constant, their safest place to land, and the first person the other wants to call.
Everyone else seems to understand what that means.
Maya and Carina... not so much.
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- Part 2 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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Maya Bishop never expected to be someone who ran for fun... and certainly not someone who would willingly stop at a bakery.
But when a different running route, and a generous, yet slightly clumsy, bakery owner put a pause on her run one day, she can't help but keep coming back... over and over and over again.
She tells herself it's just for the coffee and the pastries but somewhere along the way it becomes so much more than that.
AU-gust Day 3
Prompt: BakerySeries
- Part 3 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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AU-gust Day 4
Prompt: Coffee ShopEvery week, Carina visits the same little coffee shop.
Every week, the barista with the bright smile and impossibly blue eyes hands over her usual order with a handwritten note scrawled across the side of the cup.
Each is a lttle reminder that makes even the hardest days feel a little lighter.
Maya never expects anything in return.
Until one morning, Carina steals the Sharpie and leaves a note of her own.
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Or five times Maya leaves a note for Carina and the one time Carina leaves one back.
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- Part 4 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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AU-gust Day 5
Prompt: Masquerade BallWhilst hidden behind a silver mask, Maya finally finds the courage to approach the beautiful brunette she can’t find herself looking away from.
The only problem?
Every single time she gets close, someone else beats her to it.
Five spectacular fails turn into an unexpected game of chase, as both women begin searching the crowded ballroom for the stranger they wouldn’t normally recognise, but can’t stop thinking about.
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- Part 5 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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AU-gust Day 6
Prompt: Soul-BoundCarina only knowns one thing for certain: almost every scar on her body belongs to someone she's never met. For as long as she can remember, bruises and injuries have appeared on her skin without ever being hers.
Meanwhile, Maya has spent her life rationalizing the bruises that seem to show up out of nowhere. She trains a lot, there was never any reason to consider that the injuries she ignores might belong to someone else.
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- Part 6 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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AU-gust Day 7
Prompt: CampingWhen Carina asked her wife if she liked camping, she wasn't expecting Maya to reply with a resounding no.
When her wife suggested camping for their anniversary, Maya certainly didn't expect to discover a whole new side to her. One who likes the great outdoors, sleeping under canvas and even composting toilets.
Can Carina convince Maya just how amazing camping can be... bugs and all?
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- Part 7 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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Marina AU-gust Day 8
Prompt: JournalistsTen years after the London Olympic Games, Maya is reluctantly volunteered for an interview reflecting on the career that made her one of the greatest athletes of her generation.
For Carina, an up and coming journalist, the opportunity seems too good to pass up. She arrives excited to interview an Olympic legend, only to quickly discover that Maya is far more guarded, and far less willing to talk, than she expected.
But Carina begins to wonder if Maya is really the problem, or if it’s the environment that’s shutting her down. So, instead of forcing Maya to open up, Carina does what she does best, she changes it up.
Away from the station and the walls Maya has built around herself, will she finally be willing to share the story behind the athlete?
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- Part 8 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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AU-gust Day 9
Prompt: Food TruckThey’ve spent four years competing for the best pitch, the biggest crowds, and the highest sales, so what happens when Carina’s food truck breaks down minutes before the lunch rush at Seattle’s biggest food festival?
With half a kitchen, two menus, and no time to argue, Maya and Carina find themselves working side by side, and discovering that maybe grilled cheese and pasta aren’t such natural enemies after all.
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- Part 9 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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AU-gust Day 10
Prompt: Accidental Baby AcquisitionMaya Bishop never thought she wanted kids. Carina, on the other hand, had always dreamed of becoming a mother.
Somehow, that had never stopped their friends from leaving them with babysitting duty.
Then Maya rescues a tiny baby named Emilio, and suddenly, everything she thought she knew about her life begins to shift.
Maybe the future she was so certain she didn’t want has been waiting for her all along.
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- Part 10 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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Maya has only ever known her neighbour from sounds through the walls; cupboards slamming, loud phone calls, and endless Italian music.
One day that changes when, out of the blue, there's a knock on the door.
Maya opens it to find a beautiful Italian woman standing on her doorstep, holding a jar she desperately needs help opening.
Suddenly, Maya finds herself getting to know her neighbour through stubborn jars and gentle knocks on the door that leave her looking forward to the next.
AU-gust Day 11
Prompt: NeighbourSeries
- Part 11 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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Marina AU-gust Day 12
Prompt: TeachersWhen Maya, an English teacher, finds out that the proposal for her new school club has been approved, it’s only natural that the Biology teacher, Carina agrees to be right by her side… after all that’s what wives do.
The only catch… their students have no idea that they are married, and they intend to keep it that way.
As the weeks roll on, the club becomes the sanctuary that Maya had always hoped, a place where students can be themselves, and a place where everyone is accepted.
The only issue… their marriage might not be as secret as they thought.
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- Part 12 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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The Flowers Were Just An Excuse by Sunshine_imagination
Fandoms: Station 19 (TV), Grey's Anatomy
25 Aug 2026
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AU-gust Day 13
Prompt: Farmers MarketEvery Sunday, Maya visits the same flower stall to buy her grandmother a bouquet.
What starts as a simple way to bring some colour back into her grandmother’s home, slowly becomes something else entirely, when Maya finds herself looking forward to talking to the woman behind the stall just as much as the flowers.
Eight Sundays, eight bouquets, a little coffee, a lot of flirting, and one very determined grandmother later, Maya might finally have a reason to stop pretending the flowers are the real reason she keeps coming back.
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- Part 13 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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AU-gust Day 14
Prompt: Graveyard KeeperCarina visits her brother's grave every Saturday. Maya is the groundskeeper who always seems to take special care of Andrea's grave and notices when she arrives.
What starts with a little extra care and a few exchanged words slowly becomes something neither of them expected. Coffee. Pastries. Long conversations. Lingering visits.
Carina knows exactly what she's doing.
If only the groundskeeper wasn't the most oblivious woman on earth.
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- Part 14 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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Maya Bishop loved storms.
She always had.
She also loved her lighthouse, her routines and checklists. She loved the peace and quiet, the way the wind whistled through the windows and keeping her ships safe.
So when a wet, sandal wearing tourist turns up unannounced in her entryway, Maya almost demands that she leaves. Reluctantly, she lets the intruder stay to avoid the paperwork that comes with a missing tourist in a rain storm.
It doesn't take long for Maya to realise that the intruder doesn't like peace and quiet... or rules.
And the storm doesn't seem to be letting up.
Can Maya manage the chaos that the intruder brings, or will this be the storm that shatters the wall she had built around the life she had created for herself?
AU-gust Day 15
Prompt: LighthouseSeries
- Part 15 of Marina AU-gust 2026
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Marina AU-gust Day 16
Prompt: AquariumMaya has been bringing her niece, Quinn, to the Seattle Aquarium every Wednesday for the animal of the week activity for as long as she can remember.
Quinn has the itinerary planned down to the minute, a growing collection of stickers, and an impressive amount of very specific animal knowledge. Maya has gotten rather good at following along with her little adventurer.
But when the aquarium’s resident sea otter keeper, Carina DeLuca, catches Quinn’s attention, their weekly visits begin to take on a whole new meaning
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- Part 16 of Marina AU-gust 2026