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A League Of Their Own AU
Carol Sturka is the Rockford Peaches' best pitcher. Zosia Bartoś is the catcher from the Belles who took her championship in September. "The Polish Wall" is traded to the Peaches next season, and Carol has thoughts about it.
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- Part 2 of Close Quarters
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Hollywood, 1949. Director Carol Sturka has a new leading lady.
__After the suspicious death of her longtime star Helen Umstead, the Studio has handpicked newcomer Zosia to lead writer/director Carol Sturka's next film, Winds of Wycaro, but she could threaten to expose Carol's secrets under the watchful and oppressive Hollywood system.
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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.
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An angel crash-lands in Carol and Helen's hot tub.
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White Noise by cecekarya
Fandoms: stursia - Fandom, pluribus - Fandom, carol sturka - Fandom, zosia - Fandom
29 Apr 2026
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Seventy-five days after the Joining, Carol Sturka is still immune - and still alone.
As the hive's quiet promises grow more personal, Carol begins to question what was real: the love she felt, the choices she made, and the cost of resisting a world that insists it only wants to share its happiness.
With time running thinner than she expected, Carol must confront the possibility that saving humanity may mean losing the one person she never meant to sacrifice.
Because the Union doesn't threaten.
It loves.
And it never stops waiting.
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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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“Trust?” Zosia forced a humorless laugh. “That’s a pretty tall order. I don’t know anything about you.”
The woman considered this. She nodded, though it seemed mostly to herself.
“Okay, uh, what do you want to know?”
“To start, your name,” Zosia said. “And then maybe, I don’t know, why you’re here, what you do, a fun fact about yourself, things like that.”
The woman gave her an incredulous look.
“You wanna do fucking icebreakers right now?”
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Zosia gets unplurbed, and Carol has to be the guide through this insanity that she wishes she had while trapped in a one bedroom apartment and being probably madly in love with her.
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- Part 1 of a case of you
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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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Zosia is not part of the hive anymore. She doesn't know how she feels. She cries and is paranoid of the hive. The only thing that makes her feel a little bit safe is to be close to Carol.
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Zosia leans into Carol’s ear, ‘how I want to fuck you has nothing to do with my eyes’ she whispers, out of breath. Carol can’t help but think that fucking Zosia would have everything to do with her eyes.
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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“Where am I?” Said the woman, looking frantically around.
“You don’t remember!?” Asked Carol
“No, Where am I?” The woman repeated, her voice starting to sound desperate.
“Do you know who I am?” Asked Carol, her voice trembling.
“No, where the fuck am I?” Zosia said while she started incorporating from the bed.***
Zosia has been unplurbed, but she doesn't remember anything that happened while she was part of the hive mind. She is also so different from the joined Zosia that Carol is not sure what she wants anymore.
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i can close the door on us (but the room still exists) by corvidyke
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
02 Apr 2026
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Carol and Helen try breaking up. They aren't very good at it.
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Carol Sturka is desperate enough to ask her secretary, Zosia, to pretend to be her girlfriend at a charity gala, just to make her ex-wife jealous.
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Carol Sturka, a novelist and English professor, struggles with grief and isolation after the death of her wife. Upon her return to work, Carol discovers she is now forced to share her classroom with Zosia Rybak, an ESL instructor. Initially resentful, Carol learns that Zosia admires her writing and specifically requested to work with her. Time heals, and even though Carol's wounds are deep, she learns that there's something still left for her to pursue.
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“I don’t know what you want me to say, Zosia,” Carol admitted, exasperated. “That I feel like I’m walking on eggshells around you? That I feel like I owe it to you to be a little nicer? That I feel guilty for taking advantage of you while you weren’t really yourself?”
Zosia huffed. “So you decided that giving me this half-assed version of yourself was going to absolve you of your previous shitty behavior?”
Carol didn’t know what to do except shrug.
“I know you,” Zosia said slowly. “Intimately and against my will. You were shoved into my molecules, my pores. I know the fire you keep in your belly. I know you stoke it yourself. I know you swallow coals and timber just to keep yourself going, however unpleasant it may be.”
A cold sweat broke across Carol’s neck. She remained silent.
“It’s not going to… make me feel better if you repress that side of yourself with the intention of pacifying me,” Zosia continued. “It makes me feel guilty, for whatever reason, and feeling guilty about you is the last thing I need right now. Or ever. You don’t deserve my guilt. Not after everything.”
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Yet another rendition of the aftermath of Carol and Manousos un-hiving Zosia.
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Carol and Manousos might finally have a way to reverse the joining, but it could cost Zosia her life. Even if Manousos' plan works, Carol has to ask herself, just how much of the Zosia she knows will be left behind? And what will the Others do when they discover she isn't part of them anymore?
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Sameen Shaw is a Detective Lieutenant working for the police in New York, fifty years in the future. Root is a filthy rich tech bazillionaire with A Past. Shaw is investigating a gory series of murders committed with antique projectile guns. Root is a prime suspect.
Based on the novel Naked in Death by J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts), with Team Machine as the protagonists.
All due respect and homage to Nora Roberts, for her magnificent multiple series of reading-crack, may her writing arm never falter.
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- Part 1 of [ ] In Shoot