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“Turn me back. Please, please, Carol. Please, I want to go back!”
Carol reaches for Zosia, then doesn’t.
“I don’t think that’s possible,” she says.
Or: One more take on deplurb’d Zosia for your reading pleasure :)
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09 Jan 2026
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“There's nothing wrong with you, Carol.”
She emphasized the word ‘nothing’ as hard as she could. She wanted – needed – so badly for Carol to believe her. Carol sat back up, facing Zosia, who was still kneeling in front of her.
“Then why can't I ever be enough?”After the events of the finale, Carol surrenders into a pit of depression that worries Manousos enough to ask the enemy for help.
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30 Dec 2025
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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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17 Dec 2025
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Carol drew near and loomed over the unresisting woman. Zosia’s eyes, delicate and expectant, looked up at her. She looked tall from down here. Imposing, even. It was apt for a personality as big as hers. The world shrank under the weight of it.
“Zosia,” Carol said. Slow, like she was pronouncing it for the first time. “Do you know that you’re pretty?”
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or: What if Zosia interrupted Carol's Thiopental vlog? A variation on 1x04 from Zosia's POV.
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podfic length - 19:30
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08 Dec 2025
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Carol drew near and loomed over the unresisting woman. Zosia’s eyes, delicate and expectant, looked up at her. She looked tall from down here. Imposing, even. It was apt for a personality as big as hers. The world shrank under the weight of it.
“Zosia,” Carol said. Slow, like she was pronouncing it for the first time. “Do you know that you’re pretty?”
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or: What if Zosia interrupted Carol's Thiopental vlog? A variation on 1x04 from Zosia's POV.
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08 Dec 2025