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Just a slow burn Bartender AU
Carol Sturka is a sad (possibly pathetic), usually drunk, grumpy 53 year old author. She spends 4-7 days a week hanging out at the local lesbian bar ‘The Hunnycomb’. Where she flirts, drinks and crushes hard… on the Bartender.
Zosia Wydra is that bartender. A ex model that is all smiles, hopelessly in love with Carol, and absolutely terrified of loosing a friendship. To make matters worse, she promised her best friend (Koumba) that she’d bring Carol as her date, but problem is… they aren’t together… yet.
Can they get their act together and finally go after what they want? Or will Carol’s insecurities from her past get in her way? Will Zosia finally takes what she wants?
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01 Feb 2026
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Now on official government record: Carol let the hivemind fuck her, Carol fucked the hivemind.
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19 Jan 2026
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Three months after the Joining turned humanity into a hive mind, Carol Sturka has a nuclear bomb and a plan to save the world. Step one: unhive Zosia. Step two: figure out why the woman who just called her pathetic won't stop looking at her like that. There is no step three.
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19 Jan 2026
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In a world with no joining and no Hivemind, author and bookstore owner, Carol Sturka, is stumbling through life after the death of her wife. When a charming, sweet and altogether too nice college professor appears in her shop and seems intent on sticking around in her life, Carol confronts what it means to move on and be human. Who knows, she might even finish her new novel.
Otherwise known as: The Plurb Bookstore AU
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12 Jan 2026
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For only a second, and maybe she imagined it, Carol thought she saw a glimmer of the most human expression Zosia had worn yet: annoyance.
“And you’ll still be working on reversing this?” Zosia asked.
“We wouldn’t be very good heroes if we didn’t, now would we?”
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or: Carol and Manousos have found a way to (maybe) undo the apocalypse. They need a willing(?) participant to help their cause.
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08 Jan 2026