11 Works by catnstein
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What happens when two women, accustomed to grand narratives, choose to cultivate a love that's stubbornly, beautifully ordinary? Lena Luthor and Kara Danvers learn to live in the "present," crafting their own grammar of taps and shared vulnerabilities, defying the myths a city tries to make of their happiness. Their personal "audits," the tender and humorous negotiations of boundaries, and the profound realization that true connection is found in the quiet, honest moments they build together.
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- Part 6 of The Ghosts That Haunt Us
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Kara's new golden retriever onesie has a tail that constitutes a "public hazard." Lena, armed with a pair of cat ears and the precision of a CEO, just wants to survive the night with the candy bowl's symmetry intact.
Between managing a "hostile takeover" of the candy supply, a disastrous pumpkin R&D failure, and one very discerning astronaut, they discover that their domestic ballet has room for both silliness and something much, much steadier.
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Lena Luthor and Kara Danvers try to be sensible: rules in daylight, coffee as a truce, clean exits, no mythmaking. The city turns into a laboratory for consent and restraint—museum cafés, sidewalks, borrowed hours—until boundaries start meaning more than distance. Tell the truth without spectacle and let hope learn to live at noon.
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Lena Luthor finally crosses the ocean; Kara Danvers meets her in daylight. Rules, coffee, consent, borrowed hours—slow-burn honesty over spectacle, and a hope that shows up at noon.
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- Part 5 of The Ghosts That Haunt Us
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After a year of silence, Ghostlight flickers back on. Kara Danvers has turned heartbreak into art—her new column, The Ghosts That Haunt Us, sets the internet (and one particular philosopher) on fire. Lena Luthor reads it, realizes subtlety is a scam, and hits send on a text that rewrites both their lives.
Across cities and time zones, old ghosts start talking again: late-night messages, cross-continental flights, and the unbearable question of whether love can survive the versions of ourselves we became apart. There’s guilt, glamour, champagne, and catastrophic yearning.
In other words: Kara’s writing essays about ghosts, Lena’s busy becoming one, and neither of them is handling it well.
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- Part 4 of The Ghosts That Haunt Us
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After a year of yearning, Kara Danvers finally sits down and writes the column that has been haunting her life in National City.
It’s all about yearning, glitter, ghosts, and sequins—perfectly fitting for a spread in CatCo magazine.
And perhaps, beneath the prose, there’s a whisper of the name of a certain woman with ravishing green eyes and impeccable posture.
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The column that Kara writes at the end of the second part of this series.
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- Part 3 of The Ghosts That Haunt Us
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Kara burns bright in National City, turning late nights into headlines and applause into anesthesia. Lena keeps still in Cambridge, burying herself in lectures and precision, drafting messages she’ll never send. Planes cross skies, time zones slip, and neither of them admits how much the silence hurts.
It’s long-distance without a name for it, ambition as armor, love disguised as absence. And the truth neither one will say aloud: they’re both a little bit in love with a ghost.
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- Part 2 of The Ghosts That Haunt Us
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When Kara Danvers, a snarky journalist, and Lena Luthor, a disciplined professor, are forced to share a room at an academic conference, sparks fly between silk blouses and sharpened arguments. What begins as irritation across the aisle becomes something stranger—nights of reluctant cohabitation, mornings stolen from routine, and a battle of wit versus restraint that neither quite wants to win. In a room meant for lectures and logistics, Kara and Lena discover the ghosts that haunt them might be each other.
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Lena Luthor is a British philosopher and Kara Danvers is a fashion journalist that can't help but look twice.
Complete — posting daily.
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- Part 1 of The Ghosts That Haunt Us
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Post-mission, Kara takes Lena to the Fortress—not to hunt Leviathan, but to finally show her the home she never let her see. Forgiveness meets a wall of self-blame. Something breaks. Something holds. A morning starts with a question: “Please stay.”
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Written for #SCRiftWeek (Sept 21 prompt: Hate Sex).
After a midnight DEO lockdown strands Lena and Supergirl with a Luthor-locked control core, years of secrecy snap. Lena needles; Kara answers like a soldier, not a friend. The argument detonates into consent-checked, feral hate sex that doubles as a power struggle—Kara pins, Lena weaponizes the pin. They burn under blinking cameras until Alex erases the evidence. In the quiet aftermath, Kara admits: “I hid behind a symbol; you got trapped behind a surname.” The hate doesn’t end; it changes shape.
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Cheers darlin', here's to you and your loverboy...
"But now, the thought was unavoidable. The deed was done. Emma was married. And she would never know how much Regina loved her — she would never know that Regina had loved her since Emma had strolled in with that ridiculous red jacket and those impossibly perfect blonde curls that made her look like the Disney princess she actually was."
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After Emma's Wedding, Regina goes home alone and deals with the fact that the love of her life is married to someone that is not her.
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You could feel your heart clenching in your chest, your eyes filled with tears and your body raging with pure despair and cholera. She was gone, and you left with her. “She doesn't avoid sleeping“ she corrected. “She avoids dreaming.”