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Carol and Zosia Meet before the joining AU
Carol is in Berlin for a writing residency, she becomes friends with a group of her residency mates who introduce her to Zosia, a young ex-pat who lives with more confidence than Carol has even been able to muster.
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23 May 2026
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Zosia Zulawski, a Polish art restorer with crippling anxiety, arrives at an isolated Yorkshire village to uncover a medieval mural hidden beneath centuries of whitewash.
Carol Sturka, an American archaeologist based in England, is digging up the grounds beside the same church, looking for a grave that may or may not exist.
Two women used to uncovering what time buried.
The mural reveals itself slowly. The excavation deepens its meaning. And something between them begins to surface.
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23 May 2026
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heal the scars from off my back (i don't need them anymore) by justalover
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
07 Mar 2026
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"Carol knows in her heart that she shouldn’t pour herself another drink. The glass is sticky enough to remind her that she’s spilled the amber liquid over her own hands at least three times, and she’s licked them clean as if wasting a single drop of her favourite poison were a crime. If anyone could see her now, they would deem her pathetic, disgusting, hopeless. The fact that she can still feel the stinging shame of knowing that she’s exactly all those things makes her realize that she’s not drunk enough."
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“You’re Carol, right? I’m Zosia. I hear you’ve had quite a day.”
Carol scoffs, trying to conceal the cracks in her voice.
“And it’s not even noon yet.”or
the one where Carol struggles through loss, grief, addiction and trauma, doesn't ask for help, but gets it anyways.
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16 May 2026
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“Illegal immigrant?” She asked.
“H-1B holder under investigation for trafficking. It’s complicated.” He pushed the file closer, fingers tapping the cover like a gentle spell. “Read it yourself.”OR
Carol is a lawyer trying to keep her pro bono client, Zosia, from jail while keeping herself from falling helplessly in love with her.
* A work inspired by inspired by Kim Wexler/Kelly Humantrafficking *
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03 May 2026
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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.
And falling in love might cost more than just the distance between them.- Language:
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02 May 2026