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“I didn’t keep most of the memories. Other people’s memories. I get flashes of big things, births, deaths. Except about you.”
Carol feels the confusion slip onto her face. Nervousness creeps up her spine again. “Me?”
“I know everything that anybody has ever thought about you, Carol. Every memory. Every feeling. Helen. Your ex-girlfriends. Your dentist. It’s like I have a Carol encyclopedia in my head.”
Carol had thought that she was done experiencing fresh horrors. What a nightmare it is to realize that she is not. “Oh, god.” She says.
“Oh, god,” Zosia agrees.
After they manage to break Zosia free of the hive, Zosia and Carol try to navigate the field of landmines that is their relationship.
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10 Jan 2026
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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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02 Jan 2026
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McKay just got her. Trusted her more than Victoria trusted herself.
She wanted nothing more for it to mean that McKay was a good mentor, and Victoria had problems with authority because of her mother, and it was nothing inappropriate like having a crush on her boss. There was no possible way.
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24 Dec 2025
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When Natalie wakes up in jail, she expects a court date, a hangover, and a hellish amount of regret—not Lottie Matthews, fresh out of the mental hospital, posting her bail.
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11 Dec 2025
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Of course, Natalie had always thought Lottie was pretty. More on an intellectual level. Shit, it was just a fact. But the way her dark curls framed her jaw and neck… Well, the sight had suddenly grown interesting. Interesting and previously unnoticed. And now, like the memory of their encounter in the washroom, it was stirring something in Natalie she hadn’t realized was there.
// OR: The one where Nat and Lottie catch feelings in the wilderness, and it's everyone's problem. (But mostly theirs.)
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- Part 1 of play god and destroy the world
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25 Oct 2025