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To Begin Again by cecekarya
Fandoms: stursia - Fandom, Pluribus (TV 2025), carol sturka - Fandom, zosia - Fandom, Stursia AU - Fandom, Pluribus AU - Fandom
23 Jul 2026
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When Helen dies during childbirth, Carol is left with a premature daughter she doesn't know how to care for and a grief she doesn't know how to survive. Dr. Zosia Wojcik becomes her lifeline—teaching her how to be a mother, how to function, how to keep breathing. A story about loss, recovery, and finding unexpected light in the darkest places.
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13 Jun 2026
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Private Lessons (Clases particulares) by swan_queen_4_ever_n_ever
Fandoms: Sueños de libertad | Dreams of Liberty (Spain TV)
22 Jul 2026
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Fina Valero is nineteen years old, lives with her father, and works at his dealership. A year ago, she drove to an exam hall and couldn't get out of the car.
Now Digna, the woman who raised her, Marta de la Reina's aunt, has arranged private literature lessons with Marta. PhD. Brilliant. Precise. Devastating in a green blouse.
Fina has two years of practice not looking too long. She's about to run out of room.This is a modern AU. No 1958, no colony, no perfumery, no estate, just a small town in Toledo and two women who've met three times in two years, neither of whom is ready for a Tuesday.
Fina is g!p. This will be relevant later and handled with care.
Chapter count is unknown. I know where this ends. Getting there is the point.Bookmarked by finabark
22 Mar 2026
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Carol misses those nights when she took silence and sleep for granted. It’s been two weeks since they have stopped, and the repercussions are starting to show in the sluggish way she moves about in the morning. In the headaches that remind her of the worst kind of hangover. And in the irritation she feels at the slightest inconvenience, or even at her lack of inspiration when she sits in front of a blank document on her computer.
Well, maybe that last part isn’t entirely someone else’s fault. But still, she should do something about the fucking noise.
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“Well, then? Do you need something?”
Carol takes a deep breath. For the first time since moving in this awfully sleazy apartment complex, she’s about to be the wet blanket everybody hates – or maybe appreciates for the intervention, she hopes.
“Yeah,” she mutters and points to the door. “Could you turn it down? I – I’m trying to get some sleep.”
The other seems to ponder her request for a second before shrugging. “It’s not that loud.”or
a new tenant moves in the upstairs apartment. She's loud, careless, annoying. And hot. And Carol has a hard time dealing with that.
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- Part 1 of the menace upstairs
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22 Mar 2026
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“No shit. Not sure I wanna wear a stranger’s panties, though.”
“Your loss. I’ll even let you keep them. Call it a souvenir from your first night in London.”
OR: 33-year-old Carol Sturka goes to a writer's networking event in the hopes of bagging herself a book deal, and, instead, finds a charming Polish model.
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27 Feb 2026
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White Noise by cecekarya
Fandoms: stursia - Fandom, pluribus - Fandom, carol sturka - Fandom, zosia - Fandom
29 Apr 2026
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Seventy-five days after the Joining, Carol Sturka is still immune - and still alone.
As the hive's quiet promises grow more personal, Carol begins to question what was real: the love she felt, the choices she made, and the cost of resisting a world that insists it only wants to share its happiness.
With time running thinner than she expected, Carol must confront the possibility that saving humanity may mean losing the one person she never meant to sacrifice.
Because the Union doesn't threaten.
It loves.
And it never stops waiting.
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27 Feb 2026