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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    When Helen tags along with her client on a writer's retreat, she thinks fabricating her own writing chops will be the biggest challenge the trip has to offer. But the setting reminds Carol a little too starkly of things she'd rather not remember, and more than anything Helen is determined to protect her from them all.

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    26 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark *

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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.
    [...]
    “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.”

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    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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    26 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    Twenty eight year old Carol Sturka is an aspiring author, presently working a temp position at Brooks & Bennet Law Offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She's also a self-proclaimed misanthrope, insulted by romance, holding firm in her assertion that to need another person is weakness, and to want them is even worse. So, literally running face first into the most gorgeous woman she's ever seen is maybe the worst case scenario. It's about to be her lucky day.

    Helen Umstead is being careful. She understands all too well what it is to have your life feel completely out of your control, and she isn't about to let it happen again. She finally has a real job, with room for forward momentum, and her own apartment. She can manage the subtle chaos of daily life, and she feels stable for the first time ever. So, that restlessness nagging at her from the pit of her stomach, waking her up at all hours of the night, really isn't helpful. The monotony is what's best for her, or at least that's what she tells herself. Getting involved with the whirlwind that is Carol Sturka is a risk. A big one. And she just might have to take it.

    TLDR: Baby sturstead desperately tries not to fall in love (three guesses how that turns out)

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    26 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

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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?”

    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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    26 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 81

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    “Eggs or waffles?” Zosia asked.

    Carol looked at Zosia, then Zosia’s nipples, then back to the painting of a tree on a hill.

    She cleared her throat. “Waffles are good.”

    AU where Carol and Zosia meet in a grief support group for their dead spouses.

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    26 May 2026