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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Carol Sturka is a mess. She has been for the past two years.
    Her books aren't selling, her public image is ruined and her agent is done with her. In order to get back in the spotlight, she's required to accept a teaching job at the local community center, which she is less than thrilled about.
    But everything might change as soon as she finds out one of her new students is the spitting image of her fictional character.

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    28 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 51

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    Set three years after the reversal of the Sudden Oblivion (what they called the year humanity ceased to exist), Carol Sturka had finished the Wycaro series and released her new book, Starfall, a fictional story about a hive mind taking over an entire space colony. Carol's still getting used to her astounding success when she comes back into her life.

    Zosia stood near the corner of the street, Starfall in hand, wearing a soft, pale yellow shirt and jeans—more casual than Carol ever remembered seeing her. Her dark hair fell just above her shoulders, slightly shorter than before, and her brown eyes seemed to light up as Carol met her gaze. She appeared to be trying, and failing, to contain her smile. It grew as Carol walked toward her, which she didn’t realize she was doing until she was so close it was unbearable. There was nothing to do but embrace her, which Carol did without thinking, the reality of it sinking in only when Zosia’s voice—soft, unmistakable—reached her.

    “Hi, Carol.”

    She remembered.
    She was here.

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    26 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 46

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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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    17 Jan 2026

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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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    27 Dec 2025

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    Intense

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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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    26 Dec 2025