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“I’m one of the lit managers,” the woman explains.
“Yet you can’t manage to take a hint," Carol retorts. "I’m not in the mood for conversation.”
It’s meant to be rude — to get this beautiful, annoying woman to leave her alone once and for all — but instead, the corner of her mouth curves into a smirk. Carol hates how sexy she finds it. “Clever wordplay,” she commends. “You really are a writer.”
Or: After sending dozens of query letters with no success, Carol reluctantly goes to a literary speed-dating event to try to find representation. There, she meets Helen.
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- Part 1 of pre-canon sturstead snapshots
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22 Jan 2026
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“I mean, are you just not into me? ‘Cause you can just say it. I’m not that thin-skinned.”
Carol is staring back, totally blank. Her lips have fallen just slightly open — those perky pink lips that press together when she hears something funny, that tug sideways when she’s embarrassed, the lips Helen’s watched sipping glasses of wine for months now and has never been allowed to touch.
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12 Jan 2026
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The first thing Zosia feels is the sun. Bright and warm on their skin, a wave of calm and peacefulness, foreign to this body, washes over them.
From Zosia’s perspective. Whatever that means. <3
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10 Jan 2026
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Carol is beginning to suspect that if a beautiful woman asked her to put her head in a bear trap, she’d only pause to ask whether she should take her clothes off first.
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02 Jan 2026
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Zosia raises an eyebrow. “We never lied to you. I never lied to you.”
“And I didn't either,” Carol says. “But you chose to leave out the truth so you could turn me into something you know I don’t want to be.”
“So what did you do to me then?”
There’s a moment where they just stare at each other, pain mirrored on both of their faces.
or: carol and manousos manage to un-hive zosia. it goes as well as expected.
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30 Dec 2025