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Sterling can see from the set of April’s jaw how much this matters to her, and she thinks about all the other times April’s worn that very same expression; all the ways in which Sterling’s been privileged to more deeply understand and fall in love with April in the nearly twenty years they’ve known one another.
Sterling and April's journey to become parents.
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- Part 13 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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03 Jun 2026
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Carol Sturka is a fifty-three-year-old best-selling fantasy author who secretly hates the story that made her famous.
She is also a widow.The world knew Helen Umstead as her manager. Carol knew her as her partner of twenty years.
On her first European tour without her, Carol boards the ÖBB Nightjet from Amsterdam to Vienna with a deluxe sleeper cabin still booked for two and no interest in speaking to strangers.
Zosia Wyspiańska is thirty-nine, a cultural anthropologist who studies intimacy, identity, and the way people perform love in public. She boards in Münster. She recognizes Carol immediately. She is not a fan. She is curious.
What follows is a two-month book tour across Europe, a slow collapse of control, and a love story Carol once believed she had already lived.
Slow burn. Grief. Mutual tension. Very explicit.
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12 Apr 2026
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A collection of one-shots,
usually one day per chapter, in no particular order,
following Carol and Helen through twenty-seven years of banter, bad decisions, quiet mornings, frozen eggs, loud fights, ice hotels in Norway,
and the particular intimacy of two people who know each other so well that silence is its own conversation.***********
Summary for Chapter 3 | The Bavarian Alps | Rating: G
Carol has already made her peace with two weeks of hiking and Helen's relentless optimism about the Alps. What she has not made her peace with (and what Helen's limited German failed to warn her about), is the fact that their final campsite permits a dress code best described as “optional”.
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31 Mar 2026
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this will be our year (took a long time to come) by seabiscuit
Fandoms: The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV)
06 Oct 2021
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An enlightening year in the life of Jamie Taylor.
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25 Feb 2026
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Carol and Helen catch up on discourse in the Wycaro fandom. It unearths a fear Carol's had ever since she published her first book.
Written for Femslash February 2026.
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15 Feb 2026