Melpomede



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    The balcony is empty. The air is thick with summer heat.

    Michaela steps closer than she should. Francesca's legs part, almost reflexively, for her husband’s cousin. Michaela slips between them and rests her hands on Francesca's thighs.

    She leans in. Francesca can smell the limoncello on her breath. Her nose brushes Francesca's cheek.

    "Tell me it's killing you like it's killing me," Michaela whispers against her skin.

    Francesca trembles. Her need pulses in her chest, her stomach, lower still.

    "Please, Fran."

    "We can't."

    "I know. I know."

    -OR-

    Francesca Stirling is a high-powered Manhattan attorney on her eighth round of IVF. Her husband's cousin, Michaela, arrives for the summer and immediately upends Francesca's routines. When her husband leaves for a work trip to London, Francesca is forced to reckon with the woman she has spent years refusing to look at — and with the question of whether she can finally become herself without breaking the man who loves her.

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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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    20 Feb 2026

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    It’s a little funny, too—in an absolute asinine kind of way—that Zosia may not remember all that knowledge she gained from living in perfect symbiosis with the rest of the fucking world but she can remember the night Helen was sick and left Carol to fend for herself at one of those stupid publishing parties she was always getting invited to. Yeah, she probably shouldn’t have gone for the second Old Fashioned, and she definitely should not have ripped her car keys out of the valet’s hand and flipped him off while doing it, but it tickles her to think Zosia can remember the square root of that night and not four thousand, one hundred thirty. 

    She risks a small smile. “Oh, that’s sort of—”

    “And I hate that.”

     

    or, in between saving the world and getting the girl, Carol tries to make sure the girl does not kill her first

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    30 Jan 2026

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    Now on official government record: Carol let the hivemind fuck her, Carol fucked the hivemind.

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    26 Jan 2026

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    "After that, there was nothing in the world except her hands tangling in soft, silky hair, that filthy, talented mouth on her, and the caress of the achingly familiar voice still saying her name again and again like a spell. Like a fucking curse with the power to unmake this small world they never acknowledge having built together."

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    That awkward feeling when you run out of places to hide in your decades-long, toxic enemies with benefits situation and have to face up to the realisation that you have, in fact, always had Emotions.

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    17 Dec 2025