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  1. Public Bookmark 30

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    Unfortunately, Carol could only watch helplessly as the garment fell away from the woman's flawless skin. From her vantage point, Carol could see the woman's breast in outline – taut skin, pink nipples, and a devastating lack of a tanline.

    The two books in her hand fell onto her towel with a double thump. The woman's eyes slowly met her own in amusement. Carol immediately glanced away in embarrassment – it was a miracle she didn't give herself whiplash.


    Europeans and nude beaches shouldn't mix – or, at least, that was Carol Sturka's opinion before a literal Polish model got her claws into her sunburnt skin.

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    01 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 40

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    BEEEEEEEEEEP.

    The honk comes without warning. For half a second, Carol thinks she has been shot.

    Then it keeps going. A sustained, unbroken, eat-shit honk. The kind LA people deploy when they want to fuck you up as a person.

    The honking stops. The Range Rover's window comes down.

    "Are you leaving the space or not." The woman says it flat, and bored.

    Carol puts her own window down. Slowly, for the fuck of it.

    “No, lady. I'm not leaving. I’m parked. This is a parking space, and I have parked a car in it. Like a human being is allowed to. Your response to that was to put your hand flat on a horn for what, an hour? What the fuck is wrong with you?”

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    A feud for the ages. Two strangers let a parking incident burrow into their minds and slowly consume their every thought and action

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    27 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 62

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    After the death of her wife, nihilistic and closeted romance author Carol Sturka descends into a stupor of drunken depression which is only compounded when her fanbase finds out she’s a lesbian and erupts in outrage and deems her disingenuous. Her publicist has the perfect solution to rebuild Carol's public image and free her from the "romance slop" genre forever, but Carol isn't going to like it.

    She's right. Carol hates it. (Until she doesn't.)

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    07 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 79

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    Two years after the Unjoining, she saw Zosia in London, of all places – nearly unrecognizable in her winter attire – bundled up to her nose. But Carol felt her presence like a sawed-off shotgun wound to her stomach. The sight of her eyes peeking over the edge of her scarf, sparkling with mirth as she shouldered the woman she was walking with –

    Well, it was fucking devastating.


    ‘Who is Carol?’ Spray-painted in canary yellow, stood out against the rain-darkened concrete of the building across the street from The Ritz where Carol was staying.

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    04 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 55

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    “Carol."

    Zosia Bartoś has said Sturka on panel shows and she has said my colleague on Twitter and she has said "the anchor at Liberty" in interviews and she has said "Carol Sturka" the full two-word name in writing, but she has not said Carol, just Carol, since a hotel room in Cincinnati ten years ago.

    "You can say gay on television.”

    Someone in the audience gasps, another says oh my god too loudly into a mic that should have been dead and the room comes apart.

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    Carol Sturka is a closeted conservative anchor. Zosia Bartoś is her progressive ex. Netflix has them on a stage in 8 swing states for 4 months.

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    First in a series of Stursia Romance/Smut AUs and one-shots. Different genres.

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    25 Apr 2026