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Zosia sees her favorite author sitting alone in a club, looking sad.
Carol Sturka, who believes she will never fall in love again after her wife’s death, wonders if the woman who appeared in front of her might be an angel.
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“You look like—” Carol's voice broke from no use. “You look like someone who isn’t real.”
“It was the most efficient way to—”
“Stop,” Carol snapped. The woman—they—stopped. It was the first time since Helen’s body went cold she'd said stop and the world had listened. “You’re not allowed to use my—” She gestured uselessly at the woman’s face. “You can't puppet this poor woman around to show up here like a goddamn consolation prize.”
The woman took a small step closer. “We only want to help.”Or,
Two love stories give rise to another. -
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Zosia moves very well on court, and her slide on the clay is divine. Carol is kind of envious about it. She hits the ball hard and flat. After every stroke, she makes the racket sound heavenly, and with every stroke she grunts, and she grunts loudly. Carol’s eyes open wide at her discovery, and a warmth rises and settles in the lower part of her body that vibrates every time she hears Zosia’s grunts.
Must be the alcohol, yep. There’s not way—
Another grunt.
“Oh god” Carol says
She should, to the very least, dislike Zosia. She’s young, she’s healthy and she’s incredibly talented. She should hate her, because she’s standing in the way of Carol winning another Slam again.
Another grunt.
“Ah fuck it” Carol says as she brings her hand down her shorts and rubs her clit. She closes her eyes, and can still feel Zosia’s touch on her shoulder. She’s already wet—
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Carol Sturka is a 20 time Grand Slam Champion, and the greatest women's tennis player the world has ever seen. At 34 years old, age is catching up to her.
After a past season filled with injuries, she comes back to protect her legacy and record, that's being threatened by younger players such as Zosia Piątek.
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Carol and Zosia have loved each other since they were nine. They have a game to make sure they never have to say so.
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- Part 4 of Close Quarters
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There was a cardboard box sitting on her office chair when she arrived. A yellow Post-It was stuck to the top, bearing the words “help yourself” in sloppy handwriting that Carol immediately recognized. She knew what she would find inside, but she opened the box anyway. Sure enough—it was a collection of business casual attire, clearly pre-owned but seemingly devoid of holes and stains.
Helen Umstead can go fuck herself, Carol thought.
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The story of Carol and Helen.
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Carol misses those nights when she took silence and sleep for granted. It’s been two weeks since they have stopped, and the repercussions are starting to show in the sluggish way she moves about in the morning. In the headaches that remind her of the worst kind of hangover. And in the irritation she feels at the slightest inconvenience, or even at her lack of inspiration when she sits in front of a blank document on her computer.
Well, maybe that last part isn’t entirely someone else’s fault. But still, she should do something about the fucking noise.
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“Well, then? Do you need something?”
Carol takes a deep breath. For the first time since moving in this awfully sleazy apartment complex, she’s about to be the wet blanket everybody hates – or maybe appreciates for the intervention, she hopes.
“Yeah,” she mutters and points to the door. “Could you turn it down? I – I’m trying to get some sleep.”
The other seems to ponder her request for a second before shrugging. “It’s not that loud.”or
a new tenant moves in the upstairs apartment. She's loud, careless, annoying. And hot. And Carol has a hard time dealing with that.
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- Part 1 of the menace upstairs
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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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- Part 3 of Close Quarters
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i like my girls just like i like my honey (sweet, a little selfish) by nutmeg101
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
09 Jun 2026
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“Careful, Detective,” Zosia says lowly, taking a deliberate step forward. She places her hand on the metal bar next to Carol’s and their fingers brush together. Neither of them pulls away. She tilts her head down ever so slightly. “That almost sounds like a compliment.”
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All you need to know is that Detective Carol Sturka is a little sad, a little sarcastic, and a little horny.
And Lieutenant Zosia Nowak is rude and hot.
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Carol stays at her lake house for the summer, in desperate need of finding inspiration to write the fifth Wycaro novel. When she meets her neighbour who looks exactly like the female version of her famous character Raban, more than inspiration strikes Carol.
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A League Of Their Own AU
Carol Sturka is the Rockford Peaches' best pitcher. Zosia Bartoś is the catcher from the Belles who took her championship in September. "The Polish Wall" is traded to the Peaches next season, and Carol has thoughts about it.
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- Part 2 of Close Quarters
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Hollywood, 1949. Director Carol Sturka has a new leading lady.
__After the suspicious death of her longtime star Helen Umstead, the Studio has handpicked newcomer Zosia to lead writer/director Carol Sturka's next film, Winds of Wycaro, but she could threaten to expose Carol's secrets under the watchful and oppressive Hollywood system.
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Zosia never meant to fall for the woman behind her grandmother’s favorite romance novels.
Carol Sturka writes sweeping straight love stories and guards her private life carefully. But one late-night message turns curiosity into connection, and connection into something neither of them can ignore.One lives in New York. The other in Albuquerque.
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An angel crash-lands in Carol and Helen's hot tub.
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White Noise by cecekarya
Fandoms: stursia - Fandom, pluribus - Fandom, carol sturka - Fandom, zosia - Fandom
29 Apr 2026
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Seventy-five days after the Joining, Carol Sturka is still immune - and still alone.
As the hive's quiet promises grow more personal, Carol begins to question what was real: the love she felt, the choices she made, and the cost of resisting a world that insists it only wants to share its happiness.
With time running thinner than she expected, Carol must confront the possibility that saving humanity may mean losing the one person she never meant to sacrifice.
Because the Union doesn't threaten.
It loves.
And it never stops waiting.
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“Look, I don’t have time for this! If you lost my eggs, or let them defrost or something it’s fine. I don’t need ‘em anymore. So you can—“
“They were implanted in another woman.” Clifton speaks quickly, rushing so fast to make his confession that the words almost blend together.
Carol finds out her eggs were wrongly implanted in to a stranger, and her life is turned upside down overnight when she's drawn in to the woman's world.
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- Part 1 of Baby Stursia Series
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“Trust?” Zosia forced a humorless laugh. “That’s a pretty tall order. I don’t know anything about you.”
The woman considered this. She nodded, though it seemed mostly to herself.
“Okay, uh, what do you want to know?”
“To start, your name,” Zosia said. “And then maybe, I don’t know, why you’re here, what you do, a fun fact about yourself, things like that.”
The woman gave her an incredulous look.
“You wanna do fucking icebreakers right now?”
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Zosia gets unplurbed, and Carol has to be the guide through this insanity that she wishes she had while trapped in a one bedroom apartment and being probably madly in love with her.
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- Part 1 of a case of you
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Carol finds it in the third week of living alone with an unhived Zosia: a New York Times article, “To Fall In Love With Anyone, Do This.” An intimacy experiment involving thirty-six increasingly personal questions and, at the end of it, four uninterrupted minutes of eye contact, which sounds fake and humiliating and somehow still not bad enough to stop her.
Carol, obviously, prints it out.
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Zosia is not part of the hive anymore. She doesn't know how she feels. She cries and is paranoid of the hive. The only thing that makes her feel a little bit safe is to be close to Carol.
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Zosia leans into Carol’s ear, ‘how I want to fuck you has nothing to do with my eyes’ she whispers, out of breath. Carol can’t help but think that fucking Zosia would have everything to do with her eyes.