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  1. Public Bookmark 19

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    Carol Sturka has spent three years not wanting things. Then her ceiling springs a leak and Zosia Zawadzka shows up to fix it and suddenly Carol is wanting things again.

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    31 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 87

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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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    09 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 2

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    Carol's cemented a good life for herself down in Albuquerque. Great job, great partner, and complete isolation from the old her. That is until a unique string of killings tracing their way from New Mexico all the way back to the Old Country Road unearth some past problems.. and force her to confront some past bonds.

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    10 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

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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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    08 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    “Thanks to you, I am saddled with unnecessary… feelings.”

    “What?” Carol dragged her gaze away from the TV, then she realized that fucking hot nerd wasn’t talking to her. The brunette’s eyes were still fixed on the screen of her handheld console. But the video-game addict soon noticed Carol staring. Those big brown eyes lifted from the tiny screen and met Carol’s blue ones.

    “Sorry for interrupting you,” Zosia said with a smile as charming as the ones she used back when she was still trapped in the hive. “It’s just… every time I play this game, this scene feels so gay…”

    Or:
    the game designer Zosia somehow escaped from the hivemind, and then there was a hot nerd staying in Carol's house

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    03 Apr 2026