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“He clearly had a crush on you,” Carol says, feeling stupid even as the words leave her mouth.
Helen’s lips twitch, but the line of her mouth remains even. “And you were worried he was going to woo me away?”
Carol scowls. “Obviously not. But you didn’t have to encourage it.”
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27 Jun 2026
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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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21 Apr 2026
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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.
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17 Apr 2026
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Carol and Helen in their backyard over the years.
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09 Apr 2026
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There’s something different in the way that Zosia looks at her now. Carol’s stopped moving, and she clings to Zosia’s shoulders with a vice grip as she spirals into her all-consuming stare.
There’s a gnawing hunger in Zosia’s gaze, so desperate that Carol herself can almost feel the sharp bite of its teeth ripping into her own flesh.
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18 Jan 2026