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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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11 Jun 2026
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To Begin Again by cecekarya
Fandoms: stursia - Fandom, Pluribus (TV 2025), carol sturka - Fandom, zosia - Fandom, Stursia AU - Fandom, Pluribus AU - Fandom
16 Jun 2026
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When Helen dies during childbirth, Carol is left with a premature daughter she doesn't know how to care for and a grief she doesn't know how to survive. Dr. Zosia Wojcik becomes her lifeline—teaching her how to be a mother, how to function, how to keep breathing. A story about loss, recovery, and finding unexpected light in the darkest places.
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07 Jun 2026
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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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22 Apr 2026
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A collection of one-shots,
usually one day per chapter, in no particular order,
following Carol and Helen through twenty-seven years of banter, bad decisions, quiet mornings, frozen eggs, loud fights, ice hotels in Norway,
and the particular intimacy of two people who know each other so well that silence is its own conversation.***********
Summary for Chapter 3 | The Bavarian Alps | Rating: G
Carol has already made her peace with two weeks of hiking and Helen's relentless optimism about the Alps. What she has not made her peace with (and what Helen's limited German failed to warn her about), is the fact that their final campsite permits a dress code best described as “optional”.
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18 Apr 2026
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Online, a friendship blossoms between two anonymous women.
In real life, an author and editor enter a contentious relationship that only sours more by the day.
The Sturstead answer to "what if beloved oomf hated celebrity you?"
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15 Apr 2026