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“Double espresso, Chantilly cream and Armagnac. On the house. I hope you don’t have any allergies.” Carol doesn’t realize her hand is shaking until she sets the coffee onto the table.
There is one quick beat of silence. She expects a thank you or a nod of appreciation.
Instead Zosia says, “Just to mediocrity.”
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Carol Sturka, head chef at one of Toronto’s hottest restaurants gets an abrupt reality check when she gets a surprise visit from local but notable food critic and influencer, Zosia Nowak.
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17 Jul 2026
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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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14 May 2026
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23 Apr 2026
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Myosotis: (/ˌmaɪəˈsoʊtɪs/), genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae, colloquially known as forget-me-nots.
Two love stories give rise to another.
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10 Apr 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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- Part 1 of the menace upstairs
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02 Apr 2026