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“I didn’t keep most of the memories. Other people’s memories. I get flashes of big things, births, deaths. Except about you.”
Carol feels the confusion slip onto her face. Nervousness creeps up her spine again. “Me?”
“I know everything that anybody has ever thought about you, Carol. Every memory. Every feeling. Helen. Your ex-girlfriends. Your dentist. It’s like I have a Carol encyclopedia in my head.”
Carol had thought that she was done experiencing fresh horrors. What a nightmare it is to realize that she is not. “Oh, god.” She says.
“Oh, god,” Zosia agrees.
After they manage to break Zosia free of the hive, Zosia and Carol try to navigate the field of landmines that is their relationship.
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23 May 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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23 May 2026
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There is an old, strange house by the sea which is hauntingly accommodating to Carol's every need. She carries her grief and two phones, calling one with the other just to hear a voice that can't answer back.
She spends her days chasing what is left of herself, trying and failing to write, and waiting for whatever is in the house with her to show itself.
Then her phone rings. A new voice on the line.
Her name is Zosia. She says she's here to help.Bookmarked by cherpentine
23 May 2026
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Coming Back Again by myrmeraki
Fandoms: The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
18 Apr 2026
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It was bad enough that in the middle of Bilbo Baggins' perfectly good life, some wizard invited a bunch of strange dwarves into her home and insisted he knew her well enough to rope her into their "adventure". It was bad enough they had drunk all her mead. It was bad enough Gandalf ruined her new paint. The proverbial and, at times for Bilbo, literal dwarf-on-top of Thorin Oakenshield was what really did her in.
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- Part 1 of before the beginning, again
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03 Apr 2026
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Bilbo Baggins led a rather peaceful life, thank you very much, until an old acquaintance decided to turn it upside down, and he found himself agreeing to take a job that’s… let’s say not exactly up his alley, and might eventually cost him a little more than his treasured cozy lifestyle. Who would have thought tutoring a slightly menacing monarch’s more than slightly overbearing nephew could prove to be such an adventure?
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- Part 1 of Nothing Gold Can Stay
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23 Feb 2026