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Helen L. Umstead seemingly has it all: she’s the Fashion Features Director at Vogue, owns a townhouse in Brooklyn and has a beautiful daughter together with her wife and model, Zosia Kawiecka.
Well, soon-to-be-ex-wife, that is.
And on top of that, Helen now has to write a feature on New York’s most notoriously difficult designer, Carol Sturka.Given their messy past, will they keep things strictly professional, or will their unresolved history bleed into a headline of its own?
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Four years after a bitter divorce, Carol Sturka tracks down her conman ex-wife with a proposition to go after a corporation that commits wage theft on a grand scale. Carol's plan is sound; surely this will be easy, and even more surely nobody will get emotionally compromised.
(yeah, this is just Leverage with Pluribus characters. so sue me (or steal everything I have with an elaborate heist))
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10 Jul 2026
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Carol feels touch-starved, her libido kicked into overdrive, so incredibly turned on. She sighs into Zosia’s mouth like this is what she’s been waiting for. 41 days and 40 nights—longer, if she counted the days before they left her—she did better than Jesus.
She likes to think that she held that solitude with some sort of dignity, destructive as it was, before calling them back. Before completely collapsing into Zosia’s arms, that angry, half-baked thought surfacing again: why does she have to be so goddamn warm?
[Missing scene for episode 1x08, after the kiss and before Zosia wakes up on Carol's bed.]
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08 Jul 2026
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There was a cardboard box sitting on her office chair when she arrived. A yellow Post-It was stuck to the top, bearing the words “help yourself” in sloppy handwriting that Carol immediately recognized. She knew what she would find inside, but she opened the box anyway. Sure enough—it was a collection of business casual attire, clearly pre-owned but seemingly devoid of holes and stains.
Helen Umstead can go fuck herself, Carol thought.
or;
The story of Carol and Helen.
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07 Jul 2026
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Twenty eight year old Carol Sturka is an aspiring author, presently working a temp position at Brooks & Bennet Law Offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She's also a self-proclaimed misanthrope, insulted by romance, holding firm in her assertion that to need another person is weakness, and to want them is even worse. So, literally running face first into the most gorgeous woman she's ever seen is maybe the worst case scenario. It's about to be her lucky day.
Helen Umstead is being careful. She understands all too well what it is to have your life feel completely out of your control, and she isn't about to let it happen again. She finally has a real job, with room for forward momentum, and her own apartment. She can manage the subtle chaos of daily life, and she feels stable for the first time ever. So, that restlessness nagging at her from the pit of her stomach, waking her up at all hours of the night, really isn't helpful. The monotony is what's best for her, or at least that's what she tells herself. Getting involved with the whirlwind that is Carol Sturka is a risk. A big one. And she just might have to take it.
TLDR: Baby sturstead desperately tries not to fall in love (three guesses how that turns out)
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07 Jul 2026
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Helen’s expression grows softer, and Carol knows it has everything to do with the hairbrush in her hand.
She holds it out in the space between them, offering it to Helen without a single word.
There it is, the silent request for something comforting, something nurturing. Carol hasn’t ever been able to name this particular desire, but she knows that Helen knows it well.
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04 Jul 2026