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Every movement on the ice is physics: force, friction, momentum, impact.
Figure skater Carina DeLuca understands that it’s clean edges, control and years of discipline that make skating look effortless.
Where as Maya Bishop only knows how to push harder.
After being rejected from the pro hockey team for the second time, Maya doesn’t want help, especially not from the quiet, ridiculously pretty figure skater who offers technique advice that sounds more like a science lesson than skating practice.
And yet Carina leaves an imprint she can’t shake. She doesn’t know whether it’s the way she moves, or the way the ice seems to listen to her. Maybe it’s the way she looks at Maya like she’s already worth believing in.
Somewhere between late night practices and reluctant lessons, Maya’s skating begins to change.
Unfortunately, so does her heart.
Will Maya finally let someone in and will her last shot at going pro be enough?
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11 Feb 2026
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When a young woman shows up at Carina’s clinic asking for an IUD removal, something feels off. Then Carina sees who’s waiting for her outside: Mason. What follows brings up things Maya thought she’d left behind - guilt, history, and everything she swore she'd moved past.
One-shot for the Marina writers challenge.
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29 Jan 2026
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Maya Bishop was supposed to have it all figured out—until everything unraveled. With her future slipping away and nowhere left to turn, she’s forced to survive on her own, doing whatever it takes to protect the life growing inside her. When an unexpected encounter at a diner leads her to Carina DeLuca, a medical intern with a steady heart and a stubborn sense of compassion, Maya finds herself caught between the instinct to run and the quiet ache to be held.
A slow, aching journey through survival, trust, and what it means to be truly seen.
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29 Jan 2026
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Have you ever imagined having two lives? I bet you have. But between thinking about it and living it, there was a very big difference, believe it or not. Imagine... Maya is a sweet and hardworking woman. Ivy, sexy and imposing. Which would you choose? What's your type? hard, I know. Let us let Carina answer this one.
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28 Jan 2026
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Maya is woken up by Carina and her friends after a night out and has to take care of her very drunk wife.
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25 Jan 2026