Sentence:  Other studies explore why some women write <WSD>"het</WSD>", or fictions with heterosexual pairings of certain couples, within canons such as "Star Trek Voyager" that generally inspire slash fiction (Somogyi, 2002). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Fan fiction based on celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship.