...is behind the cut.  Other fic is in progress, but I'm still rather ill,

( post-ep for Manhunt )

...and thank you all for the good wishes and lovely thoughts.  I'm stuck at home again, but it's not all bad -- I hate going out in the winter anyway, and I tend to write more when I'm trapped in the house.

Which brings me to the fic.  And yes, this is the product of several days' boredom while in hospital plus the really good pain meds they give me ( Read more... )

(written for ( Read more... )

Written for the 'first' prompt at the hl_flashfic community.  i'm going to cheat and cross-post this to my hl_50 table as well, under one of the writer's choice prompts.

Cardinal Experiences
by auberus

The first time I ever robbed a bank, I went in under-prepared and over-confident.  That still didn't stop me from pulling it off.  I got away with ( Read more... )

I'm not entirely sure where this piece of crack came from.  Faith and Cory Raines, because I woke up with this in my head the other day, and then I mentioned it to jinxed_wood and then I had to sit down and write the stupid thing.  Oh, yeah -- and I'm making this prompt #25 for my hl50 table, because I seriously need to get to work on that.

Dynamite

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Written for the hl50 challenge.  100 words.

Better Things
Let me introduce myself. Cory Raines. Bank robber, pirate, highwayman, hijack specialist... the list of my accomplishments is lengthy, if somewhat mono-thematic. I make a much better criminal than I do an honest man, and I've been a thief for almost eight hundred years.

I know.  Being an ( Read more... )

001. Immortal.
002.Highlander.
003. Chronicle.
004.Longing.
005.Lasting.

006.Quickening.
007.Watcher.
008.Thief.
009.Years.
010.Centuries.

011.Night.
012.Day.
013.Lead.
014.Follow.
015.Blind.

016.Smoky.
017.Lair.
018.Travel.
019.Time.
020.Exotic.

021.Friend.
022.Enemy.
023.Lover.
024. Grief.
025.Strangers.

026.Moon.
027.Game.
028.Children.
029.Birth.
030.Death.

031.Sunrise.
032. ( Read more... )