Title: Melt
Universe: Menagerie
Prompt: “All I Want For Christmas Is You”
Wordcount: 3690
Genre: Humor/Romance
Rating/Warnings: T for language
Summary: It’s the last week before Christmas break, and all Toni wants is for things to be normal. At least, that’s all he thinks he wants. Enter some creative matchmaking.
Author’s Notes: For richelle2972, who asked ( Read more... )

Title: Someone Is Going To Die For This
Prompt: A lot, from pulped_fictions
Wordcount: 3000
Genre: Humor/Angst
Rating/Warnings: High T (violence, language)
Summary: Wynnie’s baby brother has been kidnapped, and it’s starting to look like by time she finds him, her foot is going to be sore from all the asses she’s going to have to kick.
Author’s Notes: This was a ( Read more... )

Title: Soul-Light
Universe: Menagerie (alt.)
Prompt: “crackling”, from pulped_fictions
Wordcount: 165
Genre: Not quite sure. XD
Rating/Warnings: K
Summary: Dusk and a ghost story from Toni’s childhood.
Author’s Notes: Decided to do Will and Toni, like last year. :)

( It’s the silence that hypnotizes him. )

Title: Best Served Hot
Universe: Cataracta
Prompt: Sometimes When We Touch, from pulped_fictions
Wordcount: 2232
Genre: Romance/Humor
Rating/Warnings: T
Summary: Contains three fake relationships, two jilted exes, and one homicidal psychopath. Aka: the Valentine’s date from Hell.
Author’s Notes: The characters are from a story tierfal and I are writing. This is one ( Read more... )

Title: Elegy
Universe: Menagerie
Prompt: here, from pulped_fictions
Wordcount: 2752
Genre: General/Drama
Rating/Warnings: T
Summary: Toni’s sixteenth year is the first time he tried to have a friend and the first time he did. He’s forgotten the faces - all except one - from the night he managed to protect his innocence but lost it anyway.
Author’s Notes: ( Read more... )

Title: Best Served Cold
Universe: Menagerie
Prompt: “frosty”, from pulped_fictions
Wordcount: 346
Genre: Humor
Rating/Warnings: K+
Summary: In which Will makes a dangerous misjudgment.
Author’s Notes: A silly vignette from Menagerie; meet Will. :) (Also, I know tierfal has used one of the jokes before, so she gets subconscious-inspiration credit for that line. XD)

( Will is about to be the first person ever to die in a snowball fight. )

Title: A Little Sun and Water
Universe: New
Prompt: “Lords of Scandal”, from pulped_fictions
Wordcount: 8145
Genre: Romance
Rating/Warnings: T
Summary: When Derek Hayes meets his best friend, there are a dozen-dozen months of school left until he graduates from college and Grows Up - and it’s a good thing, because Love is too complicated to figure out alone.
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Title: After the Lightning
Universe: Menagerie
Prompt: “storm”, from pulped_fictions
Wordcount: 500
Genre: General/Supernatural
Rating/Warnings: K+
Summary: Stan encounters someone who shouldn’t exist.
Author’s Notes: Another character from Menagerie, one I haven’t yet introduced in any of the other pieces. Meet Toni. Also, there are some hints about the premise ( Read more... )

Title: Predawn
Universe: Menagerie
Prompt: Picture of a dog, from pulped_fictions
Wordcount: 500
Genre: General
Rating/Warnings: K+
Summary: Robin has been having these dreams for long enough to know what they mean.
Author’s Notes: Same story as Bookends, six years later. This is where the story actually starts. I’m not going to post anything but snippets ( Read more... )

Title: Bookends
Universe: Menagerie
Prompt: “I like your girlfriend”, from pulped_fictions
Wordcount: 470
Genre: General
Rating/Warnings: K+
Summary: This is going to end badly.
Author’s Notes: All the characters named are around seventeen.

( “Martin,” James said, eyes wide and serious, “I need you to kill me, today. Preferably before dinner tonight.” )