Summary: The morning after their meeting with Agent Yurikaw Madranashkiyug, Laura and Aujae discuss responsibility and consequences. (A Utilitarian Virtue snippet.) [875 words]

Note: Written 12/31/21 in response to the
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Summary: "The thing about library work," Martin says to Jon's unmoving body on the hospital bed, "is that you think it's all about organizing stuff, right?" [525 words]

Note: Written 2/2/21 in response to the
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Summary: Azu, Sasha, and a long drop. (AU post-Rome) [1,055 words]

Note: Written 12/26/20 in response to the
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Summary: Mountain dreams were meant for the young, those old enough to no longer be children, but young enough to not yet have children of their own. Navila got hers when she was twenty-seven: married, widowed, and mother of three. [455 words]

Note: Written 10/16/20 in response to the
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Summary: Before Martin's mum got really sick, back when she still sometimes looked at him without anger or disappointment, he used to do his homework in the living room while she ironed her work blouses and skirts. [465 words]

Note: Written 10/3/20 in response to the
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I keep forgetting to crosspost these because my brain interprets posting on
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Summary: In which Sasha James explains her theory of life, the universe, and everything to Tim Stoker. Possibly they should both be more sober for this conversation. [840 words]

Note: Written 8/25/20 in response to the
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Summary: Agnes MacPhearson knows her memory is full of holes and shifts out from under her mental feet like sand washed free by a receding tide. It's always been that way, which is why she records and stores important things in a Pensieve and carefully labeled bottles every evening. Of course she notices when over an hour of her Tuesday afternoon ( Read more... )

Summary: If you make a metal box, stick a fancy lock and some traps on it, and call it a safe, people think whatever you shut inside it will be untouchable. But there's no such thing as a lock that can't be picked or a trap that can't be disarmed. (400 words)

Note: Written 8/13/20 in response to the
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Summary: Cassette tapes jam; it's a fact of life. The Institute tapes don't. (270 words)

Note: Written 8/4/20 in response to the
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