Master story index and warning policy
If you want to read a story of mine and want to know if it contains a certain trigger, please email me at Rphoenix2 at gmail dot com and ask. I'll get back to you ASAP.
Generally, I write within the bounds of canon. I sometimes write sex more explicit than in canon, but I don't introduce rape, incest, or child abuse into canons that don't already contain it. If the canon contains suicide, trauma, incest, explicit sex, etc, my stories may too. If you don't know the canon, ask.
I warn for sex, violence, and general disturbingness. I also warn specifically for rape, sexual abuse, and the gray area I call "consent issues."
I do not warn for character death. That's not something I do gratuitously, though. I may or may not warn for mental illness, suicidal thoughts, PTSD, etc. If it exists in canon, it may well exist in my stories set in that canon.
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern
The Ballad of Mirrim and Menolly's Ride, for calenlily. Menolly, Mirrim, and Mirrim's dragon Path travel through times that were, will be, and might have been to warn Pern of a deadly new threat. Contains non-graphic, adventure-style violence.
"Weyrleader, I challenge you." Mirrim drew her knife.
The Marvels We Have Seen, from Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern, was a Treat for boosette, who wrote the lovely Menolly-centric Lend Song a Sweeter Grace last year. A fire lizard mating flight brings Mirrim and Menolly closer together in more ways than one. Contains explicit sex.
It was impossible to want to leave when half of Mirrim was tearing hot flesh with Reppa, taking her own sweet time to taunt her eager suitors. But Mirrim tried to listen to the part of herself which wasn't Reppa, which was Mirrim who understood concepts like friendship and consequences.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Sisters. Friends who slay together stay together. Contains slayage.
They ended up in an overpriced vegan restaurant which labeled the veggie burger “I am Whole,” the Caesar salad “I am Blissful,” and the black bean soup “I am Goddess-like.”
Cherry Ames
Cherry Ames, Summer Camp Nurse. Nurse Cherry Ames catches the criminal and gets the girl. Contains girlkissing.
Cherry had planned to spend the summer resting and recovering after her harrowing experience in Alaska. Though she had uncovered a ruthless criminal and saved the life of a child, her long trek through the snow had left her run-down and sensitive to cold.
"The Disappearing Man."
Will You Bloom Bright And Fierce was a Yuletide Treat for teaotter, who wrote the fabulous Steerswoman story Dumb Animals last year.
It's based on the gorgeous Dave Carter and Tracy Grammar song The Disappearing Man. The story itself requires no familiarity with the song or anything else. Contains brief but somewhat explicit sex.
He says make a wish, and you kneel down there on the blacktop beside his boots with the dandelion inches from your mouth. You can smell the new-laid tar that should have killed the seed dead as the diner's hash browns, but you can smell the plant too, the fresh green smell of a living thing.
The Door Into... series by Diane Duane
The Doors Into Otherwheres.
Segnbora travels to other universes via the worldgate doors, meeting women, saving lives, having adventures, and getting new perspectives on herself. Contains moderately explicit sex including some consensual BDSM (with Kylara.)
“What was that about?” asked Segnbora.
Storm shrugged, and the glint of humor was again visible in her eyes. “We are often attacked by mysterious villains with complex plots and unclear motives."
Dragonlance
Lucky. Tanis and Raistlin are lost together in a maze of twisty tunnels all alike. No warnings.
The companions had been trudging through the endless maze of mountain caves for several days (as best as they could judge without sun or moon to guide them), and had already battled a rust monster, a skeleton hook horror, and a gelatinous cube. But nothing had truly struck fear into Tanis' heart until he heard the cheerful piping tones of Tasslehoff's voice saying, "Now this looks really interesting!"
Emily of New Moon
To Catch a Star. An AU taking off from the first third of the last book. Emily, Ilse, and some postcards from Dean. No warnings.
She seemed an impossibly vibrant creature to exist in quiet New Moon, with her bright hair and sparkling eyes and absurd hat wreathed with orchids. Her laugh alone threatened to shatter Aunt Elizabeth’s heirloom mirror.
Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat
City of Angels. Written for Yuletide for the prompt "Make this New Yorker miss Los Angeles." No warnings.
It was New Year's Eve, and the excitement of the 3.8 million residents of Los Angeles, plus assorted visitors and passers-through, sizzled through the crisp and only slightly smoggy winter air. All over the city, the thoughts of those 3.8 million (plus extras) bubbled like champagne in anticipation of fireworks and designer dresses and parties and dancing and as-yet-unkissed midnight kisses.
Fullmetal Alchemist
The Perfumes of Arabia. Roy Mustang and Maes Hughes try to cope in Ishbal. Contains PTSD, suicidal thoughts, and wartime violence.
Roy contemplated Operation Get Hughes Out Of My Tent. Step one: Convince Him That I Am Just Fine.
Godchild/Count Cain
All the King's Horses. My attempt to write something as cracktastic, hot, and dark yet bizarrely sweet as the canon. Contains all sorts of BDSM, sex while dressed as an altar boy, a zombie priest and his pet zombie dove, the skull of an embryonic shrew, psychoactive poisons, and sexual mind games including possible consent issues. Cain/Crehador and Cain/Riff. Spoilery for Godchild 7.
In the dark room, Cain's eyes were black as a pond in midwinter. You could break through the ice, and drown.
Gundam Wing
Many canonically suicidal characters. All stories may contain suicide attempts and mental illness.
Two Business Cards, a Backstage Pass, and a Multi-Purpose Tool. Heero looks for a purpose in peacetime; the other pilots offer him some possibilities. Very mild violence, but generally cheerful.
There are more important things in the universe than the regrets of weapons.
Countdown. Heero has brief encounters with the other pilots when they’re all children. Some violence and a suicide attempt, but no child abuse.
Dr. J and I have this in common: we’d both like to know what it would take to kill me.
Cookies. Heero needs his own personal therapist; Duo gives it a shot. Violence, PTSD, suicidal thoughts.
I woke up on my feet, ready to fight and die. The lights were out, but there was enough moonlight coming in through the window to see Duo on the other side of the room, arms folded across his chest, sardonically staring down the barrel of my gun.
Connection. It wasn't the first time Trowa had held Heero's life in his hands. No warnings.
Heero sometimes forgets what normal people can’t do. I have to watch him carefully to make sure he doesn’t pick up anything he shouldn’t be able to lift, or reach into a live electric field.
Cold. Heero and Quatre consider outer space. Contains mental illness.
I wasn’t strong enough to kill him and I didn’t want to talk to him, but the conversation was already happening whether I participated or not.
Coalescence. Quatre has a very close relationship with Sandrock. No warnings.
The welder hissed and flared in Quatre’s hand.
Compatibility. Heero's first flight. Sort of experimental. No warnings.
Every day I’m wound so tight that a bead of spilled coffee floating past in zero G is a bullet I have to dodge.
First Flight. Trowa is the daring young man on the flying trapeze. No warnings.
“Not afraid of heights, not afraid of lions, not afraid of having knives thrown at you, not afraid of clowns… What are you afraid of?”
Little Black Notebook. Sally Po, headologist. No warnings.
Heroes
One Moment, One Chance. Hiro and Charlie get another chance. Set during season one. No warnings.
She’d lived in his mind as bright and true as if she’d been imprinted into a memory matrix, like the one in Chris Claremont-era “X-Men” that captured the essence of the dead (and resurrected, and cloned, and impersonated ad infinitum, but at that point, dead) Jean Grey’s personality.
Kushiel's Dart
The Rose of Naamah. The young Phedre runs into Melisandre at a ball. Contains explicit sex and extreme consensual masochism.
I could have walked away, or called for help. I could have given my signale. I knew this, and I also knew that I would not disobey; could not disobey; did not wish to disobey.
L. J. Smith's The Secret Circle
The Star in the Sapphire. Contains non-vanilla sex, hopefully hot but not especially explicit.
"When I'm a crone,” Suzan said dreamily, "I'll still play Pizza Man He Delivers. And all the guys who deliver to me will have a thing about older women for the rest of their lives.”
Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles
A Light in Dark Places. No warnings.
“Newts,” explained Eilonwy.
Mushishi
Bridge of Thought. When Ginko looks into a mushi, the mushi also looks into him. No warnings.
He told me stories of humans and mushi, spiraling in complex patterns like the smoke from his cigarette, in his voice that was also slow and hypnotic as smoke.
Perennial. Ginko tells Tanyuu a winter's tale. No warnings.
In the time that the old books called shimotsuki, the month of frost, it seemed to Tanyuu that there was no color left in all the world.
Naruto
Five Things Tsunade Didn't Save (And One She Did). No warnings.
Once they were three shinobi in training. They breezed through the genin tests, the chuunin tests, and all the missions in between. They learned to summon snakes and slugs and frogs. They fought together, and learned together, and laid down their bedrolls so close together that their hair mingled as they slept, black and blonde and white.
Ninja tell stories. No warnings; short but sweet.
The ninja tell stories while they rest between missions.
Not a Grain of Sand. The Sand Siblings, Part I: Temari. No warnings.
She could just barely remember a sweet and fragile little boy. But that child had been dead for years. In his place stood a blank-faced killer, a shell of sand filled with bloodlust and a demon, and probably nothing else.
Runaway. The Sand Siblings, Part II: Kankourou. Contains implied violence.
Before he’d go on another mission with Gaara, he’d run away and become a missing-nin.
The Hourglass. The Sand Siblings, Part III: Gaara. No warnings.
For Naruto, comfort is a bowl of ramen. For Rock Lee, relaxation is five hundred push-ups.
Strength of Her own. A Hinata drabble. No warnings.
A Fractured View. A Shino drabble. Warning for insect-related creepiness.
Teammates. A Kiba drabble. No warnings.
Saiyuki
The canon for this series includes suicide, self-mutilation, incest, rape, and lots of swearing. You have been warned.
Autumn Gold. After Saiyuki Gaiden, Tenpou and Kenren are soldiers together again, in another incarnation. My favorite of my Saiyuki stories, it seems to be my readers’ favorite too. Warning for the aftermath of wartime violence.
Fear is the end of the battle and you can’t find your captain.
Better Luck Next Time. The drabble that inspired “Autumn Gold,” another AU. Violence.
DVD commentary for “Autumn Gold.” . Warning for emotionally intense true stories.
The Lesson. An "incarnation that never happened" version of the meeting of Hakkai and Gojyo. Warning for the aftermath of violence.
He didn’t beg, but spoke with the formal courtesy you might hear at the kind of dinner parties Gojyo didn’t get invited to.
Five Things That Never Happened at the Castle of Hyakugan Maoh. As the title suggests. Warning for violence, suicide, incest, rape, abortion, death, and general disturbingness.
She caught a glimpse of herself in a mirror as she passed through someone’s bedroom, and gazed curiously at the woman she saw there, with one bright eye and one dark socket, her unbound hair phosphorescent in the crackling halo that surrounded her.
Three. An "incarnation that never happened" set in an orphanage, where a rather different Gonou, Kanan, and Gojyo meet as children. Warning for violence and bullying.
Even under the circumstances, a normal boy does not have his sister hold his enemy down while he rummages around in the supply closet, looking for… well, obviously we stopped him before he found anything.
Hakkai’s Gift. Set during the Burial arc. Gojyo wants to help Hakkai, but isn’t sure how. Warning for mention of suicide, depression, and self-mutilation, though overall it’s happy verging on fluffy. No, I’m not kidding.
Hakkai did whatever he wanted to do, and sometimes Gojyo felt like a ghost in his own house.
This links to all my Saiyuki drabbles. General warning for violence and mental illness.
Samurai Champloo
The Very Secret Diary of Fuu. Not spoilery for the series. No warnings.
I noticed that Jin wasn’t eating any of the eel, and I asked him if eel had so many bad associations for him now that he’d never eat it again. He stared at me over the rims of his glasses, and just when I thought he wasn’t even going to answer, he said, “Hmm.” I took that as a yes, so I ate his share.
Sandman
The Taste of Honey. Probably the most popular story I've ever written. I love it too. Death, Dream, and a city. No warnings, and doesn't require knowledge of the fandom.
"Pink ice cream can be strawberry, or bubble-gum, or plum, or red bean, or watermelon, or cherry blossom, or pink lemonade, or raspberry, or rose. If you get it from Delirium, it can be sitcom-flavored. Or Corvette."
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Paradise. Five timelines that might have happened. Spoilery for the entire series. Contains non-graphic violence.
Once a tunnel rat, always a tunnel rat.
Spooks/MI-5
The Drop. Tom Quinn can't let go. Contains angst. Lots of angst.
It's hard to stop seeing hidden connections and secret flurries of activity beneath the placid surface of ordinary life.
Suzanne Vega's "The Queen and the Soldier."
The Queen Knew She'd Seen His Face Some Place Before. A soldier never gives up. Contains moderately explicit sex and violence.
The queen had never before done such a thing, but she knew well why a woman of power might invite a common footsoldier into her chamber.
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles/Xxxholic
In Dreams. Two worlds, two dreamers. No warnings.
Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series.
Thistledown. Accessible if you've read the first book. For Doire, who requested something about Vetch, one of my favorite characters.
The deeds of women are not often written into songs.
Watership Down
These are rabbits. I'm not writing rabbit sex. Both stories take place after the end of the novel.
The Story of Marli-Hrair and the Black Rabbit of Inle. No warnings.
What lies on the dark side of the moon? Ask the Black Rabbit. He knows.
Captain Holly's Last Command. No warnings.
In this land of tall spindly weeds and crumbling brown dirt, he still smelled like Sandleford. He was at once as familiar and alien to Holly as the words of a native tongue long since abandoned by its speaker for the language of some foreign shore.
V. C. Andrews's Flowers in the Attic and Nalini Singh's Psy/Changeling series.
Color All Days Blue, But Save One For Many Colors. Contains canonical incest, which I wrote as consensual (unlike the dubcon in the book.)
It was our first Christmas in the attic. Little had we realized, on that terrible day when Momma had first explained that we were the forbidden children of an incestuous Psy-Changeling marriage and that she, a powerful Cardinal Psy, had fled PsyNet to marry her half-Changeling, half-Psy, half-uncle, but after he was killed by Psy assassins she had been forced to flee to the elegant but cold home of her mother, who locked us in the attic as punishment for Momma's incestuous sins and also to protect us from the deadly Psy Council who would erase the dark blot of our existence, that it would be years before we saw the yellow of hope and sunlight again.
Veronica Mars
Five Things That Never Happened to Logan Echolls. Contains non-explicit Logan/Weevil and Logan/Veronica, and non-explicit violence.
Weevil jerked out of Logan’s grip, and his sleeve fell and shrouded Lilly’s name.
Westmark
Blood and Ink. There's always another battle. Contains wartime violence. Spoilery for the entire trilogy.
A republic has no place for a queen, but there's always demand for an Oracle Priestess.
X/1999
Three drabbles. General warning for sex and possible disturbingness.
He would cloak her in the wind, his lovely dreaming princess.
Yami no Matsuei
Six drabbles. No warnings. The three at the top form a loose trilogy.
Two unopened boxes of autumn yatsuhashi, persimmon for Konoe and chestnut for himself. He shouldn’t have let Hisoka talk him into saving one for later.