Genres: magical realism, introspection, sci-fi
Wordcount: 799
Summary: If you could talk to your reflection, would you?
Notes: WRitten for the week #72 prompt at themusecafe, "mirror."

( It's not something I've ever wished for. )

Focus: Ino/Sai
Rating: T
Warnings: awkwardness?
Wordcount: 4246
Summary: Ino decides to teach Sai how to function in ordinary society. Sai tries his best to keep up.

( Sai felt the presence at his back, and roundly ignored it. )

Focus: Kakashi + Sakura
Rating: K
Warnings: None.
Wordcount: 3566
Summary: Kakashi and Sakura, sitting in a tree / dis-cuss-ing hu-ma-ni-ty.
Notes: Not sure why this fic exists. This is kind of how it went:

Me: Okay, I give up, I want to write Kakashi/Sakura. You win, muse.
Muse: Awesome. So, let's make it pretentious pseudo-psychological genfic.
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Focus: Kimimaro
Rating: M
Warnings: Torture, child abuse, gore.
Wordcount: 2001
Summary: People can do terrible things when they are afraid. People who are afraid of their own children can do worse.

( Kimimaro was seven when they came for him. )

Focus: Neji + Hinata
Rating: T
Warnings: Mild gore.
Wordcount: 1659
Summary: They have until sunrise to stitch up their tattered seams, slow the worst of the bleeding, and tie up what loose ends are left within reach.

( There’s a war on. )

Genres: sci-fi, horror, fantasy
Wordcount: 788
Summary: They have hidden there for so long that for the most part, they have forgotten that there ever was a sky.
Notes: Written for the week #69 prompt at themusecafe, the city.

( These halls were dead. )

Focus: Shura/Yukio
Rating: M
Warnings: In some countries, Yukio is underage in this, while Shura is obviously not.
Wordcount: 6427
Summary: Shura gets Yukio drunk. All she wanted from him was a little honesty. Turns out the knife cuts both ways.
Notes: Shameless pseudo-pedo pseudo-PWP. I could make excuses but I'm too lazy. Deal with it.

( How could he ever regret this? )

Focus: Shiemi
Rating: K
Warnings: None.
Word Count: 1253
Summary: There's a reason the Amahara Garden is so elusive: everyone is looking in the wrong places.

( Thick as thieves, the last of leaves. )

Characters/Pairings: Peter/Neal/Elizabeth
Rating: K+
Warnings: None unless you're allergic to warm and fuzzy feelings.
Word Count: 3558
Summary: When Neal's sentence runs out, he leaves to travel the world and relearn freedom. Peter and El make a collage of postcards and souvenirs and wait with their fingers crossed.
Notes: Wrote this ages ago (in ( Read more... )

Characters/Pairings: Ensemble cast. Focus: Kanda/Alma, Allen, 14th/Hevlaska.
Rating: T
Warnings: Character death, violence, a dozen kinds of blasphemy.
Word Count: 26,239 (this chapter: 4227)
Summary: Allen's "death" during the fight with Alma sets off a chain of unexpected and deeply strange consequences which bring up questions about the nature ( Read more... )