Apparently there was a weekend flash fan-ku challenge over at fantas_magoria. Not being a member, I missed it, but I happened to see the challenge today and felt inspired to dash something off anyway.

Prompt from the episode 'School Hard': "Spike has fought two Slayers in the last century, and... he's killed them both." says Giles. Write a haiku for each of ( Read more... )

Sometimes, your best isn't good enough.

This has been made painfully clear to me this week in a couple of ways, but the relevant one here is apreludetoanend's birthday. Which was Monday. For which I hope someone wrote her some fabulous SPN fic, because she completely deserves it, but it was never going to be me. And for which I started writing her some S/X, got ( Read more... )

Written for Spike day at good__evil. Rated PG-13, standard disclaimers apply. Hugs to apreludetoanend for reading it through, and for reminding me in the first place. :)

Freedom

He watches his hand curl around the tumbler. He could shatter it with minimal effort.

He could break the wrist of the girl who brought it. Hit her. Rape her. Bite her ( Read more... )

Written for noel_of_spike. Five 100-word drabbles. Rated R for violence and squick in one of them (hey, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, December 27th, is pretty violent all round.)

Herod ordering the murder of all baby boys in Bethlehem under the age of two is described in the Bible and referenced in the traditional text Puer nobis nasciturAs not everybody ( Read more... )

Retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's famous story, written for noel_of_spike. Just over 1000 words, rated PG. Thanks to cordelianne for beta reading; any remaining typos are entirely my fault.

( The Little Match Girl )

It's cordelianne's birthday!!

She is a warm, wonderful, enthusiastic, talented, kind, gracious and thoughtful person and she brightens my LJ existence. I feel blessed to count her as a friend, and I'm very lucky to have her as a beta! She's a good writer with a great sense of timing and comedy, excellent grasp of characterization and style, and startlingly ( Read more... )

Thanks for the prompts, you guys! :)

Here we have, for cordelianne:

( Fred and Cordy, researching )