Ficlets: Not Sure If Breakthrough + Snowflake + Pulpit
A sequence of ficlets written for prompts at punditfic and fakenews_fanfic.
Blanket Disclaimer: #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement. Characters belong to the Report. Names of real people are used in a fictitious context, and all dialogue, actions, and content are products of the author's imagination only.
Title: Not Sure If Breakthrough
Rating: PG
Cast: Jon/"Stephen", OC
Prompt by kribban: The personal notes of Jon and "Stephen's" marriage counselor.
( Re-evaluated considerations re: abuse. Encouraged J to employ reality testing. )
Title: Snowflake
Rating: G
Cast: Jon, "Stephen"
Prompt: An image (at the end)
( One of Stephen's creepy dimensional portals must have been holding the thing, and was now discharging it bit by bit: enough metal to form the frame of a mid-sized pup tent, and in almost as complicated a configuration. )
Title: Pulpit
Rating: G
Cast: "Stephen", family
Prompt: "Warning signs," specifically from politicette: "Something about baby!"Stephen" and how if someone (Charlene?) were paying more attention, they would have honed in on a specific incident or two and caught how miserable and unstable he was growing up to be."
( Stevie's standing on tiptoes behind the pulpit, on the velvet-covered footstool used by the kids who get called up to recite a prayer or light an Advent candle. )
Blanket Disclaimer: #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement. Characters belong to the Report. Names of real people are used in a fictitious context, and all dialogue, actions, and content are products of the author's imagination only.
Title: Not Sure If Breakthrough
Rating: PG
Cast: Jon/"Stephen", OC
Prompt by kribban: The personal notes of Jon and "Stephen's" marriage counselor.
( Re-evaluated considerations re: abuse. Encouraged J to employ reality testing. )
Title: Snowflake
Rating: G
Cast: Jon, "Stephen"
Prompt: An image (at the end)
( One of Stephen's creepy dimensional portals must have been holding the thing, and was now discharging it bit by bit: enough metal to form the frame of a mid-sized pup tent, and in almost as complicated a configuration. )
Title: Pulpit
Rating: G
Cast: "Stephen", family
Prompt: "Warning signs," specifically from politicette: "Something about baby!"Stephen" and how if someone (Charlene?) were paying more attention, they would have honed in on a specific incident or two and caught how miserable and unstable he was growing up to be."
( Stevie's standing on tiptoes behind the pulpit, on the velvet-covered footstool used by the kids who get called up to recite a prayer or light an Advent candle. )