Title: Spill
Challenge: 35, secrets
Words: 418
Disclaimer: It’s all about Joss
Summary: Mal and Inara play cards. The loser has to share a secret. A good one.

Mal laid down his cards with a triumphant, “ha!”

Title: Never Tell
Author: Ekat
Rating: PG
Spoiler: Series and Movie
Challenge: Redux “challenge 35: secrets”

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Title: Inquisition
Author: lvs2read
Characters: Mal, Simon, crew
Warnings: slash
Rating: G
Challenge: 35--Secrets
Word Count: 330
Disclaimer: Don't own it, never did, never will--just having fun playing.
Author's Note: This is my ninth ficlet for the Challenge Redux, and continues the story begun in Black Velvet, the last chapter of which was ( Read more... )

Title: No One's But My Own
Rating: Gen. Suitable for all ages.
Word Count: 240
AN: Set post-Serenity (movie). No spoilers, but familiarity is key. Sort of (loosely) a follow up to Tears by Proxy and This Never Happened. This is so turning into a longer piece. *le sigh* Semi-written for ff_friday's Challenge Redux. Challenge #35: Secrets. x-posted ( ( Read more... )

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He don't know I'm watching. Wouldn't do no good nohow if he did. Him bein' him and me bein' me. Got no call to expect more, I know that. But sometimes I wonder what it would'a been like if I'd gone to him, pulled out all the stops to make him mine. I know it's a fancy. One of them daydreams as haunt your sleep, day or night notwithstandin'. ( Read more... )

I think I'm on the wrong ship.Everyone's got secrets ( Read more... )

A little over 570 words, making it my longest entry yet. I think I'm going cross-eyed from staring at it for so long.Serenity had secrets, just like anyone ( Read more... )

There were times when it was good to remember. Times when it was better to forget but for Book this was not such a time. He had thought to immerse himself in other less comprehensible lives to wash away the memory of his own far-from-perfect life. He had once told the Captain he followed in the footsteps of another carpenter but he was not ( Read more... )

Night came to Serenity when sleepy eyes closed. No sun to set, no moon to rise. Mal had been sleeping, rare enough in itself, when some instinct told him he was no longer alone. The Captain rolled carefully, reaching a hand out of the covers for the gun that hung in his holster on the bed post. Shock ripped through him as a warm hand closed ( Read more... )