Two original prison fics: Searching (The Eternal Dungeon) & Bard of Pain (The Three Lands)
Title: Searching.
Author: Dusk Peterson.
Where to find me: Website, AO3, DW/IJ/Tumblr/list.
Series: The Eternal Dungeon, an award-winning speculative fiction series set in a nineteenth-century prison where the psychologists wield whips. You don't need to have read the other stories in the series to understand this one.
Series cycle: Turn-of-the-Century Toughs, a cycle of alternate history series about adults and youths on the margins of society, and the people who love them. Set in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the novels and stories take place in an alternative version of America that was settled by inhabitants of the Old World in ancient times. As a result, the New World retains certain classical and medieval customs.
Categories: Original fiction: gen and slash. Friendship fiction with a romance subplot.
Length: Novelette (16,000 words).
Feedback: Yes, please.
Rating: PG-13 for violence.
Warnings: Boilerplate warning for all my stories.
Summary:
Walking into a trap may be the only way to create one.
Danger runs high for Vito when he arrives at the Eternal Dungeon, escorted by guards. In this royal dungeon, prisoners are "searched" for their crimes, by torture and by more subtle means.
Vito knows that he will be searched. But he has his own searching to accomplish, and to do so he must undergo the scrutiny of the queendom's most accomplished torturer.
Vito was beginning to wonder whether this dungeon's prisoners were questioned in pitch darkness. That was a matter of some personal concern to him.
Title: Bard of Pain.
Author: Dusk Peterson.
Where to find me: Website, AO3, DW/IJ/Tumblr/list.
Series: The Three Lands, a diverse fantasy series on love and betrayal in times of war and peace. You don't need to have read the other stories in the series to understand this one.
Categories: Original fiction: gen. Mentor & protégé plotline with romantic friendship subplots.
Length: Novella (38,000 words).
Feedback: Yes, please.
Rating: PG-13 for violence.
Warnings: Boilerplate warning for all my stories.
Summary:
In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.
As the world's most skilled torturer struggles with his change of fortune, he finds that his fate is intertwined with the destinies of an idealistic army commander, an affectionate prisoner, and a protégé who reveres the Lieutenant's art . . . but is on the wrong side of the conflict.
The beginning of the end for him (or so it seemed at the time) came in the moment that he stepped into the shadow of Capital Mountain and was assaulted by a stranger.