This is the piece I mentioned in my January 4th lj entry, where it started out as a plot bunny where I said "Oh, I'll just sketch a quick outline" and then somehow that turned into me working on it for 14 hours straight and essentially writing the whole piece from start to finish in one sitting. The title is based off of a suggestion from my beta- ( Read more... )

Even though I only got the idea of this piece relatively recently, I've already forgotten where the idea came from. Phooey. I know that, generally, I wanted to write this piece after finishing my Sirius&Marlene one-shot "Gone", since I had really enjoyed fleshing out those characters and their relationship in that one-shot, and I also really liked ( Read more... )

Rat!:This one-shot was for a challenge that leant itself to potentially be rather dark: the challenge was that the first line had to be "[Name] sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it." I had been working on a number of humor pieces recently, though, so I decided I wanted to try my hand at yet ( Read more... )

This one-shot is for a challenge that I signed up for, uh, literally two years ago. (What can I say, I've been busy. I'm also apparently really bad at continuing to write one-shots while working on a chaptered fic, and Pensieve Souls has been taking up all of my writing time.) The challenge was that I could only use one word of dialogue: "gone ( Read more... )