Title: The City & the City
Fandom: Elementary
Characters: Joan Watson, Sherlock Holmes
Rating: G
Word count: ~2000
Summary: This is how they understand each other, through the places they love and the things they have lost.
Notes: Thanks to merisunshine36 for making me kill my darlings. Apologies to China Miéville for stealing the title of his book.

( The City & the City )

Title: ABC (Easy as 123)
Fandom: The Social Network
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 5500
Summary: In early 2005, Wired writes an article called "The Asian Invasion" about the rise of Asian-American entrepreneurs and startups. Mark Zhao gets his own sidebar discussing the meteoric rise of Facebook and the success the site has been having on college ( Read more... )

Title: Gimme Shelter
Fandom: The Social Network
Pairing: background Mark/Eduardo
Rating: R
Word count: ~11,000
Summary: Mafia AU. After the murder of Judge Summers, an underground war breaks out over the city, and Boston PD Detective Divya Narendra is forced to re-evaluate exactly where his loyalties lie.
Notes: Takes place a few months after a ( Read more... )

Title: The Ties That Bind
Fandom: Lie To Me
Rating: PG
Word count: ~2100
Summary: Cal visits London and looks up old friends. But maybe that's not it, maybe they won't ever be done with one another no matter how much they change, no matter how far apart they grow.
Notes: Written for malnpudl as part of help_japan. So much love to queenzulu for being a beta who is never fazed ( Read more... )

Title: Five Things Jed Bartlet Learned
Fandom: The West Wing
Pairing: mostly gen, with some Jed/Abbey
Rating: PG
Word count: ~2300
Summary: "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes
Notes: So much love for queenzulu and roga for all their help with the betas and the whapping me on the head when I ( Read more... )

Title: Not All Those Who Wander
Fandom: Star Trek XI
Rating: PG
Word count: ~6,800
Summary: Spock Prime has found ways to keep himself occupied; the universe doesn't know what hit it.
Notes: Can be found at the end.

( Not All Those Who Wander )

Title: Better
Fandom: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Rating: G
Word count: 273
Summary: Shu Lien is old.
Notes: This was written for Pixie as a Yuletide Treat, but through some technical difficulties, I couldn't upload it in time. So here it is, instead.

( Better )

Title: peace comes dropping slow
Fandom: Smallville
Characters/Pairing: Martha, Clark/Lois
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3, 648
Summary: Martha comes home for the holidays.
Spoilers: Up to 8.10 - Bride.
Author's Notes: For the 12days_of_clois Christmas Challenge. My prompt was "Hot Cocoa". Many thanks to queenzulu for the beta. Apologies to W. B. Yeats for cribbing his words for ( Read more... )

Title: All That You Can't Leave Behind
Fandom: Smallville
Pairing: mostly gen, but Clark/Lois-ish
Rating: PG
Word count: 1,580
Summary: Star City wasn't Metropolis, which shouldn't have surprised Lois as much as it did.
Notes: So, this is totally my post-ep for Bride. It's mostly about me dealing with Lois' emotional fallout. Much love to queenzulu for the ( Read more... )

Title: slip the surly bonds of earth
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Radek, Rodney
Rating: G
Word count: 920
Summary: Radek learns to dream.
Notes: This was going to be hannahrorlove's ficlet, but it morphed into something else and turned into a sort of love letter to my undying adoration of the space program. Also, this was supposed to be this whole epic ( Read more... )