Story Hour with the Duckie

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I just can't help this fanfiction stuff.

If you've come to read, it's all here in one place. Feedback is very much appreciated, particularly if you tell me what didn't work for you. Ain't kiddin': constructive criticism is prized like a Zulu coconut. Anything from "I think this comma is misplaced" to "I think your protagonist is wildly out of character."

I hope y'all enjoy.



Supernatural

• The whirlwind is in the thorn tree - The demon Lamia grew bored a long time ago of fire and sharp edges. She’d rather have an audience than a plaything, which annoys the crap out of Azazel. (815 words)
  
• Passing Through - Sam glances over and frowns at this delay. Again. (100 words)
  
• The Timing on That - Leaving Cicero, Indiana, Sam is still puzzled on a few counts. Dialogue only. (150 words)
  
• Invictus, or One of Those Days and Tomorrow Morning - Six months after Dean's return from hell, the guy is just fine except when he's not. On days like this, Sam does what he can - which is nothing. (700 words)
  
• The Longest Path the Devil Laid - Dean's deal comes due. A story in four drabbles. (400 words)
  
• Rode Hard and Put Up Wet - The Winchesters can't save everyone. (333 words)
  
• Barbed Wire - There is no kind of sunset they haven't seen before, but Sam thinks he'll remember this one. Comment!fic written for the Gen Battle. (450 words)
  
• With Wandering Steps and Slow - An old man and an angel walk into a bar, and as cosmic jokes go, this one isn’t all that funny. (3,000 words)
  
• Against a Child's Sunrise - Comment!fic written over at spnwriterlounge for the prompt: Mary tells Dean about the angels watching over him. (475 words)
  
• A wild call and a clear call - AU. There is nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. (1,000 words)
  
• As Well As Meadows - The next five minutes after the credits roll on "Lucifer Rising." (1,200 words)
  
• Nothing to See Here - "Is that your professional medical opinion?" (100 words)
  
  
  
  Nazareth 'Verse
  
  After the world doesn't end, Sam and Dean find a measure of peace in a small town in Kansas. That is to say, they scrape together as much peace as can be had with monsters to hunt, padawans to train, and a couple of girls in the house.
  
  One possible future for the Winchesters.
  
  
• If Ever I Cease to Love - February 2008. A hunt takes the Winchesters to New Orleans just in time for Mardi Gras. Dean's plan is to work the job, get elbow-deep in oyster po-boys, and hit the parade route. But what Dean plans and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar. (20,000 words)
  
• Five Times Some Idiot Believed in Happy Endings
  Part One - Times Like These. February 2008. Somewhere on the road, Sam sleeps and Dean gets a phone call. (600 words)
  Part Two - Embrace the Suck. July 2008. Sam is on his own, and he gets two phone calls. He only answers one. (2,260 words)
  Part Three - And Unto Dust Return. November 2008. Sometimes Sam asks God's forgiveness, and sometimes he demands answers. So far he's gotten neither. (1,200 words)
  
• Hang Your Head Over - August 2010. Sam knows his brother by silhouette on a dark night, by a hoarse whisper on a staticky phone. They’re blood, and they’re comrades-in-arms. But never once has Sam known Dean in peacetime. (4,000 words)
  
• Dog and Pony Show - February 2011. Sam should have known Dean was actually a cowboy. (1,000 words)
  
• Where the Drifts Are Deepest - March 2011. Maria Broussard's small farm in rural Kansas has become a way station for the weird. Most days, she doesn't mind. (4,500 words)
  
• And we're more than alive - May 2011. When you've won, all you need is a horse and a sunset. (1,000 words)
  
• Come In, She Said - Dean gets caught in the rain with a pretty girl. (550 words)
  
• In the Days Still Left - February 2013. All Sam has to say is "I wish you every happiness," but why settle for polite harmony when we can have messy emotional fallout? (1,300 words)
  
• Five Things Only Dean's Wife Knows About Him - Exactly what it says on the tin. (660 words)
  
• Five Things Only Sam's Sister-in-Law Knows About Him - Exactly what it says on the tin. (1,700 words)
  
• The Road to Nazareth - July 2016. The summer before his senior year, Ben Braeden goes in search of the guys who saved his life when he was a kid. Turns out, those dudes are hard to find unless you know the right people. And even then, the right people aren't all that helpful. (4,300 words)
  
• The Open Invitation
  December 2021. Ben Braeden brings his childhood friend the worst Christmas present in the history of Christmas or presents. And so Kate Doolittle finds herself pulled into a world of hunters and danger she wants no part of. (WIP, currently 15,000 words)
  
• Great American Heroes - Twenty years out, the Winchesters ain't dead yet. In the small hours of the morning, Sam gets home from a hunt. (1,650)
  
• And the Beat Goes On - The problem with playing Yoda to a bunch of little hunter padawans is that sometimes they go out and, you know, hunt things. (700 words)
  
• The Music Never Stopped - If Lisa thought an ultimatum would stop Ben hunting, she would have tried it years ago. (3,300 words)
  
• How to Become an Author in Five Easy Steps - October 2025. At fourteen, Sam tried his hand at writing a horror story. At forty-two, he gives it another shot. (2,600 words)
  
• White box with a happy flower - June 2029. It's tough being a dad. But Dean does it real good. (1,000 words)
  
• Drabbles and Comment Fic
  
  The Fort - Sam thinks Dean should find a grown-up hobby.
  The Skywalker Love Triangle - The Winchesters engage in some Star Wars geekery.
  Victoria's Secret - There are some aspects of living with a woman that Dean will always find bizzare.
  Cirque du Sunday Morning - Dean attempts to sleep in. But with girls in the house? It's always something, man.
  Forty - Sometimes, Dean amazes even himself.
  Catskinella - Everyone has one eye and both ears on Sam, who’s settled in his armchair with Becky in his lap and an old copy of Her Stories in his hand.
  Extracurriculars - Somebody didn't think this one through.
  Unspoken - Sam is good at talking to his niece.
  Slumber Party - Some people spend the night away from home because the house is being fumigated.
  
  
  
  Firefly
  
  
• Girl Talk - There is no hair braiding or nail painting involved, but Inara and Zoe do enjoy their late night talks. (1,500 words)
  
• Who Shall Stand - Poetry. The traditional penalty for theft is hanging. (200 words)
  
• Evening on the Ground - Every generation has its war. The Reynolds boy asks his family to understand. (1,700 words)
  
• Dear Mal - Malcolm Reynolds' sweetheart writes to him from Shadow. (1,500 words)
  
• The Assembly of the Righteous - The gallows wear the fragrance of sweet cut pine, a christening of sawdust, and expectation. (2,200 words)
  
• And a Star to Steer Her By - The captain doesn’t know what might have been, and River doesn’t know precisely what was. Perceptive as she is, it galls her to be blinkered this way. (900 words)
  
  
  
  Harry Potter
  
  
• The Remembrance of Ourselves - Ginny lives her first few hours in a world shaken and stirred. (2,000 words)
  
• The Wayside Sacrament - The thirty-first of October at Godric's Hollow, long years gone. (1,000 words)