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 ( Read more... )

Genre: post-BDM gen
Characters: River, Mal
Rating:  PG-13
Word Count:  900
Summary:  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.

( And a Star to Steer Her By )

            The gallows stand, a clean collection of geometry, in the courtyard of Perdono’s capitol building.  The last plank was cut and nailed down so recently that the crier’s boots are sending up yellow puffs of sawdust.  The whole thing smells deliciously of pine.

The executioner prods the condemned gently in the small of the ( Read more... )

Genre: futurefic
Characters: Mal/Inara, OMC
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,700

( Every generation has its war. The Reynolds boy asks his family to understand. )

Who Shall Stand
by Ariane
Poetry, Gen, PG-13, Mal
Word Count: 200
Disclaimer:  They're all Whedon's.

The gallows wear the fragrance of sweet cut pine,

a christening of sawdust -- expectation.

Nooses are elegant in silhouette.

Only the villain of the piece,

straight-backed and proud on the trapdoor,

commands as many pleasant shivers.

It's a clean collection of ( Read more... )

Girl Talk
by Ariane
Post-BDM, gen, PG-13, Inara, Zoe
Word Count: 1,500
Disclaimer:  They're all Whedon's.

"Can't sleep?"

Zoe mustered a smile, mostly because Inara's serene presence brought out the politeness in people. In truth Zoe had not come to the kitchen for conversation. She'd come for coffee, a brief stop on her way to the bridge to fiddle with ( Read more... )