Winterfair fic posts

[shimotsuki]

As busy as work has been over the last couple of months, I did actually manage to write a drabble and a short fic for the Winterfair exchange event at bujold_fic. And these may be short, but they were challenging for me! The first is a non-subtle comedy piece, and the second is about characters I hadn't ever thought I would write -- it even includes two or three paragraphs of action scene, if you can believe that. :)

• Kicking and Screaming (550 words | PG | gen | A Civil Campaign)
  Ivan has a secret, and Gregor has found it out. [Prompt by zortified.]
  
  This fic was translated into Russian by jetta_e_rus, as Крича и пинаясь.
  
  
• Bitter Fruit and Sweet
  (2000 words | PG-13/oblique reference to abuse | gen | AU for The Warrior's Apprentice)
  Bothari and Elena Visconti, AU [spoiler] where Bothari survives. [Prompt by volynskaja.]
  
  Fanart for the same prompt was posted by telico and Лоз Конгрейв.
  
  
• ETA: I really didn't think I was going to do another one, but it happened just now...
  Keeping Score
  (530 words | PG | gen | after A Civil Campaign)
  Laisa meets Cavilo. [Prompt by hedda62.]

The Winterfair masterlist, with fics in English and Russian, is here.
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