Here's another fma_fic_contest repost, this one with the following quote as a prompt: "You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul." -Margaret Weis

Maker
She feels the need to ( Read more... )

Invincible Summer
Chapter One: Portions for Foxes
Ed looked happy sometimes, but Roy wasn't sure he'd ever seen him look content.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Roy/Ed, ensemble. 11,000 words.
NC-17. Post-manga; manga spoilers.
Note: This is the first of a series that will probably be quite long, but this first chapter should stand alone.

( If he had any inclination to a life of crime, Ed thought, he'd be unstoppable. )

I've always loved science fiction -- but the truth is, it's not science fiction that I love, really, it's space opera. Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Firefly, Cowboy Bebop, even the Vorkosiganverse and some of C.J. Cherryh -- the stuff that's light on the accuracy but heavy on the adventure. So when the AU prompt came up on fma_fic_contest, this leapt ( Read more... )

The first of the pre-NaNo warmup pieces, which I finally had time to edit for posting!

It's in the same continuity as " see the bird with the leaf in her mouth", although I think it can be read on its own as well. It's not the sequel to "see the bird..." that I've mentioned -- that will be quite a bit longer and plottier, when it's done, and will ( Read more... )

This requires a little explaining.

See, I wasn't planning on writing this pairing. For one thing, it'd already been written in every possible permutation before I'd even heard of the fandom, and that makes me twitchy (which is why it took me forever to write Axel/Roxas, incidentally). And the pairing type isn't really my kind of pairing type ( Read more... )

Written to the prompt: "Ed - "I don't feel enough for you to cry."" Sorry for the delay (I am slowly getting my groove back) -- and it's gen and somewhat angsty, although probably not angsty enough to fit the prompt, honestly. But. There you go!

Familiar EquationBrother hurt often, which made it all the worse when he got stoic and guilty about ( Read more... )