I finished, utterly finished, edited and all, Everyday Love in Stockholm today, and it is now posted in its entirety to both the XMFC Kink Meme and to AO3. Feeling very floaty and nervous and excited at the same time, waiting for feedback.

...it's 132,000 words long. I have been writing it for six months. And now it is done. Oh my God.

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Erik loves muffins

Summary: In which Erik is quite willing to exhaust Charles if it means he gets to do what he wants after.

( Three new fics from last Sunday and this, all three of which are irredeemable porn, basically. Yup. )

Oh the deathly days! of

waiting in a

mortuary office;

far-off clicking mice and tapping keyboards,

staffed with

cardboard cut-out people

sleeping;

sideways-glancing

tracking for the

louder footsteps, hiding

screens and

hoping for lunchtime

Welcome to

the procrastination

station;

platform nine is for

lollygaggers

and

excuse-makers;

platform

eleven for

the terminally indecisive.

Tickets at the kiosk; the sales rep

will not sell it you until

at least tomorrow.

Pull your thumb out,

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Let’s compare scars.

Like a childhood game -

My Mum cooks better than your Mum.

My Dad’s car is bigger than your car.

My scar is bigger than your scar,

it is

immeasurable, a well

of agony and wretched poison,

unhealed and unkissed;

where once the skin was smooth and taut

it now lies twisted and a mess

of rigid lines and bitter disappointments

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For I too have suffered loss;

have known that nothing

will get better,                  that

a scar will always be                        a scar

and sometimes will be a wound; that

everybody leaves, and

nobody loves entirely

and

that there is a line I

cannot face again -

that

to love is the bravest thing of all

if it means waiting to be hurt

This post may not make much sense to you if you haven't been reading my fic Everyday Love in Stockholm, but if you don't intend to read it I'll whine until you do then you can probably still get something out of it, I think. That said, if you are reading it but you're not up-to-date (last night I posted parts 104 - 111. This thing is 71,000 words ( Read more... )

We talk about ( Read more... )