Patrilineage
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell / gen / 5427 words

Contains exegesis, the trouble with translating Godfather quotes, seven lines of intentionally bad porn movie dialogue and women playing Major League Baseball. It turns out that this is both the second time this year I've written a story that required reading up on the New Testament ( Read more... )

Nocturne of the Brooklyn Bridge
China Mountain Zhang, all audiences, 6000 words.
I am Teresa Luis but also Comrade Li Taiming, because my great-great grandfather Rafael José Luis y Iglesias was born in the old United States, became a founding member of the Reformed American Communist Party and died defending the Brooklyn Bridge at the start of the ( Read more... )

Yuletide reveal!

The F**cking Movie Never Motherf**cking Ends
@MayorEmanuel, for norah, 7400 words

* Beta action thank yous to katienyc and xica_s (Chicago residents extraordinaire) and sparkymonster (long-suffering roommate).

* Thank you also to norah for her request, and I hope I ended up somewhere she enjoyed ( Read more... )

The F**cking Movie Never Motherf**cking Ends: now overly verbose with commentary. [ go back to part one]

( Wandering the city with Hayden all week. I even showed him how to slot machine the fucking parking meters. It's wealth redistribution! 10/21/11 4:20:09 PM )

Yuletide stories!

my assignment story:
low-hanging fruit of the poisonous tree
The Good Wife, Kalinda Sharma, 5300 words ( Read more... )

I wrote a Yuletide story!

Sisters of Bilhah
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's TaleSeveral things ( Read more... )

it was touch-and-go there at the last minute, but, hey, i wrote a yuletide story!

[singin' that same old song] the president's daughter series.
"my brother always says it could be worse. i could be bill buckner, right?"writing this story was an alternatingly awesome/tortureous experience. because it was set in boston, i spent 88% of my time worrying that ( Read more... )

i totally wanted to post this story and be like, "also, cspan said i could say it was rated nc-17!" but what cspan actually said was, "hah. yeah right. try hard R." but i added some stuff since the last time she saw it, so maybe we can just split the difference. anyway, what am i saying? i don't even believe in ratings. here is the story, you can ( Read more... )

-- yeah, it's good to see that now that i'm a graduate student, my pre-midterm procrastination habits haven't changed at all. this is my first sga story, it's also a story structure i've wanted to use since, uh, 2002, back when i was writing popslash. oh, fandom circle of life. anyway:

merging
stargate: atlantis, mckay/sheppard, 3,664 words, R

( This whole intergalactic space hero thing isn't quite as glamorous as John expected. )

requisite reveal of secret santa items:

[imbibe]
harry potter, remus/sirius, for shackinup_sesa. thanks to thelionforreal and smartlikejustin for the beta action.

this story is for phineasjones, who requested, i think, hiding, alcohol and a first time. and i was like "hmm" and then "a first time and then alcohol. yes."

[relative]
nip/tuck, sean/christian, for yuletide. thanks to onthecontrary and imogennegomi for beta action ( Read more... )