nosmutforyou is having a fic fest in honor of competition.  This is my contribution.  I think I will be writing others.

Title: "You're no McGonagall"
Author: Vegablack62
Characters: Ginny, Neville
Word count: 450
Rating: G
Summary: Ginny pays a frustrating visit to Professor Longbottom
Author's note: Written in honor of Olympic Snowboarders

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Title: After A Bad Day At Work
Author: Vegablack62
Characters: Neville/Hannah
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Aren't summaries for a drabble superfluous?

“You have your father’s frown,” Hannah said as she rubbed the crease between his eyebrows.

Neville had to smile. “His frown? You say a man has his father’s smile not his frown. No one has his father ( Read more... )

Asteria hated visiting Malfoy Manor.  Nothing about it charmed her, not its impressive facade, extensive gardens or droll peacocks.  The house’s elegance only added to her dislike, contrasting as it did with the sordid dramas that had been enacted inside.  Sitting in the elegant drawing room, she would think, this is the room where Voldemort baited ( Read more... )

“I’m sorry,” Neville said, and winced.  The words were out of his mouth before he thought and now it was too late to take them back.

“Sorry!” Lavender snapped.  “Sorry for what? Sorry for living?”

“Maybe,” Neville mumbled.

He’d irritated her. He’d spent his life irritating people.  She was miserable, frustrated with her scars and her ( Read more... )

Draco Malfoy walked in to the Leakey Cauldron and went directly to Neville’s table. He sat down without being asked.

“You’re here often,” Draco said.

“I live here,” Neville responded.

Draco glanced over to where Hannah Abbott served behind the bar.  Neville said nothing, but waited for Draco to explain what he wanted.  He saw no ( Read more... )

Title: Flying Again
Author: Vegablack62
Pairing: Alice/Frank
Word count: 199
Summary:  Alice  doesn't like Franks plans
Author's Notes:  This was written for the Justification Challenge at nosmutforyou where we were to write a story that justifies our favorite pairing using no more than 200 words.

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Title: Sticky Toffee Pudding
Author: Vegablack62
Characters: Neville, Alice
Rating: G
Wordcount: 302
Summary:  Stick Toffee Pudding can make a mess.
Author's note:  This was written for the clean prompt at the sq_drabblers community on lj.

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Title: Flamingos
Author Vegablack62
Wordcount: 199
Rating: Gish
Characters: Neville/Hannah
Summary:  Neville and Hannah talk about their school days.
Author's Note:  I wrote this for the Nosmutforyou challenge.  We were to pick a pairing and justify it in less than 200 words, which is a lot harder than it sounds.  200 words allows for only one moment to ( Read more... )

Title: Reasons
Author: Vegablack62
Word Count: 303
Summary: Neville pays a visit to a holding cell.
Characters: Neville, Nott the elder
Author's Note:  Written for the Sugarquill_drabblers for the prompt run.
Rating: PG for mention of murder.

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Nosmutforyou had an holiday challenge where entrants were asked  to imitate Hemingway and write a story using six, twelve or eighteen words.  (Hemingway's offering: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) You can see the community's stories, some quite funny at community.livejournal.com/nosmutforyou/8802.html

I'm not Hemingway and my offering took ( Read more... )