Here be fiction.  All stories are gen and fan rated teen unless otherwise indicated.  Pick your path...

Supernatural

Criminal Minds

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Fantastic fiction by others (recommendations)

-Starsky and Hutch

-Criminal Minds

I love this ad campaign.  I've worked with so many young women who really begin to struggle around the middle school age that I felt compelled to share this.  If you haven't seen it, don't be fooled by the "tampon commercial" statement.  It is sponsored by Always, but is not a tampon commercial. :)

Girls Are Awesome

~ (epilog) ~

The tarmac is patchy wet in places, drying in the cool evening breeze that's taken over. The storm that had raged through the night, now vanished, leaving a ubiquitous film of pale grey cloud cover and a sliver of wind.

Gideon is waiting outside his own vehicle as the team pulls go-bags from the government-issue SUV. Reid's is too heavy ( Read more... )

The sterile air in the hospital trudges warily over the grime on their skin, ruffling the edge of Rossi's collar, rippling the soot stamped to Gideon's shirt.

Closing his mouth, Morgan pulls a slow hitch of it through his nose and feels the recoil against the remainder of smoke in his lungs. Ten minutes of standing in the same spot hasn't eased the ( Read more... )

It is in slow motion that everything happens next. The warped feeling of being under water. Sound and sensation all out of proportion.

The tall posts once framing the wood shelves are bent in a lean against the wall where the power switch had been-where Hotch had been standing. Like trees off their stumps. Stripped of their branches. Splintered but ( Read more... )

I utilize a lot of allusions when I write.  Even in my so-called real life writing I do this, and Trompe L’oeil is no exception.  Allusions are a quick, often effective way to invoke an image or emotion in a reader’s mind without losing the tone or having to spread explanations over several paragraphs.  But, it’s a risk...

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Maybe a mild warning for imagery on this one - not anything that hasn't been alluded to in the story already, and nothing exactly explicit, but I feel to put it out there.
( Part 20 )

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~ (part eighteen) ~

Morgan steps over to the laptop and kicks the chair out from the desk as he shifts the screen around. "Okay, Garcia, we need to know, where did Hotch and Rossi go?"

On the computer, Garcia looks blank for a second. "Did you try calling them?"

Morgan shakes his head, digging his hands tighter around the desk's edge. "They're not ( Read more... )

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