Darling busaikko-san --

It's already the 21st in Japan, I do believe. The fic-bunnies remain banished under the bed, but here, you mentioning Will/Bran woke up the 100-word-muse for a sec...

( Castling: two pieces moving simultaneously... )

Title: Taken, Not Granted
Author: bronze_ribbons
Pairings: Tonks/Lupin, Lupin/Snape
Warning: adultery and angst (no, they aren't synonyms)
Rating: R
Words: ~ 1600
Summary: It was not the epiphany Snape had been looking for.
Beta: the beauteous busaikko (who suggests the White Stripes' cover of "Jolene" after reading this)
A/N: For regan_v, in honour of her birthday. She ( Read more... )

Seen at schemingreader's: list the first line of the first fic you posted each month over the past year.

Since I lose at cross-posting, some of these are from the first fic I happened to index for that month, which may or may not correspond to the actual first post... (*glares around cubicle. A good banishment charm would come in handy right around now...*)

( December 2005 - November 2006 )

For severity_softly, NaNoWriMo winner! She requested 'either "50,000," "accomplishment," or "celebration;" or any combination of two or more of those prompts.' 100 words ( Read more... )

200 words, G, triumvirate AU. For nsmomWhen he saw the pigtailed Ravenclaw stranded on the staircase yet again, Severus Snape frowned ( Read more... )

severity_softly and I have a bet going. Ergo, her prompt: Snupin, bubbles. Drabble also influenced by a conversation at schemingreader's that literally drove me to drink, and which has infected me with a sudden urge to reclaim the word "helpmeet" and its variations. Hence ( Read more... )

Look! Look at the absolutely brilliant painting almost_clara posted as a comment to "A Roar of Pebbles." Look at the cliffs of Dover and the lights across the sea and the silhouettes of lovers and the layers of darkness and lines and Snape's exhausted-yet-ever-wary face, and then look some more -- I can't get over how rich and textured a world she's evoked ( Read more... )

Title: Of Amber Grapes and Chian Wine
Words: 100
Prompt from the birthday gal: champagne and blustery day
Rating: PG
Warning: silliness!
Note: Couldn't think of a good title. Nicked the phrase above from "The Scholar Gipsy".

"Merlin's tits, it's nasty out there." Remus hung his sodden cloak next to Severus's dry one. "I -- oh, er, hello, Hermione ( Read more... )

Ta-daaaa! Happy extended birthday, pixychelle!

Title: The Roar of Pebbles (3 and 4/4)
Words: 100 each
Pairing: RL/SS
Rating: G
Note: A quartet inspired by " Sea of Faith," " The Dover Bitch," " Dover Beach," and Chelle's flufflet for stasia. :-)

Parts 1 and 2III ( Read more... )