A reply to the current blackpearlsails drabble challenge, prompt: Shipwreck. It's more like 500+ words, but what can I say? I'm out of practice? Unbetaed, too, which is worse, but hopefully not too full of errors.

( “A penny for ‘em...” )

Here, finally, are the concluding chapters of my Twelve Days of Christmas offering, Bath Holiday, delayed due to a post-Christmas flu that's been wreaking havoc among my family (including little grandson, poor baby). Many thanks, as always, to hereswith for editing.

( Chapter Three: An Unsatisfactory Affair )

My friend celandineb hosted her 3fan_holidays fic exchange again this year and the big reveal of the authors was last night. I was honored to have celandineb herself write A King's Generosity for me, and my own assignment was to write PotC for cruisedirector with lots of Elizabeth and, if in the OST era, a stronger Angelica. Not sure if I succeeded with the latter, but the former was right up ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas to all! The Twelve Days of Christmas at blackpearlsails has officially begun. For my gift to you, I am finally going to finish a story I began back in 2008, Bath Holiday, which is part of my post-CotBP Jack/Elizabeth universe. Crazy busy as I have been these last few weeks, I only have the repeat and update of chapter one (basically the same thing ( Read more... )

175 words for the current drabble challenge...

( Theme: Pilfer )

A sequel to Encomium, this one is 130 unbetaed (but hopefully acceptable) words for the current drabble challenge prompt, 'Disgust'. pearlseed, I promise I'm working on your Jack/Harry birthday fic! And florencia7, thank you so much for the virtual picnic basket! Tall ship fans, check out this display of beautiful sterns at Dark Roasted Blend (with references to PotC ( Read more... )

Holy Cats, it's been a crazy couple of weeks. Or month. Or two months. Thank goodness for three day weekends to play catch-up.

Woke up with this in my head (is the Muse finally speaking again?) and am presenting it as a small belated birthday offering to my dear piratey friends, ladymouse2 and florencia7, many happy returns to two of my favorite people!

( A hundred words for the 'Disaster' drabble challenge... )

Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three, and finally...


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Chapter One, Chapter Two, and...


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Here's the next chapter (again, note the rating), and the first chapter was here, in case you missed it.


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