The reveals are up at Bun in the Oven. Here's the little pregnancy story I've wanted to share this time.

Title: Some Hopes
Author: paulamcg
Characters: Lily & Petunia
Rating: G
Word Count: 1600
Summary: In November 1979 Lily wants Petunia to be the first one in the family to hear her news.
Notes: This was written for the Bun in the Oven fest. Thank you ( Read more... )

Reveals are up at the Salt and Pepper Fest. The Master List is here in hp_goldenage, and the AO3 collection, now complete with the writers' names, is hereMy contribution to the fest has turned out to be the first Filch/the Fat Lady fic posted on AO3. However, the story features some additional relationships, and includes other themes and topics ( Read more... )

Reveals are up in this year's small collection of spooky stories at RS Fireside Tales. I can take the blame for this far from pleasant little thing.

Title: Your Little Head
Author: paulamcg
Pairing: Sirius/Remus
Rating: G
Word Count: 970
Summary: Come down, sit down by the hearth when trapped inside...
Notes: This was written for RS Fireside Tales. Thank ( Read more... )

This is the little story I shared at the fabulous party on Livejournal: hoggywartyxmas.

Title: Uplifting Magic
Author: PaulaMcG
Characters and pairings: A house-elf OC, Pomona Sprout, Rubeus Hagrid, Buckbeak, Fang, Poppy Pomfrey, and Remus Lupin; mainly gen, only some Pomona/Poppy and implied, past Remus/Sirius.
Summary: On Christmas Day in 1993, after only thirteen ( Read more... )

The collection for this year's Festive Fun Fest is closing tomorrow, on the 1st of January. The Rare Pair Shorts Winter Exchange is still posting on DW and on LJ. I've barely managed to craft something for these two events. Unfortunately, because I worked on an unexpectedly long fic for the
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The reveals are up at Wolfstargames. There were 19 works at the fest (almost exactly the same number as at recent Sirius Black Fest). You can find them all in this AO3 collection.

I can finally share here an odd little fic I wrote in August: another story about my damaged-by-Azkaban Sirius in summer 1994. This one is set between The Residue of His ( Read more... )

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The wishgranting time at the Summer Wishlist Event on
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In July I spent more time on reading and discussing fic than on writing new stories. While I saw a wonderful variety of fanworks and other posts when modding at the Sunshine Challenge, almost all my own Sunshine posts were self-recs of old fics, and in between those entries I posted only one small Molly/Amelia fic. After sharing also two ( Read more... )

The seventh and last Sunshine prompt, Zephyrus made me look for fics set in spring. I've written one which includes some literally flowery descriptions of details in nature, and this story is also a sweet portrayal of my Remus and Sirius in the springtime of life, both of them vulnerable but hopeful.

If Not Brothers

There are two alternating first- ( Read more... )