So, that first lines meme. Some of these are my favorites; some of these aren't that good. I sort of just chose them with the metaphorical dartboard and blindfold.

( in no particular order, 25 first lines from stories I've written )

via skywaterblue: The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write AND give me another time period (Ancient Rome, Regency England,etc.). I will then explain what AU story I would write in that fandom, in that era ( Read more... )

TITLE: Inevitables
CATEGORY: Tom Stoppard - Rock'N'Roll, Max/Lenka, rated PG
FOR: mmebahorel in Yuletide 2007
WORDS: 1,200
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing, it all belongs to the proletariat Tom Stoppard.
NOTES: Unbetaed and three-in-the-morninged, so forgive my errors, and go see the play; it's a wonder.

( Summer 1977: Max is rude to Lenka about the I Ching. )

(I still have a lot of reading to do, and more recs to come, but!)

TITLE: Those That Play Your Clowns
CATEGORY: Slings & Arrows; Cyril, rated PG
FOR: mmebahorel in Yuletide 2007
WORDS: 3,800
SPOILERS: Through season one
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing, I was only putting on an antic disposition.
NOTES: mazily provided the canon from all the way across the house, and therealjae ( Read more... )

TITLE: Tell Summer No
CATEGORY: Friday Night Lights, Tyra Collette, rated PG.
WORDS: 720
SPOILERS: None.
DISCLAIMER: If they were my characters, I'd be home by now.
NOTES: Set after season one, but contains no speculation for season two. Written for sinquepida, whose beautiful prompt did not make it into the story. Title from Gerard Manley Hopkins, of all ( Read more... )

TITLE: Running Up That Hill
CATEGORY: Friday Night Lights, Lyla Garrity, rated G.
WORDS: Six hundred.
SPOILERS: Zero.
NOTES: Just a little ol' future vignette amnestied from a larger piece. Not hurting anybody. Don't sue me.

( The last summer Lyla ever spends in Dillon )

I am only going to let myself work on this at work, where I don't get any "real" writing done (read: any of the four million works in so-called progress I've been staring at for the last year and a half since I lost any semblance of writing ability I might once have had (don't look at me like that, it's true, I did, it happens, it happened to ( Read more... )

For once in my life, I have completed all the ficlets that were requested in a meme. Please die of shock after reading them, kids & kittens.

Of course, all of them ended up longer than paragraphs. Yay?

Sports Night, Dana (and baseball), for mazily:
( A Voice in a Box )

TITLE: No Flying in the House
CATEGORY: Heroes/The West Wing crossover, Nathan Petrelli & Will Bailey
RATING: PG, but only for language, I promise.
NOTES: Begun as comment-fic for mandysbitch, so this is for her with love. Title borrowed from this book I adored when I was a kid. Quickie sorta-beta by baked_goldfish. Forgive us our typos, as we forgive those who typo ( Read more... )

This will possibly be part of something much longer in a short time, but I really felt compelled to post something now, dammit. So. Forgive its unbetaedness and brevity.

Title: We'll See What Gets Left Behind
Fandom: Friday Night Lights
Characters: Just Tim, right now.
Words: 500
For: pene, with love and a standing invitation.

( when we collide... )