x_los and I have started a new comm for Dickens fans: dickenskink. We have separate fic promp and discussion threads for each Dickens novel. It's an anon and kink meme, where everything from your softest gen to your kinkiest kink is equally welcome. The company will likely be small, it is true, but highly select! Only the best people! ...who are still on lj. ... ( Read more... )

Title: Breathing Dreams
Fandom: The Great Gatsby (book & film)
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Jay, Pam/Sylvie, Daisy/Tom, Magda (The Finn)
Rating: PG-13 / R
Notes: Part 7 / 7; follows The Pursued and the Pursuing, Naming Things, In the Meantime, In Between Time, Miraculous Escapes, The Busy and the Tired, and In Love and War. This is set in 1941, just a ( Read more... )

Title: The Busy and the Tired
Fandom: The Great Gatsby (book & film)
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Jay, Daisy Buchanan, Pam Buchanan
Rating: NC-17, which is news to me.
Notes: This follows The Pursued and the Pursuing, Naming Things, In the Meantime, In Between Time, and Miraculous Escapes. I never expect sequences like this one, initially intended as a ( Read more... )

Title: Naming Things
Fandom: The Great Gatsby (both novel and film)
Pairing: Nick Carraway/Jay Gatsby
Rating: NC-17, not terribly evasive this time, either.
Notes: Follow-up/inset moments for The Pursued and the Pursuing. The first scene is the morning after the first encounter, and the subsequent scenes are clearly labeled as to how they ( Read more... )

Title: The Pursued and the Pursuing
Fandom: The Great Gatsby (the novel, but effectively the film, too)
Pairing & Characters: Nick Carraway/Jay Gatsby, Others
Rating: Very definitely R, perhaps evasively NC-17.
Warning: Period racial and sexual slurs, alas.
Notes: In spite of the fact that not a single character in it is fully admirable, I've loved ( Read more... )

These stories are written in response to the 50 Darkfics challenge, which offers one hundred one-word prompts on dark themes, to inspire authors to write stories on those topics. The darkfic written for this challenge ranges from lightly humorous to suspensefully dramatic. All of the stories here are set in the Midcoast nations of the Turn-of-the- ( Read more... )

Title: Whisky in the Snow
Author: alley_skywalker
Fandom: War and Peace
Paring: Theodore Dolokhov/Anatole Kuragin
Word Count: 909
Rating: PG
Warnings: (heavily implied) slash, allusions to (canon) character death
Summary: Truth is, everyone will hurt you. You've just got to find the ones worth hurting for...
Notes: The summary is a somewhat paraphrased ( Read more... )

Title: The Senses
Rating: R
Word Count: 3370
Fandoms: '09 Sherlock Holmes movie and H.P. Lovecraft
Warnings: Lovecraftian horror, character death
Summary: Watson returns to Baker street to find Holmes has uncovered something terrible.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters nor do I have any claim to Lovecraft's works.
Author's Note: Based on Lovecraft' ( Read more... )

Title: A Faithful Narrative
Characters/Pairing: Darcy/Wickham
Author: kalichan
Contains: past-Slash, angst
Rating: 15+
Summary: The arrangements, arranged; the settlements, settled; and Darcy takes his leave of Wickham the night before his wedding to Lydia
Fandom: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Wordcount: ~700 words
Author's Note: Dissertation!panic- ( Read more... )

Title: Men and Lads.
Author: Dusk Peterson.
Where to find me: Website, Dreamwidth blog, InsaneJournal mirror blog, LiveJournal mirror blog, duskpetersonbooks (e-mail list with announcements of my fiction).
Series: Life Prison, a historical fantasy series about male desire and determination in Victorian prisons. You don't need to have read the other ( Read more... )