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Title: She Who Is Great
AO3: Link
Rating: G
Series: Moon Knight (MCU) (Layla El-Faouly, Taweret)
Wordcount: 326
Summary: Layla is going into this Avatar thing with her eyes open.
Remarks: Realised I'd forgotten to cross-post this drabble from earlier this year. I like it when gods are... discomfiting. Even (especially) the 'nice' ones.

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( taweret is warm in the way of an electric fire )

Title: Stonesong
Rating: G
Genre: Modern fantasy
Wordcount: 100
Remarks: 100words prompt - music.

( he'd thought himself welcome )

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Title: The Place Between
Rating: G
Genre: Fantasy
Wordcount: 100
Remarks: 100words prompt - repress.

( for us it was only the war )

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Title: Lineage
Rating: G
Series: Sunless Sea
Wordcount: 100
Remarks: 100words prompt - snub. I have so much weird guilt about my adopted scion.

( day three he is a nuisance )

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Title: The Fox-Tail Queen
Rating: G
Genre: Fantasy
Wordcount: 100
Remarks: 100words prompt - in the dark.

( they are six and faceless )

Not my most productive ficathon, but I did manage two fills for some very beloved fandoms so that was nice c:

Title: A Planet, Overflowing
Fandom: Finisterre/Star Wars
Prompt: Nighthorses and Jedi

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Title: It's Just Dust in My Eye
Fandom: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
Prompt: Splinter getting to socialise with fellow grown-ups

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Going through old files, I realised I never cross-posted the assorted non-Raksuran entries from the 3-sentence write-a-thon I participated in last year. I don't half mind them even now, so they may as well go in the archives!

( 5 drabbles below )

Title: Outward Bound
Rating: G
Series: Sunless Sea
Wordcount: 100
Remarks: 100words prompt - "For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting. -- Haruki Murakami.

( he soft-foots through the study )

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Title: Sotto Voce
Rating: G
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Fantasy
Remarks: 100words prompt - allowed/aloud

( hush, she whispers )

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Title: Towerfall
Series: Bungie's Destiny
Rating: G
Wordcount: 70
Summary: Shin and the Red War.

( the city burns )

Title: Sciophobia
Rating: G
Wordcount: 100
Genre: War
Remarks: 100words prompt - shadow

( she crooks her fingers )

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Title: Dead Wake
Rating: G
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Sci-fi
Remarks: 100words prompt - bang

( finds his engineer standing atop the engine )

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Title: To Hunt
Rating: PG
Series: Bungie's Destiny (Shin Malphur)
Wordcount: 96
Summary: This time, this prey, their tactics will not suit.

( shin lies belly-flat )

Title: Put On A Show
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Ambiguous fantasy
Remarks: 100words prompt - decadent

( flattery will get you everywhere )

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Title: Matchmaker, Matchmaker
Rating: G
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Modern
Remarks: 100words prompt - family of choice

( swipe. swipe. swipe. )

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Title: Futile Response
Rating: G
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Sci-fi
Remarks: 100words prompt - fever

( you're focussing on the symptom )

Title: Screening and Selection
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Ambiguous fantasy
Remarks: fiction_drabbles prompt - help

( suggests taking his thumbs )

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Title: Second Verse
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Apocalyptic
Remarks: fiction_drabbles prompt - melancholy

( the baby cries. your eyes open. )

Title: Price of Admission
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Modern
Remarks: fiction_drabbles prompt - battle

( what did you do )

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Title: an open letter
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Apocalyptic
Remarks: fiction_drabbles prompt - forgotten

( check under the couch )

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Title: Hermeneutics
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Fantasy
Remarks: fiction_drabbles prompt - exile

( you do not hold grudges )

More drabbles GOOD GOLLY. All from the same continuity for once, albeit one mostly concocted as I went. It's an idea that's been floating around for a while now, but not something I've ever put serious words to. I guess drabbles are a trip forward, and though I'm not super fond of the third one, I like the other two.

Title: Mayflies
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Urban fantasy
Remarks:

fiction_drabbles prompt - value

( we are not their partners )

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Title: Cell Count
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Urban fantasy
Remarks:

fiction_drabbles prompt - comfort

( fuck my life )

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Title: Professor Plum
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Urban fantasy
Remarks:

fiction_drabbles prompt - reach

( just asking to be clued )

Title: Blooded
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Fantasy
Remarks: fiction_drabbles prompt - journey

( if I abandoned you )

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Title: E-0057
Rating: G
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Gundam 00 (Allelujah)
Warning: Spoilers for season 1, episode 11
Remarks: fiction_drabbles prompt - copy

( seventy-four pairs of thin cotton shoes )

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Title: Assimilation
Rating: G
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Sci-fi
Remarks:

fiction_drabbles prompt - ash

( the scans are sharp and clear )

Title: Hypothesis
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Modern/horror
Remarks: fiction_drabbles prompt - pain

( so utterly banal it hurts )

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Title: By Any Other
Rating: G
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Supernatural
Remarks: fiction_drabbles prompt - menace

( she tilted the skull to the side )

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Title: Spelling
Rating: G
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Supernatural
Remarks: fiction_drabbles prompt - sign

( she does not know when it started )

A drabble bundle. Two old (prompt: rain) and one new (prompt: ice). Apparently I attract water-related prompts.

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Title: City Fishing
Rating: G
Genre: Modern
Wordcount: 107
Remarks: Written for a flash-fiction university assignment.

( the rain has swelled the gutters )

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Title: Drought Waltz
Rating: G
Genre: Modern
Wordcount: 102
Remarks: Written for a flash-fiction university assignment, but I ended up submitting City Fishing instead.

( it had not rained for weeks )

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Title: Cryogenic
Rating: G
Genre: Modern
Wordcount: 100
Remarks:

fiction_drabbles prompt fic.

( there is ice in her joints )

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Entries tagged with drabble

she who is great

stonesong | the place between | lineage | the fox-tail queen

3SF 2022 fills

3 sentence fics

outward bound | sotto voce | towerfall

sciophobia | dead wake | to hunt

put on a show | matchmaker, matchmaker | futile response

screening and selection | second verse

price of admission | an open letter | hermeneutics

mayflies | cell count | professor plum

blooded | e0057 | assimilation

hypothesis | by any other | spelling

City Fishing | Drought Waltz | Cryogenic