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Title: run on the top of the dishevelled tide
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 279 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Elementary, Sherlock/Moriarty, Moriarty thinks of Sherlock as like a fairy tale princess - he is waiting to be woken up by Moriarty so his real life can begin
Pairing: Irene/Sherlock
Other: Set pre-series. Some drug references.

Excerpt: She can put a dozen poisons in a dozen apples, but it's worth nothing unless he takes a bite.

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Title: one clover, and a bee, and reverie
Fandom: Thrilling Adventure Hour
Length: 4124 words
Prompt: Yuletide NYR 2014, for jeanenjolras, who wanted OT3 accidental marriage.
Pairing: Croach/Red/Sparks
Other: Also archived at AO3.

Excerpt: Our favorite trio ends up accidentally married. Or sort of accidentally. Plus Martian culture, a lot of sarcasm, and some terrible attempts at sharing feelings.

"No," Croach said. "Because you showed us your feet. And you have seen mine, and Red's. And I have seen Red's feet."

He glanced at her. Sparks said, "Too much information."

"I am only providing this much information because you seem to need it," Croach said. "I believe this onus is equivalent to the human custom of "marriage." Is that not correct, The Red Plains Rider?"

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Title: always be chasing the sun
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 3147 words
Prompt: Written for yuletide_admin 2014 for footnoterphone, who wanted Joan to go back to medicine.
Pairing: Joan gen
Other: Some spoilers for S3 and a number of Arthur Conan Doyle canon references, along with some themes of disability. Also at AO3.

Excerpt: When Joan got out of the hospital, her leg aching and stiff, Sherlock put her up in the front room, saying that the windows would be good for her. She would rather have had her room back, which was more private, but she couldn't imagine negotiating the stairs all the time, not any more. That was why she hadn't gone back to her own apartment. A lot of things would have to change, at least temporarily.

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Title: it's getting dark and it's all too quiet
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Length: 180 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Welcome to Night Vale - Any - Ceremonial Soft Meats Crown
Pairing: Tamika gen
Other: General Night Vale creepiness.

Excerpt: Tamika still gets surprised on a regular basis, but she likes to think she handles it better now that she's thirteen. Her mom helped her wrap up the librarian's head when she brought it home after the summer reading program, and they're going to put it in a shadow box once it's all dried out properly.

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Title: that's when I could finally breathe
Fandom: Community
Length: 375 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Community, Abed/Troy, his zombie apocalypse preparedness routine didn't include protocols for this.
Pairing: Abed/Troy
Other: PG for sexual themes.

Excerpt: "We did not plan for this," Abed said. Troy's hands were warm on his abdomen, comforting. Troy was tracing over the scars that Abed had managed to acquire in his life. Most of them were from before the apocalypse, to be fair. The one Troy was putting his attention to now was from a merry-go-round incident when he was four. Troy knew that, but he kissed it anyway.

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Title: we who are left
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 439 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: A:TLA, any, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Pairing: Toph gen
Other: Themes of war.

Excerpt: "Mom?" Lin said over dinner, in that careful tone of voice that meant she was about to ask for something, "you don't ever talk about the war."

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Title: hell itself breathes out
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 1446 words
Prompt: spook_me: Shapeshifter.
Pairing: Joan gen
Other: Also at AO3. Themes of drug abuse, addiction, and danger. AU to S1.

Excerpt: The phone rings three times, shrilly, before Joan picks up. The person on the other end is trying hard to remain calm, and not quite succeeding. He's broken out, the woman says, we're not sure why, be careful.

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Title: diplomatic cologne
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 325 words
Prompt: Sherlock Holmes fic battle: steampunkverse, Holmes/Watson, 'you and I get so damn dysfunctional we start keeping score.' bonus points if it's more comedy than drama
Pairing: John/Shirley
Other: Set in an AU-verse where Sherlock was born Shirley, but the setting is (mostly) retained with some occasional steampunk elements that don't show up in this fic.

Excerpt: "Perhaps you could try being right more often," Holmes said, with a certain quirk to her smile.

John brandished his fork at her with mock offense. "Miss Holmes, that is not a solution to the problem. This unladylike domination of yours simply must stop."

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Title: sacred idleness
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 641 words
Prompt: Sherlock Holme fic battle: Original ACD universe, Holmes/Watson, Turkish bath
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Other: Victorian sexy. A little. PG-ish.

Excerpt: It was such a rare thing to see Holmes this relaxed without aid of his favorite poisons. His eyes were half-lidded when the attendant left, obligingly pushing together our couches so we might talk in intimacy. His hair was slicked back, a dark contrast to his familiar, aquiline face, and the oil glistened on his taut, well-built chest. When he caught my sideways look, he simply half-smiled with amusement.

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Title: only who is left
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 686 words
Prompt: MARTHA JONES APPRECIATION DAY, 9/25/14 (I wrote this and then forgot to post it on the right date)
Pairing: Martha gen; Martha/Tom
Other: Set post S3. Some PSTD themes.

Excerpt: How Martha came to join UNIT. When she meets Tom again, for the first time, she thinks it will help. He doesn't remember anything from that time, isn't steeped in terror and loss, doesn't have nightmares about deaths and deaths and deaths. He had been a good man, during the Year that Never Was, and he is a good man now. She could love him again.

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