[American Gods] Imprisoned (Low-Key gen)

Title: Imprisoned
Fandom: Neil Gaiman's American Gods
Length: 170 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: American Gods, Wednesday & Low-Key, phone call from prison
Pairing: Low-Key gen
Other: Vague spoilers.

Excerpt: Low-Key knew that this plan had been in motion for quite a while, but he wasn't really sure he liked the prison part of it.

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[Arrested Development] Loosely Speaking (Buster gen)

Title: Loosely Speaking
Fandom: Arrested Development
Length: 154 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Arrested Development, Buster/Lucille 2, visiting a seal sanctuary.
Pairing: Buster/Lucille 2 but mostly gen
Other: Spoilers for 2x11 Out on a Limb (if you know why seals are traumatizing to Buster, you're fine).

Excerpt: Call it post-traumatic stress, call it whatever you wanted, but he had to get out of here, away from all these loose seals.

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[Arrested Development] Screwed (Gob gen)

Title: Screwed
Fandom: Arrested Development
Length: 140 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Arrested Development, Gob, sick of being a screw-up.
Pairing: Gob gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: He's said it before, and he means it-- he's sick of screwing up, but it's all he knows how to do, and frankly, it's all he's good at.

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[Arrested Development] Filling in the Blanks (George Michael/Maeby)

Title: Filling in the Blanks
Fandom: Arrested Development
Length: 143 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Arrested Development, George-Michael/Maeby, marriage makes Maeby feel ______.
Pairing: slight George Michael/Maeby; mentions of Tobias/Lindsay
Other: S3 spoilers.

Excerpt: Marriage makes Maeby feel confused, with a dollop of shame and more than a little dash of uncertainty.

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[Arrested Development] Heritage of Failure (Michael gen)

Title: Heritage of Failure
Fandom: Arrested Development
Length: 137 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Arrested Development, Michael, "I've made a huge mistake."
Pairing: mention of Michael/Marta; Michael gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: If there is one thing that the Bluths are good at, besides lying and cheating and selfishness (because we must include Michael in this family, and he isn't very good at any of these), it is failure.

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[Bones] Tension (Booth/Brennan)

Title: Tension
Fandom: Bones
Length: 116 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Bones, Booth/Brennan, UST
Pairing: Booth/Brennan
Other: I've seen about three episodes of this show. Maximum.

Excerpt: She doesn't know the right words for the tension, so she doesn't say anything about it, because Brennan wants to be confident in debate, and to know all the facts beforehand.

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[Glee] Don't Stop (ensemble gen)

Title: Don't Stop
Fandom: Glee
Length: 144 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Glee, ensemble, and we all fall down
Pairing: ensemble gen
Other: Speculation post 1x13 Sectionals.

Excerpt: They all dared to hope that it could be Glee again, the club that broke down clique boundaries, that encouraged futures, that made school bearable.

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[Glee] Welcome to the 60's (ensemble gen)

Title: Welcome to the 60's
Fandom: Glee
Length: 169 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Glee, ensemble, music revolution
Pairing: ensemble gen
Other: Pointless fluff. Beatles references.

Excerpt: "Mr. Schue, you promised no more disco," Rachel said, with more than a little whine to her voice, and the rest of the kids joined in with empathic chorus.

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[Discworld] Fighting For (Polly/Mal)

Title: Fighting For
Fandom: Discworld - Monstrous Regiment
Length: 157 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Monstrous Regiment, Polly/Mal, I'm not leaving till the battle's over
Pairing: slight Polly/Mal
Other: PG for dark/death themes.

Excerpt: Mal saw Polly fall but she couldn't spare a second to think about it.

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[Glee] First Christmases (Puck/Kurt)

Title: First Christmases
Fandom: Glee
Length: 149 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Glee, Puck/Kurt, Christmas with Puck's daughter
Pairing: Puck/Kurt established
Other: Fluff fluff fluff.

Excerpt: "She isn't going to remember this, you know," Kurt said, but his voice held amusement, not bite, as he watched Puck carefully decorate the small Christmas tree.

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[Glee] Stepping Backward (Puck and Rachel gen)

Title: Stepping Backward
Fandom: Glee
Length: 188 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Glee, Rachel & Puck, friendship
Pairing: past Puck/Rachel; Puck/Rachel friendship
Other: Speculation post-Sectionals.

Excerpt: They probably should have tried being friends first, but both of them were too bad at establishing the right boundaries.

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[Bible] Risen (gen)

Title: Risen
Fandom: Bible (sort of)
Length: 164 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Biblical, Jesus, Ris'n with healing in his wings
Pairing: unnamed character gen
Other: Set in modern times kinda. Idk it's weird.

Excerpt: That wasn't nearly as important as her feet, and she looked down at them, and wiggled her toes, which were whole and as perfect as they had been at her birth.

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[WALL*E] (Re)production (WALL*E/EVE)

Title: (Re)production
Fandom: WALL*E
Length: 167 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: WALL*E, WALL*E/EVE, daughter of invention
Pairing: WALL*E/EVE
Other: Ridiculously fluffy.

Excerpt: So he finds pieces of metal here and there and she scrapes through boards and sockets and old electronic junk, searching for the right sparks, the right connections, the right pieces to build something completely new.

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[Glee] Second Chapter (Will/Emma)

Title: Second Chapter
Fandom: Glee
Length: 116 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Glee, Will/Emma, it's complicated.
Pairing: Will/Emma; Will/Terri mentioned
Other: Spoilers for 1x13 Sectionals.

Excerpt: This wasn't a fairytale and she wasn't a princess, even if she was as beautiful.

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[Hero] Courage Is Nine-Tenths Context (Thom/Goran)

Title: Courage Is Nine-Tenths Context
Fandom: Hero by Perry Moore
Length: 3378 words
Prompt: yuletide 2009: What happened between Ch33 and Ch34 of the book? For cstoplurking.
Pairing: Thom/Goran; Kevin/Scarlett in background
Other: Title from a quotation by Joseph Epstein. As far as I can tell, Moore never named Goran's little brother, so I named him.

Excerpt: I was probably going to be Thom forever, but I didn't really mind. Someone had to be the public face of the movement, and my place had been cemented there twice: once, when I gave my real first name to a disillusioned receptionist, and the second time, when I gave a fake one to a gay stranger.

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