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Title: Best, Janet
Fandom: Chrestomanci Chronicles
Length: 1017 words
Prompt: Yuletide treat for lostspook
Pairing: Janet gen; Cat/Marianne
Other: n/a

Excerpt: In contrast to Janet's scholarship, the courtship between Cat Chant and Marianne Pinhoe was a slow, uncertain thing, and Janet thought it could be nothing else. After all, the post office had limitations and only delivered once a day, and Janet had other things to do besides coaxing Cat into reacting to girls like a normal person.

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Title: the shoreline of wonder
Fandom: Nation by Terry Pratchett
Length: 1168 words
Prompt: Yuletide pinch-hit for salifable
Pairing: Daphne/Mau
Other: AU. Title from a quote by Ralph W. Sockman.

Excerpt: The old man says: she came back once. And because he wants the children to believe in truth, and not fairytales, he does not tell them about the second time.

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Title: a verdant heart
Fandom: Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~
Length: 1024 words
Prompt: Yuletide treat for for Mei (briar_pipe)
Pairing: Tomari/Yasuna/Hazumu established
Other: AU.

Excerpt: Even with the sweat beading her face, Tomari spared a small smile of pride. This was their house. They'd actually bought it, the three of them, and although it was small and the garden was unkempt, it was theirs. It didn't quite feel real yet.

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Title: blithe and antic
Fandom: Glee
Length: 1183 words
Prompt: glee_anon: Sunshine/Rachel - FORBIDDEN LOVE
Pairing: Sunshine/Rachel; mentions of Jesse/Rachel
Other: PG for sexual implications.

Excerpt: The first time that Rachel threw pebbles at Sunshine's window, Sunshine only let her in because she was afraid that Rachel was going to break the window, and it was easier to hide bruises than broken glass.

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Title: Kurt Hummel and the Annoying Gryffindor
Fandom: Glee/Harry Potter fusion
Length: 1061 words
Prompt: Ooh, this sounds really fun. Hm... I want to say New Directions in Hogwarts! But if, um, that's a little too vague/big, what about just having Rachel, Brittany, Santana and Kurt? for _calex_
Pairing: Kurt & Rachel gen; Kurt/Finn and Rachel/Finn; Finn/Quinn mentioned
Other: Harry Potter fusion; set in a first episode AU.

Excerpt: "I thought this Glee Club was all about inter-House friendship?" Kurt lifts a perfectly manicured eyebrow. "When you invited me, I assumed that the invitation extended to all Slytherins."

"Eww, no, what?" Santana says immediately, looking from Kurt to Rachel distastefully. "We were just hoping to copy Kurt's homework when he was done. I'm not interested in singing with Mudbloods."

"I forgot the common room password again," Brittany volunteers.

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Title: then the stars don't even matter
Fandom: Avatar
Length: 1016 words
Prompt: doomed ship comment ficathon: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Azula/Mai, black and gold
Pairing: Zuko/Mai; Mai/Azula
Other: AU for the end of the series. Somewhat dark.

Excerpt: She remembers the laughter of a little girl teasing, and Azula's grip, always a little too strong. She sees the flash of gold in the darkness. She counts lucid moments. She talks back so rarely that she begins to wonder if she could lose the ability to speak, and what would happen then.

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Title: our souls a little off-kilter
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 1388
Prompt: may we all be considered then straight on delivered for chibidl's birthdayfic
Pairing: Clef/Emeraude; hints of Zagato/Emeraude
Other: NC-17 for sex between two characters who appear (but are not) underage, rather dubious consent, power issues, general creepiness etc etc etc. Also AU.

Excerpt: Her fingers slip beneath his silks and he realizes he's holding his breath. He lifts his hand and her movements still as he tips her chin up and meets her eyes. He's uncertain, gaze piercing, and she's smiling.

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Title: sick and tired of being sick and tired
Fandom: Glee
Length: 1782 words
Prompt: access_fandom's Festibility: Glee: (futurefic) Rachel is in her mid-twenties and her career on stage is finally hitting its stride ... but she's been getting joint pain, she's having trouble memorizing lines, and she's constantly exhausted. The diagnosis is fibromyalgia. Preferably in the form of emails, text messages, and voice mails between her and former members of her high school glee club. Bonus for an epilogue in which Rachel has adjusted her goals, gone after them like she does, achieved them.
Pairing: Rachel gen primarily; minor Puck/Quinn, Brittany/Santana, Artie/Tina, and Will/Emma
Other: I do not have fibro myself and so I've done my best from research. Any medical errors in this are entirely mine and I apologize wholeheartedly for them.

Summary: Rachel goes to Broadway - but her health begins to fail and she might have to reconsider her dreams after all. A story told entirely using social media - Twitter, Facebook, emails, etc.

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Title: improve on the silence
Fandom: Glee
Length: 1079 words
Prompt: Porn Battle X: Glee, Mercedes/Quinn, chastity
Pairing: Mercedes/Quinn established
Other: Again with the writing not!porn for Porn Battle. PG for sexual discussion. Spoilers for 1x22 Journey.

Excerpt: "I don't know, Mercedes," Quinn says. Her voice is brittle and uncertain. Today isn't going to be a good day, Mercedes thinks, hiding a sigh. The good days, if she's honest, are few and far between: when Quinn's smile is as bright as her glossy hair, when her laughter spills sweetly, when it's as if the bad parts of the last year never happened, only the good. Mercedes has spent a lot of nights holding Quinn as she shudders back tears; the afterbirth of grief.

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Title: Blink (and you'll miss it)
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth/Polychromatic
Length: 1427 words
Prompt: When you leave polychromatic, you're supposed to forget what happened in the City. What if you can't forget?
Pairing: Clef/Presea
Other: n/a

Excerpt: He feels like months have passed instead of seconds: the cause of his confusion. He leans on his staff for a moment, trying to process. It's as if he's forgotten something very important.

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