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Title: time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils
Fandom: Discworld
Length: 89 words
Prompt: 3 Sentence Ficathon: Discworld, Susan Sto Helit & Vimes, comparing notes on temporal anomalies
Pairing: Susan & Vimes gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: If Vimes had been a woman, the right kind of woman, of course, Susan would have said that Time had left him just a kiss on the cheek, a hint of strangeness.

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Title: the bend and broken moon
Fandom: Discworld
Length: 488 words
Prompt: Written as a treat for [livejournal.com profile] originally for [community profile] trickortreatex. She wanted to see a character encountering Death.
Pairing: Angua gen
Other: Also at AO3.

Excerpt: Like any member of the Watch, Angua is acquainted with Death. Unlike most members, she can see when he's around. If she's alone, occasionally she'll give him a professional nod, but after that, she tries to be a little more careful.

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Title: a cup of good cheer
Fandom: Discworld
Length: 307 words
Prompt: I promised Christmas fic last year to someone. Uh. Christmas 2013, that is.
Pairing: Death and Albert gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: There were even presents underneath it, although Albert had shaken them all carefully and realized that they were precisely-wrapped bricks. He'd cut his finger on a ribbon-end.

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Title: teacher's dirty looks
Fandom Discworld
Length: 122 words
Prompt: three sentence ficathon: Discworld, Susan Sto Helit + Death, chaperoning her class's field trip
Pairing: Susan and Death gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: When he meets her at the classroom door, Susan purses her lips so tightly that they whiten, but she's really trying to make this work, so she says, "Thanks for coming."

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Title: delightful society
Fandom: Discworld
Length: 86 words
Prompt: three sentence ficathon: Monstrous Regiment, Polly Perks/Maladict, literary cafe
Pairing: Polly & Maladicta gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Of the two of them, Polly is the one who reads, oddly; Maladicta sprawls across a chair and picks at her fingernails with a knife, defiantly masculine.

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Title: go out when unattended
Fandom: Discworld
Length: 115 words
Prompt: three sentence ficathon: Discworld, Sacharissa (/William) (/Any) (/None), what's up with that wedding ring
Pairing: Sacharissa/William
Other: n/a

Excerpt: The wedding was very, very small -- William had no family that he wanted to speak to, after all, and Sacharissa was the model of discretion.

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Title: indistinguishable from magic
Fandom: Yu Yu Hakusho/Discworld
Length: 891 words
Prompt: Yu Yu Hakusho/Discworld for someone on plurk
Pairing: wizards & Botan gen
Other: This fic has footnotes.

Excerpt: By this point in their illustrious careers, the wizards of Unseen University had managed to successfully perform the Rite of AshkEnte seven times without perishing horribly.

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Title: interrogation
Fandom: Discworld
Length: 443 words
Prompt: Christmas card fic!
Pairing: Vimes and Young Sam gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "But being Hogfather is a lot of work," Young Sam said, still as serious as death. "And," he said smugly, as pleased with his reasoning as a man in his cups, although rather less wobbly, "we don't have any pigs. I looked."

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Title: Dimensions of the Mind
Day/Theme: [livejournal.com profile] 31_days_exchnge: 19. subversive overthrowing; Discworld: Witches series, why dimensional portals are silly for [livejournal.com profile] abyss_of_colors
Series: Discworld, Tiffany Aching series
Character/Pairing: Tiffany gen
Rating: G
Length: 415 words

Excerpt: Tiffany knows that there are many things that Granny Weatherwax disapproves of; these things would fill a book, and maybe an encyclopedia.

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Title: Fun and Games
Day/Theme: Oct 5 // bargaining
Series: Discworld
Character/Pairing: Susan gen, unnamed wizard
Rating: G

Excerpt: "I don't-- I DON'T THINK SO," Death said, and for a moment the bewildered wizard wondered if the anthromorphic personification was scowling. He shook his head.

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Comm: [livejournal.com profile] fandomsecrets (the crossover fic request meme)
Title: Rats
Author: rhap_chan
Fandom: Harry Potter/Discworld
Pairing: Peter Pettigrew and the Death of Rats gen
Prompt: Death comes for all... and the Death of Rats has come for Wormtail.
Rating: G
Word Count: 263
Warnings: spoilers for Deathly Hallows (obviously)
Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling. Discworld belongs to Terry Pratchett. This fanfic is a derivative of canon material that is not my property. I do not profit from these writings. The opinions and actions expressed in these stories are not necessarily the views and beliefs of the original author or me.

Excerpt: SQUEAK, the Death of Rats said finally when it stood over the corpse. It wasn't pretty, nor the shape he was used to, but rats were simple.

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Comm: [livejournal.com profile] 50fantastic
Words: 589
Title: Near-Death Experience
Fandom: House, M.D./Discworld
Characters: House and Death
Warnings/Ratings: none
Disclaimer: House belongs to Fox, Discworld to Terry Pratchett.
Note: This is set after the season 2 finale of House.

Excerpt: The man laughed, a surprising reaction, and said, "So, you have a whole menagerie? Death is a franchise? You coming for Steve next week when Wilson forgets to feed him?"

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