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Title: fear that has said its prayers
Fandom: Star Wars
Length: 101 words
Prompt: 3 Sentence Ficathon: Star Wars, Obi-Wan, don't mind me while I save the day again
Pairing: Obi-Wan gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Obi-Wan acts; he can't stop himself when he sees something that needs to be done and it looks like it might go unnoticed.

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Title: do not live like living men
Fandom: Star Wars
Length: 158 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Star Wars original trilogy, Leia Organa, prophetic dreams
Pairing: Leia gen
Other: Set precanon.

Excerpt: The dreams are vivid -- not just her mother, but a blonde man with a crooked smile, a man in a black vest, a boy taking off a storm-trooper's helmet -- but none of them make any sense.

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Title: communion of the infinite
Fandom: Star Wars
Length: 604 words
Prompt: Written as a treat for trickortreatex for VictoriaWrites, who requested Leia or the women pilots cut out of the original trilogy.
Pairing: Leia gen
Other: Also at AO3. Here is the info about the female pilots.

Excerpt: There is only one female pilot on Luke's squad, which doesn't surprise Leia. They have to work twice as hard, she knows. Her father told her the same thing when she was a child, dreaming of being a Senator. Leia did, and so did this woman.

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Title: what ships are for
Fandom: Star Wars
Length: 113 words
Prompt: three sentence ficathon: Star Wars, Lando + Han, the Millennium Falcon
Pairing: Han gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: He had to have that ship, Han decided, no matter what it took; he thought on it for ages and then began to practice his sabacc game.

The Millennium Falcon was the most beautiful ship Han had ever seen, maybe not on the outside, though she was gorgeous, but the speed -- he told Lando he was lying about her capabilities, and Lando had been so offended for his lady's honor that he'd taken Han out flying, so Han knew firsthand.

He had to have that ship, Han decided, no matter what it took; he thought on it for ages and then began to practice his sabacc game.

Whenever he climbed aboard the Falcon for the first time as its owner and slid into the pilot's seat, it was worth every credit he'd lost in previous games: she was perfect.

Title: grit
Fandom: Star Wars
Length: 304 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, sand is all he can see
Pairing: Obi-Wan gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: He's never seen so much sand. This is a planet of sand, of people fighting wearily against drowning in the drifts.

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Title: a busy solitude
Fandom: Star Wars
Length: 552 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Star Wars, Obi-Wan and ghost!Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan is long past loneliness when Qui-Gon appears, very long past.
Pairing: Obi-Wan gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: A Jedi transcends the things which are not valuable in the long run: excess attachment, pain, sadness. Even loneliness, although this one has always been hard for Obi-Wan.

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Title: best substitute for experience
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 66 words
Prompt: Clow/Yue, genderbent for someone on plurk
Pairing: fem!Clow & fem!Yue gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: She made Yue into the beautiful woman she was not.

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Title: choosing among one's real thoughts
Fandom: Star Wars
Length: 134 words
Prompt: C-3PO and R2-D2, genderbent for chibidl
Pairing: fem!C-3PO and fem!R2-D2 gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "Oh dear," she said reflexively, "this looks like quite a mess."

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Title: unbuttoned
Fandom: Star Wars
Length: 98 words
Prompt: Han/Leia genderbent for someone on plurk
Pairing: fem!Han/male!Leia gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "Hey princess," Hana said, comfortably sprawled across the bed. Her shirt was only half-buttoned, but Lei got the impression of deliberate undress.

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