Title: The Monster at the End of This Book
Fandom: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Rating: U
Originally posted: Yuletide 2011 (also available at AO3)
Summary: 'Even when I ask about him, all that anyone will ever say is that he is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, the Prince of Silence, the Foe of Speech. But they will not tell me what he is like, or what he can do, or how he will react to those who try to stop him. How can we spy on him if we don't know the first thing about him?'
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: A missing scene that takes place shortly before the Plentimaw Fishes find that they cannot go on any further, and Haroun and the others leave them behind to continue their journey towards the Old Zone.

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ashkitty requested a short Eirias Triad piece in response to the result of the 2011 Wales referendum, and this article in particular provided a gem of an idea, which turned into a rather fluffy ficlet.

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Title: Ostpolitik
Fandom: Hetalia
Rating: 15/PG-13 (language)
Originally posted: 6-11 February 2011 (also available at AO3)
Summary: At a wake for his old boss Willy Brandt, a heavily inebriated Germany starts to recount some of the political jokes that his boss was known to tell. Prussia, however, doesn't see much to laugh about.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: Written for a Hetalia anon-meme request about a very drunk Germany making East German jokes in the presence of a very unamused Prussia (who spent the Cold War as the personification of East Germany). Historical and other notes are at the end.

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Title: Frontispiece
Fandom: The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Rating: U
Originally posted: Yuletide 2010 (also available at AO3)
Summary: It began, as it ended, with a book and an outstretched hand.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: This story is an expansion of a short piece I wrote several years ago, a scene that I have always wanted to flesh out beyond the 100-word limit imposed by a drabble. It is really only the prelude to a much longer story, one that I hope to write out fully one day, but for now I hope this will suffice.

A note of caution: This story describes an incident of corporal punishment of a child -- not in particularly graphic detail, but enough to require a brief warning all the same.

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Title: Reservoirs
Fandom: The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Rating: U
Originally posted: Yuletide 2009 (also available at AO3)
Summary: Friendships, like reservoirs, are often shaped by what lies well below the surface. But even after thirty years of friendship, Will Stanton is not entirely prepared to find some unexpected depths.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: Like any good piece of political fiction, this story has its origins in a kernel of truth. On 19 October 2005, the Liverpool City Council did in fact issue an apology for the flooding of the Tryweryn valley, an act that was instrumental in building support for Plaid Cymru as a Welsh nationalist political party and for Welsh devolution in general. I hope that I have changed or obscured sufficient details -- including Bran's constituency and ministerial office -- to avoid giving any offence. Any factual errors in this fictional world, however inadvertently introduced, are entirely my own.

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Title: A Matter of Finesse
Fandom: House of Cards
Rating: 12/PG (implied noncanonical m/m relationship)
Originally posted: Yuletide 2007 (also available at AO3)
Summary: In March 1979, Conservative Party whip Francis Urquhart is about to engineer the downfall of the Labour Government -- and he has no intention of letting an overeager young policy researcher muck things up. Pre-canon, implied (but only implied) Francis Urquhart/Tim Stamper.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: The initial framing idea for 'A Matter of Finesse' is heavily based on the actual series of events that led up to the 1979 General Election, in which Jim Callaghan's Labour Government was turned out of office and replaced by a Conservative Government under Margaret Thatcher. As a result, the events of this story take place approximately 11 years before the events of House of Cards. With a few minor adjustments to compensate for the fictional nature of the series, all of the parliamentary procedures and other political aspects of this story -- including the arcane legal and constitutional regulations of life and death in the Palace of Westminster -- are quite true and accurate.

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Title: Harry Potter and the Smurfy Guest
Fandom: Harry Potter/The Smurfs crossover
Rating: U
Originally posted: 2 October 2005
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Summary: A special visitor to Professor Slughorn's Potions class provides Harry and his friends with an unorthodox assignment.
Notes: This story was written solely because of a story title given to me by a friend during a writing challenge in March 2004. It took more than a year for me to come up with an appropriate response -- if this response can be considered 'appropriate'. Set during Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

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Title: Hope and Glory
Fandom: Harry Potter/The Dark Is Rising
Rating: U
Originally posted: 25 March 2004
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Summary: Oxford, 1941: A likely meeting in an unlikely place.
Notes: Originally written for agonistes, who requested a meeting between Merriman Lyon and Albus Dumbledore -- 'preferably silly', as she said. I attempted to write silly, but did not exactly succeed...yet I rather like how it turned out.

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