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This blog collects links to brightephemera fiction published across the Internet. Angst, romance, originals, a dozen fandoms, a little of this and that. I hope you find something to your taste. (shortform collections)(proper serials)(novels)(one-shots)(poems)
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Let That Be Your Last (Marvel)
I’ve written one fic for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I wrote it because the Scarlet Witch never got to use her cool mind powers in the Thanos movies. Why not? They made her into a walking energy weapon, which is generic. I wrote this piece to pour out her frustration and grief about the…
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Lodestone AU (SWTOR)
(art by kabeone) Ah, Lodestone. The original Ruth/Wynston AU. I didn’t lie about Ruth Means Compassion: in every continuity she starts Light Side, she befriends Wynston, she falls in love with and marries Malavai Quinn, and she parts on bitter terms with a son to remember her husband by. All of these are true in…
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City of Banners (Original)
The City of Banners is a classic drawer novel, only without the being-written part. I have many jewel-toned entries into this setting and only one that stands as a proper story. I give this one to you: Shai, the City of Banners, and her citizens. It’s called The Courtship of Oroma Liathen. (image from pixcrafter)…
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Spoiler Warning: Sith Warrior Sevasht Warwiggins (SWTOR)
Spoiler Warning: Sith Warrior Sevasht Warwiggins (3SWar) was a series of comic strip scripts following the meta savvy Sevasht. He was my LS Warrior with DS Jaesa and resulting shenanigans. A simple retelling of the class line at small novella length, it was modest but fun. Now it exists only on the SWTOR forums and…
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Found Wanting (Original)
Found Wanting was my continuation of 1984, set in postapocalyptic Boston. It followed Andrew Hsu, a Thought Cop newly deprived of Party, and Cassandra Montgomery, a teenager being stifled by protective survivors. I have tried to make this a novel and I’ve tried to make this a short story, but it never came together. I…
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Cross Faction AU (SWTOR)
Cross Faction is my Star Wars: the Old Republic Trooper’s dark coin flip. If the Imperial Agent framed Elara Dorne for treason just as things were getting good… what would resistance fighter Vierce Savins do? The answer is an Acts 2 and 3 novella AU of obsession and revenge, far from the healing path of…
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XP Gained: Bard (Neverwinter Nights 2) 2019
Neverwinter Nights 2 starts slow and snowballs into a classic D&D 3.5 adventure with some truly glorious setpieces. Here began my bard, the original, pre-Veilguard Lynesse. I published a scattering of stories, and I’ll reprint one here. XP Gained on AO3 Lynesse felt her throat constricting when Bishop came into view. She was perched on…
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Three Miles to Go (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) 2020
I feel like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies took liberties with the minor characters, but all in all it’s a good project and I wanted to contribute. This is a short work and I will post it all here. Familiarity with Pride and Prejudice will help, but I think the only necessary background is that…
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Captain, Cipher, Soldier, Spy (SWTOR)
The irreverent, episodic story was, for a long time, the canonical followup to Ruth Means Compassion. KotFE/ET changed that, but Captain, Cipher, Soldier, Spy, a loosely associated collection of short scenes with no particular endpoint, remains dear to my heart. The remainder of this description contains spoilers for the end of Ruth Means Compassion. Cut…
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