Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023
Fingerguns: 162 Chapters: 1
Comments: 0 Words: 1613
Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023 Fingerguns: 162 Chapters: 1 Comments: 0 Words: 1613

There in that white-gilt bedroom like a tomb, where I believe none of Gatsby's guests had ever before set foot except by mistake — none until Daisy, and I was only her adjunct and proxy, an accessory to her presence there in the house. He had forgotten about me then. He had forgotten about me now. I was his only witness.

Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023
Fingerguns: 146 Chapters: 1
Comments: 0 Words: 1062
Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023 Fingerguns: 146 Chapters: 1 Comments: 0 Words: 1062
Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023
Fingerguns: 172 Chapters: 0
Comments: 0 Words: 41872
Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023 Fingerguns: 172 Chapters: 0 Comments: 0 Words: 41872
Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023
Fingerguns: 171 Chapters: 1
Comments: 0 Words: 101
Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023 Fingerguns: 171 Chapters: 1 Comments: 0 Words: 101

They were old stones, the stones that buried Leporino, the boundary markers of a rustic edifice or a low wall. They might have tumbled down the ravine under the weight of last winter’s snow, or at an unlucky push.

(Written for cygnes and the prompt: the secret history au where it's a jacobean revenge tragedy.)

Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023
Fingerguns: 185 Chapters: 1
Comments: 0 Words: 340
Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023 Fingerguns: 185 Chapters: 1 Comments: 0 Words: 340

The first time, though of course he doesn't know it's the first time, everything went exactly according to plan. Crowley got the baby, right on time. He took it to the nunnery, and didn't stop to talk to the man waiting outside. He observed the whole thing, and made sure no funny business happened. At the end of the night, the Antichrist went home with the Dowlings.

It takes 600 more tries to get it going exactly according to the right plan.

Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023
Fingerguns: 201 Chapters: 1
Comments: 0 Words: 1538
Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023 Fingerguns: 201 Chapters: 1 Comments: 0 Words: 1538

For the prompt of Adrian being a big nerd, him being a small nerd about something that isn't Egypt or Alexander for once. When Adrian Veidt is twelve years old, he discovers Homer's Iliad.

Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023
Fingerguns: 182 Chapters: 6
Comments: 0 Words: 3809
Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023 Fingerguns: 182 Chapters: 6 Comments: 0 Words: 3809

October 14: En route to Varna, Seward must tell a fellow suitor what transpired one night at Hillingham.

Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023
Fingerguns: 181 Chapters: 1
Comments: 0 Words: 2529
Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023 Fingerguns: 181 Chapters: 1 Comments: 0 Words: 2529

A reimagining of the scene with Julian in the forbidden garden in Chapter VI Part II: A Gift and a Curse. What if the guards passed the garden by entirely and Julian and the Apprentice had more time? Julian is a cis man; Apprentice's gender and body are unspecified.

Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023
Fingerguns: 226 Chapters: 1
Comments: 0 Words: 1104
Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023 Fingerguns: 226 Chapters: 1 Comments: 0 Words: 1104

But thou dost in thy passages of life
Make me believe that thou art only marked
For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
To punish my mistreadings.

Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023
Fingerguns: 196 Chapters: 1
Comments: 0 Words: 602
Complete Updated 07 Oct 2023 Fingerguns: 196 Chapters: 1 Comments: 0 Words: 602