☂ things unlikely & desirable | writing by 李杏

title: Actions Speak Louder
verse: Cactus Flower (Jazz Remix)
community: writerverse 
prompt: Phase #4: Track B: Challenge #36: Quick Fic Amnesty ("comforting")
word count: 127
rating: G
summary: Mariel trusts Aya. She just doesn't trust anyone else.

( 'You don't have to start fights with every fellow who looks at me funny.' )

title: North Winds (1/?)
verse: Cactus Flower
community: writerverse 
prompt: Phase #4: Track B: Challenge #33: Weekly Quick Fic ("in the snow" and "midnight")
word count: 318
rating: G
summary: In which a stranger arrives, seeking something and knowing too much.

( Jude Marden blew into town on the north winds. )

title: Haunting at the Cactus Flower Saloon
verse: Cactus Flower
community: writerverse 
prompt: Phase #4: Challenge #23: Things That Go Bump in The Night
word count: 1.501
characters: Mariel, Kristopher, Ian Grigori (Ely Phiron)
rating: PG
summary: In which Ian Girgori tells the story of Ely Phiron and the land on which the Cactus Flower Saloon now stands…
notes: Happy Halloween!

( I don't know about the eternal flames of damnation, but the Crow's Nest burned like hell itself. )

title: Showdown at the Cactus Flower Saloon (2/?)
verse: People's Republic of Heaven Electric Company & shiftverse
community: writerverse
prompt: Phase #4: Challenge #9: Quick Fic #3
word count: 796
characters:  Mariel, Silas (AU!Shujin), Nikos, Aya, Koji
rating: PG13
summary: In which Koji Kotobuki must learn to faint like a delicate young lady, Elias and Kaius prowl around outside, and Aya Scarlett is disappointed in the object of her affection.

( Dawn will come, whether we welcome it or not. )

title: Showdown at the Cactus Flower Saloon (3/?)
verse: People's Republic of Heaven Electric Company & shiftverse
community: writerverse
prompt: Phase #4: Challenge #4: Grab Your Fedora
word count: 793
characters:  Mariel, Silas (AU!Shujin), Nikos, Aya, Koji, Lero, Elias, Glory
rating: PG13
summary: In which Mariel and Elias have a showdown at noon, a young woman faints, and there's more to Aya Scarlett than you'd expect.

( Mariel smiled, and the sun reached its peak. )

title: Heavy as a History Book
fandom: Harry Potter
community: writerverse
prompt: Phase #3: Challenge #27: The World Around You
word count: 579
character: Avarelle Worthington
rating: G
summary: a mother reflects on her time at Hogwarts as she prepares to move herself and her daughter to New England and a new life.
notes: this takes place a little less than a year after 22 August, 1994 (The Night that Changed Everything).

( Avarelle packed away her sister's Hogwarts Head Girl badge with the other debris of the life she was leaving behind, and fled to New England and a new life. )

title: Give Myself to Anyone Who Wants to Take Me Home
fandom: DrKotobuki's shiftverse
community: writerverse
prompt: Phase #3: Challenge #28: Weekly Quick Fic #9 ("deep breath")
word count: 874
pairing: Shujin/Koji
rating: PG13
summary: Koji invites Shujin out for drinks and ends up passed out in his bed.
notes: I wrote this for Koji who was having a crummy day and spent his day off at my place because I'm terrified of bugs. Inspired by this drawing by Koji and this NSFW drawing by rellisthird.

( Koji growled; a pathetic sound, like a baby lion trying to roar. )

title: Out of Place, Out of Time (suggested by bonojonovi )
'verse: People's Republic of Heaven
community:  writerverse + originalfic100 
prompt: Phase #03: Challenge #10a: Title This + Table A - 025 Strangers
characters: Jude & Salomé
rating: K
summary: Jude introduces himself. Salomé isn't buying it.

( Jude Tjader. He is not who he says. )

title: A Little Clarification
fandom: Harry Potter
character: Alice Worthington (← original character)
rating: K+
notes: wrote this a long while ago, just getting it around to posting it.

( 'Never known you to get upset about people following rules, dear.' )

title: Four Kisses Philip Got on Christmas Eve
fandom: Kamen Rider W
pairing: Shoutarou/Philip
rating: K
notes: unbeta'd. sickly sweet. I've always wanted to write one of these kinds of fics, but I don't think I got it quite right.

( 'We're standing under the mistletoe,' said Philip. )

title: you say goodbye and I say hello « goodbye kiss remix »
fandom: Hetalia
pairing: Sweden/Finland, implied Sweden/Norway
rating: K
notes: in the middle of NaNoWriMo, I took a break to write some Hetalia fic for my OTP, Sweden/Finland; I've been playing Finland on Tumblr, so it sounded like fun; this is a remix of Kiss Goodbye by our very own Norway, whose permission I totally did not get before writing this. I wasn't sure what to do about the characters' names, since they don't all have human names, so I went with each country's version of it's own name, so Sweden is Sverige, Finland is Suomi (except when Sweden introduces him, since Finland is the Swedish name for the country), Norway is Norge, Denmark is, well I mean, guess (Danmark) and you ought to be able to figure out who Sealand is.

( 'Th's 's F'nl'nd,' says Sverige, and Suomi doesn't recognize his own name the way he says it, the sounds blurring together.  )