☂ things unlikely & desirable | writing by 李杏

title: Heavy As a History Book
rating: G
word count: 799
community: trope_bingo + writerverse
prompt: round three: square: coming out of the closet + Phase #09: Challenge #18: Weekly Quick Fic #6 (word vomit)
pairing: Mariel/Tristan (mentioned past Lawrence/Tristan)
summary: While out walking with Mariel, Tristan runs into his ex and has to tell Mariel about his undergrad affair.

( 'I love you, Tristan, even if you are a pervert. )

title: June 24, 2011
fandom: DrKotobuki 's shiftverse
community: writerverse + trope_bingo
prompt: Phase #5: Challenge #03: Table of Doom ("location: big city") + square: celebratory kiss
word count: 535
pairing: Abel Cross/Nikos Vallas
rating: G
summary: Nikos and Abel watch the news together the night marriage equality is passed in New York.
notes: Abel is, at the time this story takes place, a 61-year-old British Indian expat living in New York City. Nikos is his 29-year-old boyfriend.

( Marriage had failed Abel once before, but it still held promise for someone like Nikos, still young and in love with a lifetime ahead of him without hiding. )