Written for prompt 213 over at tamingthemuse.

I'd written some of a different, more involved story for this week, but even though I've been picking at it all week, when it came right down to it I couldn't make it happen. It needs SO much fiddling (and even more outlining / backstory planning). So I abandoned it and wrote this one off the cuff in about 45 minutes as a brain exercise. I'm marking it as "flash" and leaving it open because I don't intend to come back to it (and even if I do, it'll be unrecognizeable by the time I'm done.)


( Thin Vineer - flash, 1,103 words )

Written for prompt 212 over at tamingthemuse.

Sherlock Holmes (ACD) H/W slash fanfic! Set against FINA. This is approximately the most chaste slashfic ever, but I can't help it - my Watson voice squicks at the idea of writing out sex, particularly deviant sex.

Sort of a sequel to a story I wrote a couple of months ago, though it's basically a stand alone piece. The idea is that this story was written later during the hiatus, and Watson is remembering some things differently. (Translation: this story is closer to the original vision that I had for the first story, but time constraints forced me to bang out something quick before. This go is more detailed and does more of what I wanted, but it still feels a bit "Reader's Digest" to me - who knows? Maybe I'll come back and write this story AGAIN at some point.)


( Dare Not Speak - short story, 3,484 words, first draft )

Written for prompt 203 over at tamingthemuse.

Oh, Jess. Your introspective wrist-wringing is a veritable river of quick and dirty story fodder.


( Terms - flash, 1064 words )

Written for prompt 200 over at tamingthemuse.

It's about time I start posting the weekly stories here again, eh? I wrote this one pretty much off-the-cuff. I'm not planning to revisit it so I didn't bother to friends lock it. It was a slightly different narrative voice and story framing choice for me, kind of a fun experiment.


( Shoot Notes - short story, 1771 words, first draft )

Written for prompt 169 and prompt 170 over at tamingthemuse last year.

I was really busy when I wrote these, so I never got around to posting them on my actual writing journal. Spoilers for the game Portal, so don't read unless you've finished the game (or don't care.)

I don't write a lot of fanfiction, and I'm guessing that Portal isn't exactly the kind of fanfic source that immediately lends itself to a particular kind of prose. At some point in the near future I'm going to revisit this with an eye to really nailing the kind of narrative voice I'm looking for.


( Human After All - 'Portal' fanfiction, 4702 words, first draft )

Written for Prompt 198 - Year of the Pig over at tamingthemuse.

Trying to get back into the habit of writing every week. It's... taking some effort. I originally thought that I'd put some serious planning into this week's story, and then suddenly it was 3AM on Saturday and I had four hours left and dwindling patience. So I switched gears and gave myself about half an hour to just WRITE and see what happened.

And this is what happened.


( Horoscope - flash, 947 words )


I have four writing-related goals for next week:


1) Brainstorm, outline, and write the weekly story IN ADVANCE so I can really sink my teeth into it.

2) Write a 15 minute story to flex my "off the cuff" skills.

3) Finish draft 2 of one of the stories I wrote last year.

4) Get a (very rough) draft of the review I'm writing finished.


And then party. Or, y'know, party in and around these things.

Written for Prompt 168: Every Tom, Dick and (insert name here) over at tamingthemuse.

Phew - this has been a busy week. I'm still plugging away at the script, and it's going to be another few days at least, but it's coming. (I'm a slower script writer than I thought. Go figure.) Since there haven't been any prompts lately at 15_minute_fic, I'm kind of glad to devote my weekly tamingthemuse story to something a little less structured. Focusing on description and imagery here, trying to build a story that way.


( A Eulogy in Parked Cars - flash, 537 words )

Written for word 123 over at 15_minute_fic.

I wanted to write something that was heavy on description this week, as a change of pace. So... I did. Yep.


( Wood and Mud - flash, 385 words )

Written for Word #121 over at 15_minute_fic.


( At Least - flash, 469 words )

Written for Word #119 over at 15_minute_fic

( Had Me Going - flash, 343 words )