Death, disguised as a mortal woman named Lilith, takes a one-day respite from her toils, choosing to learn about life from a young soldier in Brooklyn.

For his role in a violent miner's strike in District Twelve, Gale Hawthorne is made an example of. Sold into servitude in The Capitol, Gale is forced to trust someone who embodies everything he has ever tried to hate. A daughter of the Capitol and a member of the elite. Madge Undersee.

A young Obi-Wan is forced to examine his devotion to his vows one night at a bordello in the Coruscant underworld.

When the Dead Poets are supervised by Mr. Keating for the weekend, Neil begs him for the story of the woman in the picture atop his desk.

An intruder ruins the sleep of one member of the Gallagher household.

When Charles returns for the summer after a year at Oxford, he finds that Raven has hired a work furlough patient from Holbrook Hospital, an Empath named Nellie who has been shut away in a Psych Ward because of her mutation, to be their maid. Over their summer together, Charles watches as she struggles to find peace in a world that seems content in waging war against her.

Released from her time as a lab rat at Trask Industries, Ruby Warmin is quietly shuffled to Holbrook Hospital, a psychiatric facility in upstate New York. Having traded one prison for another, Ruby struggles with a system rigged against her. But, when Alex Summers is admitted, fresh from Vietnam and his diagnosis with PTSD, Ruby feels that freedom is closer than she ever imagined.

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

Draco Malfoy, Hogwarts' Potions Professor, requires increasingly rare ingredients for his work. And Luna Lovegood is the only one who can get him everything he needs. Including a fresh start.

And after being assigned to tutor her in history, Finnick finally meets the girl everyone calls crazy Cresta. Modern AU.

Gale Hawthorne, the down-and-out boxer from the wrong side of town, lives for three things. His mother and siblings. His boxing matches. And his evening talks with Madge Undersee, the pretty mayor's daughter who sold him his beloved fish. But when he's offered the fight of a lifetime, everything Gale knows is threatened as he tries to defend his neighborhood and the ones he loves.

Remus is faced with a choice that Dorcas cannot accept.

If I am ever elected Supreme Chancellor of the Senate, I will decree that all Jedi must demonstrate an emotion at least once a year.

Alma Williams has always heard voices. Mutant abilities repressed and locked away at the age of twelve, she has been told her entire life that she is mad. When young Hank McCoy discovers the young woman, he must choose between helping her save herself and passing the most important Mutant Civil Rights law in history.

Everyone leaves someone behind when they run off to fight the good fight. Donny left her.

Annie and Finnick say goodbye before the Quell.

Madge Undersee comes to District Thirteen hijacked. Gale Hawthorne tries to rescue her from her own mind.

Harry Osborn goes out to find freedom, but finds something better.

Magic has a price. Power has a price. To have either, one has to be willing to give up what is most precious. Tom Riddle wanted Magic beyond belief. Tom Riddle wanted power beyond rebellion. And to grasp it, he had to let her go.

Things started out well, to be sure. But then again, all great tragedies start that way, don't they? They promise such great things, magnificent love affairs and terrific adventure, and then they drag you down a road from which you may never return. Scabior reflects on how he became a Snatcher.