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  • Charity and Red Wine

    Narcissa knows exactly what death tastes like. [Narcissa kills five people. One shot. Dark.]

  • Bright the Day

    Twenty facts about Bellatrix Lestrange that she would never speak aloud.

  • Rewind

    They could all go to a bar and forget the past. They could reread the book, rewind the film. It would be so easy. [Harry, post war. One shot.]

  • Smoke and Mirrors

    Twenty somewhat related facts about the Marauders. And Lily.

  • Brave New World

    Loving him was courting heartbreak. [DG. One shot.]

  • To Burn

    Sirius's descent into madness, in thirteen steps. [One shot.]

  • Stygian

    Obsession turns to madness turns to weakness. Tom Riddle. One shot. [If salvation is beyond his reach, then fantastic, glorious damnation is all that's left.]

  • Faultline

    Once upon a time, Bella liked being a sadist. Once upon a time.

  • Dirty Magic

    Sirius picked a bad night to run away from home. [He’s got a horrible, deep, sinking feeling that he’s just like the rest of his family. They’re all a bit insane, and he feels insane right now.] Rating for language and situation. Oneshot.

  • Retrospect

    Andromeda, on Sirius before and after Azkaban. Because people change over time. Oneshot.

  • eternity tonight

    [Ginny. Oneshot. Dark. Rating for situation and mild cursing.] But she knows she saw him standing there.

  • How to Write a Harry Potter Fanfiction

    Seven steps to writing yet another cliched Harry Potter fanfiction.

  • Snowflakes in Hell

    She's a mass of contradictions, and she's not sure what to think. Adventures don't start on muggy, unstarred, weepy, summer nights. It's too much like Purgatory. It's too still. [Andromeda's last night at home. Oneshot.]

  • Ghosts

    Andromeda takes a walk through the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black after her husband dies, finding nothing but dust and nostalgia and a few unburied ghosts.

  • Mark

    The room is dark enough, he supposes, to hide the sin. Oneshot. Draco Malfoy.

  • Resplendence

    Merope Gaunt's final hours, as she thinks about blood purity and how very wrong she's been. Oneshot.

  • Hate is Such a Strong Word

    My name is Lily Evans and I hate a lot of things. In fact, my friends have compiled a detailed list of all the things I hate, but they pay special attention to James Potter and relieving me of my hatred of him. Over my dead body. [better summary inside]

  • Fifty Paper Hearts

    She made paper hearts. They were small and lined and imperfect, but on each she wrote a name, a number and a date, and dropped them into the empty grate. She'd burn them when they meant something.

  • Written in Sand

    Regulus Black's last days. The one thing he had discovered was that everything, in a last, feeble attempt to leave a mark, will at least attempt to give off a vivid flash and do something earth shattering right before the end.

  • Almost

    [And so it is, the shorter story, no love, no glory] “I wanted to be whatever she couldn’t be, and that was normal. So I went for normality. And over time, I guess I simply forgot my dreams and fantasies and set about being respectable.” Petunia reflects.