She felt as though she were sailing through a dream, gliding along amongst the ghost lights of the boats, the water sloshing loud against the wooden sides... Winner of Best Angst in the Sink into Your Eyes "First Week" Challenge.

After the events of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a mysterious object comes into Harry's possession. Where did it come from, and what is its purpose? Are there more like it? Why is Harry seeing fireflies? And what does it all have to do with Ginny?

Lily had just turned seven years old when something strange and wonderful happened—the magical sort of something that nobody ever could expect... Written for the Sink into Your Eyes "Twin Travel" challenge. Post-Deathly Hallows, alternate universe.

It's like he's broken, maybe. Like he's a little wind-up toy who's lost his key—and some big blundering idiot of a kid stuck a knife in his back instead, and turned, turned, turned—wound him up so he's still moving, still breathing... but not like before.