"Why would someone willingly live in the middle of this freezing wasteland?" / "That's exactly the point I've been trying to make for the past few centuries! I don't know her name and I already like her!" / "Focus, we are here on an important meeting to discuss strat -" / "Why is there a talking kangaroo in the middle of what I suspect is the Antarctic?" Written for a challenge.
It started with a whisper. It ended with a bang. (Written for The Horror/Halloween Competition)
Alternatively Titled: 《How The Boyfriend Was Revealed To The (Almost) [Ex-]boyfriend (And Vice Versa)》 Companion fic to Winter Solace. Written as entry fic for The Great Maze Challenge / Competition
The first rebellion failed. Their successors tried again. This time, though, it was not just straightforward swords, spears, shields, arrows and democratic. This time, unseen, other forces, dark forces, were gathering too. A storm was imminent - and if the throne is not returned to its rightful owner, it would grow to become a hurricane no one would survive. Full summary inside.
There was a girl in the photo, smiling at the camera. The blonde had a bag slung over her shoulder, holding her left hand up in a victory sign. She was hugging a copy of "A Tale of Two Cities" with her right arm. Her stormy grey eyes sparkled with intelligence and humour, glittering with life.
The importance of reading a book, especially one about the physiology of your kind, all the way through.
It was only supposed to be just one day in someone else's life. When the time was 3:59 and he couldn't get back, though, Nico started to realise just how much can go wrong when you climb through the looking glass without looking to make sure that this was a two-way passageway first. (NaNoWriMo 2014 Winner)
Vegas was their story, theirs to keep and theirs to tell. So, what happened in Vegas? No one really knows. And they would like to keep it that way.
"In the end, I was the only one he had ever come back home to." [Written for the Randomly Generated Prompt Competition and The Variety Challenge.]
Collection of entries for The Great Maze Challenge/Competition
There's someone outside the window, Nico says. He says it with so much conviction that it was hard not to believe him. The problem, though, is that their apartment was on the seventh floor.