AU. Kontum, South Vietnam, 1968. 'One time, in line for chow at Firebase Merryman, Macmillan from Echo Three whispered to Black, "I like Moony and all, but you think you've seen all the way to the bottom of it and come out alright until you look at his eyes, and you realize he's way down deeper than you, and he's seen it, he's seen that there is no bottom."'

"That summer was when the odd thing happened; or rather, two odd things happened, except that the first thing shaped all the disorganized fragments of Lily into a brilliant, sense-making whole, and the second thing slid just a few pillars of reality out of precise alignment."

Remus Lupin recovers from a stroke of good fortune, and finds San Luis Obispo near closing time for the dream. 1970s California AU.

James/Lily, October of '81."They looked at each other—her reddish eyes, the unspoken evidence of private turmoil, and his glasses patterned with baby fingerprints—and laughed at the colossal thing that had mushroomed up between them, like an invisible city or a woolly mammoth..."

As a young woman, Hope Howell married a wizard, Lyall Lupin, and chose to live as a relatively powerless Muggle in a world of magic. Her journey in the wizarding world gradually evolves from whimsical fantasy to bittersweet reality. This is a story of magic, motherhood, marriage, and a little boy named Remus.

March of '98. While Harry longs for the Hallows and Ron tries to make up for his betrayal, Hermione does the actual work: cleaning, cooking, mending, and growing up much faster than she wanted to.

July, '95. Harry's worst ever summer. Against a backdrop of Tory suburbia, royal divorce, Britpop, hip hop and war in the former Yugoslavia, Harry is sticking it out through a summer plagued by the twin demons of trauma and puberty. He's going to be okay—just not this year.

James/Lily. January of '78. "When Lily Evans first scowled at him, his brain lit up like a slot machine, and when she said, "I despise you," he heard, PLEASE PLAY AGAIN. Her wild red hair signalled to him like three cherries in a row."

Two characters negotiate terms in the wee hours of the night, never to meet again: a father still paying for a single, life-altering mistake, and an alienated teenage boy, on the verge of making his own. When Lyall Lupin makes a personal appeal on behalf of his son, Severus Snape wants more than gratitude in exchange for his silence.

Poem fic, set the morning of November 2, 1981. "Ersatz cobwebs cloak/doorknockers and railings. Here is the boy/in a blanket on a stoop beneath the eaves where mice lived."

Harry returns to the Forbidden Forest to take his Golden Snitch and leave the Resurrection Stone. A story about losing, keeping, and letting go.

Summer of '73. Over the course of several days, Remus Lupin navigates through the murky swamp between childhood and adolescence, aided by his first and most precarious of friendships. Twenty years on, he finds that muddy water runs deep.

July 31st, 1980 was a very curious night, indeed. The news of young Mr. Potter's birth, though technically secret, made its way from hidden cottages to private meetings all across the country through a network magic and spittle. 100% canon compliant, including Pottermore and interview details.

PreRent. Things are coming apart. Maureen undergoes a procedure and watches Mark struggle to deal with Roger and April's addiction at the cost of neglecting his own personal life. MarkMaureen.