Title: Switchboard Of The Soul
Storyline: Far Away
Prompt: Writer's Choice: Never Stop Trying [Prompt Ninety-Seven]
Rating: PG-13
Summary: “Once more into the breach, friends! Tell me, how do you boys fancy a drive in a sleek, black automobile?”
Note: Inspired by the wonderful film Strange Days.

( He liked to burn things... )

Title: Sing To Verdi's Grave
Storyline: Far Away
Prompt: Writer's Choice: The Way I Remember It [Prompt Ninety-Six]
Rating: PG-13
Summary: “Look at me, Wallace! I’m Mozart!”

( Enter the room with great caution... )

Title: Worn By The Weather
Storyline: Far Away
Prompt: Ever After [Prompt Ninety-Five]
Rating: PG-13
Summary: “Do you want me to be the da that takes you out to Central Park on Sundays while your mother sits idly by on a bench twirling her parasol?! You don’t know the meaning of the word gratitude, do you?” He was speaking in a low whisper so as not to wake up Henry and Wallace, but it still made Quinn gulp. “Do you, boy?”

( And I'll lie here forever... )

Title: Father Of Mine
Storyline: Far Away
Prompt: The Path and the Walker [Prompt Ninety-Four]
Rating: PG, I suppose
Summary: “Yes, and when you grow up, travel and have babies with your wife of choice,” he couldn’t help adding.

( There's worse ways to see it... )

Title: ‘Til My Parents Should Wish Me Dead
Storyline: Far Away
Prompt: Pavement Cracks [Prompt Ninety-Three]
Rating: PG-13 for violence
Summary: “Everything books teach you about war is wrong. It’s not something to be proud of, being a soldier. They only buy soldiers drinks in bars because they just happened to live.”

( “I want to be like you when I grow up...” )

 Title: ...this one doesn't have a title...
Storyline: He/She
Prompt: Shee [085]
Rating: PG-13 for a lack of childproof containers.
Summary: The higher we climb, the further we have to fall. *~The Formation, Fin~*

 Title: Gone, baby, gone.
Storyline: He/She
Prompt: He [084]
Rating: PG-13 for a lack of childproof containers.
Summary: Ail knows he shouldn't be here.

Title: Now we all know that I don't actually title these.
Storyline: The Minotaur
Prompt: #74 Confrontation
Rating: PG-13 for my tendency to not notice swearing
Summary: Pasiphae and Asterion.


Title: Now we all know that I don't actually title these.
Storyline: The Minotaur
Prompt: #75 One More Chance
Rating: PG-13 for my tendency to not notice swearing
Summary: This ficlet blends with the next one to make one section of the chapter; up until this point each ficlet has been its own section, but now that we're closer to the end, more of them will blend into one section. Somewhere in the late 80s and early 90s there's a group of four or five prompts all made into one section, which'll probably be made into its own chapter. Also, I've finally gotten eveyrthing planned out to the end! Go me! Icarus is emo.


Title: Now we all know that I don't actually title these.
Storyline: The Minotaur
Prompt: #76 Broken
Rating: PG-13 for my tendency to not notice swearing
Summary: And here is where things start to get awesome.


Title: Now we all know that I don't actually title these.
Storyline: The Minotaur
Prompt: #77 What
Rating: PG-13 for my tendency to not notice swearing
Summary: And now there is officially a romantic aspect to the story. Hooray for Lucille and Icarus! They're finally a real ship!


Title: Now we all know that I don't actually title these.
Storyline: The Minotaur
Prompt: #78 Where
Rating: PG-13 for my tendency to not notice swearing
Summary: Now for less happy things, like Daedalus.

Title: Someone Shows That He Cares
Storyline: Far Away
Prompt: Sleep [Prompt Ninety-Two]
Rating: PG-13 for language and mature themes
Summary: “Ma always told my sister to look out for the birds because they were like us…like Kellen and I.”

( Their young ones are hungry, their nests are so bare... )

Title: Vapor On The Air
Storyline: Far Away
Prompt: Out Of Focus [Prompt Ninety-One]
Rating: PG-13 for language
Summary: “What form of punishment would you prefer the next time you insult my cooking? Do you want Sweeney Todd to bake you into a pie?” He put the pot over the fire and waited for it to boil. “Or would you prefer for me to read from a volume of Lord Byron? Or do you want my knife at your throat?”

( In his left hand, he held his pistol and, on a whim, fired into the air and grinned boyishly... )

Title: If Angels Could Prevail
Storyline: Far Away
Prompt: Puppetstrings [Prompt Ninety]
Genre: Historical fiction
Rating: PG-13 for sexuality and language
Summary: In the small flat he’d rented just outside Norwich, he turned her to face him, kissed the black shadows of insomnia under her eyes—insomnia caused by his brother and her husband—and couldn’t fathom anyone more perfect.

( When my hands and my tongue and my thoughts were enough... )

 Title: Now we all know that I don't actually title these.
Storyline: The Minotaur
Prompt: #73 Eyes
Rating: PG-13 for my tendency to not notice swearing
Summary: Icarus wakes up. VERY SAD. Things involving Icarus are going to be rather angsty for a bit. They get better soon, and then we get to deal with all this Unresolved Sexual Tension!

Title: Now we all know that I don't actually title these.
Storyline: The Minotaur
Prompt: #72 Serenity
Rating: PG-13 for my tendency to not notice swearing
Summary:  Back to Pasiphae; we have to pay some attention to her now that she's back. Don't worry; she'll be gone soon. :D

Title: Now we all know that I don't actually title these.
Storyline: The Minotaur
Prompt: #70 Storm
Rating: PG-13 for my tendency to not notice swearing
Summary: Pasiphae returns to the forefront for the first time in bloody ages.

Title: Now we all know that I don't actually title these.
Storyline: The Minotaur
Prompt: #69 Flight
Rating: PG-13 for my tendency to not notice swearing
Summary: Icarus in the Labyrinth in freak-out mode.

Title: The Thick Of Things
Storyline: Far Away
Prompt: Strangers [Prompt Eighty-Nine]
Genre: Historical fiction
Rating: PG-13 for violence and language
Summary: “Pretend,” Quinn said viciously, glaring at them both in a way that reminded Wallace of Patrick. If Patrick really had been the father of the three boys, Quinn would have been the most like him.

( He had a big one and felt like a man again... )

Title: Perhaps Pleasure First...
Storyline: Far Away
Prompt: This Place [Prompt Eighty-Eight]
Rating: PG-13 for mature themes
Summary: A voice, obviously full of pain, almost a moan, reached his ears over the ocean roar. Biting his lower lip, he ignored the sound, the girl’s—it had to be a girl—voice…until he heard it again. “Wallace, I’m bleeding, I’m hurting…”
Author's Note: Never give me a prompt to fit a dream sequence when I'm half-asleep myself. That aside, I'm proud of this. ^_^ My friend suggested I write about mountains, so this is what happened.

Crossposted to stayintheroom.

( It was strange, this odd in-between feeling of indifference to his solitude and expecting another person to come... )

Title: Thieves Like Us
Storyline: Far Away
Prompt: Beneath These Hands [Prompt Eighty-Seven]
Genre: Historical fiction
Rating: PG-13 for language
Summary: “Nothing’s fair, Quinn,” Wallace replied from just outside the door. “At least…I have yet to find proof that life ever is fair.”

( Somewhere in Bruges, Belgium, Patrick Kitterin was bored... )

Title: Proud Of Our Manner
Storyline: Far Away
Prompt: Inner Space [Prompt Eighty-Six]
Genre: Historical fiction
Rating: PG-13 for language and sexual references
Summary: Times were different now and Henry knew that would always be the norm.
Author's Note: Yes, there were English translations of Dangerous Liaisons (its English title at the time was Dangerous Acquaintances) by Choderlos de Laclos published in 1898. I figured it wouldn't take much for Wallace to get a copy in the present time, 1912.

( A new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family... )