Femgenficathon

Title: Legacy of Power
Author: second_batgirl
Fandom: Power Rangers
Rating: G
Prompt: 87 - I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done....I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past. -- Clara Barton (1821-1912), American nurse, teacher, federal worker, activist for women's suffrage, black civil rights and abolition of slavery, and founder and organizer of the Red Cross.
Summary: Each Ranger will define herself in her own way.
Author's Notes: Many thanks to queenriley, wizefics and harmonyangel for looking this over.

Legacy of Power

Title: The Other Path
Author: laleia
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating/Warnings: PG-13, No warnings, I think
Characters/Pairings: Hermione Granger, canon pairings
Prompt: I am, was, and always will be a catalyst for change. -- Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005), African-American politician, author, teacher at Mount Holyoke College and public speaker. First African-American woman elected to Congress (1968). First African-American Presidential candidate from a major party and first woman to run for the Democratic Presidential nomination (1972).
Summary: When they gossip about her in the streets, she holds her tongue and promises to herself that they will see.
Author's Notes: Thanks a bunch to my betas, theladyrose, darklightluna, shadows_rising

( It's because she's weak, they whisper as she walks past. )

Title: Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it
Author: used_songs 
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: swearing, dark themes, death
Prompt: Prompt: 72) I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace. -- Josephine Baker (1906-1975), African-American expatriate singer, dancer and actress.
Summary: Suzie Costello has come back and she has no intention of leaving.
Author's Notes: Thank you to my betas blue_fjords , redsnake05 , and santousha  who helped make this fic what it is.


( Truth )

Posting for FemGen 2009 is now open!

I can't wait to see what everyone has written.

(And don't worry if you haven't finished the story yet. You've got till October 1 to post.)

Title: Finally Growing Wise
Author: minkhollow
Fandom: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: brief violence and a few odd moral compasses
Prompt: 124) It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.-- Mary Renault (1905-1983), English author of contemporary and historical novels, and non-fiction.
Summary: Penny can't say what the world's coming to, when a jewel thief is asking her for help against the Evil League of Evil and both of the new guys in her life have surprisingly nasty sides to them, but either way, she suspects her life just got a lot more interesting - and that she can't just ignore this one until it goes away.
Author's Notes: I've wanted to do Penny backstory that isn't a roster of her dating history for a while now, and this ficathon is the perfect place for that. We go AU shortly after Act I, though there are a couple situational spoilers and lines from Act II in the mix. Thanks to gehayi and quinby for beta-reading.

( Finally Growing Wise )
(Or, if you want, you can read it on my Dreamwidth fic journal.)

Every prompt has been taken.

I'd like to thank everyone who signed up. I'm really looking forward to seeing what stories come out of this.

So here's the sign-up post for the femgenficathon.

The ficathon is multifandom. It is also an open ficathon. You can write in any fandom you like, about any canonical woman you like. I hope this will make it easy on the participants.

(Also, I have a feeling that a lot of stories never get written because no one ever asks for them in fic exchanges. This is your chance to to write the story you've thought of writing--maybe DREAMED of writing--but that no one ever requests.)

There will be prompts. More about that after the rules.

What's acceptable and what's not are both spelled out in the rules.

The due dates--first and last--are both mentioned in the rules.

Here are the rules. Read them carefully before you sign up.

( RULES )

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Now. Prompts.

This year I did something a little different. I realized this year that I didn't really know who a lot of the women being quoted were. So I started doing some research in order to include some information about them with the quotations. I checked websites belonging to some of them, fansites about them and their work, sites on particular subjects (like early aviators, Nobel Prize winners, women scientists, ancient history and medieval history), art museums, online copies of medieval books, letters and operas, a plethora of quotation sites, Uppity Women of Medieval Times, Uppity Women of the Renaissance...and yes, Wikipedia and Wikiquotes.

To get these hundred and fifty-one quotations, I researched five hundred names, if not more. I learned a lot. I found women of every time, place, nationality and race, ranging from women of the twentieth and twenty-first century to Chinese artists and Sumerian priestesses. I found women I'd never heard of before, and I quoted them. I found many, many women who had done a great deal in life, but who--regrettably--had left no words behind, let alone translated or quotable ones.

And in almost every case--whatever the location, whatever the era--I found women who accomplished not only one thing, but many things.

So here is the list of numbers. Pick a number and get a quotation. I won't be closing the list until all the quotations have been chosen.

But bear in mind--these are the only quotations. Once these are gone, they're gone. I don't have any backups.

***

( List of Prompts )

If you have any questions, ask them in the comments, and I will do my best to answer them.

Good luck to all of you! I hope that some excellent stories come from this!

Updated April 5, 2009 9:00 PM EDT

In two days, femgenficathon is starting again!

Hello. In less than a month, it will be time to sign up for Femgenficathon V. However, I'm wondering if it would make more sense to shorten the deadlines--that July to October is too long a posting time. And so I'm asking you when you want the posting period to be.

Sorry that there is no "TICKY BOX!" option.

Poll #1361705
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Signups for FemGen will start in April. When would you rather post stories?

Title: Phoenix (4/4)
Author: nam_jai
Fandom: Charmed
Characters: Bianca, Lynn, Wyatt Halliwell
Rating: PG
Prompt: 88) We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Summary: In the changed future, Bianca lives on -- and must still choose between evil and good, between her heritage and a new path.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

( Chapter 4 )

Title: Phoenix (3/4)
Author: nam_jai
Fandom: Charmed
Characters: Bianca, Lynn, Wyatt Halliwell
Rating: PG
Prompt: 88) We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Summary: In the changed future, Bianca lives on -- and must still choose between evil and good, between her heritage and a new path.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

( Chapter 3 )

Title: Phoenix (2/4)
Author: nam_jai
Fandom: Charmed
Characters: Bianca, Lynn, Wyatt Halliwell
Rating: PG
Prompt: 88) We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Summary: In the changed future, Bianca lives on -- and must still choose between evil and good, between her heritage and a new path.

Chapter 1

( Chapter 2 )

Title: Phoenix (1/4)
Author: nam_jai
Fandom: Charmed
Characters: Bianca, Lynn, Wyatt Halliwell
Rating: PG
Prompt: 88) We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Summary: In the changed future, Bianca lives on -- and must still choose between evil and good, between her heritage and a new path.
Author's Notes: My apologies for how terribly late this is, and thank you to gehayi for allowing me to post it now. Thanks to orchida for the beta.

( Chapter 1 )

Title: The Hands of a Healer
Author: lazy_neutrino
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Prompt: 53) In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. -- Mary Renault.
Summary: She has no children, and thousands of children. Pomona Sprout. Thanks to kennahijja for her beta work. All remaining errors are mine. Dedicated to stick_around and themolesmother. Thanks to gehayi for allowing me to post it so late.

( The Hands of a Healer )

Title: Learning Curve
Author: amaresu
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mild violence
Prompt: 32) I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. -- Harriet Tubman.
Summary: "Jenny was learning that there was more to overthrowing an oppressive world government than running. This was something that her dad and Donna had failed to mention to her, but she was a quick learner."
A/N: Thanks to dramaturgca for the beta!

( Learning Curve )

title: Into the Underworld
author: rose_griffes
fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
rating and warnings: PG; swearing
prompt: #57 There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride. -- Helen Hunt Jackson.
summary: Maybe Maggie's already in Hades.
author's note: Thanks to pataka02 and jashyr for beta-reading. (daybreak777 also gave useful advice.) Spoilers through 4.10. Story contains some dialogue from episodes 2.08 'Final Cut,' 3.03 'Exodus, part I' and 4.10 'Revelation'

( Into the Underworld )

Title: I Bequeath To You
Author: mindabbles
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Characters: Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, Isla Black, Walburga Black, Minerva McGonagall, Madam Rosmerta, Nymphadora Tonks, Lily Potter (jr), Rose Weasley.
Prompt: Prompt #85: What matters it if they do forget the singer, so they don't forget the song. -- Frances Watkins Harper
Summary: When you come to join me, leave it behind. It belongs here and to our daughters yet to come who will be in need of it as you are now.

The characters are JKR's. Thank you so much to elizassecret for the beta and answering my many questions. Thank you as well to gryffindor_j for suggesting what the object should be. Smooches to you both. Thank you to gehayi for running this lovely fest and for being so kind when I told her that I am an idiot who doesn't know what day it is.


(  The afternoon sun cast long shadows that stretched across the hospital wing. )

Title: Contrariwise
Author: wizefics
Fandom: Burn Notice
Characters: Fiona, Fiona/OMC, Fiona/Michael
Prompt: 47) I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands. -- Judith Jamison.
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Violence and hinted sexual situations.
Summary: Fiona Glenanne, in all her glory.
Disclaimer: I don't own Burn Notice and don't make money doing this.
A/N: Written for femgenficathon, for which I am terribly late posting. Also written for prompt 002. Heart at 10_fics. I owe many thanks to strangevisitor7 and sabaceanbabe for the betas and suggestions. It's a better story because of them. Any and all mistakes or failings that remain are mine, all mine.

As always, feedback is welcome and appreciated!

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Contrariwise

We have a few changes.

First, there are now links to all four Master Lists at the top of the Femgenficathon page AND on the profile.

Second, we have a new graphic. A multifandom graphic. There's also a key in the profile identifying each of the women pictured.

Many, many thanks to erastes for all of her hard work. I really appreciate it.

Title: Merenthoth
Author: Quinby
Fandom: Lord Meren Mysteries
Rating: PG for Ancient Egyptian Swearing
Warnings: None. Well, warning for... history?
Prompt: Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken--Abigail Adams
Summary: Bener hates to be left out of things. This fic has been through so very many different iterations. It tried to be Bare, Iron Man, and Ender's Game, but finally settled here. The Lord Meren series is a lovely out-of-print series set during the reign of King Tut. Thanks to my lovely minkhollow for the beta, and apologies for the lateness. My life is shit at the moment.

( Bener can always tell when something's up. )

Title: Biker Bars and Pregnancy Tests
Author: tammy_moore
Fandom: Lisa: Supernatural
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Prompt: 119) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee
Summary: The truth isn't always the best policy.

 

( Biker Bars and Pregnancy Tests )

Here it is--the Master List!

Yes, I'll be adding stories to this; I know that some people will be submitting late. But these are the stories that are in so far, and they're superb, every one of them. And what a lot of new and rare fandoms there were to read this time!

Wonderful, magnificent job, all of you. Thank you for making this ficathon such a success. I feel both honored and flattered.

***

( Master List for Femgenficathon 2008 )

Title: Wakening from the Dreaming Forest There
Author: athenejen
Fandom: Pamela Dean – Tam Lin
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Prompt: 92) Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought. -- Mary Lyon. Interestingly, the essence of the story turned out to be the exact opposite of this sentiment, in a way.
Summary: In which Peg is pursued, and decides.
Author’s Notes: Enormous thanks to farwing for her super-speedy, helpful beta, and to gehayi for organizing this round of femgenficathon. The title and cut tag are from the poem “Lost in the Forest,” by Pablo Neruda. The concept of this fic was very loosely inspired by the stories of Daphne and Metis from Greek mythology. It is one possible version of Peg Powell’s story, and may not make much sense if you haven’t read the book. The style and structure are both a bit experimental; all feedback and constructive criticism is welcomed and cherished.

~

( the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind )

Title: In A World She Never Made
Author: biichan
Fandom: Big Finish Doctor Who audios, crossed-over with Torchwood
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers for all but the latest Charley audio from Big Finish and for S2 of Torchwood
Prompt: 67) Time...is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett.
Summary: Stranded in the twentieth-first century, nearly eighty years after she ought to have died, Charley Pollard begins to make a new life for herself. (st_aurafina, persiflage_1 and ionlylurkhere were my betas.)

In A World She Never Made

Title: The Affairs of Dragons
Author: Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Rating: G
Prompt: #68 - The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. -- Ivy Baker Priest.
Summary: In which Morwen loses her house, meets a princess and a knight, does a favor for the king of the dragons, makes a new friend, and finds a new home, all within two days. This story uses some of my personal backstory for Morwen, but it should be perfectly comprehensible to anyone who's read Patricia C. Wrede's books... and, hopefully, even to people who haven't. Thanks to uminohikari and sirena_lune for the lightning-fast beta!

part 1

( The Affairs of Dragons, part 2 )

The End

Title: The Affairs of Dragons
Author: Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Rating: G
Prompt: #68 - The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. -- Ivy Baker Priest.
Summary: In which Morwen loses her house, meets a princess and a knight, does a favor for the king of the dragons, makes a new friend, and finds a new home, all within two days. This story uses some of my personal backstory for Morwen, but it should be perfectly comprehensible to anyone who's read Patricia C. Wrede's books... and, hopefully, even to people who haven't. Thanks to uminohikari and sirena_lune for the lightning-fast beta!

( The Affairs of Dragons, part 1 )

part 2

Title: I’ve Come to Talk With You Again
Author: a_t_rain
Fandom: The Graduate
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Prompt: 6. Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. – Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Summary: Mrs. Robinson has a long-overdue conversation with Elaine.
Notes: Section headings are from Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bookends.” I meant this to be a follow-up to A Still-Life Watercolor of a Now-Late Afternoon, but somehow it ended up going in its own direction, with a rather different and less self-aware Mrs. Robinson.

( I've Come to Talk With You Again )

Title: In Her Blood
Author: calleigh_j
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Rating: G
Warnings: possible spoilers for the beginning of season three
Prompt: 33: The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is – Marguerite de Valois
Summary: Emily's always tried her hardest to keep out of politics, but in the end it's politics that gets her what she wants. Tons of thanks to mcgarrygirl78 for betaing this for me. All feedback is welcomed and appreciated

The more hidden the venom...

Title: Shattered
Author: aranel_took
Fandom: DC Comics - Green Lantern
Rating: G
Prompt: #127 - Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell.
Summary: Soranik Natu's life fell apart when she was chosen as a Green Lantern, but that's not always a bad thing. Thanks to juno_magic for looking this over for me!

Shattered

Title: Faces
Author: roh_wyn
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Prompt: 101–Why couldn't she have two lives, or why couldn't she be satisfied in one place?—Nella Larsen.
Summary: She wears too many faces to know which one is really hers.

( Faces )

Title: She Put in the 'Miss' in Misdemeanour
Author: rose_whispers
Fandom: Carmen Sandiego
Rating: G
Warnings: You might get a certain theme song stuck in your head...
Prompt: 39) Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking. -- Katharine Hepburn.
Summary: "You should know that you're not the first intrepid reporter to approach me about an interview. You're just the first one I've agreed to." Thanks to my beta thescarletwoman and to gehayi for continuing to run this wonderful fest. It always bring out things in me that I never expected!

( She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize )

Title: Turning Tide
Author: cyloran
Fandom: The Dresden Files (tv-verse)
Characters: Winifred, Hrothbert
Prompt: 106. Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual. -- Virgilia Peterson
Word Count: 3,717
Rating: PG
Summary: Plans and machinations are everywhere.
Disclaimer: The Dresden Files do not belong to me. Just passing through.

( Turning Tide )

Title: Impressions
Author: opheliet 
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Some talk of abortion, canon character death
Prompt: 83- "The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years."
-Agatha Christie.
Summary: Just because she doesn't remember much, doesn't mean she forgot everything.

So many thanks and cupcakes to liseuse , who was a terrific beta. All mistakes are definitely mine.

Author: miss_morland 
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia
Rating: PG
Warnings: Canon character death.
Prompt: 134) We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. -- Anais Nin.
Summary: She is nine, twelve, fourteen, twenty; she is a little girl and she is a woman. Written for the 2008 femgenficathon  fest. Massive thanks to redsnake05  for beta reading - all remaining errors are mine.

Link to LJ.

Title: Bicentennial
Author: anonymous_sibyl
Fandom(s)/Character(s): Mad Men, Betty
Rating: PG
Prompt: Written for the femgenficathon: I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. -- Lillian Hellman.
Completed: September 29, 2008
Summary: Betty Draper and the notable women of 1976.
Author’s Note: Thanks to inlovewithnight and romanticalgirl for looking this over. Any mistakes are mine.
Disclaimer: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. None of the media or characters written about in my fanfiction belong to me and I make no profit from these works.

Bicentennial

Title: Send It All In A Letter To Myself
Author: skylar_inari
Rating: PG-13ish
Fandom: Naruto
Word Count: 1129
Prompt: 3) 3) I worshipped dead men for their strength,/Forgetting I was strong. -- Vita Sackville-West.
Summary: Letters, memories, and decisions. Thinking hard, or hardly thinking? Ino runs.
Author Notes: AUish/Future-fic. Prompt used. I don't own Naruto or any of the characters from Naruto. Kishimoto does. Thanks to rushin_doll for the beta.

( Send It All In A Letter To Myself )

Title: Struggles Unknown
Author: bofoddity
Fandom: The Dark Knight
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Prompt: 71. Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it. -- Amelia Earhart. (Used vaguely if at all.)
Summary: Rachel Dawes was somebody who tried.
Notes: Thanks to windrider1 for taking a look at this.

( Struggles Unknown )

Title: Comfortable Streets
Author: liseuse
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG13
Warnings: None.
Prompt: 56) A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country. -- Mary Astor.
Summary: After that dreadful incident before the last battle where can Pansy Parkinson go? More importantly, where can she feel at home? What does home even mean in these dark days?
All my thanks go to my wonderful beta aunty_marion who did a fantastic job. All mistakes are, obviously, my own.

( Comfortable Streets )

Title: Facts and Fictions
Author: i_am_girlfriday
Fandom: Twilight
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of rape, murder, suicide, mental illness, and anorexia. (My, that's cheerful!) Spoilers through Breaking Dawn.
Prompt: 12) The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. -- Margaret Drabble.
Summary: Three quarters of a century after her own death, Rosalie Hale finally learns the facts and fictions of life.
Author’s Notes: I wanted to give more attention to Rosalie than her creator ever did. Thanks to my beta nebakanezer for all the encouragement.

( Read more... )

Title: Getting Awfully Important
Author: snowballjane
Fandom: White Boots by Noel Streatfeild (aka Skating Shoes)
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Harriet and Lalla make it to the World Championships... eventually

Author's note: I'm going away on holiday tomorrow, so I may not be able to reply to comments for a week or so.

( your chances of becoming a champion skater are much less than one in a thousand )

Title: Chloe Liked Olivia
Author: marinarusalka
Fandom: Iron Man movieverse
Rating: PG
Warnings: Some swearing, minor violence
Prompt: 115) There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augues not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgement. -- Pamela Hansford Johnson. Okay, so the story ended up totally unrelated to the prompt except in so far as it inspired me to focus on two characters who canonically don't like each other.
Summary: One is the personal assistant to a billionaire-playboy-turned-superhero. The other is an ambitious journalist with a political conscience. Together, they fight crime!
Author's Notes: Thanks to dotfic for the beta. Title taken from Chapter 5 of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.

( This way to the fic. )

Title: The Rotfang Conspiracy Files
Author: cranberry_crash
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Warnings: Vague Deathly Hallows spoilers
Prompt: 54) The trouble with man is twofold. He cannot learn the truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. -- Rebecca West.

Summary: Twenty very short stories about how Hermione Granger got her groove back. Thanks to DS for the beta. Harry Potter etc. belong to JK Rowling.

( The dental floss is a red herring. )

Title: Leaving L.A.
Author: slowmercury
Fandom / Character: Angel / Kate Lockley
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Prompt: 48) Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. -- Han Suyin
Summary: After losing her job with the LAPD, Kate needs to rebuild her life.
Notes: You shouldn't need to be familiar with the fandom to understand this fic. Also, my beta amathela is amazing. She seriously tightened this fic up.

( Read more... )

Title: Circles in the Water
Author: lareinenoire
Fandom / Character: Shakespeare, first history tetralogy / Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Nothing explicit, but a very high body count. Spoilers for all three parts of Henry VI, Richard III, and the last forty years of the fifteenth century.
Prompt: #9. Guard your honour. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Summary: 'Long die thy happy days before thy death, / And, after many length'ned hours of grief, / Die neither mother, wife, nor England's Queen!' (R3 I.iii.206-8) The curse was not meant for her, but Fortune's wheel cared not for intentions.
Wordcount: 6971 (excluding notes)
Notes: This is not historically accurate. It takes as its basis Shakespeare's version of the fifteenth century though I have tried at points to compromise between Shakespeare and reality. Since the Duchess is absent during the three parts of Henry VI, I have taken some minor liberties with the text, and added elements from Edward Hall's Chronicle, Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia, Thomas More's History of King Richard III, and The Mirror for Magistrates. There are more detailed notes marked throughout. Many thanks to rosamund and angevin2 for beta-reading my several thousand drafts.

( It was said that time ran in circles, that the deeds of men were no more than points on blind Fortune's wheel. )
( Notes )

Title: One Step Ahead
Author: ulkis
Fandom: Roswell
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Prompt: 26) I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was. -- Shirley Hufstedler.
Summary: Post season 3. Three years after graduation, some of the group start to get weary of hiding. Approx. 2000 words.
Author's Notes: Nothing from "Roswell" belongs to me and I make no money off of it. As always, thanks to my beta angeepang, who is so dependable she'll help me out even when she's across the Atlantic.

( If someone had asked her whether Liz Parker and Maria DeLuca were her friends, Isabel didn't know if she could say yes with one hundred percent certainty )

Title: No-one Belonging
Author: bluflamingo
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: PG
Prompt: 30) There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. -- Pearl Bailey.
Summary: Moving on in a world that's changed; set post-The Storm/The Eye

No-one Belonging

Title: With Bitter Joy, the Sound of Wings

Author: rivrea

Fandom: Farscape

Rating: PG

Warnings: None, but maybe I should point out that this is only mostly gen. A few references to a canonical love interest and a canonical baby did slip in, although they aren't the focus of the story.

Prompt: 82) Rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them. -- Sarah Josepha Hale. (Didn't use it, though.)

Summary: Ten fixed-length ficlets about spaceships and Officer Aeryn Sun. Title taken from a poem which the wisdom of the Internet ascribes to Amelia Earheart. It seemed appropriate, in a way.

Disclaimer: Not mine, alas.

Follow the link.

Title: We have no choice but to carry on
Author: minkhollow/sto_helit_lace
Fandom: Iron Man (film)
Rating: PG
Warnings: a very few instances of swearing, and minor spoilers for the beginning of the film
Prompt: 42) The public will believe anything, as long as it is not founded on truth. -- Edith Sitwell
Summary: The center of her universe is missing, and another lynchpin is looking for him - but Pepper Potts is not suited to inaction, and Stark Industries isn't waiting up for Tony.
Title courtesy of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; fandom courtesy/property of Marvel. Thanks to quinby for the beta-read.

( We have no choice but to carry on )

Title: Out from the Shadow-Lands
Author: Cirolane
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Some gore in chapter 5. Spoilers for all seven books.
Prompt: 108) If I waited to be right before I spoke, I would be sending little cryptic messages on the Ouija board, complaints from the other side. -- Audre Lorde

Summary: “The morning was grey. When she looked out the window, it looked as if someone had forgotten to put the colour on this day.” After the death of her family, Susan tries to cope.

AN: Elecktrum is awesome, and with out her this would read horribly. Thanks for the beta, E! Last chapter!

(Chapter 1)
(Chapter 2)
(Chapter 3)
(Chapter 4)
(Chapter 5)

( Epilogue: )

Title: Out from the Shadow-Lands
Author: Cirolane
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Some gore in chapter 5. Spoilers for all seven books.
Prompt: 108) If I waited to be right before I spoke, I would be sending little cryptic messages on the Ouija board, complaints from the other side. -- Audre Lorde

Summary: “The morning was grey. When she looked out the window, it looked as if someone had forgotten to put the colour on this day.” After the death of her family, Susan tries to cope.

AN: Elecktrum is awesome, and with out her this would read horribly. Thanks for the beta, E!

(Chapter 1)
(Chapter 2)
(Chapter 3)
(Chapter 4)

( Chapter 5: )

(Epilogue)