Published October 3, 2024 • One-shot • 1286 words
You might live, we vegetate someplace beyond all reason.
You'll do what you think you have to. We'll all make bad choices in Hell.
Published October 20, 2024 • 2 chapters • 3101 words
I used to be quite happy, just letting my love drift by.
It's not until you're in love that you know you're going to die.
War Machine's days are pretty set in routine; you know, the regular. Eating, sleeping, killing people. Ignoring the elephant in the room. There's one in every family. But when it's Painter who specifically requests their help with a bit of a Sebastian-related problem... well, maybe W.M. can't always avoid thinking about their feelings.
Published August 31, 2024 • 4 chapters • 5788 words
Escape, or die. There are no other options.
There is nothing left.
The crystal has been retrieved. Their makers have returned, seeking to restore order to their engine of creation. It is imperative that their mission proper does not come to pass, or, at the very least, that their creation — or creations — might secure their future beyond the walls of this hell.
Published September 3, 2024 • 2 chapters • 6025 words
When the seabirds come and they will know the names of everyone I loved—
Freedom is a strange taste. Not everyone is happy with the risks with which it was won.
Published September 6, 2024 • One-shot • 2120 words
You savor your dying breath — well, I forgive, but I don't forget.
The two sides of their mind have come to an impasse; great death, and great beast (who, perhaps, is less beastly than they'd like to admit even to themselves). One wants the other to stay. One will not leave intact. One does not want to leave intact.
Published November 4, 2024 • 3 chapters • 6815 words
How can we say what we mean?
How can we learn to believe?
Sebastian and W.M. are both two sides of the same stubborn, stubborn coin, but that's really the least of any of their problems.