I touch the single hair on my head and hope that it never falls out

"Distances"
~4,900, PG13
all Doctors, some companions
Running fast to stand still, or the more things change the more they stay the same, or a series of vignettes about fish and possible nows.



( Orbits are a matter of force, or faith, the celestial conviction that the right place for a planet is precisely where it was one year ago, and you can take that to the bank. )

The Twirly Directional Thing

"Flip the Tape"
Eleven/Peri
NC-17 (saucy language, revenge-based pegging)
There comes a point in every Time Lord's life when he needs to accept the consequences of his actions. Sexually.

Note: Marginally cleaned-up kinkmeme fill. Thanks, anon!


( Places to see, things to go, people to do )

like humans do

Here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break
Eleven/Amy, R, ~2,000 words. It's a January-December sort of thing.
Spoilers up to "Vincent and the Doctor".



( Amy Pond wants to kiss him like it's the simplest thing in the world. )

c'mon now sugar

Nervous Circuits
Rory/TARDIS, R, ~1,000 words.
He's a 21st century human, she's an ancient Gallifreyan space-time ship. It would never work out, but that doesn't stop her trying.

Warning: dubcon


Note: Marginally cleaned up eleventy_kink story.

( I call this number for a data date )

It was the walk of a dead penguin

"This Penguin for Hire"
Six/Master (Ainley), Six/Frobisher, Frobisher/Master, Six/Six
PG-13 (birdpreg, violence, sexual harassment, mild kissyfacing)
~4,000 words
When it comes to political espionage, Frobisher is really not your man.


With apologies to Raymond Chandler and the world at large. Written for the best_enemies kinkmeme; it's all Anon's fault, I swear.

( Just put your beak together and blow. )

If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher.

"A Country of Smaller Wars"
Gallifrey, Narvin/Romana
~23,000 words
R (violence, sexual situations, ennui)
Spoilers through the end of season four.


Looking for home in all the wrong places: Narvin, professional voyeur and artful patriot, follows his ex-president, a con-man, and a savage through alternate universes only to find himself pretty much, but not quite, back where he started.

You are here and elsewhere, your face breeding like fear. It is not for nothing that I keep my hands raised for the fall. This is a country of smaller wars. ~ Stephen Dobyns, "Counterpoints"

1. Other People
2. Choose Any Direction
3. Last Call


( NOTES )

"A Country of Smaller Wars", 1/3

"A Country of Smaller Wars", 1/3 (Main page)
Gallifrey, Narvin/Romana
~23,000 words
R (violence, sexual situations, ennui)
Spoilers through the end of season four.

A spy is a tourist in other people's lives.



( The CIA has operatives everywhere. )

"A Country of Smaller Wars", 2/3

"A Country of Smaller Wars", 2/3 (Main page)
Gallifrey, Narvin/Romana
~23,000 words
R (violence, sexual situations, ennui)
Spoilers through the end of season four.

The Axis is where they keep all their mistakes.



( It's a city, which could be the Citadel, but isn't. It never is. )

"A Country of Smaller Wars", 3/3

"A Country of Smaller Wars", 3/3 (Main page)
Gallifrey, Narvin/Romana
~23,000 words
R (violence, sexual situations, ennui)
Spoilers through the end of season four.

The Chancellor has the worst job on Gallifrey.



( They're building a time machine. )

You Are Here

A Partial Map of Your TARDIS (Subject to Change)

SUMMARY: What it says on the tin.
GENRE: gen, 11th Doctor-era-ish
RATING: Totally safe for work or library viewing.
WARNING: large images and many of them.


( A limited cartography of unlimited space )

I'll be here with your drink at my table for two

"Mr. Teeth"
Amy/Jack, Eleven/Jack, R
Because the TARDIS is designed to facilitate one-night-stands.
original location

( She'd asked for a bar. Like in Star Wars, she'd said, all aliens and jaunty music and cocktails named after supernovas. )

a routine malaise

"Ampersand"
Goren/Eames
R for language, implied sexin'

A (mostly) honest examination of the pros and cons of sleeping with your partner. Comedy, sort of.


( The good times are killing me. )

the wolf at the gate

Albert Fish, New York City, 1934
L&O:CI, gen
~3,500 words
Have you ever noticed how death seems to follow you around? Written for the Halloweenathon.




( In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the Steamer Tacoma )

ruining it for everyone

"Armistice"
Criminal Intent
Ross/Goren
About things expectedly coming from left field. Post-s8, no particular spoilers
R-ish, ~5,300 words



A note. This is what we like to call 'self-indulgent fluff'. No apologies! Those of you who have me friended know where this came from. To everyone else: trust me, the subtext is there, I can provide notes if you're interested. I get a coupon for Amazon.com with every recruit to Team Ross/Goren. No kidding. Those still weirded out, rest assured that this is (mostly) comedy.


Another note: I got the information on how to distract bears from QI, so standard 'may not be true' disclaimers apply.



( Getting laid is good for morale. )

Darling, you're a mess

"Come and Go"
Goren/Eames, PG13
Summary: Wrapping up the loose ends and unraveling what you've already got. Post-"Frame".

Written for a challenge in cifans_unite.

( Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being. )

hooplas

"Magic Beans and Truth Machines"
Megan Wheeler and the indomitable Gorenandeames. Set during Season 6.
Wheeler/Goren, Wheeler/Eames

Note: Written in one go off this thread. No real point, just a Scenario.


( some courage and maybe some heart )

He told me once you could've gone either way.

"Movement"
A story about death, faith, and science, and making sense of it all. Set in and around season seven.
Gen, Goren&Eames with a side of Ross, rated M-ish



( The living are careful and oftentimes caring. The dead are careless, or maybe it's care-less. Either way, they don't care. These are unremarkable and verifiable truths. )

five arias

You Are Here
Character sketches, as per this challenge. 250 words each (no fudging).

( who do you think you are? )

I think your train is leaving

"Do the math" I heard him give out with once from the cab of his backhoe for no apparent reason. He was backfilling a grave in Milford Memorial. "You gonna make babies, you've gotta make some room; it's Biblical."

Or once, leaning on a shovel, waiting for the priest to finish: "Copulation, population, inspiration, expiration. It's all arithmetic—addition, multiplication, subtraction and long division. That's all we're doing here, just the math. Bottom line, we're buried a thousand per acre, or burned into two quarts of ashes, give or take."


- Thomas Lynch, Bodies in Motion and at Rest





"Arithmetic"
House/Cameron
Mortality and metaphor: The whole is not always greater than the sum of its parts.



She still cries when they die, just a little, enough to blur her vision and make her turn away, scrub at her face with her sleeve, when someone catches her. When House catches her. They don't die much, House is good at his job, she has to give him that. But once in a while, like it's a requirement, a patient will die (whether they know why or not) and she will quietly, quietly break down in a dark corner somewhere.

( It's just life, she knows that. Life, and death, and all of this is as it should be. She should be moving on, not smearing her makeup and trying hard not to remember which suit the undertakers slid onto her husband's body for the viewing. )

EXILE ON VINE ST.

"Channel Z"
House gen comedy
Turn on, tune in, cop out.





( WHERE'S MY UMBRELLA? )

like Dirty Harry

"Black Dogs"

House; Wilson gen.

( '...intersections between objects, the body and memory - ' )

rounding the horn

"Heart of Oak"
House/Chase, House/Wilson
PG-13 or so
In which there are bad jokes, sexual tension, and general unpleasantness. Chase has a problem with neediness.



( Simple and faithless as a smile and a shake of the hand. )

must be the devil between us

"Honestly"
House/Cameron


( I do not wish to be happy, and yes I do wish to be happy. )

lost that sense of balance

"The Night Swimmer"

House fic noir. Wilson's girlfriend is dead, and House is on the case. There's one thing to say about mankind: there's nothing kind about man.



( the lonely worlds that spin in space )

Being good isn't always easy.

"The Order"
Foreman&House - existentialism, initiation, and rebellion.






( House trusts him maybe more than he deserves, and that should be dangerous for both of them, but somehow it never goes quite as wrong as it could.  )

king of kings

the slow pace of the body that skin is
House/Wilson: the lone and level sands.

( the struggle of love in a dream )

My dreams are composed either by my mind or by chance.

"Traveler"
House/Chase, implied House/Stacy and House/Cameron.




Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.


- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities




( On fine afternoons the living population pays a visit to the dead and they decipher their own names on their stone slabs. )

I've got a terrible tongue and a temper for two

"Turncoats"
House gen. On infidelity and history.
( I've got a terrible tongue and a temper for two. )