Please be kind, I'm very self-conscious about my writing, especially ship fanfiction. This was written in October 2019, so my writing may not look the same. Taking place pre-Turnabout Beginnings/Turnabout Memories, during both cases, and post-Turnabout Beginnings/Memories. Post-first game, even. The third game was... barely non-existent and there was only so much of the first game that could've been so much different. What happened during the time Dahlia and Phoenix were dating? We know from canon that him and Dahlia only met twice. How was he unable to tell the difference between Dahlia and Iris? What would've happened if Dahlia never poisoned Diego post-Turnabout Beginnings? An "alternate universe" where Mia never died, Diego was never poisoned, and Phoenix...? Well, let's just say his and Dahlia's relationship sank -- just like the canon universe. The beginning of the story starts at the end of Beginnings. It reverses back to before that afterwards, when we'll find out about why the trial went the way it did. [Canon dialogue is placed in the story. I don't take credit for that.] [Based on the song "Two Birds" by Regina Spektor.]

I wrote a, we'll say, 98% canon-compliant Miego long-fic called Turnabout Courtship. It followed the pair from Mia's hiring at Grossberg Law Offices to 6 months after Trials & Tribulations. Since I had many ideas for scenes that I didn't include in my long-fic for pacing reasons, I decided to write and post those missing scenes as vignettes here. You don't have to read TC to understand these vignettes although there are some original characters and head canons from that story. Note: All vignettes can be read independently from one other and still make sense. I.e., You should be able to read any vignette and understand what's happening without reading the others. However, vignettes are enhanced by reading the others as there is continuity between pieces. Average Vignette Length = 2,125 words (10 minutes) Vignette Length Range = 549 words (3 minutes) to 7,200 words (32 minutes) Time Span of Vignettes = July 28th, 1984 - February 27th, 2019 Update: April 5, 2025. Completed a final revision of all vignettes. As usual with my edits, nothing significant has changed. Just piddly little copy edits for clarity.

The Brothers Karamazov, also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th-century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, judgment, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.

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For IB students who don't have the book The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal 'The Russian Messenger' in twelve monthly installments during 1866. Later, it was published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from 5 years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who formulates a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money. Before the killing, Raskolnikov believes that with the money he could liberate himself from poverty and go on to perform great deeds; but confusion, hesitation, and chance muddy his plan for a morally justifiable killing. Cover made by the amazing Amber @The3dreamers.