"Semester Abroad" is a story from bestselling author Simon Rich's latest collection Spoiled Brats. About the Book: Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price. From "one of the funniest writers in America"* comes a collection of stories culled from t...
Introduction: Would You Want to Know? This is How You Die: Hematoma This is How You Die: Murder This is How You Die: Under Collapsing Shelf This is How You Die: After Many Years, Stops Breathing, With a Smile on Face
a collection of barneswald one-shots and ficlets. (grab a tissue, folks. or two. or twenty.)
Before SHIELD, Natasha and Clint tried to kill each other. Natasha works for the KGB, hunting down HYDRA traitors in the system. When she's assigned a job at the Russian ballet, she battles memories of her past she never wanted to face again. Clint is a fugitive, framed by his brother for attempted murder. Some guy in...
A collection of oneshots (and twoshots) in past, present, and future settings about the science babies. Start with whichever one you want. The better ones are in the back. Includes five series: the post-season one series "Jemma's Journey", a Doctor Who crossover, "Companions", a Hogwarts AU, "Seventh Year", a WW2 AU...
Tom and Charlotte have only ever been friends. Really good friends. They lead totally different lives-he's a jet setting actor and she's a no nonsense, flour covered baker. When Tom finds out his fiancé is cheating, he faces an uncertain future. And when Charlie has to return to her hometown to save her business, she...
A poem written after Shadows, 2x01. Told from both of their perspectives, Fitz and Simmons reflect on the past and the present. Some stanzas are from Simmons' POV, some from Fitz's. I just had to get some of those emotions out.
denouement deɪˈnuːmɒ̃/ noun the final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
Days are getting darker, the world is falling apart, and Luna Swift is running out of options. She's been on the run for months, hiding from family and the Ministry alike. With nowhere else to go, she turns to a place her brother had guaranteed would be safe: Hogwarts. Hiding in the school, Luna prepares to sink unnot...
Lily Potter is an average 15 year old living in the United States in 2011. When magic upheaves her life and drops her and her younger brother into a beloved world she thought was fictional, she discovers old family secrets-and family in general.
"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done" ~Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet. Emily Schott wants nothing more than satiation; a lust for destruction, for carnality and, most importantly, vengeance on those who snatched away her ability t...
[based on season one of The Flash] || book one of three || At the time Central City's own Barry Allen discovers he has the ability to run faster than the speed of sound, a woman from his past, Parker Sylas, returns to her hometown. Scoring jobs at both the CCPD and S.T.A.R. Labs, the two were destined to cross paths a...
FORMERLY KNOWN AS IMPOSSIBLE "The definition of innocence lies with whom you're speaking to. Most use the term meaning sex, others for a more vast amount of physical things, few with psychological matters, and some even pair it with naive. I, however, believe that someone who has full innocence doesn't know what it's...