Bisexualcircusdads Stories

These are prompts sent in to me from a list of OTP dialogue prompts. If you'd like to request one, find me on tumblr at crown-of-the-circus-king. It may or may not take me a while, but I'll get it! (Number three in Barlyle)

In the wrong place at the wrong time, struggling author Phillip Carlyle witnesses a mob-ordained hit in an alley. As if his life isn't already pitiful enough. With a mafia who doesn't leave witnesses out to silence him, he doesn't stand a chance. Enter P. T. Barnum, a hitman who finds himself growing increasingly protective of and attracted to this young, handsome stranger. The mafia AU that nobody asked for. (title is subject to change)

Phillip doesn't know why Phineas steals flowers from his garden every so often. He decides to find out why. A Barlyle AU, set in the canon time period. (Number nine in Barlyle)

Humans are like water glasses. The water, that most elusive of things, is made of memories--people, events, words--all of them negative. Most glasses are only filled halfway. Some lucky ones only sustain a drop or two. And the most unlucky of us--the Edgar Allen Poes and Vincent Van Goghs--are filled all the way to the top. But what happens, we wonder, when a glass overflows? ... And the circus came crumbling down. (collab fic with @melloneddy on Tumblr/AO3!)