Title: Manners May Prevail
Fandom: Harsh Realm/Mysterious Skin
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 2,168
Summary: Mike pushes things a little further, and Neil isn't thrilled to find himself being used as a prop. Mostly not thrilled, anyway.
Note: Sequel to Complications, which is itself a sequel to Devotion.

Not a hesitation --
Abraham complied --
Flattered by Obeisance
Tyranny demurred.

--Emily Dickinson

( You asshole. )

Title: The Beautiful Marks
Fandom: Original fiction
Rating: R
Wordcount: 723
Summary: Written for origficbingo. Card here. Kink: Tattoos/Tattooing.

( Keller lies under the needle for her, because he loves her, because she's commanded it. )

Title: Phoenix 11/?
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: R for language, violence, and adult situations
Wordcount: 2,847
Summary: Mike, Florence, and Tom travel to Arizona in search of the Maintainers, godlike programs that hold ultimate power over the code of the Realm. But things go horribly wrong, and Tom finds himself making a desperate journey into a world far outside his experience--a world from which he may not be able to return.
Note: I owe a huge debt here to _shades_; the plot is hers. I merely flesh it out.

( Caw. Caw. )

Title: Yonder
Fandom: Harsh Realm/Memphis Belle (Tabula Rasa 'verse)
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 940
Summary: Little thing for _shades_. Brief scenes from the life of two romantic surrogates.

( There's never any lying )

Title: Till I Am Drawn In
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: R
Wordcount: 1,158
Summary: Up late on watch, Mike has a little trouble keeping his hands to himself.

( Temporary insanity, that's what he'll call it later. )

Title: Phoenix 10/?
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: R for language, violence, and adult situations
Wordcount: 3,365
Summary: Mike, Florence, and Tom travel to Arizona in search of the Maintainers, godlike programs that hold ultimate power over the code of the Realm. But things go horribly wrong, and Tom finds himself making a desperate journey into a world far outside his experience--a world from which he may not be able to return.
Note: I owe a huge debt here to _shades_; the plot is hers. I merely flesh it out.

( It's easy to lose track of time, walking. )

Title: Complications
Fandom: Harsh Realm/Mysterious Skin
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 1,895
Summary: Tom joins Neil and Mike's merry little band, and doesn't entirely understand what he's gotten himself into.
Note: This is both a bit of a sequel to Devotion and a little birthday quickie for thetinydemon. Happy birthday, bitch.

( Tom Hobbes doesn't question the collar, not at first. )

Title: Phoenix 9/?
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: R for language, violence, and adult situations
Wordcount: 3,891
Summary: Mike, Florence, and Tom travel to Arizona in search of the Maintainers, godlike programs that hold ultimate power over the code of the Realm. But things go horribly wrong, and Tom finds himself making a desperate journey into a world far outside his experience--a world from which he may not be able to return.
Note: I owe a huge debt here to _shades_; the plot is hers. I merely flesh it out.


( It takes longer than Ash had expected. )

Title: El Dorado
Fandom: Harsh Realm (TR 'verse, sort of)
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 3,067
Summary: Mike and Tom travel to Las Vegas in search of treasure, of a kind. What they find isn't what either of them wanted.

( Vegas, glittering in the desert night. )

Title: Phoenix 8/?
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: R for language, violence, and adult situations
Wordcount: 3,441
Summary: Mike, Florence, and Tom travel to Arizona in search of the Maintainers, godlike programs that hold ultimate power over the code of the Realm. But things go horribly wrong, and Tom finds himself making a desperate journey into a world far outside his experience--a world from which he may not be able to return.
Note: I owe a huge debt here to _shades_; the plot is hers. I merely flesh it out.

( It occurs to him, when he finally lifts his head again, )

Title: Penetration
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: NC-17, contains BDSM themes; warnings for piercing play.
Wordcount: 2,419
Summary: Tom and Mike have a quiet afternoon together, and Mike has a surprise with a bit of a point. Tabula Rasa 'verse.

( Tom is wriggling. )

Title: Phoenix 7/?
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: R for language, violence, and adult situations
Wordcount: 4,034
Summary: Mike, Florence, and Tom travel to Arizona in search of the Maintainers, godlike programs that hold ultimate power over the code of the Realm. But things go horribly wrong, and Tom finds himself making a desperate journey into a world far outside his experience--a world from which he may not be able to return.
Note: I owe a huge debt here to _shades_; the plot is hers. I merely flesh it out.

( She's awakened by a noise outside. )

Title: Phoenix 6/?
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: R for language, violence, and adult situations
Wordcount: 4,439
Summary: Mike, Florence, and Tom travel to Arizona in search of the Maintainers, godlike programs that hold ultimate power over the code of the Realm. But things go horribly wrong, and Tom finds himself making a desperate journey into a world far outside his experience--a world from which he may not be able to return.
Note: I owe a huge debt here to _shades_; the plot is hers. I merely flesh it out.

( When he wakes up again, everything's changed. )

Title: Resignation
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 1,348
Summary: Bathing in the river turns into something else. Which turns into something else. It's a little confusing for at least one party.

( Don't talk, Mike whispers, and Tom doesn't talk. )

Title: Phoenix 5/?
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: R for language and violence
Wordcount: 3,825
Summary: Mike, Florence, and Tom travel to Arizona in search of the Maintainers, godlike programs that hold ultimate power over the code of the Realm. But things go horribly wrong, and Tom finds himself making a desperate journey into a world far outside his experience--a world from which he may not be able to return.
Note: I owe a huge debt here to _shades_; the plot is hers. I merely flesh it out.

( He walks, shaky and uneven )

Title: Zenith
Fandom: Original fiction
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 3,781
Summary: Love before a fall... and after.
Note: I say this is original but basically it's Paradise Lost fanfiction. Ah, well.

Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall:
And some are fallen, to disobedience fallen,
And so from Heaven to deepest Hell; O fall
From what high state of bliss, into what woe!

--John Milton

( I no longer remember the sun. )

Title: Phoenix 4/?
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: R for language and violence
Wordcount: 3,771
Summary: Mike, Florence, and Tom travel to Arizona in search of the Maintainers, godlike programs that hold ultimate power over the code of the Realm. But things go horribly wrong, and Tom finds himself making a desperate journey into a world far outside his experience--a world from which he may not be able to return.
Note: I owe a huge debt here to _shades_; the plot is hers. I merely flesh it out.


( She wakes at dawn, just as the sun crests the horizon )

Title: Phoenix 3/?
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: R for language and violence
Wordcount: 3,266
Summary: Mike, Florence, and Tom travel to Arizona in search of the Maintainers, godlike programs that hold ultimate power over the code of the Realm. But things go horribly wrong, and Tom finds himself making a desperate journey into a world far outside his experience--a world from which he may not be able to return.
Note: I owe a huge debt here to _shades_; the plot is hers. I merely flesh it out.


( After the hatch clangs shut behind him it's instantly cold )

Title: Phoenix 2/?
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: R for language and violence
Wordcount: 3,866
Summary: Mike, Florence, and Tom travel to Arizona in search of the Maintainers, godlike programs that hold ultimate power over the code of the Realm. But things go horribly wrong, and Tom finds himself making a desperate journey into a world far outside his experience--a world from which he may not be able to return.
Note: I owe a huge debt here to _shades_; the plot is hers. I merely flesh it out.


( He's been a survivor before. )

Title: Phoenix 1/?
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: R for language and violence
Wordcount: 4,575
Summary: Mike, Florence, and Tom travel to Arizona in search of the Maintainers, godlike programs that hold ultimate power over the code of the Realm. But things go horribly wrong, and Tom finds himself making a desperate journey into a world far outside his experience--a world from which he may not be able to return.
Note: I owe a huge debt here to _shades_; the plot is hers. I merely flesh it out.

Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way to the eternal pain,
Through me the way that runs among the lost.
Justice urged on my high artificer;
My maker was divine authority,
The highest wisdom, and the primal love.
Before me nothing but eternal things were made,
And I endure eternally.
Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.

--Dante Alighieri

( It's night when they get to Phoenix )