sam_storyteller: (Default)
Title: Exclusive
Rating: PG
Summary: Heroes In Manhattan: From Captain America's Hidden Talents To The Truth About The Hulk, We Debunk The Myths And Expose The Daily Lives Of The Avengers.

Chapter One

By Monday morning I've attended a press conference with Tony Stark... )
sam_storyteller: (Alternate Universe)
Title: Exclusive
Rating: PG
Summary: Heroes In Manhattan: From Captain America's Hidden Talents To The Truth About The Hulk, We Debunk The Myths And Expose The Daily Lives Of The Avengers.
Warnings: Some discussion of childhood trauma and depression.
Beta Credit: Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] kallaneboi and [livejournal.com profile] gypsylady for awesome betas! Also MANY thanks to [livejournal.com profile] kallaneboi for standing in as Steve Rogers and doing an awesome illustration, and to [livejournal.com profile] sanura for writing Thor's awesome epic.
Notes: I ignored the last ten or fifteen minutes of Iron Man III. You're welcome.

Also available at AO3.



It's three in the morning, and the Avengers are playing baseball. )
sam_storyteller: (Alternate Universe)
Title: Hard Rock Swing
Rating: PG/R (R in this part only)
Summary: It turns out, in the 21st century, Steve's best friend is an eighteen-year-old genius named Tony Stark. This might be trouble.

Chapter One | Chapter Two

When he first moved into the Tower, Steve suffered some setbacks... )
sam_storyteller: (Default)
Title: Hard Rock Swing
Rating: PG/R (R in the last part only)
Summary: It turns out, in the 21st century, Steve's best friend is an eighteen-year-old genius named Tony Stark. This might be trouble.

Chapter One

By the time the film wound down, Tony had fallen asleep... )
sam_storyteller: (Slash Fic)
Title: Hard Rock Swing
Rating: PG/R (R in the last part only)
Warnings: Some discussion of depression/PTSD including references to suicidal ideation.
Summary: It turns out, in the 21st century, Steve's best friend is an eighteen-year-old genius named Tony Stark. This might be trouble.
Notes: Written for Ironfries on tumblr, who wanted a young Tony with an older Steve. It incorporated many from the List Of Marr's Favourite Things, which I deduced by reading her Tumblr: Tony being tiny, age differences, Steve crying, butts, and blankets (many). Sorry I couldn't incorporate vampires, babies, and dragons, Marr.

BETA CREDIT, JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] kallaneboi and [livejournal.com profile] misswinterhill fixed what was broken!

Also available at AO3. There is also a Chinese translation available (with site registration) here!

Steve had been given dossiers on the Avengers Initiative... )
sam_storyteller: (Crossover Fic)
Title: A Real Party
Rating: PG
Summary: "Perry White and I are both older than we deserve and we didn't get where we are in the world today by being nice boys."
Warnings: None
Notes: Jean wanted it. I provided it. :D

Also available at AO3.

Mr. Wayne! Mr. Stark! Just one smile! )
sam_storyteller: (Crossover Fic)
Title: At Tilde
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Summary: Matilda turns hacker, impresses Tony Stark, and fails to be swayed by Charles Xavier.
Notes: Arose out of a chat about what Matilda would think of the internet. Went somewhere terrifying. No regrets.

Also available at AO3.

The internet was the best thing to happen to Matilda since Miss Honey. )
sam_storyteller: (Alternate Universe)
Title: Feed The Body, Nourish The Soul
Rating: PG (language)
Summary: Steve Rogers just wanted to sell good, nourishing, cheap food from his food truck. Now the crazy fusion chefs from TOBRU are calling him a hipster, the avant garde restaurant "Shield" across the street has declared war on chains, and...well, then there's Thor, who thinks Steve's habit of licking food is weird.
Warnings: None.
Notes: This was inspired by a post on tumblr, so I can't take credit for the idea. I'm not a chef, I've just read a lot of books about food, so my apologies for any inaccuracies. Also I wanted to say, at the outset, that I have nothing against the Food Network, chain restaurants, or seasoned fries. I actually love seasoned fries.

Also available at AO3.

Blackglass has done a lovely podfic of this fic, and Reena Jenkins has also done a wonderful podfic version!

Other stories in the "foodieverse" have been added to the end of this post, and are also available at AO3, linked from the version above.

TOBRU and War On Hunger are usually located next to each other... )

Title: The Hot Hipster Chef Documentary
Rating: PG
Summary: Someone made a documentary about Steve without his permission. Or Tony's.

We just saw the video. )

Title: Pairing
Rating: PG
Summary: Steve is having some doubts about Tony. Tony's, well, not.

Crab crisps or baconost crackers? )

Title: Hot Potato
Rating: G
Summary: Potato Rescue is the hottest new food truck nobody knows about. Steve is determined to make Sam Wilson king of all potatoes.

Eat this. )
sam_storyteller: (Default)
Title: Five Times Bucky Got Permission
Rating: PG-13 (Bucky/Natasha, Bucky/Steve)
Warnings: None.
Summary: People keep trying to tell Bucky something, and he's getting very confused.
Notes: Written for the "Bucky" Marvel Throwdown.

Also available at AO3.

Little Dernier, their demolitions expect, didn't speak much English... )
sam_storyteller: (Slash Fic)
Title: The Most Amazing Things (Some Terrible Lie)
Rating: R
Summary: Tony's decision not to reveal his identity as Iron Man to the world was shrewd and calculated. Too bad it's about to backfire on him like a Jericho missile.
Warnings: None.

Chapter One | Chapter Two |Chapter Three

Brenda called that evening with the news that she could get Steve on the Daily Show as soon as he wanted.  )
sam_storyteller: (Alternate Universe)
Title: The Most Amazing Things (Some Terrible Lie)
Rating: R
Summary: Tony's decision not to reveal his identity as Iron Man to the world was shrewd and calculated. Too bad it's about to backfire on him like a Jericho missile.
Warnings: None.

Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three

He had a vague dream of being in pain, struggling out of unconsciousness, and of someone feeding him something followed by cold water. )
sam_storyteller: (Default)
Title: The Most Amazing Things (Some Terrible Lie)
Rating: R
Summary: Tony's decision not to reveal his identity as Iron Man to the world was shrewd and calculated. Too bad it's about to backfire on him like a Jericho missile. (Steve/Tony)
Warnings: None.
Notes: This story is primarily based in the movieverse, but makes use of the situation in 616 where Tony's identity as Iron Man was initially a secret from the world and his teammates, and Iron Man was known primarily as Tony's bodyguard. Also, the title is from "Some Nights" by the band "Fun."; I'm aware that the phrase is "terrible nights" but it sounds like "Lie" so screw reality, the title was too good not to use.
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] kallaneboi, [livejournal.com profile] 51stcenturyfox, and [livejournal.com profile] neifile7 fixed my errors. Any remaining ones are due to my stubborn intransigence, not their brilliant editorial skills.

Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three

Also available at AO3.

Standing behind the podium at the press conference, the day after he killed Obadiah, Tony weighed things carefully. )
sam_storyteller: (Gen Fic)
Title: Free to Good Home
Rating: PG
Summary: "Kid, you're an Avenger now, you do what you want."
Warnings: None.
Notes: Originally written in response to an image post about Hawkeye's inability to use a mug, this is set mainly in the comicsverse rather than the MCU.

Also available at AO3.

WHY HASN'T SOMEONE DEFACED ME? )

Robot Trip

Jan. 13th, 2013 01:06 pm
sam_storyteller: (Default)
Title: Robot Trip or, Armed And Dangerous
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None.
Summary: Tony is driving from Malibu to Manhattan with a robot in the back seat and Captain America riding escort at Pepper's behest. What could possibly go wrong?
Notes: Once upon a time, FedEx lost a satellite that Nakki was trying to ship. Once found, she sent some students to retrieve it in an epic technological road trip. I decided the only thing better than road trip with satellite would be road trip with robot, and here we are. Unrelatedly, this story does not take into account certain IM3 spoilers, or the fact that Lavo is apparently not open for lunch.

Also available at AO3.

Remind me, again, why you're doing this? )
sam_storyteller: (Ouran High School Host Club)
Title: Transfer Students
Fandoms: Avengers, X-Men, Batman
Rating: PG
Summary: Five times the Avengers pawned kids off on the Jean Grey School.
Notes: Written with assistance from LadyYueh, ElsaJeni, and Plu.
Warnings: None.

Also available on AO3!

[livejournal.com profile] reena_jenkins has done a podfic of this fic!

1. Not That Kind Of Mutant. )
sam_storyteller: (Default)
Title: The Photograph
Rating: PG
Summary: Steve had body-modesty trained out of him in boot camp, and apparently his attitude is infectious.
Notes: First posted on Tumblr as a speed-writing exercise.
Warnings: None.

Also at AO3.

Now a podfic by Reena Jenkins!

There's a picture of the Avengers... )
sam_storyteller: (Torchwood)
Title: Handler
Rating: PG
Summary: There are some staff changes going on at SHIELD.
Warnings: None.

Also here on AO3 and here in Russian!

[livejournal.com profile] reena_jenkins has done a podfic of this fic!

You need a new handler. )
sam_storyteller: (Gen Fic)
Title: Come Go With Me
Rating: PG (Gen)
Fandom: Suits
Summary: Harvey started out in the mail room, but Jessica's always been good at spotting potential.
Warnings: Implied child abuse.
Beta Credit: [personal profile] arsenicjade made it spiffy! And put up with my waffling about how to end it.
Notes: Title from the Staple Singers song If You're Ready. Also I'd like it noted for the record that the bit about the DA's office was written before 1.11 aired...

Now in Russian!

Also available at AO3.

It really wasn't any of Jessica's business... )
sam_storyteller: (Gen Fic)
Title: Quarantine
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None.
Fandom: Suits (some minor Mike/Harvey)
Summary: After a client pukes on Mike and dies, Pearson Hardman is put under quarantine. The Associates go feral, the Paralegals build a fort, and Mike ends up in Harvey's office watching Inherit The Wind -- at least until Harvey notices something is wrong...
Notes: Written for the kinkmeme. I'm gonna need a Suits icon if this keeps up....

Now available at AO3.

Can I hide in here? )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: The Art Of The Ask
Rating: G
Ships: Peter/Elizabeth background
Summary: Fundraising Neal Caffrey style might be exhausting, but it's never going to be boring.
Notes: This story is a happy story with an optional depressing ending. The optional depressing ending will have a header, so you can skip it if you want to. I like people to be voluntary in their misery!
Beta Credit, JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] 51stcenturyfox and [livejournal.com profile] neifile7 helped me make this readable. [livejournal.com profile] juniper200 contributed some of the funnier dialogue :D

Also available at AO3.

Back when he was still working for the Bureau, Neal used to say that there was a museum for everything in New York... )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Five White Collar AUs Sam Didn't Write
Rating: Nothing over PG
Warnings: None.
Summary: These are five AUs that could have been long fics, but aren't. One crossover, two alternate histories, and two alternate realities.
Notes: Hell with it, I don't even know how to deal with this show right now, but I had this stuff written...

Now available on AO3.

IF SOMEONE WANTED TO EXPAND ON ANY OF THESE

THAT WOULD BE FINE BY ME

Five AUs )
sam_storyteller: (Slash Fic)
Title: Life Noir
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R (Nick Halden/Vincent Adler; Nick Halden/Kate Moreau background)
Warnings: I wouldn't call it dubcon but the sex gets a little unexpectedly rough.
Summary: Noir is popularly defined as a genre "in which no one is innocent".
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] neifile7 made this awesomer than it was!

Also available at AO3.

Part I: Nick )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Exquisite
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: While what happens at the end of this chapter isn't a panic attack, it's enough of an altered state that I want to warn for it.
Summary: Neal is finding a place for himself, both at the Bureau and in Peter and Elizabeth's life. Unraveling the mystery of the music box might ruin everything -- but that's a risk he has to take.
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] neifile7, [livejournal.com profile] 51stcenturyfox, [personal profile] girlpearl, [livejournal.com profile] tzikeh

Master Post
Chapter Nineteen

Sunday morning, Elizabeth came downstairs to find Peter and Neal in a heated debate about pastry. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Exquisite
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Scene play gone briefly wrong; panic attacks.
Summary: Neal is finding a place for himself, both at the Bureau and in Peter and Elizabeth's life. Unraveling the mystery of the music box might ruin everything -- but that's a risk he has to take.
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] neifile7, [livejournal.com profile] 51stcenturyfox, [personal profile] girlpearl, [livejournal.com profile] tzikeh

Master Post
Chapter Eighteen

Neal slept late on Sunday, and woke to find Mozzie and June playing cards... )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Exquisite
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Brief graphic violence.
Summary: Neal is finding a place for himself, both at the Bureau and in Peter and Elizabeth's life. Unraveling the mystery of the music box might ruin everything -- but that's a risk he has to take.
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] neifile7, [livejournal.com profile] 51stcenturyfox, [personal profile] girlpearl, [livejournal.com profile] tzikeh

Master Post
Chapter Seventeen

Peter woke the next morning from crazy dreams... )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Exquisite
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None.
Summary: Neal is finding a place for himself, both at the Bureau and in Peter and Elizabeth's life. Unraveling the mystery of the music box might ruin everything -- but that's a risk he has to take.
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] neifile7, [livejournal.com profile] 51stcenturyfox, [personal profile] girlpearl, [livejournal.com profile] tzikeh

Master Post
Chapter Sixteen

Neal Caffrey, American, 1980 - , The Forged Frame. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Exquisite
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None.
Summary: Neal is finding a place for himself, both at the Bureau and in Peter and Elizabeth's life. Unraveling the mystery of the music box might ruin everything -- but that's a risk he has to take.

Master Post
Chapter Fifteen

Neal didn't spend quite as pleasant an evening as Peter. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Exquisite
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Brief discussion of suicide -- suicidal ideation, mostly.
Summary: Neal is finding a place for himself, both at the Bureau and in Peter and Elizabeth's life. Unraveling the mystery of the music box might ruin everything -- but that's a risk he has to take.
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] neifile7, [livejournal.com profile] 51stcenturyfox, [personal profile] girlpearl, [livejournal.com profile] tzikeh

Master Post
Chapter Fourteen

They found Mozzie almost before they knew he was lost. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Eternal Springtime
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Neal's spent thirty years dreaming about snowball fights.
Notes: Have you noticed it's always spring on White Collar?
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] tzikeh, [livejournal.com profile] spiderine, [personal profile] girlpearl, and [livejournal.com profile] neifile7 made this better than once it was!

Now available at AO3!

Does it seem like winter's been really mild this year? )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Horse Thieves And Mathematicians
Rating: PG-13 (violence, profanity)
Warnings: Some gore.
Summary: Peter was sixteen when he met Reese Hughes for the first time. It may have made an impression.

Jesus Christ. Big Pete, look at you. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Horse Thieves And Mathematicians
Rating: PG-13 (violence, profanity)
Warnings: Some gore.
Summary: Peter was sixteen when he met Reese Hughes for the first time. It may have made an impression.
Notes: The stuff about the FBI loophole is made up. We call it "artistic license".
BETA CREDIT, JESUS: [personal profile] girlpearl, [livejournal.com profile] neifile7, and [personal profile] 51stcenturyfox beta'd the heck out of this thing.

Now available at AO3.

Excuse me. We're looking for Big Pete? )
sam_storyteller: (Crossover Fic)
Title: Rematch
Rating: PG-13 (violence and language)
Warnings: Relatively graphic violence

Chapter One

You didn't think you could play a game without me? )
sam_storyteller: (Crossover Fic)
Title: Rematch
Rating: PG-13 (violence and language)
Warnings: Relatively graphic violence
Summary: Neal and Sherlock's rematch in London was the high point of the International Law Enforcement Conference -- until Neal's tracker went dark.
BETA CREDIT, JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] 51stcenturyfox, [personal profile] girlpearl, [livejournal.com profile] juniper200, [livejournal.com profile] neifile7, [livejournal.com profile] spiderine, [livejournal.com profile] tzikeh. Oh god, the commas. If you'd like to see what it's like to be beta'd by this horde, check out The Beta Quotes File for Rematch.
Notes: Sequel to Paper Chase.

Now in Russian!

Also available at AO3.

Two consultants were credited with catching the serial killer known as the Red Painter. )

Radio Play

Mar. 19th, 2011 11:45 am
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Radio Play
Rating: So very R (Peter/El/Neal)
Warnings: Exhibitionism/voyeurism; light consensual bondage.
Summary: Neal forgot to turn off his audio transmitter before engaging in some personal business. Well, "forgot"...
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] spiderine, [livejournal.com profile] juniper200, and [livejournal.com profile] 51stcenturyfox

Also available at AO3.

Peter can remember the first time Neal went off his tracker for a case. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Keep Calm And Carry Crowbars
Rating: PG
Summary: Someone stole billions of dollars in art from Vincent Adler. Neal didn't do it, but he's about to find out who did.
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] darthrami inspired and gave the first edit, and [personal profile] girlpearl, [livejournal.com profile] 51stcenturyfox, and [livejournal.com profile] neifile7 polished it up.
Notes: AU. BIG, SCREAMING AU. I in no way think this is anywhere approaching what's going to happen in canon. Inspired by a thread with [livejournal.com profile] darthrami here, but that'll spoil it if you read it first...
Warnings: None.

Also available at AO3.

There would be problems. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Safety Meeting
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Summary: Jones and Diana talk shop, promotions, politics, and the sex lives of their colleagues during the weekly Friday Night Safety Meeting.
Notes: You can't blame Jean for this, or even Dove. The blame for this rests squarely on the shoulders of [livejournal.com profile] spiderine, who asked for Jones-Diana BFF fic. Safety Meetings are the one thing I'm truly nostalgic about when I think about grad school.
BETA CREDIT, JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] neifile7 and [livejournal.com profile] 51stcenturyfox flogged me with parallel construction!

Now available at AO3.

Jones, Diana, Christie, and the Baby Fibbies. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: In The Meantime
Rated: G
Warnings: None.
Summary: There's only one thing scarier than Peter Burke...
Notes: While I am perfectly happy with Peter and Elizabeth as a cheerfully child-free couple, it was recently pointed out to me that Neal and Mozzie with Burke Junior would be nothing less than hilarious.

Also available at AO3.

Ee-o-Eleven... )

Update. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: I Know A Guy Who Knows A Guy
Rating: R (Neal/Mozzie)
Warnings: None.
Summary: Mozzie has a thing for safehouses and arrogant young con men. Neal has a thing for Mozzie.
BETA CREDIT, JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] neifile7 kicks ass and takes names.

Now available at AO3.

Excuse me, sir, are you his partner? )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
The Seven Man Con - Story Notes

Chapter One
Chapter Two

Neal: Before you get your badge back, there's a seven-man con that I've been meaning to --
Peter: No. The Burke's Seven is hereby disbanded.

As soon as the words were out of Neal's mouth, I started thinking about it. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: The Seven Man Con 2/2
Rating: PG-13 (Canon ships only; a bit of Neal -> Other People, but nothing concrete.)
Warnings: None.
Summary: Neal still dreams of the big cons -- but now they have a familiar cast of characters.
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] neifile7 beta'd this. SHE BETA'D IT HARD.

Chapter One

Next time we pull a hundred and twenty million dollar theft, Diana, I promise you can be the one to go to Florence. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: The Seven Man Con 1/2
Rating: PG-13 (Canon ships only; a bit of Neal -> Other People, but nothing concrete.)
Warnings: None.
Summary: Neal still dreams of the big cons -- but now they have a familiar cast of characters.
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] neifile7 beta'd this. SHE BETA'D IT HARD.

Now available at AO3.

Ocean's Eleven is a fun movie but Danny Ocean, in Neal Caffrey's professional opinion, was a hack job. Neal could do it with nine. )
sam_storyteller: (Alternate Universe)
Title: Oh, What A Show
Rating: PG (Merlin/Arthur, Gwaine/Ragnell)
Summary: Circus Camelot has a building it doesn't own, a trick rider who just ran off to do panto, and a serious sponsor problem. Fortunately, it also has Merlin Emrys, master illusionist, and Arthur Pendragon, prince of tumblers.

Chapter One

Chapter Two )
sam_storyteller: (Alternate Universe)
Title: Oh, What A Show
Rating: PG (Merlin/Arthur, Gwaine/Ragnell)
Warnings: None.
Summary: Circus Camelot has a building it doesn't own, a trick rider who just ran off to do panto, and a serious sponsor problem. Fortunately, it also has Merlin Emrys, master illusionist, and Arthur Pendragon, prince of tumblers.
BETA CREDIT JESUS: [personal profile] girlpearl gave me this disorder, but at least she helped me clean up afterwards. [livejournal.com profile] neifile7 was her usual lovely grammar-and-style pickin' self.
Notes: I don't even know, you guys. I just don't know.

Also available at AO3.

Chapter One )

Symmetry

Jan. 17th, 2011 03:31 pm
sam_storyteller: (Torchwood)
Title: Symmetry
Rating: PG
Warning: Discussion of canon minor-character deaths.
Summary: Ianto buys Tosh a drink. It's just symmetry.
Notes: For my <1000 project. Clocks in around 1200 words.

Also available at AO3.

Tosh! Tosh, hey, wait a minute. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Make It Pop
Rating: PG-13 (Tim/Matt)
Warnings: None
Fandom: White Collar RPF.
Summary: "Tim's going to do it" is going to get Matt Bomer in trouble some day.
Notes: Will make much more sense after watching this video of Matt and Tim at Comic-Con, dancing to Tik Tok. Also that may redeem the song Tik Tok for you. Written for my <1000 challenge. Actually about 1400 words.
BETA CREDIT, JESUS: [livejournal.com profile] neifile7 did her best to make me not suck, and [personal profile] girlpearl corrected my spelling of Ke$ha. :D

Also available at AO3.

Comic-Con was insane. )
sam_storyteller: (Blue Moon Coffee)
Title: Harry Of The Caves
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Summary: Merlin doesn't trust this new tournament knight at all. He probably has good reason.
BETA CREDIT, JESUS: It's like [personal profile] girlpearl and [livejournal.com profile] misswinterhill are telepathically linked.
Notes: Part of my "Under 1000" challenge. This clocks at around 1400, actually, but it's the spirit of the thing; I'm not going to go butchering a perfectly good story just to cram it into a thousand words. The goal is to get in a good writing headspace by setting a rule, not to apply the rule ruthlessly to what is already produced.

Also available at AO3.

Harry Of The Caves )
sam_storyteller: (Gen Fic)
Title: Ben Sherman And The Lion
Rating: PG-13 (for The Swears)
Warnings: None.
Summary: Ben and Cooper get a home invasion call that turns out to be a little more than Ben bargained for.
BETA CREDIT, JESUS: [personal profile] girlpearl has been after me to write this forever. [livejournal.com profile] 51stcenturyfox and [livejournal.com profile] gypsylady got in on the action too.
Notes: This is part of my "Under 1000" challenge to myself; it clocks in at around 900 words.

Now available at AO3.

Ben Sherman And The Lion )

Lost Loves

Dec. 24th, 2010 11:36 pm
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Lost Loves
Rating: PG
Notes: [livejournal.com profile] juniper200 gave me the idea. [livejournal.com profile] amand_r is to blame for several other elements. This is a crossover but to explain the other fandoms would seriously ruin everything.
Summary: Neal knows a very sad story about a thief and a sailor. Peter's still stuck on pirates.

Now a podfic by [livejournal.com profile] cantapodpatrol!

Also available at AO3.
The video footage was inconclusive. )
sam_storyteller: (White Collar)
Title: Exquisite
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None.
Summary: Neal is finding a place for himself, both at the Bureau and in Peter and Elizabeth's life. Unraveling the mystery of the music box might ruin everything -- but that's a risk he has to take.

Chapter Thirteen

Neal was almost dressed the next morning, just fitting his cufflinks in, when Mozzie called. )

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Fanfiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by folk.
-- Henry Jenkins

Life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language.
-- Tom Stoppard

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
-- G. Bernard Shaw

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
-- J. Michael Strazynski

Here's how to become a great artist. First, get miserable. Misery drives you to become a great artist, but the art does nothing for your misery, which drives you to drugs, which makes you a lousy artist.
-- House M.D.

Humans? They're long gone. Vanished. Extinct. They only exist in stories.
-- Ferngully

Anton Chekov, who was a doctor, said, "Medicine is my wife; writing is my mistress."

Se non e vero, e ben trovato. (Even if it’s not true, it’s a good story.)
-- Italian Proverb

The recipe for becoming a good novelist is easy to give, but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook. One has only to make a hundred or so sketches for novels, none longer than two pages but of such distinctness that every word in them is necessary. One should write down anecdotes every day until one has learnt how to give them the most pregnant and effective form; one should be tireless in collecting and describing human types and characters; one should above all relate things to others and listen to others relate, keeping one's eyes and ears open for the effect produced on those present, one should travel like a landscape painter or costume designer. One should, finally, reflect on the motives of human actions, disdain no signpost for instruction about them and be a collector of these things by day and night. One should continue in this many-sided exercise for some ten years; what is then created in the workshop will be fit to go out into the world.
-- Nietzsche

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
-- Samuel Butler

What is written without effort is generally read without pleasure.
-- Samuel Johnson

Same story, different versions, and all are true.
-- POTC: Dead Man's Chest

I am a humble artist
moulding my earthly clod,
adding my labour to nature's,
simply assisting God.
-- Piet Hein

Every archaeologist knows in his heart why he digs. He digs, in pity and humility, that the dead may live again, that what is past may not be forever lost, that something may be salvaged from the wrack of the ages.
-- From "The Testimony of the Spade"

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
-- Francis Bacon

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
-- Seneca epistles 88 45

When asked how she acquired her knowledge of science, Octavia Butler replied, "I read."

Imagination is more important than information.
-- Albert Einstein

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