Tuesday's older fiction

Title: Less Traveled By
Fandom(s): Psych (main fandom), Criminal Minds
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,700 words
Summary: Gus went to college, and Shawn went away.
Notes: AU. Gen. Written for Death Bingo's amnesty. Brief reference to cannibalism (Henry, I am writing this warning just for you). Thank you so much to trascendenza for betaing and sirdrakesheir for audiencing when I was panicking over the Death Bingo deadline (even if I gave up making it before the amnesty).

( Less Traveled By )

Okay, okay, I really am going to bed soon like I promised omnipresentdmat, but first, let me post the three prompt-fic I've written so far. I will properly label and organize them later, but for now:

hello_scorpling: Ino/Sakura - "my own worst enemy":
( Ino swallowed and turned her gaze to the ground, concentrated on picking her way across an especially tricky patch of rocks shifting underfoot. )

***

the_wanlorn: Gus/Shawn, snowmen:
( This pundits obsession has officially gone too far )

***

bibliokat: Psych, Gus/Shawn - dragon & watching another show and commenting on how in love with each other the 2 male leads are:
( Just listen to the dragon )

Title: Like Christmas Morning, But With More Sex and Shame (and Shamelessness)
Fandom: Psych
Pairing: Gus/Shawn
Rating: R
Word count: ~1500
Summary: The morning after the night they can't fully remember.
Notes: lozenger8 was kind enough to do a quick beta of this for me and encouraged me on the title (lizfu: I'm keeping that promise of having my titles vetted!). This is written for mizzmarvel for oxoniensis's fall fandom free for all. Hope you enjoy! (Also, edited the day after posted to change a problem I caught.)

( 'Are you seriously attempting to seduce me while talking about sexual diseases?' )

I mentioned I might do this quite a while back, and now I'm actually following through. I'm setting them free! These are mostly probably definitely abandoned. Expect a lot of tiny, tiny snippets and jumping around, as I don't always do well with linear. I might poke at and pick back up one or two of these (or take and use bits for other fic), but don't pin all your hopes on seeing more of any of these:

Dresden: Genderfuck:
( I looked from Marcone to the window and shivered a little. My smile was all edges when I turned back to him.  )
***
Dresden: Harry/Marcone resurrection fic:
( There was a flash of light and the acrid stench of burning hair. )
***
Harry Potter: Neville/Luna, various (slightly more likely to be picked up, but maybe not, as I'm probably done with HP for a long, long while):
( He stuttered to an awkward halt, face flaming, mouth dry, and watched Luna’s face carefully for any sign of derision, though with Luna it was hard to tell. )
***
Hikago: attempted blind_go zombie AU (I haven't touched this for a year, and it has too many problems; it's definitely abandoned):
( Sai’s eyes were pinched, face paler than Hikaru remembered. )
***
Naruto: Lee/Gaara kidnapping snippet (there is actually a shamefully large amount more, but it is lost in misplaced notebooks and flash drives. You can tell it's much older in that I hadn't settled in to spelling Kankurou with the extended vowel yet):
( Naruto )
***
Naruto: Abandoned kink meme snippets (from last November: Neji/Tenten, Shikamaru/Kankurou, Kakashi/Guy, Sakura/Ino)
( There were many things she had never suspected about Neji Hyuuga before dating him. For one, she had never thought he'd be such a kinky fuck. )
***
Psych: Gus and Shawn in a familiar sci-fi setting:
( Dude, I don't want to break your special personal space bubble, but- )
***

So some of those are freed because I haven't touched them in a long time, because I couldn't figure out where I was going, it would take too long, it was just plain horrible writing/plot/everything, the tone varied too much, it went in a direction I really didn't want, or various combinations of these reasons (and many more). I have a lot more in my wip folders (you have no idea how much more), but these are the ones I've set free and thus freed myself from feeling obligated to work on at all, ever.

As I said, there may be one or two I'll come back to (Dresden and HP of these look more likely than the rest), but it's a relief to take a bunch of things out of the wip folders. I know they'll only too soon be replaced especially if the Psych folder keeps increasing at its current rate.