A Year Ago

Title: A Year Ago
Rating: PG.
Summary: A year ago, everything made sense.
Date: June 18th, 2000
Notes: none

( A Year Ago )

Unique

Title: Unique
Rating: PG.
Summary: Ivy has a punchline but no joke.
Date: 2000
Notes: Yes, this happened to me.

( Unique )

Adventures in Pyrotechnics

Title: Adventures in Pyrotechnics
Rating: PG.
Summary: Science is fun!
Date: March 2001
Notes: Ivy is not a pyromaniac, but you'd never know it from reading this.

( Adventures in Pyrotechnics )

Enough To Go By

Title: Enough to Go By
Rating: PG.
Summary: Aaron gets into Berkeley, Ivy throws a fit, and Aaron's mother Melanie makes an appearance.
Date: April 2001
Notes: none

( Enough to Go By )

Clean

Title: Clean
Rating: G.
Summary: Summer's earliest memory.
Date: 2001
Notes: Description exercise, mostly.

( Clean )

Expectations

Title: Expectations
Rating: G.
Summary: Gina learns that her mother is, first of all, her mother.
Date: Spring 2002
Notes: none

( Expectations )

The Poetry Attempts

Title: The Poetry Attempts of Lars Warmind, Esquire, with Additional Commentary by His Best Friend's Sister, Miss Ivy Hirschfeld-Kendall
Main Story: In the Rating: PG for one swear word
Summary: Lars writes poetry, Ivy comments.
Date: 2002
Notes: Uh... I really have no explanation for this.

( The Poetry Attempts of Lars Warmind, Esquire, with Additional Commentary by His Best Friend's Sister, Miss Ivy Hirschfeld-Kendall )

Photophobia

Title: Photophobia
Rating: PG
Summary: Melanie writes about a retinal migraine.
Date: 2002
Notes: Melanie is Aaron's mother.

( Photophobia )

Scars

Title: Scars
Rating: PG
Summary: She is diagnosed in the fall of her twenty-ninth year.
Date: Fall 2002
Notes: none
WARNING for discussion of infertility.

( Scars )

Wounds

Title: Wounds
Rating: PG.
Summary: Joanna deals with the events of Scars, and Hugh tries to help.
Date:Fall 2002
Notes: Direct sequel to Scars.
WARNING for discussion of infertility.

( Wounds )

Genesis

Title: Genesis
Rating: PG-13 for some f-bombs.
Summary: Bedrock Drift gets its start.
Date: 2002-3.
Notes: So this became more of an origin story.

( Genesis )

Staying Strong

Title: Staying Strong
Rating: PG
Summary: Rebecca Sierbenski can pinpoint the exact day that her life fell apart.
Date: April 1st, 2003
Notes: An attempt to explain, though not excuse.

( Staying Strong )

Reforged

Title: Reforged
Rating: PG (one cussword).
Summary: Danny can handle this.
Date: April 2003
Notes: none

( Reforged )

What I Need

Title: What I Need
Rating: PG.
Summary: Ivy comes out to her family.
Date: June 2003
Notes: This was a bitch to write; I hope it works and is neither cliched nor ridiculous. Companion to All I Need.

( What I Need )

Fifth Place

Title: Fifth Place
Rating: PG.
Summary: Ivy enters Nathan's Famous Hotdogs eating contest.
Date: Summer 2003
Notes: Yup.
WARNING for emetophobes.

( Fifth Place )

Small Things

Title: Small Things
Rating: PG
Summary: Summer scrapes her knee, and some things become obvious.
Date: September 2003
Notes: I'm going to write Gail's half of this someday, but not quite yet.

( Small Things )

Big Things

Title: Big Things
Rating: PG.
Summary: There's nothing wrong with Summer.
Date: September 2003
Notes: Another soapbox story! I feel no shame. Gail's half of Small Things.

( Big Things )

how bright you glow

Title: how bright you glow
Rating: PG.
Summary: Joanna had not been hurt very much in her life, and she did not understand how someone could suffer so much and still keep walking.
Date: Spring 2002-Fall 2003
Notes: I was consciously imitating Angela Carter, so this is not my usual style at all. Title is from Vienna Teng's Feather Moon.


( how bright you glow )

sleeping

Title: sleeping
Rating: PG.
Summary: Olivia in darkness.
Date: October 2003
Notes: none
WARNING for depressive thoughts and behavior.

( sleeping )

Dukkha

Title: Dukkha
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: A class assignment triggers something for Olivia.
Date: November 10th, 2003
Notes: Olivia has clinical depression, although at this point she has not yet been formally diagnosed.
WARNING for depressive thoughts.

( Dukkha )

Clearer Now

Title: Clearer Now
Rating: PG
Summary: Olivia gets a wakeup call.
Date: November 2003
Notes: At the time this is set, Olivia has undiagnosed clinical depression.
WARNING for depressive thoughts and behavior.

( Clearer Now )

humpty dumpty

Title: humpty dumpty
Rating: PG.
Summary: Olivia, on drugs.
Date: December 2003
Notes: Please note that neither I nor Olivia is advocating medication for everyone, or indeed for anyone except her.
WARNING: Anxiety and depressive imagery.

( humpty dumpty )

Far Enough

Title: Far Enough
Rating: PG.
Summary: Michael can't get far enough away.
Date: 2003
Notes: none.

( Far Enough )

Analysis

Title: Analysis
Rating: PG for language.
Summary: Bedrock Drift goes over their first gig.
Date: 2003
Notes: none

( Analysis )

Retribution

Title: Retribution
Rating: PG
Summary: Nathan doesn't think this is very funny.
Date: February 2004
Notes: This is... probably not the direction Sara expected me to take this, but predictability is for wimps.

( Retribution )

Bodies

Title: Bodies
Rating: R for homophobic language, sexual threats and violence.
Summary: Ivy protects her girlfriend, and gets in over her head.
Date: Spring 2004
Notes: This will have sequels.
WARNING for homophobic language and sexual threats.

( Bodies )

Plans

Title: Plans
Rating: PG-13, for cussing.
Summary: Lorelai has a plan.
Date: Spring 2004
Notes: Um. Yeah. So. Aaron refers to the events of this in Very Simple and Worth It.
WARNING: implied dubious consent, sexual privilege.

( Plans )

Rage

Title: Rage
Rating: PG-13 for abuse and violence.
Summary: Somebody punches Ivy's berserk button.
Date: Spring 2004
Notes: none
WARNING: animal abuse.

( Rage )

Denial

Title: Denial
Rating: PG.
Summary: Aaron breaks up with his first girlfriend.
Date: Spring 2004
Notes: This is the same Lorelai who turned up in Glimpse of Heaven.

( Denial )

Dumped

Title: Dumped
Rating: PG.
Summary: Lorelai gets dumped.
Date: Spring 2004
Notes: Takes place immediately after Denial.

( Dumped )

someday you'll know

Title: someday you'll know
Rating: G
Summary: Lars loses his heart. Summer gains a brother.
Date: May 2004
Notes: Title from Vienna Teng's "Lullabye for a Stormy Night."

( someday you'll know )

Little By Little

Title: Little by Little
Rating: G
Summary: He won't give up.
Date: June 23rd, 2004
Notes: Hopefully this will explain some things.

( Little by Little )

Very Simple

Title: Very Simple
Rating: PG.
Summary: Aaron has something to ask his sister.
Date: June 2004
Notes: Ivy's views on sexuality are not necessarily those of the author. Aaron's views on the cancellation of Firefly most definitely are.

( Read more... )

Artistic Merit

Title: Artistic Merit
Rating: PG.
Summary: Ivy doesn't get it.
Date: Summer 2004
Notes: References Boring Would Be Nice For Once.

( Artistic Merit )

Boring Would Be Nice For Once

Title: Boring Would Be Nice For Once
Rating: PG.
Summary: Parenting three very odd children produces some very odd days, or, in which Aaron has weird habits and Summer is a ninja.
Date: Summer 2004
Notes: This is silly. I have no excuse.

( Boring Would Be Nice For Once )

Acceptance

Title: Acceptance
Rating: PG
Summary: Thea starts coughing again.
Date: Summer 2004
Notes: Thea is Lars's mother, and went into remission from lung cancer approximately nine years prior to this.

( Acceptance )

Screw Customer Service

Title: Screw Customer Service
Rating: PG-13; Ivy swears.
Summary: In which Ivy has some job-related rage to work out, and Aaron pretends to listen.
Date: Summer 2004
Notes: Partly inspired by my own job, which I usually love, but not yesterday.
WARNING for sexism.

( Screw Customer Service )

Escape

Title: Escape
Rating: PG.
Summary: Olivia, getting out.
Date: August 2004
Notes: Olivia graduated high school a year early, which is how she comes to be in college at seventeen.

( Escape )

Take Cover

Title: Take Cover
Rating: PG.
Summary: Olivia packs.
Date: August 2004
Notes: Follows Escape.

( Take Cover )

Burning Bridges

Title: Burning Bridges
Rating: PG.
Summary: Yvonne starts to figure it out.
Date: August 2004
Notes: Follows Escape and Take Cover.

( Burning Bridges )

Over

Title: Over
Rating: PG.
Summary: Yvonne reacts.
Date: August 2004
Notes: Follows Escape, Take Cover, and Burning Bridges.

( Over )

Make New Friends

Title: Make New Friends
Rating: PG.
Summary: Olivia meets her new roommate.
Date: August 2004
Notes: Yes, the title links in with Keep The Old. Yes, I have that song stuck in my head now. So do you.

( Make New Friends )

Should've

Title: Should've
Rating: PG.
Summary: Gina should have seen this coming.
Date: September 2004
Notes: Breakups suck, don't they?

( Should've )

Dancing

Title: Dancing
Rating: PG.
Summary: Olivia doesn't dance.
Date: October 2004
Notes: none

( Dancing )

Discipline

Title: Discipline
Rating: PG
Summary: Warmind men do not cry.
Date: November 2004
Notes: Henrik is Lars's father.

( Discipline )

Ruin

Title: Ruin
Rating: PG-13 for disturbing imagery.
Summary: Lars has nothing left to say.
Date: November 2004
Notes: Sooo... Lars scares me sometimes.
WARNING: Death, depressive actions, possible suicidal implications.

( Ruin )

What Happened

Title: What Happened
Rating: PG
Summary: A transcript of Summer's final interview with a therapist before being diagnosed with Asperger's.
Date: Fall 2004
Notes: Summer is between five and six here.
WARNING for depiction of a mental breakdown.

( What Happened )

The World Turned Upside Down

Title: The World Turned Upside Down
Rating: PG.
Summary: Hugh hears the last thing he ever wanted to hear.
Date: January 2005
Notes: Follows Little by Little, is followed by I Know This Much Is True.

( The World Turned Upside Down )

I Know This Much Is True

Title: I Know This Much Is True
Rating: PG.
Summary: Hugh reacts.
Date: January 2005
Notes: Follows Little By Little and The World Turned Upside Down.

( I Know This Much Is True )

Self-Esteem

Title: Self-Esteem
Rating: PG
Summary: This is the basis of Yvonne's life.
Date: January 2005
Notes: none.

( Self-Esteem )

Practical Cats

Title: Practical Cats
Rating: G
Summary: Asparagus (sometimes called Gus) has good humans.
Date: Summer 2005
Notes: Inspired by T.S. Elliot. Which is why Gus and the story are named what they are.

( Practical Cats )

roughly and blithely

Title: roughly and blithely
Rating: PG.
Summary: Summer and the city.
Date: Fall 2005
Notes: From a timestamp meme I did on my journal. Title from a Dylan Thomas poem. Dunno the title because I've only ever seen it in Matilda.

( roughly and blithely )

I Am A Scientist

Title: I Am A Scientist
Rating: PG.
Summary: Ivy's college admissions essay, on what you want to study and why.
Date: Fall 2005
Notes: Why yes, she is a fan of the Dandy Warhols.

( I Am A Scientist )

Understanding

Title: Understanding
Rating: PG.
Summary: Clara can see that her father is crying.
Date: November 2005
Notes: Miyabi/isana made me do it.

( Understanding )

Conscripted

Title: Conscripted
Rating: PG.
Summary: Danny gets adopted-- or maybe assimilated is a better word.
Date: November 24th, 2005
Notes: Resistence is futile.

( Conscripted )

Stupid People

Title: Stupid People
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: "Aaron, what did I tell you about trying to explain things to stupid people?"
Date: 2005
Notes: Let's play spot the Tom Swiftie! Also, this is basically an excuse for some Aaron-Ivy goodness.

( Stupid People )