Cradle

Title: Cradle
Rating: PG
Summary: Five babies Gary Hawkins held, and the one he never did.
Notes: none
WARNING for miscarriage.

( Cradle )

Blinding

Title: Blinding
Rating: PG
Summary: Love makes fools of us all.
Notes: I frickin' love Florence and the Machine.
WARNING for domestic abuse.

( Blinding )

All Things Come To This

Title: All Things Come To This
Rating: PG
Summary: Souvenirs of a life well loved.
Notes: none

( All Things Come To This )

Sacraments

Title: Sacraments
Rating: PG.
Summary: Gina, being gay, and the church, in the person of Father Arnott.
Notes: I'm a little nervous about this one, so if you find fail, please be gentle.

( Sacraments )

Voicemail

Title: Voicemail
Rating: PG.
Summary: Three missed phone calls.
Notes: none

( Voicemail )

Inheritance

Title: Inheritance
Rating: PG.
Summary: Ivy doesn't have favorite things so much as she has favorite memories.
Notes: Well, this was... bigger than expected. References, in order, The Christmas Horse, Voicemail, and Father's Day.


( Inheritance )

Nothing Else Will Do

Title: Nothing Else Will Do
Rating: PG.
Summary: He tried, oh, he tried to let her go, but somehow he could never quite manage it.
Notes: And now, some fluff for Hugh and Joanna. Because I missed writing them in all their functional, matching-baggage glory. Title from a lovely song by the Weepies.

( Nothing Else Will Do )

Higher Education

Title: Higher Education
Rating: PG.
Summary: Three generations of higher education.
Notes: The author does not believe that one can use "just" in connection with any degree of any sort, but that's Gail for you.

( Higher Education )

Advice

Title: Advice
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Summer and Gina help each other out.
Notes: Altar Boyz! is real. And awesome.

( Advice )

When I Was Young I Believed

Title: When I Was Young I Believed
Rating: PG.
Summary: Disillusionment.
Notes: none.
WARNING for child abuse.

( When I Was Young I Believed )

Shelter

Title: Shelter
Rating: PG.
Summary: Five times Lars protected Summer, and once she protected him.
Notes: These are in roughly chronological order except for the last one, which references Fracture.

( Shelter )

Colors

Title: Colors
Rating: PG-13 for that first one.
Summary: Gina lives her life in colors.
Notes: none


( Colors )

Ever At Your Service

Title: Ever At Your Service
Rating: PG.
Summary: Love stories, in one hundred words or less.
Notes: Valentine's Day special, brought to you by my iTunes folder of stupid sappy love songs on shuffle! Title from the Shakespeare Gary quotes at the end.

( Ever At Your Service )

This Is Why

Title: This is Why
Rating: PG.
Summary: Beauty is never ridiculous.
Notes: Fluff, as promised. Also, I think this turned into a love letter to a place I've never been, but so it goes.

( This is Why )

You and I

Title: You and I
Rating: PG.
Summary: More love stories, in 100 words or less.
Notes: none

( You and I )

Mothering

Title: Mothering
Rating: PG.
Summary: Lessons in motherhood.
Notes: Abortion is a highly personal choice, one that I would never attempt to make for anyone, and it is not in and of itself a bad thing. I apologize if that came off differently to anyone.
WARNING for Yvonne.

( Mothering )

This Is What It Is

Title: This Is What It Is
Rating: PG.
Summary: This is what it feels like, or, Olivia on depression.
Notes: You know how some stories just write themselves?
WARNING for depression.

( This Is What It Is )

Choices

Title: Choices
Rating: PG.
Summary: Five women, and their choices.
Notes: Please be aware that this story is essentially about abortion. This was sparked when Sara (quite rightly) mentioned that something I had said came off wrong, and is my attempt to rectify that inadvertant wrong.
WARNING for mentioned rape.

( Choices )

Clerihew

Title: Cleirhew
Rating: PG.
Summary: Clerihews for four of my main characters.
Notes: So, in the course of my Iron Poet challenge, I discovered something called a clerihew. And then I wrote them for half my main characters. More to come when I feel like it. Here there be weirdness.

( Clerihews )

Five Things That Never Happened To Jacob Foster

Title: Five Things That Never Happened To Jacob Foster (And One That Did)Rating: PG-13
Summary: Small moments can change everything.
Notes: Thanks to Miaybi for all her help with this! The second pocky would not exist nor would Elena have a middle name without you, bb. <3

( Five Things That Never Happened To Jake Foster (And One That Did) )

Letters to Heaven

Title: Letters to Heaven
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Jake, learning to heal.
Notes: A ghost story, in my own way. Fire.
WARNING for suicidal implications and references to self-injury.

( Letters to Heaven )

two and one

Title: two and one
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Meditations on marriage.
Notes: Title from something Summer said that made a lot more sense to me than it probably should have.

( two and one )

Shooting for the Stars

Title: Shooting for the Stars
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Ivy, dreaming.
Notes: none.

( Shooting for the Stars )

Left

Title: Left
Rating: PG.
Summary: Andy has been left too often.
Notes: Refers to Security.
WARNING for child abandonment.

( Left )

Picnics

Title: Picnics
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Three picnics.
Notes: none

( Picnics )

Hold On, Hold On

Title: Hold On, Hold On
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Danny and Michael hold on to each other.
Notes: Everybody needs support. Title from a Neko Case song.
WARNING: Implied child abuse.

( Hold On, Hold On )

The People Who Raised Me

Title: The People Who Raised Me
Rating: PG-13, swearing.
Summary: Ivy on the people she loves.
Notes: Title from a Bird and the Bee song.

( The People Who Raised Me )

We Are Golden

Title: We Are Golden
Rating: PG.
Summary: Gina and Olivia's friendship: the college years.
Notes: Commentary here.

( We Are Golden )

Civilized

Title: Civilized
Rating: PG.
Summary: Summer knows the rules.
Notes: none

( Civilized )

Warm Strangers

Title: Warm Strangers
Rating: PG.
Summary: Snapshots of relationships.
Notes: This is based on the album Warm Strangers by Vienna Teng.

( Warm Strangers )

Fatherhood

Title: Fatherhood
Rating: PG-13 for swearing and some rage-inducing things.
Summary: Fathers and children.
Notes: For Father's Day. I changed this halfway through from present to past tense, so if you catch a slip please let me know. Also, Gary is reading the St. Crispin's Day speech, should you be interested.

( Fatherhood )

Frailty

Title: Frailty
Rating: PG.
Summary: He never felt anything in particular for Fatimah.
Notes: none

( Frailty )

Fading

Title: Fading
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Nathan and Melanie's marriage, from start to finish.
Notes: none

( Fading )

Why Can't

Title: Why Can't
Rating: PG.
Summary: Four times someone asked Summer why.
Notes: none

( Why Can't )

Affection

Title: Affection
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Romantic touches are not always about sex.
Notes: Soapboxing via story? Moi? NEVER. Christine is Lars's sister; I think everyone else is pretty well known by now.

( Affection )

Glass Ceilings

Title: Glass Ceilings
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Whoever said sexism is dead was lying.
Notes: This is every freaking day.
WARNING for overt sexism.

( Glass Ceilings )

Visible Soul

Title: Visible Soul
Rating: PG.
Summary: "No heaven will not ever Heaven be; unless my cats are there to welcome me." ~ Anonymous
Notes: All three animals in this are real, and all three are alive, well, and adored. Bonus points if you know what their pseudonyms are shoutouts to. Bonus-er points if you guess which one is my baby. Title from a quote by Jean Cocteau.

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What I Deserve

Title: What I Deserve
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Yvonne in therapy.
Notes: none.
WARNING for Yvonne.

( What I Deserve )

Aftershocks

Title: Aftershocks
Rating: R, for cursing and sexual situations.
Summary: The Amala children survive.
Notes: This took a while. Character opinions are not the author's.

( Aftershocks )

Potential

Title: Potential
Rating: PG.
Summary: Have you ever really looked at a baby's hands? Gina has.
Notes: none.

( Potential )

The Idle Pleasures Of These Days

Title: The Idle Pleasures Of These Days
Rating: R, for much swearing and graphic discussion of sex.
Summary: Bradley Spitzer has it made.
Notes: Title is from Richard III.
WARNING: Drug use, objectification of women, violent death, perjoratives, dubious consent (mentioned only), general terrible-personness.

( The Idle Pleasures Of These Days )

Resilience

Title: Resilience
Rating: PG.
Summary: Summer has an outlet.
Notes: none

( Resilience )

Relenting

Title: Relenting
Rating: PG.
Summary: And then again.
Notes: There's a line in here from the Princess Bride; my thanks and all credit to William Goldman.
WARNING for depression.

( Relenting )

Possibility

Title: Possibility
Rating: PG.
Summary: Ivy is so not a morning person.
Notes: For Miyabi, 'cause she's awesome.

( Possibility )

Voices

Title: Voices
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: I was there.
Notes: I think I needed to write this, for myself if nothing else. Deals with September 11th.
WARNING for September 11th.

( Voices )

Princesses

Title: Princesses
Rating: PG.
Summary: Ivy has no need for princes.
Notes: This story is for Miyabi, without whom it would never have happened. The tape referenced is The Practical Princess.

( Princesses )

Hell or High Water

Title: Hell or High Water
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Olivia and Jake, through the years.
WARNING: discussion of mental illness, (emotional) child abuse, use of 'crazy' as a pejorative, and depictions of depression.

( Hell or High Water )

Ephemeral

Title: Ephemeral
Rating: PG.
Summary: Yvonne doesn't understand men.
Notes: none

( Ephemeral )

Stages

Title: Stages
Rating: PG.
Summary: Olivia recovers.
Notes: This is Kelly's fault.
WARNING: Depiction of depression.

( Stages )

Reboot

Title: Reboot
Rating: PG.
Summary: Some days it all gets too much.
Notes: none.

( Reboot )

Sticks and Stones

Title: Sticks and Stones
Rating: PG.
Summary: Michael, on life.
Notes: This is not quite a textbook kyrielle, but it keeps to the spirit of the thing.

( Sticks and Stones )

water doesn't break it heals

Title: water doesn't break it heals
Rating: G.
Summary: A day out with Danny and Michael.
Notes: Patterned after whatever the hell it is that ee cummings does.


( water doesn't break it heals )

Thunder

Title: Thunder
Rating: PG.
Summary: Everyone has that one fear.
Notes: none.

( Thunder )

Joy Maserati's Rules For Sex (And Life)

Title: Joy Maserati's Rules For Sex (And Life)
Rating: R, verging on NC-17 at times, for explicit sex and a lot of swearing.
Summary: Joy likes life.
AUs: Sisters, Threesome, two miscallaneous
Notes: At least four of these totally disregard anything that you might call a timeline. Find the hidden Jane Austen reference and get a cookie.
Disclaimer: John Wilson and Torey Corlioni belong to Sara, Kelly, and Geena. Chloe and Kurt belong to Nikki. All are used with permission.
WARNING for underage sexual activity.

( Joy Maserati's Rules for Sex (And Life) )

Ringing Out

Title: Ringing Out
Rating: PG.
Summary: Olivia and the music.
Notes: Another perspective on Olivia's healing process. And sort of a commentary on depression and creativity.

( Ringing Out )

Father's Day

Title: Father's Day
Rating: PG.
Summary: Five Father's Days in Hugh Marhenke's life.
Notes: none

( Father's Day )

let go

Title: let go
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Rose Marie Kendall loved her husband very much.
Notes: I hope I did a decent job on this... if you find fail, please be gentle but please, please tell me.
WARNING for suicide, discussion of PTSD and the Vietnam War.

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Welcome To The Family

Title: Welcome to the Family
Rating: G.
Summary: Leah Kendall's guide to the family for her soon-to-be cousin.
Notes: Three big images behind the cut.

( Welcome To The Family )