beautiful prose
A collection of stories that I find the prose is incredibly well crafted, poignant, and/or stirs something in the heart.
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In the summer of 2011, psychiatrist and FBI consultant Dr. Hannibal Lecter travels with a crack forensic team to the murder capital of America to assist the New Orleans field office in hunting a possible serial killer. But bodies aren't the most interesting thing he finds when the water starts to rise.
Or, what would have happened if Will never left Louisiana?
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Dean Winchester was twenty-six years old when a car accident killed his father and left him paralysed from the waist down. A year and a half later, Dean is in a wheelchair and lives in a care home in Kansas, where he spends his days waiting to die. It's only when Castiel Novak starts volunteering at the care home that Dean starts to wonder if a changed life always equals a ruined one.
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from the perfect start to the finish line by supercrunch
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
21 Feb 2019
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Inko wakes up a few times with hazy nightmares of bruises and grinding bones. Hisashi sleeps soundly. She stares at the wall and thinks of the child she’s still keeping a secret, thinks about their future with a trapped mother and a father who wouldn’t think twice about ending a life. Her friends have disappeared. The boy who'd flirted with her is dead. Hisashi's right in the middle of it, with that smile that says he'd do it all again in a heartbeat.
She can’t let her baby end up like that. She can’t watch an innocent mind be warped into the person that Hisashi must be. It’ll be hard, raising a kid on her own. She hasn’t even gone to a doctor yet to make sure her pregnancy’s going okay. “Either I give up everything I have,” she says, hand resting on her belly. “Or I let Hisashi ruin my baby forever.”
(The choice is easy, in the end. She picks her child.)
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Making Sense of Chaos by SparkedToLife
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Daredevil (TV), Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Jessica Jones (TV)
19 Jan 2017
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Spider-Man always hit the attempted rapists the hardest.
This was not due to some kind of personal connection.
It wasn't.
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Basic medicine and sanitation are simple. During the Warring Clans era, they become revolutionary.
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For a prompt from Fascinationex: “ninja are meant to be able bodied, but plenty of them grow to experience chronic injuries and illnesses due to the nature of their work. exposure to poisons and dodgy joints are common, for example. a lot of medicine and man hours go into keeping good ninja in working order -- but when a ninja becomes a missing-nin, she starts having to deal with these problems independently. and that's when problems arise.”
In Mist, you fought until you couldn’t, and then you got a desk job. Unfortunately “desk job” doesn’t translate well into “missing-nin.”
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"We don’t drown. We float. That’s how Muggles used to tell, isn’t it?"
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When Regulus is five, he nearly drowns in the sea off Blackpool.
When Regulus is eleven, his brother befriends a ghost.
It’s not until Regulus is eighteen and ready to die that the Black family’s darkest secret finally unravels. It might, perhaps, change everything.
(A coming-of-age story with mind magic, star charting, pink petit-fours, two diaries, and a ghost.)
[Edit: SPOILERS in the comments.]
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quiet like a fight by shanatical
Fandoms: 殺戮の天使 | Satsuriku no Tenshi (Video Game), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
24 Feb 2021
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The odyssey of Rachel Gardner, who isn't actually as Quirkless as she once thought and has zero compunctions against using that to get what she wants.
Being stuck in Japan is a bit more of a hurdle than a death sentence and a high security institution, but she and Zack have dealt with steeper odds, she's pretty sure. Plus Ultra, as they say.
note: while the overall tone is intended to be humorous, this story will involve heavy themes of coming to terms with past abuse, maladaptive coping mechanisms, suicidal ideation, irresponsible divergence from medication schedules, depictions of gratuitous violence and gore, codependency withdrawal, and strong language, among others -
The Same Cloth by x_los
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 Aug 2020
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Hemp plants have deep roots, and a decades-old crime is more immediately relevant than it seems. Lan Wangji must tell the most respected textile merchants in Huanglongxi how their daughter, a rogue cultivator, came to die.
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- Part 2 of Ways of Looking at a Blackbird