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This story is a sequel to One Knight's Stand with a tinge from the The Sin-Eater and T & Empathy universe. I don't think you need to read the latter two to understand it, but certainly One Knight's Stand. Thanks to lynnmonster for beta, and sister_wolf and theamusedone for their feedback!


I know the struggle
that happiness is haunted
You don't get what you need
You don't get what you wanted

-Headstones, Come On


( Happiness Is Haunted )

It's still before midnight somewhere... right?

This story covers, let's see, Threesome, Voyeurism, Masturbation, Make-Up, Courtesy, Curtain, Knickers, Shakespeare (via Stoppard), Cliche #11 (Lookalike), and possibly Door. It's NC-17 and weighs in at roughly 6600 words. (If I look at it as 1000 words per challenge, it's under the "We don't need no stinkin' word limit"!)

I'd have never been able to start this story on Thursday night - let alone finish it today - without the folks in #discourse. Their prodding, praying, and cheerleading got me through this with most of my psyche intact, if sleep-deprived. Thanks, you guys! Extra special thanks to lynnmonster and justacat for beta and hand-holding-beyond-the-call - and to lynnmonster again for the perfect title! I owe you both, bigtime! Thank you, too, theodosia for helping me try to title this thing at past the last minute! Thanks to cesperanza for extending the deadline so I could finish it! And thanks and apologies to Tom Stoppard for the lines I lifted from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and dropped into this story in various characters' mouths.


( Triple-Double* )

*"The achievement of a player who hits at least ten home runs, ten triples, and ten doubles in one season."

When I sat down to write for this challenge, I didn't realize I'd bitten off far more than a flashfic could handle, so what you're getting here is a scene and a fraction which (I think!) stand complete.

Thanks to daughtershade, askye, kiltslave, jonesiegirl, and all the #discourse folks I tortured who prodded me to go with my idea! There will be more to come!

( Untitled for now; 450-ish words )

I dove into Cliché #11 so deep, I think I cracked my skull on the bottom.

This fracture generated somewhere between 949-960 words, depending on which word counter I choose to believe, and the finished product was betaed by alexsisterwolf. jonesiegirl provided some last minute fact-checking.

( Opposum Farcito con il Seme Nero )

I have no idea what the actual word count is, but it's not long - and it comes with a sequel that should be done by Monday. (The link does take you off LJ, but I had a hard enough time keeping the coding functional without trying to do it here, too.)

Loss by Heuradys & jonesiegirl