halfamoon | Self-Promotion: My Stories about Women (Reply)

I'd wanted to do a new story (or two) for the challenge, but I'm not sure it'll be done by midnight tomorrow. I'll manage the time better next year. :) In the meantime, here are my previous stories about women:

* = intended to comment on gender or intersections of gender and race or class in the source.

Original characters
* Wild Dogs (Wild Adapter, 3500 words)
"I heard that after the man fell, the dog crept up to him and curled 'round the body to keep him warm. It snarled whenever anyone else tried to come near. The people who discovered them had to throw stones to scare it off. This was before anyone realized what had happened, of course, or they would have just killed it then."

One-shot/Very minor characters
* On the Way to Grandmother's House (BtVS, unnamed, 680 words)
Because even wolves can get lost in the woods.

* The Betrothal Visit (Emma, the dancing girls, 1800 words)
Arundhati frowns over philosophy and Swati sighs over Gothic romances and Vishaka and Chitra giggle over texts on India, in the margins of which they sometimes inscribe corrections and sometimes inscribe outrageous lies.

What Flesh Felt (The X Files, 1-shot character, )
I'm not me, he said, and when you touched his hand it cut you.

Houses and Rain (xxxHolic, Ame-Warashi, 1900 words)
House spirits don't go anywhere, but rain spirits go everywhere: that's how we met.

Regular or recurring
* Maternity (Angel, Darla, 280 words)
Navel-gazing.

* No Oceans Left (Angel, Justine/Wesley, 2,100 words)
Confined to sex, we pressed against
The limits of the sea:
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.

Sunlight (Angel, Faith, 860 words)
A dream or an hour or ten minutes, and it all came down to the three seconds between the stairs and the cage, between her hand and the kid's arm already striking the blow to the heart.

Truly and Forever (BtVS, Tara/Willow, 400 words)
I love you, she says, I do this because I love you.

* The Language of Angels (Angel Sanctuary, Lucifer/Alexiel, 1400 words)
Language and longing were all the angels could take with them when they fell.

Postlapsarian (Angel Sanctuary, Sara, 470 words)

* The Taste of Butterflies (Angel Sanctuary, Alexiel/Mad Hatter, 1800 words)
The Mad Hatter is no longer an angel and never was a fool, except for love.

Third Daughter and Cherry Blossom (Angel Sanctuary, Alexiel/Nanatsusaya, 560 words)

Gold (Fullmetal Alchemist, Dante, drabble)

Bake Sale: A Mixed Media Collage (Joan of Arcadia, Iris, Iris/Joan, 3800 words)
40x30", mixed media (wood, paper, oil paint, pencil, metal, tinsel and paper muffin cups, hard candy, photographs, shellacked brownie crumbs and rice krispy treats, coffee beans, chiffon)

Now (Minority Report, Agatha, 510 words)
Agatha's defining moment

Drinking Gasoline (Supernatural, the Impala, Sam/Dean, 4800 words)
A car and her boy

The Fortunate Fall (Supernatural, Ruby, Sam/Ruby, 1200 words)
Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall.

* Spider Bites on All Your Lovers (Supernatural, Crossroads Demon, Dean/Crossroads Demon, 7000 words)
Demons don't do vanilla.

Sacrifice (Uglies series, Dr. Cable, 600 words)
Dr. Cable no longer numbers the sacrifices she's made.

Five Kisses Veronica Mars Can't Recall (Veronica Mars, Veronica, 480 words)

The Daughters of Abraham (The West Wing, Ellie, 1400 words)
"You must get so worried."

Leads
* Another Girl's Paradise (Alias, Lauren/Sydney, 1700 words)
what i want/is not to want/what isn't mine

* Black Moon in the Afternoon Sky (After School Nightmare, Ichijo/Kureha, Ichijo/Sou, 4200 words)
Around the corner and down the hall you go, through the double doors and then down by the staircase that isn't always there.

Journeys End (BtVS, Buffy, 500 words)
Journeys end in strangers meeting. Wishverse.

Outcast (Farscape, Aeryn Sun, 600 words)
She daydreamed sometimes of how they'd write it up in the histories: the strategies and the battles and Aeryn Sun's braid, as famous a marker as Fekkar's Twilith clan scars or Durka's glass eye.

Stories Darkness Tells You (Fray, Harth/Melaka, 2200 words)
Once upon a time there was a boy who was afraid of the dark and a girl who wasn't afraid of anything. But that was long ago and far away, and neither of them lived happily ever after.

The Field Trip (Harlem Beat wa Yoake Made, ensemble, 3300 words)
So a vampire, a werewolf, and a zombie walk into a museum ...

Acorn and Oak Tree (Her Majesty's Dog, Amane, 750 words)
A conversation among three personages

Zombie Jamboree (Wonderfalls, Jaye, 620 words)
"Do people really want plush zombie dolls for Halloween? Because I'm not seeing how cotton and velveteen are the best media for expressing the idea of rotting flesh."

Tell You A Secret (The X Files, Scully, 370 words)
"I know everything about you. And you. And you."

The male gaze
Phoenix to Ash (Angel/BtVS, Angel/Buffy, 330 words)

Bedtime Story (Pan's Labyrinth, 560 words)

Subaqueous (The X Files, Mulder/Scully, 860 words)