Title: Someday We May See
Fandom: the song Woman King, by Iron and Wine. OFC-centric.
Rating: PG-13
Length: 700 words
Content notes: Character death.
Summary: Hers was the kingdom, and the toil, and the children, for ever and ever.
Notes: I was thinking of doing the fic exchange jukebox_fest, but decided not to. Still, one of the nominated songs struck me with inspiration, and this is the result! You can read the lyrics here and listen to the song here. Thanks to raspberryhunter for the beta!

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Title: Collapse of the Wave Function
Fandom: due South
Pairing: teenage Benton Fraser/Mark Smithbauer
Rating: R
Length: 1200 words
Summary: Principles from physics do not generally carry over to human relationships.
Notes: I've been wanting to write a flashfic instead of plugging away at my long-term projects, so this was fun. Thanks to desireearmfeldt for beta reading!


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Title: Blodröd
Fandom: Traditional fairy tales (Little Red Riding Hood)
Rating: PG-13
Length: 2,600 words
Summary: Hon följer stigen, tills det är dags att kliva av.
Notes: Another translation for the Do-Over challenge. This is a Swedish version of my Little Red Riding Hood story Sanguine. Basically it's about sex education. : )

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Title: American Women
Fandom: due South
Pairing and characters: Frannie Vecchio/Mackenzie King, Maria Vecchio, Ray Vecchio
Rating: PG
Length: 1000 words (in ten drabbles alternating in POV)
Summary: Frannie and Mackenzie go on a date.
Notes: This is for innocentsmith, who in a discussion of why Frannie is the little black dress of due South femslash, wanted Frannie in a little black dress, hooking up with Mackenzie King. Thanks to seascribe for beta-reading! I'm posting it for the double challenge since it's a double POV. Also, this will totally count towards my rarepair badge, since this is the only fic I know of with this pairing. *g*


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Title: Coming Back
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser/Thatcher
Rating: NC-17
Length: 1300 words
Summary: Meg comes back from an undercover assignment.
Notes: This is a science fiction AU which is sequel to this little epistolary snippet, so read that first. It's also a present for sage. : ) Ratio of spaceship action to porn is about 1:1.

It fits into the challenge because it's undercover work, I suppose, but it also fits in another way: I discovered recently that I almost always write het sex from the female POV, so here's a het sex scene written from the other side.


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Title: You Find It When You're Least Looking For It
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Janet Morse
Rating: NC-17
Length: 3,250 words
Summary: Janet was so used to having to work hard for what she and the kids needed, having to play the vulnerable woman or the tough bounty-hunter by turns, that Fraser caught her off-balance. He simply offered the help she needed, and she just wasn't used to that.

Notes: What might have happened if Bob hadn't interrupted that kiss. Thanks to andeincascade and malnpudl for beta reading! (Special thanks to Mal for telling me I needed more build-up.) This is only the third fic ever with this pairing that I know of--there's one by sdwolfpup and one by llassah. Please tell me if you know of any others!

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I'm full of Frannie love lately, so here are five recs for Frannie gen (that I can also count towards some badges! Am I the only one who has a spreadsheet to keep track of potential badges?)

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Title: Voices in the Wind
Author and reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Characters: Caroline Fraser, Benton Fraser
Rating: PG-13
Length: 8 m 15 s
Summary: The wind speaks to Caroline.
Notes: This is a re-pod of my very first podfic (from 2007), and wow, how my reading has changed. The original is here, if anyone is interested, although I kind of want to hide my face when I listen to it. My characterization of Caroline has also changed since then, and this version of her makes my heart ache.

Title: Eat Dessert First
Author: brigantine
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Elaine Besbriss/Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 28 m 48 s
Author's summary: Post CotW, Officer Elaine Besbriss realizes just how much she's not out there alone.
Notes: I love how playful and companionable this fic is, and it reminds me of how much I like Elaine. Also, there is yummy porn. Thanks to the author for letting me record it!

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The "do-over" challenge made me think of translating something, so here you go: a translation into Swedish of my post-apocalyptic fairy tale fic Under the Mountain. *wonders if there are other Swedes here*

Title: Under berget
Fandom: Fairy tales, gen
Rating: PG
Length: 3,100 words
Summary: Där fanns något under berget.
Notes: Thanks to my sister and my mom for beta-reading the Swedish translation!

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Title: One Time Caroline Fraser Was Rescued By a Mountie (and Four Times She Rescued One)
Author: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairings: Bob/Caroline, Bob/Buck/Caroline
Rating: PG-13
Length: 500 words (five drabbles)
Summary: See title.
Notes: *drags self from bitchinparty long enough to post* Thanks to innocentsmith for the prompt, and to malnpudl for beta!

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Title: A Name of One's Own
Fandom: due South
Characters: Maggie MacKenzie, Ellen Stern (Maggie's mother)
Rating: PG
Length: 1,300 words
Summary: Maggie confronts her mother about her parentage.
Notes: Whee, now I get an author tag! \o/ I was ridiculously motivated by that, heh. And I love this comm! I would never have written this story otherwise, and now I want more fic about Maggie and her mother. Thanks to andeincascade for beta!

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First podfic on the comm! \o/ There's a love triangle of sorts in the story, but actually I think the triangle in this one is more the tension between the narrator, conventional life, and her dreams.

Title: The Hills of Iowa
Author and reader: luzula
Fandom: Dar Williams' song "Iowa"
Pairing: Narrator/OFC (femslash)
Rating: PG
Length: 28 m 11 s
Author's summary: My dreams didn't come true back in high school, and I sure didn't expect they would when I was middle-aged. It isn't the sort of thing that happens.
Notes: You can definitely listen to this without knowing the song, but here it is on Youtube if you want to hear it (and there are bits of it in the podfic, too). Thanks to cantarina for beta-listening!

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Title: Lay Me Down
Author: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairings: Bob Fraser/Caroline Fraser, hints of Bob Fraser/Buck Frobisher
Rating: PG
Length: 1000 words
Summary: It wasn't easy to go out and get drunk in a town where you represented the law.
Notes: Set some time after Caroline's death, so this is not a particularly cheery fic. Thanks to spuffyduds for the beta!


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