Title: Commodore's Envoy
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 695 words
Author notes: set after Picts and Martyrs.
Summary: Swallow's Ship's Baby is reluctant to sail in Scarab.

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Title: Seat of his Trousers
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 500 words
Content notes: set during WWII. Mentioned original character death.
Author notes: Also for the "speed" prompt of my 50x500 challenge, and for a first line tumblr prompt from ravenpuffheadcanons.
Summary: During a wartime holiday, Roger's stories bring a little joy to his family and friends.

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Title: Mothers
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 14 words
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: A septolet - a 14-word poem in seven lines and two parts.
Summary: When the Swallows and Amazons sail away each summer, their mothers are left waiting for them.

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Title: On the Mountainside
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 960 words
Content notes: married Nancy/John future-fic, post-WWII.
Author notes: also for thusbluespirit's "prompts for 2021" challenge - the prompt was "under the stars (Nancy Blackett / John Walker - getaway vacation & hostile climate)"
Summary: Years later, John and Nancy set off to climb Kanchenjunga again, and sleep on the mountainside once more. 

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Title: Last Night on the Sea Bear
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons series - Arthur Ransome
Rating: G
Length: 500
Content notes: set after the end of "Great Northern?" - I assumed they would have one more night on board, what with everything that happens the last day.
Author notes: For the "sea life" challenge. Also for the "weakness" prompt in my 50x500 Swallows and Amazons challenge. In my mental timeline, Great Northern is in the summer of their last "all together" holiday, following John and Nancy's last term at school (it could happen one or two years before that, but I prefer to set it there).
Summary: On their last night aboard the Sea Bear, Susan and Nancy talk of new adventures ahead.

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Title: Touch
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 500
Content notes: Set before Pigeon Post, a sequel to Sensual (but hopefully standalone). Timothy Stedding/Jim Turner.
Author notes: For the "New" square of my bingo card and the 15th prompt in my 50x500 Swallows and Amazons challenge. Dedicated to constantlearner on AO3, who wanted to know what happened after Sensual :)
Summary: Jim and Timothy, and a quiet moment on a Brazilian mountainside. 

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Title: All That Glitters
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons series
Rating: G
Length: 937 words
Content notes: set at the end of Pigeon Post.
Author notes: Cave made me think of mining, which led to Pigeon Post - I just couldn't quite get it done in time. Also for the Fortune square of my bingo card.
Summary: “Are you very disappointed it wasn’t gold?” Peggy had seen her sister’s face as Dick gave the news, and she’d rarely seen Nancy look so miserable.

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Title: Burn
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: M
Length: 500 words
Content notes: For the 'Burn' challenge at fan_flashworks, the 'bed' prompt in my 100fandoms card, and the 'sex' prompt in my 50x500 Swallows and Amazons challenge.
Author notes: A prequel to the last section of Don't Lie.
Summary: With war raging, Nancy and John seize the chance of what they know may be their only night together.


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Title: Do Not Go Gentle
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: T
Length: 500 words
Content notes: MAJOR CHARACTER DEATHS. For the "End of the World" square on my bingo card, and the "death" prompt in my 50x500 Swallows and Amazons challenge.
Author notes: I... am sorry this is where my brain went on being handed "death" as a prompt. This is not in the same continuity as the rest of my S&A fics (in which absolutely everyone lives!).
Summary: The Swallows and Amazons would have been the right age to fight in WWII. To fight, and to die.


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Title: Sensual
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons series
Rating: T
Length: 500 words
Content notes: Set just before Pigeon Post. Timothy Stedding / Jim Turner.
Author notes: For the "key" prompt at fan_flashworks . Also fits the "exploration" challenge (bingo card square). 12th in my personal 50x500 Swallows and Amazons fic challenge (prompt: sensual).
Summary: "It’s torture, to be so near Jim and yet so far; to want so badly to reach out and touch him, to be certain he’ll never dare."

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Title: Dorothea's Writing
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Content notes: Set during WWII.
Summary: Dorothea had always preferred writing novels to diaries. 

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Title: Name
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 500
Content notes: set the year before the series starts.
Author notes: 11th in my personal 50x500 Swallows and Amazons fic challenge (prompt: name).
Summary: Pirates are ruthless, so Ruth Blackett looks for a new name.

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Title: Ears
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 500
Content notes: set the year before the series starts.
Author notes: 10th in my personal 50x500 Swallows and Amazons fic challenge (prompt: ears)... Which at this rate should be done in 30 years or so ;)
Summary: "“Shh! Little pitchers, remember,” Mother interrupted, laughing, and the voices grew too quiet to be heard."

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Title: Baking at Beckfoot
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 2092 words
Content notes: Set just before 'Winter Holiday'.
Author notes: This started out inspired by the new movie missing all Susan's awesomeness and claiming she can't bake yes I am that petty but grew rather longer than I was expecting!
Summary: In which the Swallows and Amazons celebrate Susan's birthday, a cake is baked, and a Christmas tree gets a lucky reprieve.

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Title: Beginnings
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons/Chronicles of Narnia
Rating: G
Length: 1028 words
Content notes: set just after Prince Caspian, and after the Swallows and Amazons series.
Author notes: Fills the 'Crossover' square in my Trope Bingo card. There was supposed to be more about archery in this, but it got lost along the way somehow... I made my best guess at what form Bridget and Susan (both around 14) should be in, but please tell me if it's wrong, the upper-lower form numbering system confuses me a little.
Summary: On her first day at Saint Finbar's, Bridget Walker meets the Pevensie sisters.


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Title: Wish You Were Here
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons (book series) - Arthur Ransome
Rating: G
Length: 642 words
Content notes: Set during Pigeon Post.
Author notes: Also fills the 'perspective flip' square of my trope_bingo card.
Summary: Timothy's search for copper is constantly being hampered, and he can't help but wish for Jim.

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Title: Telephone
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons series
Rating: G
Length: 500 words
Content notes: Spoilers for Pigeon Post. One side of the conversation is borrowed (with minor tweaks for flow) from the book.
Author notes: Also fits the "communication" and "burn" challenges. 9th in my personal 50x500 Swallows and Amazons fic challenge (prompt: telephone).
Summary: "Colonel Jolys sat down by the telephone after dinner, ready to answer immediately if anyone should ring. But a full stomach and a hot day conspired against him, and though he would never have admitted it, he fell into a doze. The jangling telephone bell woke him with a start."

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Title: Sorting the Swallows, Amazons, and Ds
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons series
Length: 1264 words
Author notes: Because all characters ever must be sorted into Hogwarts Houses, and I don't think anyone has sorted this lot. It's my fannish duty :P (Also, I am an idiot who managed to post this to my own journal instead of the comm, but I deleted it and put it here as it was meant to be - sorry, mods, and I hope that's ok!)
Summary: Exactly what it says on the tin.

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Title: Tea and Thunder
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 615 words
Content notes: set after "Pigeon Post". Follows on from Rain, but stands alone.
Summary: "As Susan lifted the boiling kettle off the campfire, Peggy ran down to the landing place to fetch the milk, which had been put in the water to keep cool." The Swallows, Amazons and Ds' first afternoon camping on Wild Cat again.

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Title: Mementoes
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 52 words
Content notes: A Triolet. Spoilers(ish) for Winter Holiday and Secret Water?
Summary: Reminders of the North Polar and Secret Archipielago Expeditions.

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