The Second Floor

Title: What We Do Instead
Pairing: Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert
Rating: R
Word Count: 2800
Warnings: implied violence
Summary: As of his junior year, Jon spends most of his weekends hanging around abandoned classrooms with nothing stronger than the occasional bottle of wine on the table. Stephen gets that, even if he doesn't know why. College AU
Notes: Thanks to w_thit who has graciously beta'ed this. Any remaining mistakes are my own, probably resulting from poking at it after she'd been over it. I have no idea what Mitch McConnell's actual views, if any, are on the subjects mentioned are.
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

( According to Stephen, the place you start running is Waffle House. )

Title: What We Do Instead
Pairing: Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3000
Warnings: unbetaed; please tell me if I have inadvertently done something terrible and/or grammatically incorrect
Summary: As of his junior year, Jon spends most of his weekends hanging around abandoned classrooms with nothing stronger than the occasional bottle of wine on the table. Stephen gets that, even if he doesn't know why. College AU
Notes: This is the thing I started because I wanted to write something not sad. It didn't really work.
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

( Credits roll and Jon's up with the lights. . . )

Title: What Is Okay
Pairing: Anderson Cooper/Keith Olbermann
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2600
Warnings: Unbetaed, cigarette porn, detailed description of what sounds a lot like clinical depression, including abstract discussion of suicide
Summary: Anderson is okay. He's always okay. He has to be. He's got to go teach the country about the bad things that happen in rural mountain communities. He's fine.
Notes: Theoretically fits in with something larger, but works on it's own. Guest starring environmentalist propaganda. Feel like I should emphasize I know nothing about Anderson Cooper apart from what's known to the public at large and I would be extremely surprised if his reality resembled this.
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

( “I can feel it sometimes,” he wants to say to Keith. “I know when it's happening.” )

Title: After That
Rating: R (for profanity)
Word Count: 1179
Summary: An encounter between enemies, just before sunrise.
Notes: One scene, unconnected to anything else.

( Outside, at night. BYERS, smoking. Enter SOLOMIN, wearing a cardigan. )

Title: __________________
Series: none
Rating: R
Word Count: 1600
Overall Summary: A ballerina has a stalker. A philosopher, a math prodigy, and a Marine object.
Scene Specific Summary: The harassment continues. Concern is expressed. Neitzsche is mentioned.
Notes: Second through fourth scene of an as-yet unfinished, untitled play. Rating for extensive profanity. I am not happy with the fourth scene in particular.

( Act 1, Scenes 2-4 )

Title: At The Syndicate
Series: Vegas Saga (very, very loosely)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 675
Summary: Cyril was a regular until his partner fucked him over.
Warning: Allusion to a foot fetish.
Notes: The Syndicate is the club Julian takes Michelle to in the New York part of the Vegas Saga, which exists as hundred-word scraps that will hopefully coalesce into something readable, some day. This chain of events is vaguely alluded to in one of those scraps.

( So, me and Stephy, we know this girl, Jeana, and Jeana's got this friend named Cyril and. . . )

Today I am posting WIPs that aren't WIPs because that would imply progress is being made. And it isn't.

Title: Dungeno
Series: unfinished
Rating: PG?
Word Count: 945
Summary: Gay Jewish angst on a starship.
Notes: I've started but never finished a couple of things set in the Star Trek universe, concerning the Starship Dungeno (a name which came about because I sometimes misspell things and thought it looked cool), populated by characters I write about in other places. It is unlikely that this, or anything in this continuity, will ever be finished but I'm throwing it out there anyway. I would also like to take this opportunity to point out I do sometimes write about gentiles having gay angst.

( The rhythmic drumming of Lieutenant Anita Rabinoveitch's heels against the white counter she'd sat herself on would have annoyed Dr. Meschesh Herskowitz, under ordinary circumstances. )

Title: Mitt and Leena: A Slightly Toxic Love Story
Series: NONE, DAMMIT
Fandom: I don't want to talk about it.
Pairing: I really, really don't want to talk about it.
Rating: Shit
Word Count: Too fucking long (4018)
Summary: Leena and Mitt Fucking Romney have true love.
Warnings: Lots of weird. Lots of specifically requested weird that I did not come up with. (I'm not really denying responsibility. I brought it into being. But there are so many levels of creepy here and I'd like to make it clear that my autonomy was highly restricted and someone else made up 90% of the content of this story.) Did you get the part about Mitt Romney?
Notes: I wrote this as a present for a friend in my junior year of high school. As a present, it was great. As a work of fiction, fuck knows. But it's here and it's finished and I'm inflicting it upon you, the public, because I hate you for reading it almost as much as I hate myself for writing it. I skimmed it before posting and it might be worth reading just to see exactly how much of my bitterness over being made to do this leaked through.

( This is a love story. That alone should tell you all you need to know. )

Title: A Brief History of Shelby and Nona Kikorov
Series: Helena and Shelby
Rating: PG-13ish
Word Count: 500
Summary: Shelby isn't gay. She's just in love.
Notes: I steal things from books, television, other people's fanfiction (which somehow feels more dishonest than either of the above), and from people around me. Please forgive me.

( A few days before I left for college, my mother said, “Whatever you do, don't come back gay.” )

Title: Washable
Series: Helena and Shelby
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1022
Summary: The end of a bad day.
Notes: Second story written in this universe, and the companion to Something Bad.

( Helena once told me that we were too cool for fantasies. )