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.
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( 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: Shatterproof
Series: Exploding Puppies, sort of
Fandom: Punditslash
Pairing: Anderson Cooper/Keith Olbermann
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 932
Summary: Anderson gets depressed, sometimes.
Notes: Contains references to the Exploding Puppies trilogy. Precursor to as-yet unfinished Shatter, in which the nervous breakdown I kept threatening Anderson with actually happens.

( When Anderson gets depressed, he does it quietly. )

Title: Exploding Puppies III: Moments of Revelation
Series: Exploding Puppies
Fandom: Punditslash
Pairing: Anderson Cooper/Keith Olbermann
Rating: PGish
Word Count: 2028
Summary: Things are mostly good, mostly happy, mostly okay. There's not much more you could ask for.
Notes: Last part of the Exploding Puppies trilogy.

( In the days that come after, Anderson is happy. )

Title: Exploding Puppies
Series: Exploding Puppies
Fandom: Punditslash
Pairing: Anderson Cooper/Keith Olbermann
Rating: PG, maybe?
Word Count: 657
Summary: A story about figurative demons and literal puppies.
Notes: From 2008. My first pundit fic. I'm still pretty fond of it.

( In Anderson's head, there is sometimes screaming. Sometimes explosions. Sometimes not much of anything but silence. )