Title: Picturing your life
Fandom: DC Comics
Prompt: Phrases #22, Looking down the barrel of a gun
Word Count: About 120.
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me; it's the other way around.
Summary: It wasn't a fitting end.


( The would-be robber aimed at him and pressed the trigger.Collapse )

Title: Adaptive Algorithms
Fandom: DC Comics
Prompt: Phrases #11, Fall from grace
Word Count: About 200
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me; it's the other way around.
Summary: Sanity and adequacy aren't necessarily correlated.
Rating: PG13
Notes: DC AU. This is something like a Timfinity story --- and also a Dexter-ish one. Consider it a warning. Dedicated to razorsmile, who wondered why I hadn't written this before.

( The cop was sitting on his couch, drinking, when a shadow fell over him.Collapse )

Title:Peripheral Vision
Fandom: DC Comics
Prompt: Phrases #12: Out of sight, out of mind
Word Count: About 260
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me; it's the other way around.
Summary: It's deniability, but it's not really plausible.


( He's a myth, man.Collapse )

Title: Truth, Lies and Politics
Fandom: DC Comics
Prompt: Words #4, demagogue: a leader who obtains power by means of appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace
Word Count: About 250
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me; it's the other way around.
Summary: Driving Bruce crazy is purely a bonus. Honest.
Notes: Sometime between the last Green Arrow issue and the first OYL one.

( Mr. Queen, what are your views on capital taxes?Collapse )

Title: Ephemeral
Fandom: DC Comics
Prompt: Phrases #3, Fragile as a dream
Word Count: About two hundred.
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me; it's the other way around.
Summary: It couldn't have gone any other way.

( You grew even more invulnerable over time, humans even more creative in their search of ways to destroy you.Collapse )

This is not something I had ever considered before.

Title: Things Lost
Fandom: DC Comics
Prompt: Words #10, slugabed: one who stays in bed until a late hour
Word Count: About 280
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me; it's the other way around.
Summary: He knows about contrasts.

( You used to enjoy flirting with the girl that sold you cigarettes.Collapse )

A fic for the 10_inspirations challenge. I'm not satisfied with the language, but I like the idea.

Title: Learning trip
Fandom: DC Comics
Prompt: Phrases #23: The whole nine yards
Word Count: About 280
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me; it's the other way around.
Summary: What he wants to do is not in question.


( By the time he was fifteen years old Bruce Wayne had learned many ways to kill. He had known what it meant to want to for a long time before.Collapse )

Title: Axis Mundi
Fandom: DC Comics (and... something else)
Prompt: Words #13, vainglory: excessive pride or vain display
Word Count: 116
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me; it's the other way around.
Summary: The big question is always what to do next.


( The League was dead.Collapse )

Title: A Cherry-Blossom Front in a Shadowy Winter
Fandom: DC Comics
Prompt: Words #9, pandemic: affecting a whole people or a number of countries
Word Count: 180
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me; it's the other way around.
Summary: It was traditional. It was chess.
Author's Notes: Spoilers for DC storylines up to OYL.

( Two years later.Collapse )

ETA of Sudden Topic Shift: If one can love a rating, I love the PG13 rating. You can do pretty much anything you want as long as there isn't explicit sex or detailed descriptions of violence. As if *those* were the worst things one can think or write about. *snorts* I've been turned on or scared silly (or both) by PG13 fic more often than I've been by R, NC-17 or "warning: darkfic" stories.