One thousand years of sand

Title: Beats Faster, Hits Harder
Fandom: Harsh Realm/Mysterious Skin
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 2,230
Summary: Mike and Neil gamble and lose--and the rest is easy.
Note: Latest in a series that includes (in reverse chronological order) Show Me How That Dance is Done Breaking Point, Funny Games, And We'd Never Know, Manners May Prevail, Complications, and Devotion.

( It isn't the end of it. )

Title: Funny Games
Fandom: Harsh Realm/Mysterious Skin
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 981
Summary: Neil figures an angle.
Note: Latest in a series that includes And We'd Never Know, Manners May Prevail, Complications, and Devotion.

( You should just fucking blow him, already, Mike says. )

Title: Manners May Prevail
Fandom: Harsh Realm/Mysterious Skin
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 2,168
Summary: Mike pushes things a little further, and Neil isn't thrilled to find himself being used as a prop. Mostly not thrilled, anyway.
Note: Sequel to Complications, which is itself a sequel to Devotion.

Not a hesitation --
Abraham complied --
Flattered by Obeisance
Tyranny demurred.

--Emily Dickinson

( You asshole. )

Title: Complications
Fandom: Harsh Realm/Mysterious Skin
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 1,895
Summary: Tom joins Neil and Mike's merry little band, and doesn't entirely understand what he's gotten himself into.
Note: This is both a bit of a sequel to Devotion and a little birthday quickie for thetinydemon. Happy birthday, bitch.

( Tom Hobbes doesn't question the collar, not at first. )