One thousand years of sand

Title: To Catch the Light
Fandom: Harsh Realm/Mysterious Skin
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 2,769
Summary: The circle closes.
Note: Final installment in a series that includes (in reverse chronological order) Beats Faster, Hits Harder, Show Me How That Dance is Done, Breaking Point, Funny Games, And We'd Never Know, Manners May Prevail, Complications, and Devotion.

Fingers raised to the sky
A snake for a spine
He’s drunk on a life
That’s a whole lot better
--James

( It’s only later that Neil realizes how unsurprised he is. )

Title: Breaking Point
Fandom: Harsh Realm/Mysterious Skin
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 1,380
Summary: An explosion, and what came after.
Note: Latest in a series that includes Funny Games, And We'd Never Know, Manners May Prevail, Complications, and Devotion.

( There's a fight. )

Title: And We'd Never Know
Fandom: Harsh Realm/Mysterious Skin
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1,637
Summary: Tom and Neil start a fire.
Note: Latest in a series that includes Manners May Prevail, Complications, and Devotion.

( He knows Tom is watching him before he even turns around. )

Title: Yonder
Fandom: Harsh Realm/Memphis Belle (Tabula Rasa 'verse)
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 940
Summary: Little thing for _shades_. Brief scenes from the life of two romantic surrogates.

( There's never any lying )

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. )

Title: Penetration
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: NC-17, contains BDSM themes; warnings for piercing play.
Wordcount: 2,419
Summary: Tom and Mike have a quiet afternoon together, and Mike has a surprise with a bit of a point. Tabula Rasa 'verse.

( Tom is wriggling. )

Title: Zenith
Fandom: Original fiction
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 3,781
Summary: Love before a fall... and after.
Note: I say this is original but basically it's Paradise Lost fanfiction. Ah, well.

Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall:
And some are fallen, to disobedience fallen,
And so from Heaven to deepest Hell; O fall
From what high state of bliss, into what woe!

--John Milton

( I no longer remember the sun. )

Title: Vector
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: NC-17 for language, violence, and explicit adult situations
Wordcount: 60,155
Summary: Three years after his entry into the Realm, Tom Hobbes finds his stagnant day-to-day existence disrupted by the worst threat he's ever faced--and the entire Realm faces it as well.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

( Epilogue: Remission )

Title: Vector
Fandom: Harsh Realm
Rating: NC-17 for language, violence, and explicit adult situations
Wordcount: 60,155
Summary: Three years after his entry into the Realm, Tom Hobbes finds his stagnant day-to-day existence disrupted by the worst threat he's ever faced--and the entire Realm faces it as well.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

( Part Five: Mutation )

Title: Devotion Part 1/2
Fandom: Harsh Realm/Mysterious Skin AU
Rating: NC-17 for explicit sex, BDSM themes, non-con, language.
Wordcount: 14,239
Summary: Sometimes pain is exactly what you need.

( He's not all that surprised when they pick him up. )