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Small Spriggs of Time: Including the Clandestine Correspondence of Lucius Spriggs, Reprobate, and his Sister, Concerning a False, Deluding Young Man and Sundry Other Matters by zmayhem
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
18 May 2023
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Lucius is stuck, trapped and yearning. His sister Matilda has good advice, but he doesn't want good advice. Set in the same timeline as an earlier story, A Lighthouse To Each Other, but can be read on its own. All you need to know is that Lucius is hiding from the law in a draughtsman's office in Barbados, and that he has been for years corresponding with one of his younger sisters (he has two younger and at least three older).
Enormous thanks to beta reader @cravatsandbonnets
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Little Isle Of Horrors by zmayhem
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Little Shop of Horrors - Menken/Ashman
10 Sep 2022
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Prompt in the FB group "Creative Crew of the Revenge," asking for OFMD drabbles starting with the line "Are you sure that's actually edible?"
Not beta'd because oh come on seriously?
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Oluwande doesn't talk a lot, but everyone talks to him, and he notices everyone and everything. And he never stops missing Jim; he just learns, slowly, to live with the ache.
Recounts the time from the (partial) crew's return from St. Augustine to the talent show rehearsal through Oluwande's eyes.
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A Lighthouse To Each Other; or, Cracking Up On The Rocks by zmayhem
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
05 Jun 2022
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What do you do when you've been married nearly a decade and you're still nearly strangers, when you know something has to change even if it means everything falls apart? Maybe you ask the stranger who shares your bed and your life, and you ask yourself, to take a leap and make a gift of as much truth as you can handle. And maybe, as you're trying to figure out how to make that gift of your truth a reality, you fumble closer to truths about yourself you didn't even know.
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Trouble Me Always: Being A True Chronicle of the Early Deeds of Oluwande Boodhari, Outlaw Shipwright by zmayhem
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
04 Jun 2022
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A young sailor with no idea which end is up needs a good mentor, and Oluwande Boodhari's first true captain knows just who to send him to.
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Jim becomes a legend at Blackbeard’s side.
They can’t help being the meanest and the sharpest of them all, striking fear just to make sure everyone else flinches first. Life is pain, and they are better off inflicting than receiving.
They hate Blackbeard and they hate Izzy, but Jim's place is here. They all deserve each other. Three feral dogs hiding their tenderness from each other like it’s a rotting wound.
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29 Sep 2022
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“Come here.” Ed puts his hand back behind Stede’s neck and pulls him close. “Listen, I know you said no sex, but… would you try it, just once, with me? I promise we’ll stop if it ever gets to be too much. Solemn vow.”
Stede stays silent for a moment. He thinks of Mary, not even meeting his eyes as they performed their marital duties. And he thinks of Ed, pulling back after their first kiss, gazing at him as if Stede were the most beautiful thing in the world.
“Alright,” he whispers.
*Stede doesn't like sex. At least, he thinks he doesn't, because he's never had sex with someone he's actually attracted to before. Ed very patiently teaches him that sex can actually be enjoyable. There is crying. Bon apetit.
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20 Sep 2022
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In the aftermath of some life-altering decisions on both sides, Edward and Stede navigate reuniting, learning what it is that they really want and how to ask for it, as well as surviving in a world that is nowhere near ready to just let them rest. Or, finding their way back to each other is only the very beginning.
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13 Sep 2022
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A remarkable "braided novel" of 8 stories and novellas which Macedon wrote in tandem with the equally remarkable Peg Robinson. Too sprawling (in the grand sense) in scale and reach to reduce to a mere synopsis; let us just say that this is Voyager unfettered and red in tooth and claw, such as Paramount with its nice tidy pander-to-the-demographics mentality could only dream of producing. Faith, community, alienation and belonging, honest conflict between Maquis and Starfleet, and the realities of life far from home and safety. These are just a few of the things Macedon and Peg handled with discretion and grace.
From Macedon: I recently learned that my friend of many years, Peg, passed away in her sleep September 3, 2024. If you were or are a fan of the Talking Stick series and Peg's fiction, please think softly on her and light some sage or tobacco in her memory for the wonderful stories she gave to us.
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07 Sep 2022
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"Good-bye children."
Stede's in the process of closing the door as quietly as he can - something he's an expert in, he likes to sneak in and give them a kiss after they've gone to bed but before he does - when he hears it.
"Papa?"
Damn.
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Complete
Rating for language and suggestive situations.
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23 Aug 2022