Sing me a story, laugh me a lullaby

Title: The Island of Misfit Toys
Characters: Harry, Murphy, Forrester, Samara, Elgan, Mason
Rating: PG
Pairings:Forrester/Samara, Elgan/Mason, probably Harry/Murphy of a squint nature
Warnings: none, aside from an OC M/M relationship. I don't know if I need to warn for that, but I shall.
Word count: 3,196
Summary: Harry plans a small Thanksgiving dinner, which accidentally turns into a haven for those with nowhere to go.
Author's notes: Written for the 'writer's choice' slot on my occhallenge table.

Trufax: I have been working on this story for years now, but I kept not getting it finished in time for either Thanksgivings, and so elected to wait until the next year. I am posting in between Canadian and American Thanksgivings.

Forrester and Samara are originally from "Somnus", and can also be found in "God Laughs". Mason is orginally from "Communing With The Dead", and Elgan joins him in "Shattered Glass". Elgan originally belongs to celtic_cherokee, who lets me borrow him because she's awesome.

This concludes my occhallenge table. It only took me five years. But it is finished. Yay me!

A happy late Thanksgiving to Canucks and an early one to Yanks.


( Your pinny is very fetching. )

Title: Spring Cleaning
Characters: Harry, Fay, Mal, Murphy, Bob and daemons
Rating: PG
Warnings: a bit of angst
Word count: 1,795
Summary: Spring comes after a long winter for the Dresden clan, and Harry and Murphy do a little clearing of the air.
Author's notes: Written for the 'spring' prompt on my occhallenge table. Set in the mini!dresden's 'verse, pre-series, about four months after "Running Water".

AUs of AUs for the win! I figured while I was doing my Sherlock daemons, I might as well do my Dresden characters as well. Knowledge of His Dark Materials is not required. All that's necessary to know is that, in this world, humans' souls live outside of their bodies in the form of animals. There's an excellent primer here.

For reference: Taika (a Newfoundland), Jarek (a white lion), and Arsinoë (a rook). Mentioned, but not in the story: Liron (a Malabar Whistling Thrush), and Dahi (a dik-dik).

After some debate, I've decided to let Bob keep his daemon in the afterlife. I think it would be more of a punishment to have your soul and be aware of what wrong-doing you did.

Fay is about three years old, and Mal is about 10 months old.

(  It had been a bleak winter, both literally and figuratively. )

Title: The Copper Violin
Characters: Harry, Fay, Bob, Mouse, Mal
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Spoilers: There's a few references to my other OCS, but nothing too vital if you aren't familliar with them
Word count: Approx. 2000
Summary: A Christmas disaster is rescued by a Christmas miracle, courtesy of awesome friends and family and a not-so-fictional Santa Claus.
Author's notes: Written for the 'copper' prompt on my occhallenge table. Set in the mini!dresden's 'verse. Mal's slightly older in this one because I wanted to give him a bit more of a personality.

Happy Christmas/Holidays/December!

(  'Oh dear' did not quite cover the extent of badness that lay before me. )

Title: Shattered Glass
Characters: Harry, Bob, Caro (OC), Mason (OC), Elgan (OC)
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: None
Pairings: Mason/Elgan (OC/OC)
Warnings: injured kittys, swearing, m/m relationship
Word count: Approx. 3700
Summary: We all need friends, no matter our age, species or state of corporeal existence. A lesson learned by Harry Dresden after he receives a ghostly summons to a crime scene in the middle of the night.
Author's notes: Written for the 'friends' prompt on my occhallenge table. Caro, Mason, Rook and Davy are from a previous story, Communing with the Dead. It's not required reading, but might help set up the world for this one. Elgan was originally created by the lovely celtic_cherokee, who has graciously let me borrow him for this story. I wish I could do him better justice.

( I woke up with a start to find a transparent ten-year old girl yelling in my ear. )

Title: Burnt Toast
Characters: Miranda (OC), Harry
Rating/Warnings: PG/ brief mention of vomiting
Spoilers: None
Pairings: Miranda/Harry
Word count: Approx. 1200
Summary: Harry receives some happy news as a result of his breakfast food choice.
Author's notes: Written for the 'love' prompt on my occhallenge table. Set in my mini!Dresdens 'verse, pre-series.

This has been written forever, but I found it in my files and decided to polish for my table prompt.

( I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure your husband is supposed to be more attuned to your health than his ghost. )

Title: 15 Minutes
Characters: Bob, Fay, Mal
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Word count: 376
Summary: Bob is baby-sitting. Well, he's trying to baby-sit.
Author's notes: I wrote this ages ago as a comment!fic for donutsweeper and it never found its way to my main journal. Since it's on theme for today, I thought I'd post it. It also conveniently also fills the 'gold' prompt on my occhallenge table. Happy Mother's Day, mothers!

( It always amazed Bob how quickly children could make a mess. )

Title: Pet Peeve
Characters: Harry Dresden, Fay Dresden
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Word count: 270
Summary: The Dresden Family acquire a furry friend - but not the kind Fay is hoping for.
Author's notes: Written for joyfulfeather who gave me the prompt of 'mice' and for the 'Dreams' prompt on my occhallenge table. Set in the mini!Dresdens 'Verse

( That always means no. )

Title: A Quick Moment
Characters: Miranda (OFC), Harry
Rating: PG (for mild, persistent cursing)
Spoilers: None
Word count: 432
Summary: In which Miranda finds out that fate works in mysterious ways.
Author's notes: Written for the 8 Seconds Challenge and for the 'Short' prompt on my occhallenge table. Set in my mini!Dresdens 'verse, pre-series.

( It wasn’t that it hadn’t been fun. )

Title: Something Indescribable
Characters: Bob, Harry, Fay (OC), Miranda (OFC)
Rating: G
Spoilers: None; set in my Family Dynamics/Mini!Dresdens 'verse, so it will probably make more sense if you are familliar with it.
Word count: approx. 1000
Summary: Bob contemplates his new role in life/death. (Introspective)
Author's notes: Written for the 'Bob' challenge @ dresdenflashfic and the 'First' prompt for my occhallenge table.It is fluff with a side of fluff and fluff for dessert. You are thus warned.

( It seemed fitting that Harry would be the exception to that general rule. )

Since 10_prompts seems to have been abandoned, I've decided to try my hand at a occhallenge table instead. This will let me write for the mini!Dresdens and for any other OC I'd like for the Dresden Files, like Forrester or Mason and Caro.

( Claim Table of Vague Foreboding )