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Title: Silence Beyond Words
Author: tree_and_leaf
Fandom: Star Trek (AOS)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: No
Prompt: 12. Could I write all, the world would turn to stone. -- Caterina Sforza (early 1463-1509), Italian warrior-ruler of Imola and Forli.
Summary: Nyota Uhura is a communications officer, which means she’s good with words. So why can’t she find the right words to talk about what’s happened?
Author's Notes: Capt. Robbins isn’t really an OFC; it’s one of the names used in some of the spin-off material for Number One (while I normally have a great deal of respect for DC Fontana, I hate the idea that Number One really is her name; and wouldn’t that get confusing once you get promoted past XO anyway?) At any rate, Number One is awesome, despite how little we see of her in canon.
I have taken the prompt rather loosely; I wanted to write about things that can and can't be said. Alas, I struggled with it a bit, and I'm not entirely satisfied with the results. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

I do not own Star Trek, in any of its forms, nor am I making any profits.

( Robbins bought her whisky, the Scottish kind, with a reek of smoke on the nose. Uhura winced, and thought of burning circuits. )

Chavelle's Primrose Mystery, Ellen Tigh and Helena Cain, PG-13

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Title Chavelle's Primrose Mystery
Author: lls_mutant
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (new)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence, swearing, talk of past child prostitution/sexual abuse
Prompt: My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines. -- Trieu Thi Trinh (225-248), 3rd-century Vietnamese revolutionary who led a rebellion against Chinese invaders. Known as "the Vietnamese Joan of Arc."
Summary: The last cosmetics vendor in the universe has turned up dead. Ellen Tigh needs to figure out who killed her, before she's accused of the crime herself.
Author's Notes: Thanks to rebelliousrose for the brilliant comment about a murder mystery centering around the last bottle of perfume in existence.


( 'It's the last bottle of Dolce Veritas in the universe.' )

A Prudential Light, Charlotte Lucas, G

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Title: A Prudential Light
Author: tree
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Prompt: 34. I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody. -- Lena Horne
Summary: Charlotte Lucas at seven, seventeen, twenty-seven, and thirty-seven.
Author's Notes: I am indebted to ali972, Anghraine, hele and Tulina for their encouragement and pointy quills.

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rose_griffes, Kingdom Come, Doctor Who, Martha Jones

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Title: Kingdom Come
Author: rose_griffes
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: barely PG, for themes
Warnings: er... vague, minimal references to racism and classism (mostly set during 3.08/3.09 "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood")
Prompt: 148) If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer, though it might be as powerful as ever. -- Diana Wynne Jones (born August 16, 1934), English novelist and non-fiction author.
Summary: Martha Jones sees the world universe
Author's Notes: Spoilers for season three of new Doctor Who. (I haven't watched series four yet.) Lines in bold italics are quotes from Ten (and John Smith) throughout series three. Thanks to daybreak777, millari and persiflage_1 for all kinds of help.

Kingdom Come

Caged and Broken Winged - Stargate Atlantis, Elizabeth and Teyla, PG

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Title: Caged and Broken-Winged
Author: featherjean
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: PG
Warnings: Implied sexual abuse, discussion of psychological disorders
Prompt: 137) Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria (370-415)
Summary: The Atlantis team must save a village's women from a lifeless existence.
Author's Notes: Over 12k words, which is why I'm just linking to my fic journal. Thank you to mnfiddledragon for reading it over for me! Thanks as well to everyone on my flist who replied to my question about psychiatric diagnoses and treatments. Any mistakes are, of course, entirely my own.

Caged and Broken-Winged