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In addition to the Macbeth story, I was also working on this one. Regrettably, I didn't get it done in time for FemGen 2010. But since we've now got open season on the prompts (which means you can use any prompt you like to write a genfic focusing on a female character--just please post a link at the FemGen comm), I thought that it would be a good time to post this story.

Title: The Vampires of Venezuela
Author: [livejournal.com profile] gehayi
Fandom: Doctor Who
Character: Rosanna Calvierri, Eleven, Five; mention of Amy Pond, Rory Williams, Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough
Word Count: 8879
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Doctor Who and all related elements, characters and indicia are owned by the BBC and BBC America, 1963 - present. No profit is being made from this, and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Prompt: I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done....I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past. - Clara Barton (1821-1912), American nurse, teacher, federal worker, activist for women's suffrage, black civil rights and abolition of slavery, and founder and organizer of the Red Cross.
Summary: The vampires of Venice did not die. Rosanna Calvierri was too determined to allow the race of Saturnynians--now reduced to herself and her children--to perish simply because of the Doctor. Written for [livejournal.com profile] femgenficathon.
Author's Notes: (if any) This is dedicated to [livejournal.com profile] ariastar, who was dissatisfied with the fate of the vampires of Venice as well.

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The link will take you to An Archive of Our Own:

Signora Rosanna Calvierri--to use the human name she had adopted when the city was still safe for her and her fellow Saturnynians--did not die when she flung herself into the waters of Venice.
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Title: Harbingers of Blood
Author: [livejournal.com profile] gehayi
Fandom: Shakespeare--specifically, Macbeth
Characters: Gruoch (Lady Macbeth), Macbeth, Duncan, the Three Witches, Éua (the nameless Gentlewoman from the play), a Priest (OC), assorted Ghosts
Word Count: 12,046
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I most emphatically am not William Shakespeare. This should not come as a shock to anyone.
Prompt: And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. -- Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) , Pulitzer-prize-winning African-American novelist, short-story writer and poet. First black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. First black woman to win the National Book Award. (Both awards were in 1983 for The Color Purple.)
Summary: Written for [livejournal.com profile] femgenficathon. Queens have power. They need not hide who and what they are for safety's sake. But more than that--queens have names. And Lady Macbeth would do much to be known and remembered under her own name.
Warnings (if any): Violence and murder.
Author's Notes )

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Part 1

She is in the slaughterhouse, listening to the prophecies and accusations of the dead while she scrubs vainly at the blood on her hands. )

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End Notes )
[identity profile] gehayi.livejournal.com
Title: Harbingers of Blood
Author: [livejournal.com profile] gehayi
Fandom: Shakespeare--specifically, Macbeth
Characters: Gruoch (Lady Macbeth), Macbeth, Duncan, the Three Witches, Éua (the nameless Gentlewoman from the play), a Priest (OC), assorted Ghosts
Word Count: 12,046
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I most emphatically am not William Shakespeare. This should not come as a shock to anyone.
Prompt: And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. -- Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) , Pulitzer-prize-winning African-American novelist, short-story writer and poet. First black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. First black woman to win the National Book Award. (Both awards were in 1983 for The Color Purple.)
Summary: Written for [livejournal.com profile] femgenficathon. Queens have power. They need not hide who and what they are for safety's sake. But more than that--queens have names. And Lady Macbeth would do much to be known and remembered under her own name.
Warnings (if any): Violence and murder.
Author's Notes )

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She has no quarrel with camouflage or disguise. Of necessity, she has learned to be good at both. )

Part 2
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Title: Mind-Killer
Author: [livejournal.com profile] gehayi
Fandom: The Dresden Files (bookverse)
Characters: Charity Carpenter, Charity's parents, Gregor, Siriothrax, Michael Carpenter
Word Count: 11,543
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I most emphatically do not own The Dresden Files. They belong to Jim Butcher, ROC Books, New American Library, the Penguin Group, and—for the next three years--Lionsgate Productions. No profit is being made and no copyright or trademark infringed upon.
Prompt: Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future. -- Freya Stark (1893-1993), British adventurer, explorer and author of numerous books about her journeys.
Summary: Seeing the future in dreams and visions. Sensing people's natures with a touch. Being viewed as addicted or insane by those who should trust her most. Life isn't easy for a young wizard named Charity. Pre-series. Written for [livejournal.com profile] femgenficathon.
Warnings: (if any) Darkfic. Potentially disturbing subject matter. Spoilers for Proven Guilty, especially pages 298-301.
Author's Notes: (if any) Not compliant with any author interviews or forum posts relating to this character. The only information I have about her is from the books and short stories, so that's what I'm using.

Some of you may note that Gregor's middle name is Pyotr, not Pyotrovich. The reason? He was born in America, not Eastern Europe, and middle names are not normally patronymics in America.

The Clavis Salomonis, or Key of Solomon, is a book on magic written during the Middle Ages. However, it contains no "Thegn Ritual" or "Niehorster-Staub variant."

Thanks to my betas, [livejournal.com profile] shiplizard, [livejournal.com profile] fenna_girl and [livejournal.com profile] beachkid.

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Part 1: When she's almost sixteen, the dreams begin..

Part 2: On the second of February—Charity never forgets the date—she first hears Gregor speak, and learns about his coven..

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