jaded_of_mara

The gathered crowd stared at the bloodshed. The screams must have drawn out onlookers eventually. 

Arthelais stood, covered in viscera, before her audience.

She-- no, Kora, wanted to explain. She couldn't. She could almost hear her father's voice: If you're explaining, you're losing.

Fandom: Supernatural
Category: m/m
Rating: Teen

Office politics and Dean's stupid office crush combine into a perfect storm — literally.

Chapter 2: Kick 'em while they're up

Chapter 3: Dirty little secrets, pretty little lies

Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Wordcount: 800
Rating: Teen (themes of war(pandemic))
Category: Gen

It started innocuously enough. Jake's adviser from the Pennington Institute forwarded him an article from the Earth and Moon Daily Chronicle she thought he might be interested in. It's about the Dominion occupation of Deep Space 9, and how residents were affected by it. It's a good article. Thought-provoking, insightful. Written by a professional, in partnership with a professional holographer. The perfect article, the kind that people will discuss years after the fact.

It was published before the occupation ended.

This fic was originally written in April of 2020 in response to a big publication coming to my university and writing an article about the same subject as an article I was working on.

Fandom: Star Wars (legends)
Word count: 900
Rating: T
Category: M/M

The only habitable planet in the Aerenti system glittered dully in its orbit around its star. Luke had been called in because of the increasing political unrest in the region. Aerenti was on the edge of the Mid-Rim, right near Hutt space, but nominally a part of the Hapan Consortium. Various factions had been vying for control of the region as a whole, ever since the death of the Queen's last child.

Or at least, the supposed death. ( Read more... )

Fandom: Star Wars EU
Category: F/F
Rating: Teen
Word count: 600

Leia stepped out of the gala and onto the cool, secluded balcony. There were almost surely any variety of bugs in the plants around here, but it's not like she had anything meaningful to say. All she needed right now was an escape. The room was stifling, the conversation mind-numbing, and Mara certainly was too busy to provide good conversation.