June Gift Exchange

Title: Waiting
Gift for: Thousandth
By: [to be revealed]
Gift type: Fiction
Word Count: 555
Genre: Supernatural
Rating: PG
Warnings: Creepiness?
Summary: Somewhere in the world, there’s a book sitting on a bookshelf, waiting.
Giftcreator's notes: Thanks for beta'ing, Kelly. A treat for this prompt: A story about a book that eats people or steals souls. As literal as you like! I'd like a horror story, or a ghost story, as creepy as it can be.


( Waiting )

Title: Exodus West
Gift for: five_steps_back
By: [to be revealed]
Gift type: fiction, approx. 7500 words
Genre: science fiction
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Character death, lots of strong language, queer characters facing discrimination, pregnancy. Zombies and the resultant violence, most of which is not explicit - but some is! The occasional overall gross-ness and gore encountered in places the zombies have been.
Summary: Zombies happened, and they happened hard. Joe Bronwen didn't realize he was signing up to lead the Rainbow Brigade to safety, but there's a silver lining in every irritating cloud.
Giftcreator's notes: I was pretty sure, when I started writing, that this would only be 1500 words. I would like to think that, in this case, more is better. Also, I blame you completely for having such an inspiring prompt. Thank you for that!


( Exodus West )

Title: Littered, Wrecked, and Empty (But Trying to Hold On)
Gift for: clare
By: [to be revealed]
Gift type: Fiction
Word Count: 760
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic
Rating: PG
Warnings: References to mass death.
Summary: That was the world now: littered, wrecked, and empty.
Giftcreator's notes: Thanks for beta'ing, Kelly. A treat for this prompt: The search for caffeine after the apocalypse.


( Littered, Wrecked, and Empty (But Trying to Hold On) )

Title: Lucille's Lemonade, Open For Business, Serving: Hell (and Heaven, Sorta)
Gift for: pip
By: [to be revealed]
Gift type: Fiction
Word Count: 3,350
Genre: Supernatural, Humor
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Summary: A nice, normal twelve-year-old girl decides to open up a nice, normal lemonade stand as part of a nice, normal school project. Well, almost.
Giftcreator's notes: Thanks for beta'ing, Kelly. A treat for this prompt: A lemonade stand in hell. Or on the road to hell. Lemonade must be awesome and not hellish. Human and nonhuman characters equally welcome! Prefer humor for this prompt. This...totally got away from me. I don't even know how it ended up this long.


( Lucille's Lemonade, Open For Business, Serving: Hell (and Heaven, Sorta) )

Title: Lament of a Deity
Gift for: subluxate
By: [to be revealed]
Gift type: art with accompanying poem
Genre: fantasy/mystical
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Summary: In vastness I am imprisoned.
Giftcreator's notes: Inspiration kind of ended up being bits of all the prompts. Hope you like it; I had a lot of fun working on it!


( Lament of a Deity )

Title: Shopping for parts
Gift for: prevail
By: [to be revealed]
Gift type: Art
Genre: Science fiction
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: A green haired old woman suggests the purchase of a new arm to her piecemeal robot friend and wheelchair-pusher.
Giftcreator's notes: For the prompt "A human/robot (or AI) romance (or close friendship). Surprise me.". I hope it's the good sort of surprising!


( Shopping for parts )

Title: London, 1852
Gift for: Geena
By: [to be revealed]
Gift type: Fiction; 2,054 words
Genre: Time travel; queer fiction
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: Kit Monroe finds her current research has a rather unexpected side effect, but at least it gives her time to think.
Giftcreator's notes: None


( London, 1852 )