The Captain and the Assassin - for Lysan Lurraxol

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Title: The Captain and the Assassin
Gift for: lysan_lurraxol
By: clare_dragonfly
Gift type: Fiction: 3,056 words
Genre: Historical fantasy-ish steampunk-ish
Rating: PG
Warnings: References to death is about as bad as it gets.
Summary: A surprising encounter with a famed poisoner in a church leads Violante Corombona, famed airship captain, and her motley crew of misfits into the strange heart of the Venetian underworld. (This is actually the prompt but I can't come up with a better summary myself!)
Giftcreator's notes: This story wanted to be much longer than I had time to write, unfortunately. Perhaps I will give it a proper finish someday.


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(treat) Fishing - for lizcommotion

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Title: Fishing
Gift for: untonuggan
By: sqbr
Gift type: Art
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: G
Warnings:None
Summary: A mermaid inspired by the brown jellyfish has captured a fish in her tentacle hair.
Giftcreator's notes:Sorry I didn't manage to answer all your questions, but I think the tentacles would be useful for capturing sailors too :)


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Language Calling - for hellpenguin

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Title: Language Calling
Gift for: hellpenguin
By: gretel
Gift type: fiction, 1000 words
Genre: literary
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Summary: Life after the passing of the language laws
Giftcreator's notes: With apologies to the prompter as this is the closest I could get to what I think she wanted. This story kept going in the opposite direction :(
Also to The Clash for mutilating their song.


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Not a Spy Story - for smeddley

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Title: Not a Spy Story
Gift for: smeddley
By: elf
Gift type: Fiction, ~6500 words
Genre: Adventure Drama
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: Hank Jefferson, a.k.a. Enrique el Jefe, was an undercover agent in Nicaragua in the 80’s. Over twenty-five years later, Nazis are setting up camp, and the agency wants his help again. The problem? Hank is not a spy. Hank is a former spy, and he wished he could convince everyone else of that.
Giftcreator's notes: This is not the story I intended to write, which had more explosions and possibly some aliens. This has no aliens. It is also very much later than it was intended to be done, and plays rather fast and loose with the prompt. Many thanks to dharma_slut for the last-minute hand-holding; any errors that remain are entirely my fault.


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