Even Cowgirls Get the Blues :: Chapter 1 :: The Best Little Whorehouse on the Rim (WIP)

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Title: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Chapter 1 - The Best Little Whorehouse on the Rim

Author: Spikedru
Summary:
Her touch was usually a commodity and her palm had tingled with illicit pleasure at being freely given.
There are all sorts of ways to feel blue, and the women of Serenity feel them all.

Rating: PG-13
Characters: Inara, Kaylee Zoe
Pairing: Mal/Inara, Kaylee/Simon, Zoe/Wash
Spoilers/Timeline: post-Objects in Space, and eventually for the Big Damn Movie
Disclaimer: They ain't mine. Not one of 'em.

Author's Note: This fic was basically inspired by Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins - or more precisely by the title. Each chapter's title is also a title of a Western film (or a variation thereof). Chapter 1, The Best Little Whorehouse on the Rim, focuses on Inara. Later chapters focus on others. This is a WIP and the remaining chapters are either in beta or half-written. Nudge me if the next isn't up in a fortnight.

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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1: The Best Little Whorehouse on the Rim

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It was the finest outhouse on the stinking moon. The wood was smooth and sand clean, and the red tiled floor gleamed. Nandi's girls clearly took care of it. A couple of flimsy moving images hung on either wall: a restful sunset over a beach and a sweet meadow wavering in a spring breeze. Unlit incense rested on a little ledge to one side, ready to banish any unwelcome smells. The back of the wooden door was hung with silken embroidery scenes and the crystals hanging in the small star-shaped window twinkled with the brash sunlight from outside.


Inara sat and cried.

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Laundry

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Title: Stages Of Grief: Laundry (3/3)
Rating: PG
Characters: Zoe, Kaylee
Warnings: Major Serenity spoilers.
Other Chapters: Part I: "Silence", Part II: "Dress"

( Laundry )

x-posted

Fic link: Shone a Light and Called It a Star (Mal/Jayne)

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Title: Shone a Light and Called It a Star
Author: mosca
Pairing: Mal/Jayne
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers/Continuity: Takes place during and after Serenity.
Summary: Jayne's mind ain't been settled since they left Miranda, and this thing with Mal ain't helping matters.
Word count: about 5,300
Disclaimers: Firefly and Serenity are the intellectual property of Mutant Enemy. This original work of fan fiction is Copyright 2006 Mosca. This story is a labor of love, not money, so it's protected in the USA by the fair use provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976. All rights reserved. All wrongs reversed. I am the asshole who falls for your routine.
Notes: Thanks to callmesandy and queenzulu for beta reading, and to distraction77 for eradicating the woobie and coming up with all the best lines. Chinese is from zhongwen.com and the Firefly Chinese Pinyinary. The title is from the song "City Lights," by Thao Nguyen, whose album everyone should buy right the hell now.

( This was the first time Jayne'd had to rebuild his own home. )

River/Jayne fic: Alpha to Omega (6/26)

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TITLE: Alpha to Omega: The Beginning and the End
BOOK ONE: The Beginning
Chapter Six: F is for Fallout
AUTHOR: Mnemosyne

Disclaimer: No son mios!
SUMMARY: Immediately post-Serenity. The alphabet of hope, redemption, and loss. River/Jayne.
RATING: R for the series, PG-13 this chapter
SPOILERS: Through the film, Serenity.
NOTES:
HAH! I bet you all thought I'd forgotten this story, didn't you? ;) Trust me, it was never far from my thoughts! Everything was so crazy for the last few months of 2005 that I decided to hold off and get back into it with the New Year; so here you go! I hope you enjoy!


Past chapters can be found here


( F is for Fallout )


xposted to literarylemming, rayne_shippers and ff_fanfic

Learning to Fly, Part V (Mal/River, PG-13, post-Serenity)

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Title: Learning to Fly
Author: ninamazing, or Nina
Chapter: Five. Previous chapters located here.
Word Count: 1343.
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 to light R.
Pairings/Characters: Mal/River. The OTP of Hot.
Spoilers: Large, for both Serenity and the River Tam Sessions.
Summary: River and Mal are truly, brutally, completely honest with each other. Also, River does fun things with a Chinese yo-yo!
Excerpt: "Thanks, Captain," she told him, smiling, sashaying in place a little bit with her hands twined behind her back. "But I understand. I'm a weapon. No touching."

( Learning to Fly, Part V - follow the fake cut! )

Fic - Last Kiss Before Tomorrow

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Title: Last Kiss Before Tomorrow
Author: foodsthatcan (mozzarella)
Rating: PG
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Zoe/Wash
Summary: A few words from Wash change everything, and Zoe gets her first last kiss from him. Pre-series.
Disclaimer: Fictional story, not for profit, please don't sue!
Author's Note: Written for ff_friday's Challenge #105, Last Kiss when I should have been trying to finish my overdue bubblefic. I went over the word limit, oops. 1,112 words. Can be considered a (sort-of) follow-up to Casing Zoe.

[ Zoe's bunk wasn't exactly large, but Wash didn't seem to mind, as he and Zoe lay snuggled against each other in their sleep clothes. ]