Taming the Muse

Title: Predator Revisited
Fandom: Myst
Prompt: #173 - predatory (tamingthemuse ), & november challenge - 2nd person
Warnings: spoilers for myst IV Revelation, G
Summary: The black sails are seen once again on the horizon of the Mechanical Age

Myst (c) Cyan Worlds Inc.

Predator revisited

 Set A Fire In Our Flesh

Fandom: Lord of the Rings
prompt: #167 - antapology ([Bad username or unknown identity: tamingthemuse ])
Warnings: spoilers for Return of the King,  mentions of character death, insanity, suicide, attempted murder, use of movie-script.

So passes Denethor, son of Ecthelion

He Trusts to You to Set Them Free
Fandom: American McGee's Alice
Prompt: #165 - Crushed tamingthemuse 
Warnings: spoilers for American McGee's Alice, title taken from Lewis Carrol's "They told me you had been to her..."
American McGee's Alice (c) Electronic Arts

Part One, Part Two

If Alice wants to chase this rabbit, she needs to go armed

Title: Involved in this Affair
Fandom: American McGee's Alice
Prompt: #163 - solipsism 
Warnings: spoilers for the introduction to American McGee's Alice. 
Rating: G, 550+ words

In which Alice returns to Wonderland and discovers it somewhat changed

This very nearly didnt get posted due to computer trouble. Damn MSWord stalling while trying to save.
Title is taken from "They told me told had been to her..." nonsense poem by Lewis Carol.

Title: Far Off and Rather Like a Dream
Fandom: Shakespeare - The Tempest
Prompt: #161 - Fool's Paradise
Warnings: Original characters, prequel/missing scene, nefarious plotting, flashbacks galore, spoilers for the tempest
Rating: G, action/adventure (Title is from 1.2.54 of The Tempest - "Miranda: 'T is far off; And rather like a dream")

In which Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, remembers how he and baby Miranda were driven from their home.

Was gonna make this part of the August memory challenge too, but... only 776 words. My muse sortta deserted me once baby-Miranda was no longer in the picture....hmmm, ah well.

R is for Reaper

Fandom: DeathNote
Prompt: #135 -nihilism and Feb challenge (tamingthemuse ) and "R" of A-to-Z of DeathNote (fanfiction.net)
Warnings: G, no spoilers, minor characters.

AN: Nihilism is the view of no real existence. What's less real than a shinigami? thus this was born. I didnt intend it to be over 1000 words, nor in present tense, but it developed that way, so... february challenge too!

In which the shinigami find their amusement from an unexpected source

Distinction
fandom: Petshop of horrors
Prompt: #133 Bias (tamingthemuse) - [observer bias] - when the interpretation of a result is reliant upon and affected by the interpreter.

Warnings: G rated. slight spoilers for Chapter 4 of Volume 8: The Flowers, the Detective, and the Detective's Little Brother.

Petshop of Horrors (c) Matsuri Akino

In which Sofu-D tells his grandson about the moon--rabbit, and Chris learns in his turn.

A/N: all writing in italics is directly quoted from the offical Toykopop manga translation of the aforementioned chapter.

[on a side note: i've just noticed that last week's entry is still private-locked from the draft.. whoops. Fixed now (not that anyone asked to read it...)]

Prompt:  #131 - Gargantuan (picture of child 'pushing' huge boulder) [tamingthemuse ] which reminded me that I hadnt finished this. greek myth = tenuous link
fandom: Greek Myth, Tale of Tantalus
Warnings: death, ressurection, mild torture, tweaking of greek myth, purple prose

Tantalus ~ Part 2
( In which Tantalus has a crisis, Fate plays with her food and Zeus makes justice )