Mulder, she wrote

Trying to string two words together. Great at sports, bad at math. Here for the fic.

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Master Fic List

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Updated 5/27/25

Release Valve – Post-FTF, canon-divergent. The X-Files have been reopened with a bigger budget and a bigger staff. Mulder, Scully and the agents under them fight to stay one step ahead the Consortium’s machinations, but when they finally get to the truth, what will they do with it? (MSR, Rated M, 28k)

The Next Week – “She’s placid in his bed. Warm, willing. She has a sleepy smile on her face and the morning sunlight coming through the window catches on her carmine hair, practically burns his eyes.” (MSR, Rated E, 3k)

Fools in the Rain – Inspired by the prompt set forth on Twitter by @IngridDaS1013: “Mulder and Scully get caught in the rain on the way to Mulders apartment so they go up and Scully has to wear something of Mulder’s while her clothes dry…” (MSR, Rated E, 3.5k)

Only Say Goodnight – I have always been upset that we didn’t get to see Mulder and Scully’s moment together right after William was born. This is my hand at that scene and the one that followed, when Mulder left. (MSR, Not Rated, 2.5k)

An Evening at the Petit Trois – For the 2019 X-Files Valentines Day Fic Exchange. Based on the prompt: Mulder and Scully’s ex-lovers are jealous of the loving relationship they have now. (MSR, Not Rated, 2.4k)

Submerge – An on-the-run ficlet with a dose of angst. (MSR, Rated M, 1.2k)

Absolution – For the 2019 X-Files Episode Fic Exchange. “The bath had done nothing but make her think about the decon shower they’d been forced to take 48 hours prior and from there her mind wandered to lustful places. Places she tried to keep secreted away.” (MSR, Rated E, 2.2k)

Storm Front – 100% all trope. Stormed in, one bed, first time TROPE. (MSR, Rated E, 6k)

Brood Parasite – For the Alternate Season 12 Project collaboration with @admiralty-xfd and @rosethornhill. This is Episode 2– As Mulder and Scully settle into their new lives and jobs, the paranormal comes to them—in more ways than one. (MSR, Rated M, 10k)

Charm/Strange – A dance of intellectuals. (MSR, Not Rated, Drabble)

The Other Side of Fiction – Episode 4 from Alternate Season 12. College AU. Mulder and Scully. Scully and Mulder. In this, and every lifetime. (MSR, Rated E, 15k)

Mess – This is from a Tumblr Prompt “I need a place to stay.” (MSR, Not Rated, Drabble)  

So Young Such a Shame – Cancer-arc angsty drabble (MSR, Not Rated, Drabble)

Prompt Drabble Collection – Different drabbles from various Tumblr prompts, from angst to AU and everything in between. (MSR, Rated Mature, Drabble)

Epithalamium – “Codependency is a real bitch. Even when he drives her crazy, she doesn’t know any other way to be. There are too many years between them, too many monsters. She wouldn’t even know how to begin telling some other suitor her story.” (MSR, Rated M, Drabble)

The Umbrella Prompts – Tumblr Prompt “kissing under a shared umbrella” and on it goes… (MSR, Rated E, 2.4k(so far))

Extraordinary – For the X-Files Third Party Drabble Challenge – Margaret Scully’s thoughts on her daughter’s love. (MSR, Not Rated, Drabble)

Fairies, Skip Hence – For the 2019 X-Files Secret Santa Fic Exchange – “Bubbles floated like dust motes silently through the living room, catching the color from the lights on the Christmas tree and turning the room kaleidoscopic. She sat in front of the fireplace amongst Matthew’s scattered stocking stuffers, looking young and small. She held a small Santa-shaped bottle, blowing bubbles quietly into the room from a wand protruding from Santa’s hat. She looked like a fairy in the festive space, and his heart clutched at the sight of her.” (MSR, Rated E, 8k)

Of The Eight Winds -- AU Series based on the @sunflowerseedsandscienceprompt: “Mulder is unhappily married when Scully is partnered with him, and while he doesn’t cheat (because sorry that’s not romantic), he falls for her so hard that he finally gets the courage to end the marriage and start fresh.”  (MSR, Rated E, 16k )

Currahee – “There was a moment where she thought of all the people who have ever lived–and died–were ever underfoot. The space above the ground is for the living, and she needed to start doing more of it.” (MSR, Rated GA, 2k)

Fever -- Mulder cares for Scully when she gets sick on a case. Hurt/Comfort Fluff (MSR, Not Rated, 4k)

The Concept of Dualism -- This was for the 2020 X-Files Fluff Exchange. My prompt was from admiralty: “Anything involving MSR and Melissa Scully. Keep it UST-y please! Late S2″ (MSR, Not Rated, 4k)

A Companion Unobtrusive -- AU - She needed a roommate, he needed a room. Based on the Tumblr prompt from @monikafilefan “how about Mulder and Scully accidentally end up as roommates when their old ones back out? An instant friendship blooms into something so much more. I can just feel the palpable sexual tension already” (MSR, Rated E, 21k)

Just East of the Pacific -- Angsty ficlet “Something in the cold foamy brine of the Pacific pushes at her, turning her away from its embrace. My father is in the Atlantic, she thinks.” (MSR, Rated E, 1,700 words)

Voyeur -- Ficlet, Third Person POV -- “The person who was assigned to run surveillance on the basement office of the Hoover Building was a man with the unlikely name of Ichabod Weaver.” (MSR, Rated M, 2k)

The Countess -- AU, Regency-Era London -- The Scully family is in dire financial straits as William Scully, Sr, the Marquess of Sunderland, had made several bad investments since his retirement from the Royal Navy. His daughter Dana is forced to seriously consider marriage to a wealthy but disgusting Duke to save the family.  Enter the Earl of Wexford, who has such a bad reputation of being a rake and scoundrel, some have nicknamed him “The Fox”...  (MSR, Rated E, 12K)

The Filmography of Archibald Bryson -- AU, College -- Dana Scully meets Fox Mulder when they’re assigned to the same group project for a film class. (MSR, Rated E, 4k)

Circle -- For the Smut Fanfic Exchange 2020, based on the prompt: “post MSIV pregnancy sex. Scully's hormones are raging and everything is tender.” (MSR, Rated E, 2k)

Three Sentence Prompts -- I did a bunch of three sentence Tumblr prompts, this is a link where you can find them all. (MSR, Rated M, 2k)

The Dreaming Tree — Case file. A mystical force in a small northern town is affecting the dreams of its residents -- and it’s turning deadly. Mulder and Scully must get to the bottom of the mystery and put a stop to it before they lose not just themselves, but each other. (MSR, Rated E, 30k)

Five Seconds — AU, a sequel to ‘Of The Eight Winds’ — Immediately following the events of "Of The Eight Winds," a newly pregnant Scully, Mulder and their children must go on the run to protect their family. (MSR, Rated M, 35k)

The Earl — AU, a sequel to ‘The Countess’ — Lady Dana Scully has just married William Reynard Mulder, the infamous Earl of Wexford in a whirlwind courtship meant to save both Lady Dana’s family and reputation. While the new Earl and Countess discover the wonders of marriage and each other, a secret from the past threatens to destroy them. (MSR, Rated Explicit, 36k)

AU Prompt Collection — Dedicated place to find all my various AU prompts. (MSR, Rated M, 5k)

The Annapolis Grant — This is based off a Tumblr prompt: AU prompt request for Scully paying Mulder to play the role of her boyfriend and actually falling for him. (MSR, Rated E, 34k)

The River Avon — Post all things ficlet (MSR, Rated M)

The Snallygaster — A cerebral seduction in central Maryland (MSR, Rated E, 4k)

The Rains of Bimini — On an island in the Caribbean there is rumored to be the fountain of youth. If he can get her there, maybe they can find it. A Septuagenarian love story. (MSR, Rated M, 9k)

Old Chem — AU, College professors fall in love. (MSR, Rated M, 3k)

A Gem-like Flame — AU, meeting in Tokyo, Gymnast Scully, Swimmer Mulder (MSR, Rated M, 6k)

The Post — Prompt for AU where Mulder is an investigative reporter and Scully is a Pathologist. They bicker and work together to get to the bottom of mysterious deaths and fall in love along the way. Scully is engaged to Ethan, Mulder's competition, but she is not happy or aware that he is cheating on her. Bonus points for angst, fluff, and smut. (MSR, Rated M, 2k)

In the Valley of the Sun — Head Canon AU Mulder and Scully as Archeologist and Scientist at a dig in ruins in the Amazon. (MSR, Rated M, 4k)

North of Zero — Mulder and Scully fight to survive in a post-colonization world. What happens when their teenage son finds them? (MSR, Rated E, 75k)

Out of the Little Grove — X-Files/His Dark Materials Crossover/AU. Lyra’s world, pre-Lyra. Tumblr prompt: Mulder & Scully as detectives in HDM universe. (MSR, Rated M, 55k)

Opera Fic(let) — Undercover at the Kennedy Center (MSR, Rated E, 6k)

The Mesas of Deuteronilus Mensae — AU, Mulder and Scully are amongst the crew of scientists that will be the first colonists on Mars. (MSR, Rated E, 76k)

Alan Smithee Was Here (AKA Cab Ride Kiss) — For Cathy, who suddenly felt the need to read about Mulder and Scully making out in the back seat of a taxi. Who added: “How about just before their first time, both knowing it will happen sooner rather than later. Maybe a little tipsy, but not so much that they can blame it on the booze.” (MSR, Rated M, 2k)

Three Part Harmony — It was everything she ever wanted at the worst possible time. (On the run with William.) (MSR, On the Run, Rated M, 64k)

La Comtesse de Saint Germain — please heed archive warnings (MSR, not rated, 2k)

Proof of Life — AU, Dana Scully is a 90’s CNN war correspondent who is captured and imprisoned with a fellow hostage, photojournalist Fox Mulder. A modified Rashomon structure in which we see parts of their relationship unfold. (MSR, Explicit, 16k)

Madam Scully’s Spiritual Services, Inc. — Dana Scully has The Sight. But what does a non-believer do with it? (MSR, AU, WIP)

Totality — For Fiona, who asked me to write a fic describing my experience watching the solar eclipse through the eyes of Mulder and Scully, with Mulder peppering his partner with eclipse lore. (MSR, not rated, 2.5k)

L’appel du Vide — Pilot inner thoughts (MSR, Rated M, Ficlet)

Proof of Life Prompts — more stories set in the Proof of Life universe (MSR, AU, 9k)

The Unseelie Court -- When Mulder and Scully are called to look into a baffling death in a small, isolated town, they expect a routine X-File (if there's any such thing). But as they dig deeper, the familiar quickly turns strange. As reality unravels, they must question everything they know if they have any hope of solving the mystery — and making it out alive. (MSR/early relationship, Casefile, Explicit, 31k)

Funfetti -- Random prompts set in a universe where Mulder and Scully keep William after the events of Existence. Our boy has powers. (MSR, AU-ish, Ongoing)

[thursdayinspace]

fic: Fragile Balance (17/19)

For @calimanc, who sent me this prompt two years ago. Thank you to my friends who helped me along the way through beta-reading and cheerleading: urlovingfriend, @unremarkablehouse, @bakedbakermom, @baronessblixen, and @bookishscully. The original prompt came from a list by @cecilysass. Set in late season 5. This is a finished fic and I will be posting a chapter a day.

Summary:

Following a lead on a case they just can’t seem to solve, an accident leaves Mulder with supernatural powers; the same powers their main suspect seems to posses. In a race against time to stop a series of murders, what could be a key to the case instead puts new obstacles in their way.

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17

tagging @today-in-fic

[slippinmickeys]

I am deeeeeep into rewrites right now, but Funfetti (I deeply, deeply hate this title 😆) has been calling to me. I’d fucking love a Funfetti prompt….

[prettyscully]

[twiststreet]

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.

Edited down a long tweet. (x)

[scullymaxxing]

Saw this on Reddit it’s stupid but funny bc it’s true

[slippinmickeys]

Hey!

With time finally on my side, I sat down and was about to devour Familiar... and it's gone! (The horror!)

Did manage to read the first and two latest parts (which were excellent.) No matter the genre, you always surprise in the most delightful way.

And that's that. Can't wait to read the rest, but not pressure. :DDDD

Ope! Yeah, I pulled to publish. I’ve been deep in rewrites for months. If it doesn’t sell to a publisher, I’ll probably self publish. Hopefully you’ll get a chance to read it someday!

[slippinmickeys]

WHAT HAPPENED TO FAMILIAR??????????

I PTPed it. Working on rewrites before it goes to alpha readers.

[slippinmickeys]

funfetti - did m&s&w ever go on road trips?

An SUV flying down Interstate 80, three over-packed suitcases in the back.

"Mom?" William said from the backseat, pulling Scully out of the drowse of highway hypnosis.

An expansive sniff. "Yeah?" she answered.

"Are we almost to Nebraska?"

Scully looked over at Mulder in the driver's seat, who nodded, eyes focused on the road.

"Yes," she said.

She turned to look at her son in the backseat. He was surrounded by a pillow, his baby blanket that he still liked to sleep with but would allow no one to talk about, a waterfall of Diary of a Wimpy Kid books and two empty bags of Cheetos—a junk food concession Scully only made when they were on road trips.

"Do you need to go to the bathroom?" she asked.

William shook his head.

"When we cross the border," he said, looking at her with soft, earnest eyes, "like, right when we cross the border. The very second. Will you take our picture?"

The boy nodded to Scully's phone, which rested in the cupholder.

Scully glanced at the phone and then back at her son.

"Like a selfie?" she said, a little puzzled.

He nodded again.

"You have to time it exactly right, though," William insisted.

Mulder's voice finally rumbled forth as he reached forward to turn the radio down a little.

"What's this about, bud?"

William merely grinned.

"You'll see," he said.

Mulder and Scully exchanged an amused parental glance, and a moment later, Mulder nodded toward a sign zipping past their window and said, "Almost there."

Scully pulled out her phone, switching over the viewscreen and holding it until she had she and William lined up in the frame.

"Can you turn it sideways so Dad is in it?" the boy asked, starting to look a little anxious. "Hurry."

Scully nodded and did as he asked, poising her finger over the button, keeping her eye on the phone.

"Almost there," Mulder warned. "Okay... three... two... now!"

Scully clicked and a second later the picture showed on the small screen, William with an enormous smile on his face, herself looking vaguely surprised, and Mulder on the edge of the picture, his mouth at an odd angle as he called out 'Now!'

She handed the phone back to William and he looked down at the photo happily.

"Is that what you wanted?" Scully asked him, hoping she did well.

Her son turned the phone around so she could see it, his face one of delight.

"Look!" he said. "You guys are in Nebraska in this picture and I'm in Iowa!"

Scully couldn't help but smile. "Very cool, William."

The boy looked immensely pleased with himself and then handed the phone back.

"Can we do it at every border until we get to Uncle Bill's?" he asked.

"Of course," Scully said.

William turned to look out the car window happily.

Scully turned to Mulder, who was still wearing a small smile.

"How are you doing?" she asked, reaching out to rub the back of his neck. He groaned in bliss as she dug her thumb into his splenius capitis.

"You want me to take over?" she asked.

"I'm good for a while," he said, turning his head to the side to give her a better angle. "Though we do need to stop and get gas."

Scully looked ahead. Billboards lined the highway, advertising fast food and Jesus, and in the distance were several towering gas station signs with their gallon prices in glowing red.

"There's a Shell station at the next exit," she pointed out and Mulder nodded, flipping on his blinker and checking his blind spot before getting over into the right lane.

But when they got to the end of the exit ramp, Mulder turned left instead of right, where the Shell station sat, only 50 yards away.

"Where are you going?" Scully asked.

From the backseat, William piped up "Can I get a soda when we stop?"

"You've already had a soda," Scully answered, distracted, peering at Mulder, who kept mum.

"Mulder?"

Just when she was about to press, he flipped on his blinker and pulled into the turn lane for another gas station.

"The prices here are higher, why did you—"

She stopped talking when Mulder turned to her with a shiteating grin, raising his eyebrows at her suggestively. He then pulled into the station when traffic cleared.

Scully glanced up at the sign.

Kum & Go

"You're disgusting," she said, shaking her head, but couldn't help return the smile.

"Why is Dad disgusting?" William asked from the back, bracing his hands on both his parents seats.

Mulder pulled up next to a pump and cut the engine.

Scully unbuckled her seatbelt and turned to look at their son.

"Do you have to pee?"

William ignored her. "Why is Dad disgusting?" he asked again.

Mulder threw his head back and laughed, tipping himself out of the car and pulling out his wallet.

"Hand me your trash," Scully said.

The boy scooped up the empty Cheeto bags and shoved them into her waiting hands.

"Mom."

Scully sighed. "If you have to pee go now."

"Why won't you tell me—"

Scully opened her door before he could finish the question, and William did the same popping up from outside to look at his father over the roof of the car.

"Dad, why did Mom call you disgusting?"

Mulder pretended not to hear, busying himself with the gas pump, locking the mechanism to get it flowing, still wearing a big smile.

"Mom!"

Scully huffed a long put-upon sigh.

"William, go get yourself a soda. I'll be in in a minute."

William looked from his mother to his father and back again, clearly wanting to press the issue, but unwilling to look a gift soda in the mouth, as it were.

"Fine," he said, and turned huffily on his heel, then flinging up a hand.

The moment his hand went up, the gas pump handle clicked and then gushed a quarter gallon of gas up and out of the tank so that Mulder had to jump back quickly so his shoes wouldn't get soaked.

Scully whirled around to yell at her son, when Mulder piped up.

"Oh, leave it," he said.

"He used his powers in the open and just wasted like fifty cents of gas," Scully pointed out.

Mulder grinned at her again. "You could have just told him. He's had the birds and the bees talk."

Scully stared at him. "I'm not teaching him the urban dictionary definition of ejaculate when middle school will do that for me."

Mulder continued to smile at her.

"Kum & Go, Mulder? Really?"

"I love a Kum & Go, Scully" he said. "I thought you did too. I mean, the night the kid was conceived you—"

Mulder had to duck as a wad of Cheeto bags came flying at his head.

[slippinmickeys]

AO3 down again? And at bed time no less?

I’M STARTING TO TAKE THIS PERSONALLY.

Let this be a reminder to us all to use that download button. Because if it’s not a bot swarm or security threat, it could be this fuck ass administration. Or someone might pull to publish, YOU NEVER KNOW.

[slippinmickeys]

@audiofanficpod is back with a new Top Three! This time fics in which M&S get William back. One of my favorite genres.

This conversation was really fun.

Give it a listen! https://on.soundcloud.com/v3oUJn3Fqe8L5dfYb2

https://on.soundcloud.com/v3oUJn3Fqe8L5dfYb2

[ddwarmmyheart]

Red Show Diaries - Jake’s Story

[storybycorey]

If I tilt my head just right, and squint my eyes…

[settle-down-frohike]

I had these saved for my own personal enjoyment but since this is a thing today 

[glitter-n-co]

We all need Jesus. And a real MSR RT Scene…

[somekindofseizure]

@jackieisboring can you make me a new fan vid and do that thing you do with these? please and thank you the end.

[slippinmickeys]

When I was anticipating a major book hangover I’m gifted with the anticipation of another book! So excited for this!! And no matter how long it takes - remember all the readers who are here supporting you! Wish there was something concrete to show how important your work is. I’ll just have to settle for random messages on tumblr and comments as you write.

As my mom always says “Life gets in the way of living.” And you’ve said you have a lot on your plate right now- so i just want to show appreciation for your talents. You are truly gifted and am thankful for your dedication and commitment to sharing your gifts.

And once again, congratulations on such an incredible achievement!

This is so kind of you. You have been so supportive through the process of this book and I can’t thank you enough for reaching out after.

“Life gets in the way of living.” Your mother is very wise.

Thank you.

[o6666666]

It was what it was. For months he had been inching them further north. And it turns out that most anyone would take the blood money, let alone two struggling farmers nearly forced to sell the family land. Nearly but for the blood money. The Van de Kamps sold the baby instead.

And it wasn’t their fault. It was what Mulder wanted, after all. He practiced in the car: His mother surrendered him under extreme duress. You will receive cash wires quarterly. He showed them proof. Mulder in the first day after William’s birth, holding a fuzzy-headed bundle the same shade and pattern of the baby blanket Will used even still. Though Mulder would have given it to them, William’s new old parents didn’t ask for evidence beyond the photo. (The birth certificate. The parentage report.) Perhaps they feared the little stranger who turned the mobile over his crib with a blink of blue eyes. Who lifted an oatmeal-coated spoon out of the kitchen sink and across the room into his fat fist.

Mulder wouldn’t miss the millions.

Keep reading

[slippinmickeys]

Congratulations on finishing Familiar! I hope the feeling of accomplishment is as satisfying and fulfilling as you imagined it to be. Thank you so much for your hard work and for spending your time, talent and your imagination on a work of art we all get to enjoy.

I am ashamed to say that haven’t started reading yet. For what I realize are purely selfish reasons, I try to not get tangled in WIPs, but rather enjoy a piece in its entirety. I know that writers not only deserve immediate feedback but also need it during the writing process and my lazy way of reading deprives writers of recognition and thanks during a time when they probably need to hear it the most. I will try to make up for it by leaving feedback on each individual chapter. I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to reading spectacular MSR romantasy by slippingmickeys and forget for a while that the world is out there.🫰

I admit that today—a day I should feel a sense of accomplishment—I actually feel kind of empty. This was a story that I have been spending hours every single day (after work and then after my second job and then after parenting) for months and months and months writing and plotting and trying to figure it all out that now that it’s over, I feel lost. It’s odd to be immersed in a world and then pulled out of it? Kind of suddenly? I mean, I knew the end game. I had written the bones of the finale months ago. And yesterday I popped champagne and celebrated. But today…today felt cavernous. Just the echoes of my fingers on the keys and this great yawning chasm of nothing ahead. And while I do plan on jumping in and doing a bunch of rewrites and seeing if I can turn this story into a real book, it was an odd sort of day (particularly since I sat down at the computer this morning and my husband told me to take a damn day off and enjoy the accomplishment). So thank you for reaching out. The promise of hearing from people as they read for the first time has brightened my day considerably. Every chapter????? 🥹

[slippinmickeys]

I just want to pop on here and thank you a thousand times for writing Familiar. I anticipated every chapter eagerly. I read every word with delight. Thank you for sharing your considerable talents with us so generously. I genuflect before your greatness.

🥹

This is so kind of you to say! I have never labored over a fic as I have labored over this one, so hearing appreciation for it means so so so much. Thank you for telling me!

[slippinmickeys]

(Familiar)

(You can read it here.)