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Steampunk, more or less, Kingfic, written for nextian's birthday. Composed under the influence of the book Cloud Atlas and the New Pornographers song from which this story receives its title.

( sweethearts in the crosstown wild )

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Based on the Metric song Grow Up and Blow Away. Nominally features Emma's Thomas, but this really is entirely standalone.

( nobody knows which street to take )

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Kingfic. During last summer's whole LJ censorship debacle, nextian told me to Fight The Man by writing something with incest in. At the time I hadn't seen Heroes and therefore had only my original characters to work with, and like a fool decided that writing something outside my comfort zone would be fun, so I wrote Richard/Henry. At the time it was very difficult. Now Richard being in love with Henry is canon in my head and it is all Emma's fault. Anyway: title from a Martin Luther King Jr. quote taken horribly out of context: We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Warning for fucking weird tense and the usual levels of masturbatory literature. Oh, yeah, and also incest.

( you think you know your brother )

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Takes place in the nebulous universe of the King family; a tale of what Henry King is not. I'm awfully unfair to Kate Halsey in this. She really is a better person than Henry makes her out to be. Thomas Moore, the force more or less driving the story, belongs to nextian; poor Emma. Title courtesy of the Preface to Dorian Gray.

( only a peculiar fiction made up by lonely people in need of warmth )

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Based on the Decemberists' Colin Meloy's comment at a concert that We Both Go Down Together is the prequel to Leslie Anne Levine. Also steals bits from The Chimbley Sweep, Eli the Barrow Boy, and A Cautionary Song.

( of the girl who died with me )

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Based, very closely, on the Decemberists song Song For Myla Goldberg. An exercise in turning one literary allusion into another; has absolutely nothing to do with Bee Season.

( pretty hands make pretty things )