Literatti: Fiction By Deslea

This story (1500 words) focuses on Albus, Gellert, and Aberfoth in the days following their duel and Ariana's resulting death. As the teenagers try and fail to come to terms with themselves, estrangement becomes inevitable. I like that the journey here is as much about the comforting self-delusions people make as it is about their truths, and I like that Albus has some awareness of his own Machiavellian inner contortions. Read it here

"I wrote a number of Snape/Hermione works in 2011, all situated in a postwar environment where he was around forty – consistent with his age in the books – and she was 20-25. For me, the appeal of these two was in a shared sassy snarky humour, and a shared pragmatism. I think there was something startlingly prosaic in Hermione's personality, most overtly in her decision to remove all trace of herself from her parents' minds and remove them from the war, and I think that part of her personality would speak very strongly to Snape."

Ratings are roughly equivalent to those used by the Motion Picture Association of America.

G: General audiences.
PG: Parental Guidance. Adult concepts and dilemmas, but without graphic detail.
M (or R): Mature audience. Adult concepts and dilemmas, anti-social attitudes, people doing the wrong thing and not necessarily feeling guilty about it. Also includes low-level sexual content (a few soft-focus paragraphs with little or no direct discussion of body parts). Most of my work is M.
NC-17: No children 17 or under. May contain explicit and extended descriptions of sexual activity, brief but graphic sexual descriptions, or graphic violence. A couple of my works contain rape scenes; these are graphic but not sexualised, and are appropriately marked with content warnings.
Trigger/Content Warnings: I take a conservative approach to triggers and will generally warn for anything that might trigger reader trauma to do with violence, self-harm, or grief. If the term "dark themes" is used, this may mean too many dark themes to mention, a dark theme that I don't want to reveal because it's a plot twist, or a vague dark feel that doesn't have a more precise description. Caveat lector.