Literatti: Fiction By Deslea

This story is set during Lucius' imprisonment in Azkaban. Narcissa makes gruelling choices to keep her husband with her and his mind intact, trading sexual favours for access, and accepting public humiliation to keep him close. What I love is that while Narcissa endures degrading things, she is not degraded. She remains fully grounded in who she really is and what she really knows her value to be. It's an angsty glimpse, but one with an incredible sense of empowerment as well. Read it here

"The Season 9 supersoldiers Shannon and Knowle were really interesting because they raised the question of what it means to be an alien presence, and there's only one other like you. I can imagine there would be a wearying sense of destiny about it � whether you like each other or not, you really have to deal with each other and you'll probably form a deep bond, even if it's a utilitarian one that's been inflicted on you. So do you embrace it, and embrace the person, or consider the other person an encumbrance and they're there under sufferance?"

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.