Literatti: Fiction By Deslea

This story (1800 words) is set at a precipice in Lucius and Narcissa's lives. Their marriage has limped along since his return from Azkaban; he still loves her, but he loves her in watery pastels. Narcissa isn't sure he will come with her when she flees the Dark Lord, and he isn't sure either. At the Winter Solstice, they choose each other all over again. Read it here

"Mulder and Diana appealed to me because they seemed to genuinely like each other. I never had that sense about Mulder and Scully, who were deeply entwined with each other and bonded with each other and psychologically enmeshed together, but outside of the Us Against The World moments seemed to have some disdain for each other and in fact both became less appealing people together, to the point where Scully couldn't even say thank you to people who risked their lives to save her in the final episode. Whereas Mulder brought out Diana's heroism – she took a bullet for Gibson Praise – and Diana brought out Mulder's selflessness – he told her to go to the meeting point and save herself, ideology be damned, the night of El Rico."

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.