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BANZAI! A STICKY POST!
Hi everybody! (Hi, Doctor Nick!)
By now you have probably noticed that you are no longer on fatalistic.net. The reason for this is very simple: our original fiction isn't kept there anymore. Instead, it's kept here under password protect. I tried to redirect people using the updates page, but that got complicated, so instead I put the link back on the main page. You have clicked it. Now, here you are. Here is what you do to get the original fiction.
1) Get a Livejournal account, if you don't already have one. They're free. You have to put up with ads. I am so, so sorry that LJ sold their soul and did this to all of us.
2) Leave a comment on this entry along the lines of "Friend me please!" or "Can I be added?" or "Cowabunga, dudes!" I really don't care what you say. You don't have to beg and plead. I'll friend anyone who asks. Of course, telling us how awesome we are never hurts. One request, though, which is that if you were recced to this page from somewhere else, we'd appreciate knowing where from. We always like to know who's saying nice things about us.
3) Check back a few hours later. Yes, I do usually get to requests that fast. It definitely shouldn't take me more than a day. .....if it has, I might be on vacation, but leave a second request anyway, for I might have missed you. MAKE SURE YOU ARE LOGGED IN. There will then be a ton of entries that weren't there before, and all the links on the directory below will work. You will then be able to gorge yourself on our stuff. Yay!
Other guidelines:
None, really. Feel free to comment. We LOVE people who comment. We are feedback whores. I do try to reply to everyone, time permitting. Don't be shy! We like making new friends.
Also, because we put everything up in a haphazard manner, there's not a lot of organization, thus the directory below. But if you're looking for something and having trouble finding it, feel free to ask.
Please note that because of LJ's tag system, entries will appear in REVERSE ORDER BY CHAPTER. You will have to go to the end and work backwards from there. Sorry; there isn't a lot I can do about that. And on all of these, there are some drabbles thrown in here and there; some of the fics, the entire page of most recent entries is drabbles we wrote after the story was complete. But it's all there somewhere, I swear!
There will be some tags on the sidebar that don't have any entry below in the directory. This is because they're either for private use or the small beta group we use, so don't worry about them. Someday they'll all be available (hopefully in hard cover).
DIRECTORY
Any Other Name ... by Kouri
Rated: NC-17. For serious.
Genre: Real world drama.
Status: Complete! 58 chapters.
Warnings: Lots of gay, lots of sex, prostitution, abuse on all sorts of levels, nonconsensual sex, serial killers, creepy stalkers, the general degradation of our society and morals, and whatever else I decided to throw in.
In a word...: A whorehouse. A young man who lived his life at the bottom of the barrel who sells them. A group of girls who love him in spite of it. A doctor who can't get his life together. A serial killer, a stalker, an obsessed cop, a parolee with a grudge, not all necessarily the same person. Shit happens.
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Crossing Borders ... by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R.
Genre: Science-fiction/action/war
Status: FUCKING COMPLETE, BITCHES! (....sorry.) 87 chapters. No, really.
Warnings: War, violence, blood and gore, gay (but not as much as usual), het (don't gasp at the straight couples!), blood and gore, death, war, angst, pain, wheelchairs, science-fiction running rampant, brainwashing, experimentation, authors making stuff up by the seat of their pants, blood and gore, death, and war.
In a word...: A world at war. A 17 year old terrorist. An 18 year old military special ops agent with no name. A general with a stick up his ass but a soft spot for orphans. Another general who can barely even hold a gun, let alone aim and fire. A spy with bordering multiple personality disorder. A refugee runner who is single-mindedly insane. A doctor who wants to beat the entire cast about the head and shoulders. A conspiracy of mass proportions.
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Eden's Ashes ...by Kouri
Part One: Silent Sky
Part Two: Found and Lost
Rated: R
Genre: Real world fantasy
Status: In progress
Warnings: All the usuals, i. e. violence and sex (both homo and het), death, mature themes, deep religious arguments that the author probably doesn't even understand properly, religion bashing, gratuitous use and misuse of mythology, far too many characters for any sane author to try to keep track of, angels and demons, angels/demons, the eventual use of a character whose name is actually Slick McGhee, global politics and economics that will be glossed over too much, profanity both of the "cussing" variety and the "misuse of sacred things" variety, intellectual arrogance, child abuse/neglect, the assertion that the World is a Terrible Place Most of the Time, cynicism, weird magic shit, pomposity, pretentiousness, and egocentricism, multiple books, and the threat of long waits between chapters.
In a word...: Seven angels, abandoned by God, on a fool's quest to save a world that has rotted to the core.
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Fallen Into Grace Universe
NOTE: Fallen Into Grace is both the title of the first novel in this series and the name of the universe itself. ALL stories taking place in this universe are tagged as such and the above link is how one would get to them. For each individual story, use the individual tag below. That is all.
The First Trilogy
Fallen Into Grace ... by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R
Genre: Real world fantasy
Status: Complete! 36 chapters.
Warnings: Violence, gay, sex, thievery, demons, violence, angst, stabbystabby, torture, angst, sexual abuse, lots of other types of abuse, destruction of innocence, ritual sacrifice of virgins, angst, violence, and sex.
In a word...: Two demons decide that now would be a great time to destroy the world, or at least convert into a 24-hour restaurant and playground for their kind. They're challenged by a couple crazy angels, one of them more angelic than the other, and a handful of semi-mortals: a medium with half a soul, a fucked-up magical assassin and his less fucked-up son, a half-demon teenager and his half-angel boyfriend, and the usual grabbag of oddities that can be found on the streets of New York.
Thicker Than Water ... by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R
Genre: Real world fantasy
Status: Complete! 41 chapters.
Warnings: See above
In a word...: The second in the Fallen Into Grace trilogy. With Salvatore free, things go from bad to worse.
This Fate We Choose ... by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R
Genre: Real world fantasy
Status: Complete! 48 chapters.
In a word...: The third in the Fallen Into Grace trilogy. Time is running out.
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Fallen Into Grace sidestories
How can I explain this section? Uh. I love the FIG universe way too much and spend copious amounts of time writing fanfiction for my own fiction? =D Obvs, do not read any of these until you have read the completed trilogy. Stories are listed in chronological order. After some thought I went ahead and listed the ones that are only available in the book, because I thought that would give people a better idea of what's there.
Pre-FIG fics
The Dead End Room ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Real world fantasy/backstory/mystery
Status: Complete! 5 chapters
In a word...: The origins of DSI, Connelly breaking off from the regular FBI and forming his own department, his first partner, his first case.
Love at First Ghost ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Real world fantasy/backstory/romance
Status: Complete! 10 chapters
In a word...: Julianna and Darius Chancellor were so freakin' badass. I really regretted the fact that they were dead for the entirety of FIG, so I wrote the story of how they met, wherein their badassery could be demonstrated.
Crimson and Clover ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Real world fantasy/backstory
Status: Complete! 9 chapters
In a word...: Rylee is asked to tell the story of what happened with Salvatore 20 years before the start of FIG. A lot about Rosalie and Nikolaos happened along the way.
Learning to Live ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Real world fantasy/backstory
Status: In the book!
In a word...: The story of what happened to Nikolaos after Rosalie's death, his recruitment by Connelly, and training to be an agent for DSI.
Double Blind ...by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Mystery/action
Status: Complete! 7 chapters
In a word...: Swift Battersby is a mouthy little bastard with a past as a thief on the streets of Chicago that comes in handy when he's assigned by Connelly to infiltrate a mob demon's gang. It's, uh, less cheesy than it sounds. I hope. =D
Connections ...by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Backstory/mystery/romance
Status: In the book!
In a word...: Aiden and Nikolaos' first meeting, working the case of missing children together.
Pieces ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Real world fantasy/backstory
Status: In the book!
In a word...: Zachariah's search for Benjamin and their first months together while Benjamin gets back on his feet.
Post-FIG fics
InSight ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Mystery/Hurt/Comfort
Status: Complete! 6 chapters
In a word...: A post-trilogy fic in which some parties who are unhappy about the resolution take it out on the characters we know and love to torture.
Meet Iris ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Romance!
Status: Complete! 9 chapters
In a word...: Ian finds a girlfriend. She's not what anyone would have expected. (This story never technically got a title. I tried to title it when I went through and tagged it, but everything I thought of was lame.)
Finding Fathers ...by Kouri
Rated: PG
Genre: Humor
Status: Complete! 5 chapters
In a word...: Nikolaos takes a difficult case that involves him having to go camping (gaspshock!) and recruits Ian, Iris, Benjamin, and Mika to help out. Hilarity ensues.
Truth and Consequences ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Mystery/Action
Status: Complete! 5 chapters
In a word...: After Edmund is nearly killed in the relative safety of his living room, the gang has to swing into action to save the guy they hate most.
Alternate Universe Sidestories
These are just a way of showing how much free time I have on my hands while waiting to hear back from literary agents.
The Way Out is Through ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Drama/Hurt/Comfort
Status: Complete! 8 chapters
In a word...: An alternate universe in which Rosalie meets an earlier demise, leaving Nikolaos orphaned on the streets of Keystone at the age of 13, while Darius and Julianna Chancellor look for her murderer.
Grace is Gone ...by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Drama/Angst/Deathfic
Status: In progress
In a word...: Nikolaos commits suicide after the death of his first familiar, leading Rylee to make a deal with Salvatore to get revenge on Rosalie.
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The Second Trilogy
In Man's Own Image ...by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R
Genre: Real world fantasy/adventure/drama
Status: Complete! 33 chapters
In a word...: Two hundred some-odd years after the Salvatore Incident, the people involved have moved on and settled into their own lives. When demons start disappearing, some familiar and unfamiliar people team up to try to find out what's going on. They unearth something much larger than any of them expected.
In the Kingdom of the Blind ...by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R
Genre: Real world fantasy/adventure/drama
Status: In progress
In a word...: With the entire supernatural world at stake, unlikely alliances are formed.
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Fast Falls the Eventide ... by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Drama/Romance/Mystery/A Pinch of Fantasy
Status: Complete! 27 chapters.
Warnings: Violence, suicide, depression, gay gay gay, ghosts and mysteries, rampant insanity, journal entries, and sex.
In a word...: Two young men are drawn to each other for reasons they can't explain. Of course, one of them is insane and hears voices, and the other one can't manage to get his life together, and then there's that ghost and/or delusion that's following Rowan around...
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Following Seas ... by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R/NC-17 for piratey porn
Genre: PIRATES, ARR. (Fantasy/Adventure)
Status: Complete! 56 chapters.
Warnings: PIRATES. Pirates, violence, nautical terminology, strange worlds invented from our fevered imagination, copiously abbreviated slang, gay, pirates, gay pirates, intrigue, adventure, navy men, swashbuckling, swishbuckling, shivered timbers, total lack of any serious thought on the part of the authors, violence, pirates, gay pirates, sailing, a total lack of Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, or Keira Knightly, a total lack of Luffy, Zoro, or Sanji, a total lack of the Dread Pirate Roberts, a total lack of Captain Hook, a total lack of Penzance, and Adventure on the High Seas. Arr.
In a word...: ARR. We wanted to write something light-hearted and fun. And after seeing the new PotC movie, Karasu wanted to write about pirates. And Karasu always gets what she wants. Because I'm whipped. I even did research for her - that's how whipped I am.
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Nothing But Death ... by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Humor/Crack
Status: Never really got finished, but doesn't actually have a plot so that's okay.
Warnings: CRACK. South Dakota. THEN MORE CRACK.
In a word...: Karasu and I got stuck on a bus to South Dakota. Wackiness ensued, so we wrote about it.
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Phoenix Rising ... by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Drama/Romance
Status: Complete! 53 chapters.
Warnings: This is a WYWM sequel. Why? Well. Why, indeed. I miss Alec. Other than that, where to begin? where to begin? Gay. Gay, gay, gay. Violence, abuse, prostitution, psychologists, profanity, idiots, suicide, alcoholism, artists, straight relationships, quasi-incest, rape, overuse of medical terms that nobody but the author cares about, sex, sex, and a little more sex, more psychology, strippers, lewdness, children, and the fact that the author has NO IDEA what she's doing but did this anyway.
In a word...: Gay? Gay gay gay. *cough* No, seriously. This is a continuation of WYWM, but perhaps not in the way that anyone expected.
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Separate Selves trilogy
Separate Selves ... by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
Status: Complete! 36 chapters.
Warnings: Fantasy worlds pulled from butt. Profanity, insanity, and the usual crack-riddled stuff. Parallel dimensions. .....an author who doesn't know how to spell paralell, and won't that be fun in a story like this? Gay. Het. Abuse of slang. Bizarre formatting for IM conversations. An author who should know better but doesn't. Child abuse, spouse abuse, child neglect, random disease, death and destruction, 56k modems, AOL, mature situations, sex, nonconsensual sex, and everything else you think might be in one of our stories, just toss in a warning for it since I don't know what I'm doing.
In a word...: Bunch of friends + mysterious new kid + strange new world + parallel dimensions = Issues = this story.
Additional warning: There are two versions of this story. The old one is available, but I'm rewriting it. You can go read the old one if you really feel you must, but the rewrite is turning out to be incredibly so much better. Also, they have very little to do with one another, so don't think that reading the old one will let you know what's going to happen in the new one. ^_^
Twisted Travels ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
Status: Complete! 38 chapters.
In a word...: The second volume in the Separate Selves trilogy. Things get a little more complicated and a lot of people just want to go home.
Winding Worlds ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
Status: In progress
In a word...: The third volume in the Separate Selves trilogy. Worlds collide.
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The Stonecrest Chronicles
Volume One: The Copper Key ...by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Status: In progress
Warnings: Yes. *ahem* Violence, war, bad things happening to good people, good things happening to bad people, gratuitous and probable misuse of strategy, weaponry, and general fantasy stuff, epic epic-ness, death, gay, May/December, sex, nonconsensual sex, criminals, and lots of other stuff.
In a word...: The Emperor of Stonecrest demands five great warriors from each of his sovereign nations for a secret and dangerous mission. He does not get exactly what he expects . . . or does he?
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Old Stuff That I Don't Want Anyone Reading
Borderline ... by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Real world drama
Status: Complete
In a word...: I wrote this back when I first became a psych major. It's about four teenagers who find friendship in group therapy. Just do me a favor: If you insist on reading it, don't come back and tell me how awesome it is. I really hate it.
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The End ... by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Drama/Fantasy/Adventure
Warnings: Religious bullshit, violence, death, and authorial stupidity.
Status: Complete
In a word...: The Four Teenaged Horsemen of the Apocalypse have an argument with their purpose. Or something. Honestly, I wrote this story but I'm not really sure what it's about. Hah.
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Unavailable Fics That I Know People Will Ask About
And I Will Touch the Sky ... by Kouri and Karasu
This is undergoing an extreme rewrite. And I do mean extreme. However, in the meantime, you can find a handful of drabbles, RP logs, and other interesting stuff here. At least, I hope it's interesting. It is important to note that the two sequels, Stained Glass Windows and The Ties That Bind, have also been taken down. This is because once we finish rewriting AIWTTS, they'll be totally inconsistent and not jive at all, so they'll have to be rewritten as well. Woe.
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From the Shadows ... by Kouri and Karasu
Undergoing editing for submission. There are a couple drabbles, but not much. Sorry.
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When You Were Mine ... by Kouri
This has been taken down because I swear to God, I'm working on getting it sent to publishers. I swear! Don't look at me like that!
In the meantime, there are *lots* of drabbles, backstory fics, 30-second summaries, and other fun things that can be found by clicking the link.
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Okay! Have I flooded you all with enough useless info yet? Any questions? Comments? Death threats, marriage proposals, pies to throw, any anything? Leave a comment and we'll get back to you! Please do *not* e-mail comments or questions as I do not check the e-mail anywhere near often enough; if you want your question answered, click the "reply" button and leave it here. ^_^
ETA: Hi to everyone coming over from the_slash_pile! I think I got you all, but if I missed anybody please let me know, and enjoy! =D
Hi everybody! (Hi, Doctor Nick!)
By now you have probably noticed that you are no longer on fatalistic.net. The reason for this is very simple: our original fiction isn't kept there anymore. Instead, it's kept here under password protect. I tried to redirect people using the updates page, but that got complicated, so instead I put the link back on the main page. You have clicked it. Now, here you are. Here is what you do to get the original fiction.
1) Get a Livejournal account, if you don't already have one. They're free. You have to put up with ads. I am so, so sorry that LJ sold their soul and did this to all of us.
2) Leave a comment on this entry along the lines of "Friend me please!" or "Can I be added?" or "Cowabunga, dudes!" I really don't care what you say. You don't have to beg and plead. I'll friend anyone who asks. Of course, telling us how awesome we are never hurts. One request, though, which is that if you were recced to this page from somewhere else, we'd appreciate knowing where from. We always like to know who's saying nice things about us.
3) Check back a few hours later. Yes, I do usually get to requests that fast. It definitely shouldn't take me more than a day. .....if it has, I might be on vacation, but leave a second request anyway, for I might have missed you. MAKE SURE YOU ARE LOGGED IN. There will then be a ton of entries that weren't there before, and all the links on the directory below will work. You will then be able to gorge yourself on our stuff. Yay!
Other guidelines:
None, really. Feel free to comment. We LOVE people who comment. We are feedback whores. I do try to reply to everyone, time permitting. Don't be shy! We like making new friends.
Also, because we put everything up in a haphazard manner, there's not a lot of organization, thus the directory below. But if you're looking for something and having trouble finding it, feel free to ask.
Please note that because of LJ's tag system, entries will appear in REVERSE ORDER BY CHAPTER. You will have to go to the end and work backwards from there. Sorry; there isn't a lot I can do about that. And on all of these, there are some drabbles thrown in here and there; some of the fics, the entire page of most recent entries is drabbles we wrote after the story was complete. But it's all there somewhere, I swear!
There will be some tags on the sidebar that don't have any entry below in the directory. This is because they're either for private use or the small beta group we use, so don't worry about them. Someday they'll all be available (hopefully in hard cover).
DIRECTORY
Any Other Name ... by Kouri
Rated: NC-17. For serious.
Genre: Real world drama.
Status: Complete! 58 chapters.
Warnings: Lots of gay, lots of sex, prostitution, abuse on all sorts of levels, nonconsensual sex, serial killers, creepy stalkers, the general degradation of our society and morals, and whatever else I decided to throw in.
In a word...: A whorehouse. A young man who lived his life at the bottom of the barrel who sells them. A group of girls who love him in spite of it. A doctor who can't get his life together. A serial killer, a stalker, an obsessed cop, a parolee with a grudge, not all necessarily the same person. Shit happens.
~ ~ ~ ~
Crossing Borders ... by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R.
Genre: Science-fiction/action/war
Status: FUCKING COMPLETE, BITCHES! (....sorry.) 87 chapters. No, really.
Warnings: War, violence, blood and gore, gay (but not as much as usual), het (don't gasp at the straight couples!), blood and gore, death, war, angst, pain, wheelchairs, science-fiction running rampant, brainwashing, experimentation, authors making stuff up by the seat of their pants, blood and gore, death, and war.
In a word...: A world at war. A 17 year old terrorist. An 18 year old military special ops agent with no name. A general with a stick up his ass but a soft spot for orphans. Another general who can barely even hold a gun, let alone aim and fire. A spy with bordering multiple personality disorder. A refugee runner who is single-mindedly insane. A doctor who wants to beat the entire cast about the head and shoulders. A conspiracy of mass proportions.
~ ~ ~ ~
Eden's Ashes ...by Kouri
Part One: Silent Sky
Part Two: Found and Lost
Rated: R
Genre: Real world fantasy
Status: In progress
Warnings: All the usuals, i. e. violence and sex (both homo and het), death, mature themes, deep religious arguments that the author probably doesn't even understand properly, religion bashing, gratuitous use and misuse of mythology, far too many characters for any sane author to try to keep track of, angels and demons, angels/demons, the eventual use of a character whose name is actually Slick McGhee, global politics and economics that will be glossed over too much, profanity both of the "cussing" variety and the "misuse of sacred things" variety, intellectual arrogance, child abuse/neglect, the assertion that the World is a Terrible Place Most of the Time, cynicism, weird magic shit, pomposity, pretentiousness, and egocentricism, multiple books, and the threat of long waits between chapters.
In a word...: Seven angels, abandoned by God, on a fool's quest to save a world that has rotted to the core.
~ ~ ~ ~
Fallen Into Grace Universe
NOTE: Fallen Into Grace is both the title of the first novel in this series and the name of the universe itself. ALL stories taking place in this universe are tagged as such and the above link is how one would get to them. For each individual story, use the individual tag below. That is all.
The First Trilogy
Fallen Into Grace ... by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R
Genre: Real world fantasy
Status: Complete! 36 chapters.
Warnings: Violence, gay, sex, thievery, demons, violence, angst, stabbystabby, torture, angst, sexual abuse, lots of other types of abuse, destruction of innocence, ritual sacrifice of virgins, angst, violence, and sex.
In a word...: Two demons decide that now would be a great time to destroy the world, or at least convert into a 24-hour restaurant and playground for their kind. They're challenged by a couple crazy angels, one of them more angelic than the other, and a handful of semi-mortals: a medium with half a soul, a fucked-up magical assassin and his less fucked-up son, a half-demon teenager and his half-angel boyfriend, and the usual grabbag of oddities that can be found on the streets of New York.
Thicker Than Water ... by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R
Genre: Real world fantasy
Status: Complete! 41 chapters.
Warnings: See above
In a word...: The second in the Fallen Into Grace trilogy. With Salvatore free, things go from bad to worse.
This Fate We Choose ... by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R
Genre: Real world fantasy
Status: Complete! 48 chapters.
In a word...: The third in the Fallen Into Grace trilogy. Time is running out.
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Fallen Into Grace sidestories
How can I explain this section? Uh. I love the FIG universe way too much and spend copious amounts of time writing fanfiction for my own fiction? =D Obvs, do not read any of these until you have read the completed trilogy. Stories are listed in chronological order. After some thought I went ahead and listed the ones that are only available in the book, because I thought that would give people a better idea of what's there.
Pre-FIG fics
The Dead End Room ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Real world fantasy/backstory/mystery
Status: Complete! 5 chapters
In a word...: The origins of DSI, Connelly breaking off from the regular FBI and forming his own department, his first partner, his first case.
Love at First Ghost ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Real world fantasy/backstory/romance
Status: Complete! 10 chapters
In a word...: Julianna and Darius Chancellor were so freakin' badass. I really regretted the fact that they were dead for the entirety of FIG, so I wrote the story of how they met, wherein their badassery could be demonstrated.
Crimson and Clover ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Real world fantasy/backstory
Status: Complete! 9 chapters
In a word...: Rylee is asked to tell the story of what happened with Salvatore 20 years before the start of FIG. A lot about Rosalie and Nikolaos happened along the way.
Learning to Live ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Real world fantasy/backstory
Status: In the book!
In a word...: The story of what happened to Nikolaos after Rosalie's death, his recruitment by Connelly, and training to be an agent for DSI.
Double Blind ...by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Mystery/action
Status: Complete! 7 chapters
In a word...: Swift Battersby is a mouthy little bastard with a past as a thief on the streets of Chicago that comes in handy when he's assigned by Connelly to infiltrate a mob demon's gang. It's, uh, less cheesy than it sounds. I hope. =D
Connections ...by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Backstory/mystery/romance
Status: In the book!
In a word...: Aiden and Nikolaos' first meeting, working the case of missing children together.
Pieces ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Real world fantasy/backstory
Status: In the book!
In a word...: Zachariah's search for Benjamin and their first months together while Benjamin gets back on his feet.
Post-FIG fics
InSight ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Mystery/Hurt/Comfort
Status: Complete! 6 chapters
In a word...: A post-trilogy fic in which some parties who are unhappy about the resolution take it out on the characters we know and love to torture.
Meet Iris ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Romance!
Status: Complete! 9 chapters
In a word...: Ian finds a girlfriend. She's not what anyone would have expected. (This story never technically got a title. I tried to title it when I went through and tagged it, but everything I thought of was lame.)
Finding Fathers ...by Kouri
Rated: PG
Genre: Humor
Status: Complete! 5 chapters
In a word...: Nikolaos takes a difficult case that involves him having to go camping (gaspshock!) and recruits Ian, Iris, Benjamin, and Mika to help out. Hilarity ensues.
Truth and Consequences ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Mystery/Action
Status: Complete! 5 chapters
In a word...: After Edmund is nearly killed in the relative safety of his living room, the gang has to swing into action to save the guy they hate most.
Alternate Universe Sidestories
These are just a way of showing how much free time I have on my hands while waiting to hear back from literary agents.
The Way Out is Through ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Drama/Hurt/Comfort
Status: Complete! 8 chapters
In a word...: An alternate universe in which Rosalie meets an earlier demise, leaving Nikolaos orphaned on the streets of Keystone at the age of 13, while Darius and Julianna Chancellor look for her murderer.
Grace is Gone ...by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Drama/Angst/Deathfic
Status: In progress
In a word...: Nikolaos commits suicide after the death of his first familiar, leading Rylee to make a deal with Salvatore to get revenge on Rosalie.
~ ~ ~ ~
The Second Trilogy
In Man's Own Image ...by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R
Genre: Real world fantasy/adventure/drama
Status: Complete! 33 chapters
In a word...: Two hundred some-odd years after the Salvatore Incident, the people involved have moved on and settled into their own lives. When demons start disappearing, some familiar and unfamiliar people team up to try to find out what's going on. They unearth something much larger than any of them expected.
In the Kingdom of the Blind ...by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R
Genre: Real world fantasy/adventure/drama
Status: In progress
In a word...: With the entire supernatural world at stake, unlikely alliances are formed.
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Fast Falls the Eventide ... by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Drama/Romance/Mystery/A Pinch of Fantasy
Status: Complete! 27 chapters.
Warnings: Violence, suicide, depression, gay gay gay, ghosts and mysteries, rampant insanity, journal entries, and sex.
In a word...: Two young men are drawn to each other for reasons they can't explain. Of course, one of them is insane and hears voices, and the other one can't manage to get his life together, and then there's that ghost and/or delusion that's following Rowan around...
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Following Seas ... by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: R/NC-17 for piratey porn
Genre: PIRATES, ARR. (Fantasy/Adventure)
Status: Complete! 56 chapters.
Warnings: PIRATES. Pirates, violence, nautical terminology, strange worlds invented from our fevered imagination, copiously abbreviated slang, gay, pirates, gay pirates, intrigue, adventure, navy men, swashbuckling, swishbuckling, shivered timbers, total lack of any serious thought on the part of the authors, violence, pirates, gay pirates, sailing, a total lack of Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, or Keira Knightly, a total lack of Luffy, Zoro, or Sanji, a total lack of the Dread Pirate Roberts, a total lack of Captain Hook, a total lack of Penzance, and Adventure on the High Seas. Arr.
In a word...: ARR. We wanted to write something light-hearted and fun. And after seeing the new PotC movie, Karasu wanted to write about pirates. And Karasu always gets what she wants. Because I'm whipped. I even did research for her - that's how whipped I am.
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Nothing But Death ... by Kouri and Karasu
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Humor/Crack
Status: Never really got finished, but doesn't actually have a plot so that's okay.
Warnings: CRACK. South Dakota. THEN MORE CRACK.
In a word...: Karasu and I got stuck on a bus to South Dakota. Wackiness ensued, so we wrote about it.
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Phoenix Rising ... by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Drama/Romance
Status: Complete! 53 chapters.
Warnings: This is a WYWM sequel. Why? Well. Why, indeed. I miss Alec. Other than that, where to begin? where to begin? Gay. Gay, gay, gay. Violence, abuse, prostitution, psychologists, profanity, idiots, suicide, alcoholism, artists, straight relationships, quasi-incest, rape, overuse of medical terms that nobody but the author cares about, sex, sex, and a little more sex, more psychology, strippers, lewdness, children, and the fact that the author has NO IDEA what she's doing but did this anyway.
In a word...: Gay? Gay gay gay. *cough* No, seriously. This is a continuation of WYWM, but perhaps not in the way that anyone expected.
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Separate Selves trilogy
Separate Selves ... by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
Status: Complete! 36 chapters.
Warnings: Fantasy worlds pulled from butt. Profanity, insanity, and the usual crack-riddled stuff. Parallel dimensions. .....an author who doesn't know how to spell paralell, and won't that be fun in a story like this? Gay. Het. Abuse of slang. Bizarre formatting for IM conversations. An author who should know better but doesn't. Child abuse, spouse abuse, child neglect, random disease, death and destruction, 56k modems, AOL, mature situations, sex, nonconsensual sex, and everything else you think might be in one of our stories, just toss in a warning for it since I don't know what I'm doing.
In a word...: Bunch of friends + mysterious new kid + strange new world + parallel dimensions = Issues = this story.
Additional warning: There are two versions of this story. The old one is available, but I'm rewriting it. You can go read the old one if you really feel you must, but the rewrite is turning out to be incredibly so much better. Also, they have very little to do with one another, so don't think that reading the old one will let you know what's going to happen in the new one. ^_^
Twisted Travels ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
Status: Complete! 38 chapters.
In a word...: The second volume in the Separate Selves trilogy. Things get a little more complicated and a lot of people just want to go home.
Winding Worlds ...by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
Status: In progress
In a word...: The third volume in the Separate Selves trilogy. Worlds collide.
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The Stonecrest Chronicles
Volume One: The Copper Key ...by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Status: In progress
Warnings: Yes. *ahem* Violence, war, bad things happening to good people, good things happening to bad people, gratuitous and probable misuse of strategy, weaponry, and general fantasy stuff, epic epic-ness, death, gay, May/December, sex, nonconsensual sex, criminals, and lots of other stuff.
In a word...: The Emperor of Stonecrest demands five great warriors from each of his sovereign nations for a secret and dangerous mission. He does not get exactly what he expects . . . or does he?
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Old Stuff That I Don't Want Anyone Reading
Borderline ... by Kouri
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Real world drama
Status: Complete
In a word...: I wrote this back when I first became a psych major. It's about four teenagers who find friendship in group therapy. Just do me a favor: If you insist on reading it, don't come back and tell me how awesome it is. I really hate it.
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The End ... by Kouri
Rated: R
Genre: Drama/Fantasy/Adventure
Warnings: Religious bullshit, violence, death, and authorial stupidity.
Status: Complete
In a word...: The Four Teenaged Horsemen of the Apocalypse have an argument with their purpose. Or something. Honestly, I wrote this story but I'm not really sure what it's about. Hah.
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Unavailable Fics That I Know People Will Ask About
And I Will Touch the Sky ... by Kouri and Karasu
This is undergoing an extreme rewrite. And I do mean extreme. However, in the meantime, you can find a handful of drabbles, RP logs, and other interesting stuff here. At least, I hope it's interesting. It is important to note that the two sequels, Stained Glass Windows and The Ties That Bind, have also been taken down. This is because once we finish rewriting AIWTTS, they'll be totally inconsistent and not jive at all, so they'll have to be rewritten as well. Woe.
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From the Shadows ... by Kouri and Karasu
Undergoing editing for submission. There are a couple drabbles, but not much. Sorry.
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When You Were Mine ... by Kouri
This has been taken down because I swear to God, I'm working on getting it sent to publishers. I swear! Don't look at me like that!
In the meantime, there are *lots* of drabbles, backstory fics, 30-second summaries, and other fun things that can be found by clicking the link.
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Okay! Have I flooded you all with enough useless info yet? Any questions? Comments? Death threats, marriage proposals, pies to throw, any anything? Leave a comment and we'll get back to you! Please do *not* e-mail comments or questions as I do not check the e-mail anywhere near often enough; if you want your question answered, click the "reply" button and leave it here. ^_^
ETA: Hi to everyone coming over from the_slash_pile! I think I got you all, but if I missed anybody please let me know, and enjoy! =D