[Word Count]

Last Week's Total Word Count: 7,088

Fics Completed
Library of Winds
Pogue - Nature
Reid - Children, Fire
Glaucon - Flash
Warren - Disturb

Big Damn List

Big Damn Table

Theatrical Muse
Sam - 159
Antubis - 158, 159

Misc


Novels worked: Pen Bryton (queries and submissions)

Summary: Word count is dismal, but I got five queries done. Almost killed myself doing it. Writing is an exercise in masochism. Once again wondering why I bother. Oh well. Word count for last year: 715,699 words

The Week Ahead: Prompts and fics I owe people only. No novel-submitting related stuff. At all.

[Fic] Knight of Swords

Title: Knight of Swords
Fandom: The Covenant
Characters: Reid, Chase
Word Count: 1,377 (or 1,603)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Chase and Reid have a talk in the woods that doesn't quite end the way either of them expect. Alternate ending follows.

Reid kept his hands curled in front of him as though it would defend him from the person he was staring at, knowing better, but unable to keep the instinctive gesture from pulling his hands up and his fingers around. One hand massaging the back of the other through the cut-off gloves he wore. This was such a bad idea. Tyler was going to kick his ass.

At least there was some consolation in the fact that Chase looked like hammered shit. Maybe it was just Reid's imagination that he looked older, but he definitely looked tired. In bad shape. Nowhere near the badass he'd been when he'd first come to Spenser. It gave Reid the courage to still be standing there talking to him, for one thing. Instead of running for Tyler, or Pogue, or Caleb. Chase had been bad enough last time, and Reid still owed him for Pogue. And Caleb, whatever had happened there.

God, just the thought of it made his fingers clench again.

Chase had stopped talking a few minutes back. "What."

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