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Written for the current month's "Happiness Happens" theme on still_grrr and this week's focus on S4 of .

Title: Living a Dream
Author gillo
Rating G
Word Count 919
Author's note: Dawn's memories of a happy moment. Before she actually existed, but who's caring about that?

( Living a Dream )

February is Love Month at still_grrr and this week's prompt is any het pairing. This is sentimental tosh, post-NFA. Only the very end is shippy really, but Spuffy is pretty much a given.

Title: Things Can Have Meaning
Author: gillo
Rating: G
Word Count: 858
Characters/Pairing (if any) Spike/Buffy, Dawn
A/N: Valentines are for happy endings. Post NFA schmoop.
( Things Can Have Meaning )

Written for prompt 155 on still_grrr, a free-for all of classic literature from any period before 1960. I ended up choosing a particular location in which a very famous story was begun, and two famous poets wrote. No prizes for guessing where and when!

Title: Haunted Summer

Rating: G
Word Count: 1,445
Prompt Classical literature from before 1960: Mary Shelley, and Rambles in Germany and Italy; poems of Byron and Shelley; Polidori's The Vampyre.
Characters/Pairing (if any) Angelus, Darla
A/N: The setting is the shores of Lake Geneva, in the summer of 1816.
( Haunted Summer )

Written for Prompt 153 at still_grrr - literature from 1660 to the end of Victoria's reign.

Title: Shades of Swinburne
Author: GillO
Rating G
Word Count: 1,346
Prompt 153 - Algernon Charles Swinburne
Characters/Pairing (if any) Giles, Willow, Buffy and Spike
A/N: Set in S4, not long after .
Swinburne had the misfortune to be hailed as the New Great Victorian Poet when he was very young, and to have written very little that is still valued today. He was perhaps fifteen years older than unturned William, and cultivated a reputation of being a wild and wicked young man.

( Shades of Swinburne )

I've finally built up the courage to start posting my new - well, newish - fic. This is a development of Darkness, originally written for a challenge at good__evil. 

I'm now some way into Chapter 4 in the writing - it's looking as if it'll end up at about seven or eight chapters all told - so I gave myself a firm talking-to and decided to post a chapter a week, a rate surely I ought to be able to manage?

As it's been extended and rewritten, I felt I ought to leave the original title, stolen from a Byron poem, with the original fic, so here for your delectation, is Darkness Visible (title stolen from Milton instead.)

This is my first post-NFA fic and it's broadly gen rather than a ship, though some Spuffiness is likely to ensue eventually.


Title: Darkness Visible
Pairing/Character: Spike, Drusilla at present - more familiar characters will appear later.
Rating: G
Summary: Post NFA, Spike is hungry and he's far from being the only one.
Spoilers: Everything up to and including NFA
Disclaimer: I wish they were mine, especially Spike, but they are Joss’s. He said we could play though, honest!

Many thanks to spikes_heartfor the original beta of Darkness and all her encouragement, and to bogwitchfor being strict with me.





I plan to cross-post this at spike_ficsand in my own LJ - possibly elsewhere later.