These ficlets were written for various iterations of Three Sentence Ficathon, hosted by rthstewart. (I do realize that several are longer than three sentences. Structural restrictions are a perennial struggle.)
Here is the full Table of Contents:
1) Gertrude uses the Unknowing to resurrect herself. 2) An artifact of the Spiral. 3) The shower runs red at first, but Melanie doesn't notice. 4) Julia is a fan of direct solutions. 5) "I tried having a heart once," Nikola says to the almost-corpse laid open before her. 6) Jude took her time that evening and waited for Gretchen to come home. 7) Daisy and Basira on patrol. 8) Are monsters better at loving than heroes? 9) Jon and Sasha prepare for a research assignment. 10) Tim and Jon before the Unknowing.
11) An encounter with the Corruption. 12) Melanie talks with her therapist. 13) Tying employees to the Institute on pain of death shouldn't even work. 14) Jon and Helen have another conversation. 15) An encounter with the Dark. 16) Jon and Daisy help each other with hair care. 17) An encounter with the Slaughter. 18) What if Jon and Georgie stayed roommates after they broke up? 19) An encounter with the Buried. 20) How the Distortion works.
21) Georgie and Melanie after the apocalypse. 22) Hazy what-ifs on the way to Scotland. 23) Martin classifies his coworkers by poetic style and form. 24) It's a truism among the powered set that you don't attack the Archives. 25) "Do you really believe everything you're told?" 26) Holding hands. 27) And here's Tim, stuck in the middle with an axe. 28) Justice delayed is justice denied. 29) "For every mystery, there is somewhere, somewhere, who knows the truth..." 30 A cat's job is never done.
31) Push through, or trust someone to pull you back? 32) Sasha among the lost. 33) Annabelle and Mikaele. 34) A Slaughter domain. 35) Melanie and Georgie go for a walk. 36) Basira was touch-starved, until Daisy. 37) After Prentiss, Martin makes a point of answering his phone. 38) Thoughts are not the same as speech. 39) Library of Jurgen Leitner, Catalog Item #732. 40) When Agnes is young, it's easy to keep herself open to the voice of her god.
41) King of a ruined world? Why, so you shall become. 42) Tea makes everything better: discuss. 43) There's no point trying to control every variable. 44) Everyone knew the king and queen of the Seelie Court had been at odds for years. 45) Sasha doesn't want to have sex with Tim; she wants to watch him have sex with someone else. 46) A well-seasoned meal is always more filling.
