Stargate Atlantis Flashfiction

Narcissus
6000 words; genfic
McKay; no spoilers

( The road to Doranda is paved with good intentions. )

Eat Your Heart Out, Peggy Fleming
genfic; 28000 words
summary: The Ice Capades come to Pegasus and John gets a front-row seat.

John really didn't have a lot to do as he waited for the marines to rappel down, clean out the hole, measure the depth and the distance to where they thought the roof was, and set the next charge. He'd come out today only because Rodney was starting to get a complex as this would have been the fifth mission and John hadn't yet visited. Nevermind that there had been and would be dozens of projects Rodney ran off-world that John had never graced with his presence; that he had been there for the conception and had no interest in how it turned out deeply offended Rodney to the point that it was starting to affect their team missions.

("It's a mining facility, McKay, not a baby." "You are totally missing the point." "Apparently.")

With grateful thanks to: siegeofangels, witchofthedogs, and vonknibble. Anything that's wrong is entirely my fault.

Incipere
2700 words; genfic
Summary: Once upon a time, he could read (Ancient and Modern Satedan), play an instrument, and do calligraphy because that's what people of his social class were expected to learn. He doesn't see the need for any of it in Atlantis and it's not like anything here is written in Satedan script.

Back in May, when the "my personal canon" meme was floating around, I wrote one for Ronon. It was an explicit statement of what I'd always left as deep background, but it seemed maybe worth a story. And then this challenge came and I hadn't written anything for sga_flashfic in a year and... here be it. Thanks to vonknibble and raisintorte for the parsing; all errors and ambiguities are my own.

( It's not that he doesn't know how to be civilized. )

semi-note: the other week, I was tooling around with a drabble series about the first days in Atlantis. It was all leading toward here, except here turned out a little differently than planned.

Nasty, Brutish, and Short
genfic; John Sheppard; 1300 words; no spoilers
( The sun comes up on a bright new day/and yesterday's shadows fall away )

So the story that eventually became The Jenny Code had a vastly different origin. It wasn't even supposed to be about John Sheppard. It was supposed to be Rodney in captivity and making similar choices. And then when I worked the story backward to its starting point, it ended up being Sheppard's tale. This... this is the story it started out as.

This was originally posted in my journal as a couple of scene fragments. It has been doubled in length and tweaked a bit, but it is still not quite my usual linear narrative and maybe should still be a fully fleshed-out story instead of a series of linked vignettes. It's also my first public attempt to write Rodney POV, so that I'm doing this essentially unbetaed and with severe sleep deprivation... But if you can't experiment for your own challenge prompt, then when can you experiment? Comments and whatnot are appreciated because, dude, writing Rodney is hard.

Genfic (duh); ~2000 words. Generic first half of Season Two, but no spoilers.

( Pedagogically speaking, Rodney has learned as much as he's taught )

I know I'm in trouble when my drabbles go from 1400 words to 14000 words...

The Pegasus Galaxy Presents: George Romero's Alice in Wonderland,
or What LTC Sheppard Would Really Like to Title His After-Action Report.

{Genfic; 14200 words; Teamfic}
Amnesty: Enclosed Spaces Challenge
Post-"Trinity", Pre-"Instinct"

Sort of a companion piece to "Care and Feeding of a CO", or maybe a variation on the theme. Also recycles an aborted and mostly-forgotten attempt at explaining someone's inappropriately advanced fieldcraft skills that a few people hoped would get finished and never was. And now won't.

aliciam held my hand through the inevitable "does this suck?" phase. Any errors in geography, technique, or grammar are entirely mine because I've never been anywhere described. Including that happy place where all my tenses work. Think nuns teaching sex-ed.

Too big for one LJ entry, so either click on the above link or start here and continue on:

( No matter where he moves his bed, he's still getting up on the wrong side of it )

The Care and Feeding of a CO
Genfic John/Atlantis
7800 words
Post-Conversion, Pre-Aurora; almost everyone here appeared in The Jenny Code first, but this comes before that.

smittywing suffered for this. But I fed her and sheltered her, so...

( Everyone knew who Atlantis was really happy to see. )

I saw "shark challenge" and figured I'd end up skipping this one. And then I got an idea.

Jack of Spades
drabblesque at a mere 1077 words.
Genfic (Sheppard, Weir, McKay)
Basically a coda for "The Storm/The Eye"

( heroes and hustlers, saviors and swindlers )

This is for sevenall because I am that stubborn.

Penelope Waiting
(genfic; Radek Zelenka, everyone's other favorite OTP; ~1200 words)


( Penelope Waiting )

Thanks to smittywing for the title and most of the subtitles and kerithwyn for breaking my brain with the other one.


rating: PG; genfic
spoilers... 2x10: The Lost Boys.
summary: Sheppard's team is gone, but not forgotten.

( This was going to be a drabble cycle. It is still, I insist, a drabble cycle. I don't care if it's 4000 words.  )