Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.A.
Autumn Gold.
Saiyuki/Saiyuki Gaiden. Fear is the end of the battle and you can't find your captain.
B.
Burn. Original Work. The revolutionary hides her face to conceal her identity. The princess silences her voice to preserve her purity. They know each other. And they don't...
C.
The Colors of Lorbanery.
Earthsea. The woman who had once been Akaren stayed inside her house for several days, changing.
D.
Dorset: Portal to the House.
Piranesi/Grand Designs. Maggie and Olabisi plan to transform a ruin containing a portal to the House into a cozy home with an artist's studio. But the ruin's status as a scheduled monument and the unique challenges of its proximity to the House endanger their project.
E.
Eilonwy Wanderer.
The Prydain Chronicles.. Eilonwy travels Prydain in search of her place in life.
F.
Five Times Balerion Saved Rhaenys and One Time She Saved Him.
A Song of Ice and Fire. A butterfly flaps its wings, a kitten chases the butterfly, and a girl and her cat get a different destiny.
G.
The Goddess of Suffering Scam.
The Lies of Locke Lamora. In the early days of the Gentleman Bastards, Locke impersonates a self-flagellating acolyte of the Goddess of Suffering, and Jean stands by as the muscle in case the mark catches on. You know what they say about the best-laid plans.
H.
A Hatching at Half-Circle Sea Hold.
Dragonriders of Pern. “That’s a rather extraordinary proposal, Menolly,” said the Masterharper.
I.
IP, YEVRAG NIVEK.
The Leftovers. Kevin Garvey makes another visit to the hotel.
J.
The Journey.
Annihilation - movie. Lena explores the beach by the lighthouse.
K.
Kilo India Tango Tango Echo November. Original Work. When the Marines are sent to protect Springfield, MT from an alien invasion, a grizzled staff sergeant finds a whole lot of kittens in need of tender loving care.
L.
The Life of a Cell.
Annihilation - movie. The being that leaves the Shimmer carries with it some of both Lena and Dr. Ventress.
M.
Men Sell Not Such In Any Town. "The Goblin Market" - Christina Rossetti. I have fruit that shatters like glass and fruit that must be spooned up like pudding, fruit that tastes like caramel and fruit that tastes like roasted meat, fruit that glitters and fruit so translucent you can see your fingers through it and fruit that glows golden at twilight, fruit like silver coins and monstrous hands and autumn fog, fruit that loses all its flavor unless you eat it straight off the tree as it tries to coil around your tongue.
N.
No Reservations: Narnia.
The Chronicles of Narnia/No Reservations. I’m crammed into a burrow so small that my knees are up around my ears and the boom mike keeps slamming into my head, inhaling the potent scent of toffee-apple brandy and trying to drink a talking mouse under the table.
O.
one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.
The Stand - Stephen King. Flagg rewards Lloyd for doing a good job.
P.
Professor Xavier's Haunted Mansion.
X-Men comics. The ghosts of dead (or temporarily dead, or dead in another timeline) X-Men and villains haunt the halls of Professor X's mansion.
Q.
The Quiet Rebellion of Tardigrade Sela Writings. "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" - Ursula K. Le Guin. You are no doubt familiar with the major genres of tardigrade literature.
R.
The Realm of Persephone. Greek mythology. Persephone takes Hades blackberry picking.
S.
The Story of Marli-Hrair and the Black Rabbit of Inle.
Watership Down. What lies on the dark side of the moon? Ask the Black Rabbit. He knows.
T.
To See a World in a Grain of Sand.
The Iron Dragon's Daughter - Michael Swanwick. Jane was the first to notice that a ragtag band of refugee meryons had made a camp behind a sofa in the student lounge.
U.
An Unexpected Catch.
Dragonriders of Pern. Lessa and other Benden women visit Southern Weyr to help out with a fishing tradition; things don't go as planned.
V.
Vintage Year.
The Fall of the House of Usher - TV. Verna visits Arthur Pym in prison.
W.
The Woman Who Watches the King.
Piranesi. For some, the House is a prison. For some, it's a place of healing.
X.
Y.
You're Wrong About Misericorde. The Dark Tower.
You're Wrong About podcast. Sarah tells Mike about the lost horror movie that became an urban legend. Digressions include the chemical formula for mescaline, Sarah imitating Ethan Hawke imitating a Yorkshire prop witch, and where the fat goes after it gets vibrated out of your body by a $19.99 girdle sold on late-night TV.
Z.
We all seem to be getting stuck on X and Z. But I also almost got stuck on J, the only letter where I couldn't select from multiple possible stories.
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