Real name: Val
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I have been writing in VC fandom since 1998 and I would beg your pardon on the fumbling earlier stories; I hope with time I have managed to become a better writer!
I live in the middle of a cornfield with my partner Debra, our dog Silvio, five cats and the neighbor's three horses who live in our barn and field. It's great to have this lovely site where we can all have our stories accessible to those who are interested in reading them :)
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A continuation of the idea set forth in the Triptych drabbles wherein Armand answers Louis' questions about Nicolas.
Category: Angst, Drama, Historical
Characters: Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 2633 | Read count: 309
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Published: March 20, 2011 | Updated: March 20, 2011
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A ficlet about Louis's 'niece', Julia. The story is peripheral to the Odyssey series.
Category: Contemporary
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Odyssey
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 832 | Read count: 180
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Published: November 15, 2009 | Updated: November 15, 2009
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Takes place just after Lestat goes into the sun in the Gobi Desert; Louis tries to make sense of his own life with little help from Brian
Category: Drama, Angst
Characters: Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Tale of the Body Thief
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 610 | Read count: 135
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Published: June 15, 2011 | Updated: June 15, 2011
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Louis finds himself drawn back into the past when he sees a familiar face.
Category: Romance, Adult, Angst, Contemporary, Drama
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, The Vampire Armand, The Vampire Lestat
Challenge: None
Series: Odyssey
Chapters: 8 | Completed: No | Word count: 33926 | Read count: 2702
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Published: December 22, 2009 | Updated: February 22, 2010
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From a discussion with fanged_angel about Lestat coming in at Number One in the Twenty Greatest Vampires article in the August 7, 2009 issue of EW.
Category: Contemporary, Ficlets, Humor
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1114 | Read count: 382
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Published: November 15, 2009 | Updated: November 15, 2009
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Category: Contemporary, Romance
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 333 | Read count: 281
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Published: November 16, 2007 | Updated: November 16, 2007
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Louis and Lestat square off after Lestat makes David a vampire.
Category: Angst, Contemporary, Drama, Ficlets
Characters: David, Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire, Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, The Vampire Lestat
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1634 | Read count: 413
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Published: March 26, 2010 | Updated: March 26, 2010
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Category: Contemporary, Adult
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: The Vampire Lestat
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 4832 | Read count: 893
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Published: November 16, 2007 | Updated: November 16, 2007
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Category: Adult, Contemporary, Parody
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books), Original Character(s)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Conversations With Lestat
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 2417 | Read count: 832
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Published: April 18, 2008 | Updated: April 18, 2008
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Category: Contemporary, Adult
Characters: None
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Conversations With Lestat
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 2861 | Read count: 451
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Published: April 18, 2008 | Updated: April 18, 2008
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Category: Adult, Contemporary, Angst
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books), Original Character(s)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Conversations With Lestat
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 2384 | Read count: 380
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Published: April 18, 2008 | Updated: April 18, 2008
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Category: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books), Original Character(s)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Conversations With Lestat
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 2038 | Read count: 729
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Published: April 17, 2008 | Updated: November 12, 2008
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Category: Historical, Contemporary, Adult
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books), Original Character(s)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Conversations With Lestat
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 4832 | Read count: 475
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Published: April 17, 2008 | Updated: April 17, 2008
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Category: Drama, Contemporary, Angst
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books), Original Character(s)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Odyssey
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 6779 | Read count: 217
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Published: April 20, 2008 | Updated: April 20, 2008
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Category: Adult, Contemporary, Poetry
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 769 | Read count: 345
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Published: November 16, 2007 | Updated: November 16, 2007
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Louis ruminates on how things have changed since his fairly recent reunion with Lestat--and how they have stayed the same. Set a year after Lestat's ill-fated concert (c. 1986).
Category: Angst, Contemporary, Drama, Meditations
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Queen of the Damned
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 3241 | Read count: 90
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Published: December 24, 2009 | Updated: December 24, 2009
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Brian Callahan talks about his early days with Lestat and Louis. Darkside fills in the blanks not addressed in the Odyssey series.
Category: Drama, Adult, Contemporary
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Odyssey
Chapters: 8 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 45132 | Read count: 1646
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Published: November 09, 2009 | Updated: November 11, 2009
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Written for the weekly Drabble Dimanche challenge in the Live Journal community vc_media.
The title is also the prompt.
Category: Ficlets, Drama
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 100 | Read count: 119
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Published: April 10, 2011 | Updated: April 10, 2011
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These are drabbles that I did in the weekly Drabble Dimanche on the LJ community vc_media.
They are listed as chapters within this header, so that I can keep them all in one place.
(Drabble Dimanche # 1 (28 Feb., 2010) I missed that one, so I begin with #2.
Category: Ficlets
Characters: Lestat (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 6 | Completed: No | Word count: 1574 | Read count: 398
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Published: March 21, 2010 | Updated: June 07, 2010
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Written for the weekly Drabble Dimanche challenge in the Live Journal community vc_media. The title is also the prompt.
Category: Humor
Characters: Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 95 | Read count: 90
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Published: April 10, 2011 | Updated: April 10, 2011
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Category: Historical, Adult
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 2 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1534 | Read count: 902
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Published: November 18, 2007 | Updated: November 18, 2007
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Lestat and Louis converse as they dodge, parry and thrust.
Category: Contemporary, Adult
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 455 | Read count: 375
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Published: November 11, 2009 | Updated: November 11, 2009
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Category: Adult, Contemporary, Drama
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books), Original Character(s)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Odyssey
Chapters: 5 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 37268 | Read count: 1977
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Published: April 18, 2008 | Updated: December 21, 2009
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Lestat and Louis host a Christmas soiree.
Category: Humor, Adult, Contemporary
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books), Santino
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire, Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, The Vampire Armand, The Vampire Lestat
Challenge: None
Series: Odyssey
Chapters: 7 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 16416 | Read count: 1373
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Published: November 12, 2009 | Updated: November 15, 2009
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A rare tender moment between Lestat and Louis in Louis’ vampiric infancy.
Category: Romance, Historical, Angst
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1173 | Read count: 421
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Published: November 11, 2009 | Updated: November 11, 2009
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Written for the weekly Drabble Dimanche challenge in the Live Journal community vc_media.
The title is also the prompt.
Category: Ficlets
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 99 | Read count: 77
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Published: April 10, 2011 | Updated: April 10, 2011
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Category: Contemporary, Adult
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Queen of the Damned
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 352 | Read count: 335
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Published: November 18, 2007 | Updated: November 18, 2007
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Lestat and Louis go to Miami, accompanied by Brian. Louis has suspicions about what was behind Lestat'speriod of stasis in St. Elizabeth's and Brian learns more about his immortal employers.
Takes place in 2002
Category: Adult, Contemporary, Drama, Romance
Characters: David, Lestat (Books), Louis (Books), Marius
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch the Devil, Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, The Vampire Lestat
Challenge: None
Series: Odyssey
Chapters: 9 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 35969 | Read count: 2230
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Published: December 02, 2009 | Updated: December 21, 2009
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Lestat must go to Paris to speak with Maharet about his transgression—Louis stays behind in New Orleans with Brian.
Category: Angst, Contemporary, Drama, Romance
Characters: None
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Odyssey
Chapters: 11 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 41569 | Read count: 3081
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Published: November 15, 2009 | Updated: December 02, 2009
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Louis & Lestat celebrate Independence Day. A story written 4 July, 2002 a year after 9-11.
Category: Romance, Contemporary
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 2225 | Read count: 151
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Published: November 10, 2009 | Updated: November 10, 2009
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Category: Contemporary, Adult
Characters: None
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 658 | Read count: 363
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Published: November 18, 2007 | Updated: November 18, 2007
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Written for the weekly Drabble Dimanche challenge in the Live Journal community vc_media.
The title is also the prompt.
Category: Drama, Ficlets
Characters: Claudia (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 99 | Read count: 44
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Published: April 10, 2011 | Updated: April 10, 2011
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Written for the weekly Drabble Dimanche challenge in the Live Journal community vc_media.
The title is also the prompt.
Category: Drama, Ficlets
Characters: Claudia (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 99 | Read count: 35
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Published: April 10, 2011 | Updated: April 10, 2011
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A short vignette that takes place when Louis was a young mortal. (1780)
Category: Meditations, Historical
Characters: Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1707 | Read count: 93
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Published: December 22, 2009 | Updated: December 22, 2009
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vc_media ran a Drabble Dimanche Redux for the month of December, 2010--I did this Drabble Trail for New Year's Eve using some of the prompts.
Category: Adult, Contemporary, Ficlets, Humor, Romance
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 674 | Read count: 132
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Published: March 26, 2011 | Updated: March 26, 2011
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Lestat becomes annoyed with a brief commotion outside the window of their New Orleans townhouse. Slice of life with a definite New Orleans flavor…it’s a fun piece.
Category: Contemporary, Other, Romance
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Odyssey
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 2315 | Read count: 243
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Published: November 09, 2009 | Updated: November 09, 2009
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Written for the weekly Drabble Dimanche challenge in the Livejournal community vc_media. The titles of the drabbles are also the prompts for that week.
Category: Ficlets
Characters: None
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 100 | Read count: 45
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Published: April 10, 2011 | Updated: April 10, 2011
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Written in response to a challenge on vc_media put up by the lovely and talented saffronlie, to whit;
'That theme is: Responses to the rumours of a new VC adaptation. Interpret at will. You might do a mockup of Robert Downey Jr. as Lestat (yes, it's been denied, but let your imaginations run free across marshmallow-dipped fudge clouds), or make a few icons from another adaptation, or write a spec wherein Lestat reacts to the news. Whatever you like or come across'
My icon skillz are most certainly not mad, so I decided to write a fic instead.
Category: Contemporary, Ficlets, Humor
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 921 | Read count: 180
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Published: November 15, 2009 | Updated: November 15, 2009
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A look at Santino and his affair with a mortlal. The story includeds a little bit of a look into what sort of creature Santino might be.
AU, since canon and I part ways after MtD and TVA. Merrick who?
Category: Drama, Adult, Contemporary
Characters: Santino
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 5083 | Read count: 133
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Published: November 10, 2009 | Updated: November 10, 2009
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Category: Contemporary, Adult
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1037 | Read count: 279
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Published: February 19, 2009 | Updated: February 19, 2009
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Lestat has a question for Louis regarding the time he spent with Armand-misunderstandings put to rest and forgiveness bestowed.
Category: Angst, Contemporary
Characters: Armand (Books), Claudia (Books), Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1191 | Read count: 295
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Published: April 28, 2010 | Updated: April 28, 2010
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Louis reflects on his past just after his reunion with Lestat immediately before the infamous concert.
Category: Drama, Historical, Meditations
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1240 | Read count: 146
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Published: March 02, 2010 | Updated: March 02, 2010
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Category: Contemporary, Adult
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Odyssey
Chapters: 6 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 15135 | Read count: 2014
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Published: November 15, 2007 | Updated: November 16, 2007
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Written for the weekly Drabble Dimanche challenge in the Live Journal community vc_media. The title is also the prompt.
This is a double-shot drabble written for Halloween, 2010 combining two of the prompts, Trick and Treat.
Category: Romance, Humor, Contemporary, Ficlets
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 183 | Read count: 127
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Published: April 10, 2011 | Updated: April 10, 2011
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A trio of triple drabbles (!?!) done during th Drabble Dimanche Redux done for vc_media on Live Journal, December, 2010.
The triptychs used the prompts to explore the idea that Louis may have asked Armand questions about his predecessor, Nicolas de L'Enfant.
The idea is further explored in 'A Blind and Covetous Passion'.
Category: Ficlets, Historical, Angst, Drama
Characters: None
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: No | Word count: 935 | Read count: 58
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Published: March 20, 2011 | Updated: March 20, 2011
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Originally posted for Armand Appreciation week, 2005.
Mentions of Lestat and Claudia.
Category: Contemporary, Angst
Characters: Armand (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1710 | Read count: 161
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Published: November 18, 2007 | Updated: November 18, 2007