Love's Growth 3/3

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Title: Love's Growth
Author: Miss Murchison
Medium: Fic
Rating: R
Words: 777
Summary: For this story, I went to an old favorite, John Donne. Opening the book, I found myself reading "Love's Growth," and I've written three short fics based on lines from the poem. This is the third one, but they can be read in any order. In this ficlet Spike, and maybe a little remnant of William, consider the nature of love

I consider these outtakes from some of my happier Spuffy stories, where soulless Spike and Buffy have a conflicted but working relationship.
Disclaimer: The characters belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, etc.

This is the last of my fics for the day. I hope you enjoyed them. It was an interesting writing exercise for me, so different from the way I usually work!

Thanks again to enigmaticblues for keeping this community alive.

( Love's Growth )

Links to my other stories from this round:
Love's Growth 1
Love's Growth 2
The Choice of Weapons
The Howling of the Wolves is without World

Love's Growth 2/3

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Title: Love's Growth
Author: Miss Murchison
Medium: Fic
Rating: PG
Words: 1279
Summary: For this story, I went to an old favorite, John Donne. Opening the book, I found myself reading "Love's Growth," and I've written three short fics based on lines from the poem. This is the second one, but they can be read in any order.

I consider these outtakes from some of my happier Spuffy stories, where soulless Spike and Buffy have a conflicted but working relationship.
Disclaimer: The characters belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, etc.


( Love's Growth )

Love's Growth, 1/3

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Title: Love's Growth
Author: Miss Murchison
Medium: Fic
Rating: PG
Words: 857, some stolen from John Donne
Summary: For this story, I went to an old favorite, John Donne. Opening the book, I found myself reading "Love's Growth," and I've written three short fics based on lines from the poem. This is the first one, but they can be read in any order.

I consider these outtakes from some of my happier Spuffy stories, where soulless Spike and Buffy have a conflicted but working relationship.
Disclaimer: The characters belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, etc.

( Love's Growth )

The Choice of Weapons 1/1

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Title: The Choice of Weapons
Author: Miss Murchison
Medium: Fic
Rating: G
Words: 1539, some stolen from Edna St. Vincent Millay

Years ago, someone commented to me that Edna St. Vincent Millay would have been a good vampire. Ever since, I've imagined that she had a fling with Spike at some point. She certainly knew Drusilla, whom she describes in Siege:

This I do, being mad:
Gather baubles about me,
Sit in a circle of toys, and all the time
Death beating the door in.

The second book of poetry I picked up for inspiration was a collection of her works. I borrowed the first lines of a sonnet for this fic. This isn't the sort of thing I usually write. It's not cheerful, and there's no happy ending.

This is set post-NFA, the AtS finale, with no references to the comic book seasons, because I haven't read any.

Disclaimer: The characters belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, etc.

( The Choice of Weapons )

I'll have one more fic based on a different poem posted by the end of the day.

The Howling of Wolves is without World 1/1

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Title: The Howling of Wolves is without World
Author: Miss Murchison
Medium: Fic
Rating: G
Words: 538, some stolen from Ted Hughes
Summary: Usually, Seasonal Spuffy is my chance to dust off something that's been sitting on my hard drive waiting for a lot of perspiration to be added to the inspiration that made me start it. But with the exception of a WIP, I don't have anything Spuffy that's sufficiently inspired to warrant any perspiration. I tried a few things, but nothing progressed. When I came in from covering the tomato plants tonight to protect them from frost (seriously, Iowa, it's the middle of May, WTF?) I still only had a couple of hundred words of this.

You see, I decided two days ago to use the theme of this round. What I've done is pick up books of poetry and read until I found something that sparked an idea. Now I'm writing short fics around them. Unfortunately, the first book I grabbed was a little Everyman volume that I thought would be either love poems or a collection of sonnets. Instead, it turned out to be poems about animals. Instead of grabbing the next book, I persisted stubbornly and a few minutes ago came up with something that is marginally Spuffy.

Thank you, enigmaticblues, for maintaining this comm.

Disclaimer: The characters belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, etc.

( The howling of wolves... )

I'm working on two more shorts based on different poems and will post them tomorrow.