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Title: Baby Names
Characters: Molly Weasley
Length: ~600 words
Rating: G
Sample:
When Molly Weasley found herself pregnant for the seventh time, her main concern (after the fears - perhaps softened a little over the years but never entirely got rid of - over whether the child was healthy and developing normally, after all that, her main concern) was trying to come up with yet another name.
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Title: Being Sensible
Characters: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
Length: ~2000 words
Rating: PG-13 to R for language & slash
Sample:
I fell in love with James first. The joy, the energy, the sheer gladness-to-be-alive of him. I was first dazzled, then smitten. He believed that nothing would hurt him and, for a time, it seemed he was right.
He never loved me. I know that. Or, if he did, it was simply the easy affection of one good friend for another. If he loved any of us more than that, it was you. You two always had a mutual sympathy – the daredevils, the wild boys - which I never quite shared. Ironic, really, given what I was.
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Every morning, at 7am sharp, Miss Potts would be woken by a respectful knocking on her bedroom door, indicating that one of the school maids had left a tray of tea outside her room. She would get up, pull on her dressing gown, collect the tray, and pour herself a cup of tea, which she would drink serenely, gazing out through her bedroom window at the school grounds and the Cornish coast beyond.
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"I will never understand these New York women." Magda said to her husband, Alexei, as she shelled peas in the kitchen.
"They live in such a rush," she went on. "In the morning, they drink only coffee, and say they have no time to eat breakfast. A sandwich at their desk in the office, and take-out in the evening. They have no time to sleep properly, so they drink more coffee the next morning. It is no wonder they are always so tense."
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Sometimes, Carrie thinks of each of her three best friends as a sort of fairground mirror of herself - reflecting what she might have been if her life had been just a little different. Sharp-angled with independence; softly rippled with idealism; stretched tall with self-belief.
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Dave Starsky is drunk.
So, as far as he can tell, is his partner Ken Hutchinson. The number of empty beer bottles on the table suggest that a lot of beer has been drunk, anyway, and he's fairly sure he hasn't had all of it.
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[Legolas] When things get bad, he
Just swings his axe round madly
Now look, he's getting crabby
'Cause he knows that I know.
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With any other friend, it would be embarrassing, watching them cry. With him, it's just painful. Physically painful. Painful like stubbing your toe when you see the tears in his eyes; and painful like the nagging ache in your gums when the dentist's injection wears off, as you watch him cry.
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