cornerofmadness

Title Rewards Earned
Author Cornerofmadness
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns all
Summary Riza has always known how to get a day’s work out of Roy.
rating - teen
Warning -- none
Word Count 624
Author’s Note written for fandom_stocking’s 2018 edition and written for kunstarschloch. Happy Holidays.
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( Rewards Earned )

Title -- Exam Prep
Author-- cornerofmadness
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns them.
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Zolf Kimbley
Word Count -- 280
Warning -- none
Summary -- He’s a studious fellow.
Author’s Note -- This was written for seta_suzume for the 2018 Trick or Treat Halloween challenge and used the prompt ‘summer’s end’ from my October Bingo for allbingo

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Summer finally faded into memory. Kimbley rarely cared about the passage of the seasons. One was much the same as the other for him, though admittedly he wasn’t a usual young man. What did seasons matter when he spent most of his time either in the lab or in the library? But it all would pay off now.

Kimbley didn’t care that summer ended. What mattered was the State Alchemy exams began again in the fall. He looked at his pale, slender hands. He bore small pock marks, scars that proved his learning. His alchemy had been hard earned with pain and blood but he had grown confident in his abilities. He’d blow the alchemists judging him away, quite literally if need be.

He fitted himself with the two metal cuffs bearing the symbols needed to help trigger his alchemy. He didn’t like that it would be possible to disarm him. He had ideas for a more permanent solution but for now the cuffs allowed him easy access to the transmutation circles.

Kimbley walked out into the woods behind his lab. He wasn’t any more impressed with nature than he was the seasons but it allowed him to practice in relative secrecy. It wasn’t a long hike to the hunks of limestone that ran along the edge of a drop off to a small lake below. He eyed a small boulder, touched his cuffs, the transmutation power running through him. The boulder exploded into dust.

Kimbley allowed himself a smile. He was so ready for the exams. No one could come near what he could do. Now it was merely a matter of waiting for his silver pocket watch.

Title --The Light of the Solstice
Author-- cornerofmadness
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns all.
Rating -- PG
Characters/Pairing -- Ed/Winry, Roy/Riza, Al/Mei
Word Count -- 3,543
Warning --None
Summary --Roy and Ed end up in a competition to see who can out decorate the other.
Author’s Note -- Written for the Days of Yore challenge at celebrate_fma for the prompt of RoyX Ed ‘lights’ (though as you can see, I took that as a friendship rather than a pairing). It is set a few years after the end of the manga.

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( The Light of the Solstice )

I have no pithy thoughts for this. I posted some old union pictures on FB but they were depressing me so I'll leave it as I sat at home alternatively typing and cleaning.

The writing is going pretty well with one exception. The cleaning took a detour into weirdness. I'm totally out of all the things anyone would need to clean. I got the stove and one counter cleaned before I found out the spray was out. So was the back up spray. Was I high from fumes last time I cleaned that I didn't notice this? Then I couldn't find the swifter. I had the wet jet, the broom, the swifter extender but not the original fricking swifter. WTF? Where it could possibly be is anyone's guess. At least, I suppose, this place is so wrecked that picking up things and putting them away counted as cleaning.

The exception to the writing is that I looked at a review from a review site for The Darkest Midnight in December and it hit on my deepest fear with all this stuff. That sex scenes feel tacked on and there is no real romance in my story. Okay I'm NOT really a romance writer. I'm just not. I'm glad we're starting to see the LGBT literature moving back out of that after it's current resurgence via the romance/erotica vein. But now all I'm thinking is there no emotional content in any of my stories. Does it only count if there is no established relationship like in several of mine? My simmer story will only be a few days long. No way are they in love, but lust and like yes. Will it feel real? Arrigo and Luc have a strange relationship. Does it even feel romantic? Will I always second guess myself.

Also in the writing lines, here is a good article. We're all good at making up excuses for not writing so have this how to be a full time writer with a day job. I used write or die and written, kitten today to get stuff done. In Queer SciFi's talk today, I think someone mentioned you can even temporarily block your computer from the internet to give you distraction free writing.

And just for fun, here's some FMA art I found while looking for something to post up as a sign for the students. Roy & Riza I really liked their pose in this.

Roy & his transmutation circle This one is just glorious with the detail

Roy in more of a 3-D style I thought this was a very interesting style.

And I got hosed by student loans again. They moved my payment date without telling me. Fuckwits.

Also just for fun. OMG this looks great! I'll have to netflix it after the fact.

Title -- Bad Dreams
Author-- cornerofmadness
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns it
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Hohenheim/Trisha
Word Count - 582
Warning -- none
Summary -- Hohenheim is plagued with nightmares.
Author’s Note -- Happy holidays, 2014. Written for the fandom_stocking community.

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( Bad Dreams )

Title --The Scent of Smoke
Author-- cornerofmadness
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns all
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Alphonse
Word Count -- 354
Warning -- angst
Summary -- He should be able to smell smoke
Author’s Note -- written for October Third day.

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( The Scent of Smoke )

Title -- The Wild Rumpus
Author-- cornerofmadness
Disclaimer --Arakawa owns all
Rating -- Teen
Characters/Pairing -- Chris and Roy Mustang
Word Count -- 747
Summary -- Reading him bed time stories might not be her best idea.
Author’s Note -- Written for fma_fic_contest and tied for first place. Thanks to bay115 for the banner.

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( The Wild Rumpus )

Title --Taste for Flesh
Author-- cornerofmadness
Fandom -- Fullmetal Alchemist
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns all
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Ed, Hughes
Word Count -- 1,015
Warning -- cannibalism
Summary -- Hughes and Ed have to investigate a mass murder on an orphan train.
Author’s Note -- This was written for the spook_me Halloween 2013 round for the prompts of ‘cannibal’ and this lovely tarot card.
Also this will be part of my 203/2014 fmabigbang posted with permission and the understanding I’ll be responsible for going 1,000 words over the challenge word count to make up for it. It’s also worth noting this is in my Sorrow series so this is a 2003 anime/manga mash up. You do not need to read those to understand this.

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( Breathe through your mouth )

Title -- Family Roots
Author-- cornerofmadness
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns them
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Ed/Winry
Timeline/Spoilers -- post 108
Word Count -- 547
Summary -- It was a long road to get here.
Author’s Note -- Happy 503 day! Thanks to evil_little_dog for the one the fly looksee. Also written for fanfic_bakeoff for the prompt ‘family.’

( Family Roots )

Title -- In Each Other
Author-- cornerofmadness
Disclaimer --Arakawa owns all
Genre: romance/drama
Rating -- technically Mature (NC-17) but only the very last scene in ch 6 is. All else is teen.
Characters/Pairing -- Roy/Riza, Ed/Winry, Alphonse, Chris Mustang, Armstrong
Timeline/Spoilers -- post 108
Word Count -- 12,289
Warning -- some potty mouth bits but nothing really worse than that
Summary --They are making the most of their recovery time
Author’s Note --Notes: For the 2012-2013 fmabigbang. This time it’s in reverse, with me basing my story off kriem’s beautiful art. Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta and to bay115 for the help along the way and to enemyofsleep for hosting this again.

( Chapters 1-3 )