brightephemera has written words.

This blog collects links to brightephemera fiction published across the Internet. Angst, romance, originals, a dozen fandoms, a little of this and that. I hope you find something to your taste. (shortform collections)(proper serials)(novels)(one-shots)(poems)


  • Siege of Gondor Rap Battle (Lord of the Rings)

    Siege of Gondor Rap Battle (Lord of the Rings)

    I regret nothing. PRINCE: I’m the Lord of Dol Amroth // best believe that I am wroth Here to break down the damn Goth- // -mog bringing a black troth ​ :LORD OF THE NAZGUL: Rue the day, human ruler // try regarding my ring, Don’t try blasting the bling // it’s a mystical thing

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  • A Kingsmouth Vigil (The Secret World)

    A Kingsmouth Vigil (The Secret World)

    Ah, Erenya, you cautious Illuminati isolationist. I really enjoyed the side characters in TSW, so I wrote one for poor, dark Andy. This is a 500-word-challenge one-shot that is also on AO3. Full text below. “You okay?” said Andy. He was scrubbing his wrists with his hands, first one, then the other, faster than when

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  • The Duchesses’ Gifts (Original)

    The Duchesses’ Gifts (Original)

    A serial with a troubled development history, TDG is about a trio of girls coming of age in a colony that has lost touch with Earth. These girls have unique gifts that nobody understands yet. Even I don’t understand all of it, I just wrote the daily serial chapters. It leaves off abruptly – I

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  • Dialogues AU (SWTOR)

    Dialogues AU (SWTOR)

    I always wanted to know what a Star Wars: The Old Republic Sith Warrior would say to a Jedi Knight. Well, what if she apprehended him for delivery to the Emperor, and their ship was set adrift? He has just a few precious weeks to talk his way out. To bring one more person back

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  • Leif, Sonia, Veldrian (Dragon Age)

    Leif, Sonia, Veldrian (Dragon Age)

    I wasn’t going to do this, but I’ll make an exception: Leif Surana, Sonia Hawke, and Veldrian Lavellan are the main figures in my canonical Dragon Age setting. (Lynesse Mercar is the fourth.) I posted many scenes week by week, but I have no central place you can go to to get their stories. I

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  • Let That Be Your Last (Marvel)

    Let That Be Your Last (Marvel)

    I’ve written one fic for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I wrote it because the Scarlet Witch never got to use her cool mind powers in the Thanos movies. Why not? They made her into a walking energy weapon, which is generic. I wrote this piece to pour out her frustration and grief about the

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  • Lodestone AU (SWTOR)

    Lodestone AU (SWTOR)

    (art by kabeone) Ah, Lodestone. The original Ruth/Wynston AU. I didn’t lie about Ruth Means Compassion: in every continuity she starts Light Side, she befriends Wynston, she falls in love with and marries Malavai Quinn, and she parts on bitter terms with a son to remember her husband by. All of these are true in

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  • City of Banners (Original)

    City of Banners (Original)

    The City of Banners is a classic drawer novel, only without the being-written part. I have many jewel-toned entries into this setting and only one that stands as a proper story. I give this one to you: Shai, the City of Banners, and her citizens. It’s called The Courtship of Oroma Liathen. (image from pixcrafter)

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  • Spoiler Warning: Sith Warrior Sevasht Warwiggins (SWTOR)

    Spoiler Warning: Sith Warrior Sevasht Warwiggins (SWTOR)

    Spoiler Warning: Sith Warrior Sevasht Warwiggins (3SWar) was a series of comic strip scripts following the meta savvy Sevasht. He was my LS Warrior with DS Jaesa and resulting shenanigans. A simple retelling of the class line at small novella length, it was modest but fun. Now it exists only on the SWTOR forums and

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