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Infinity Smashed: Homecoming
Aug. 3rd, 2014 11:03 pmHi everybody! What better way to kick off the half-price sale than with this old story from Foolathon back in April. It is based off of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rix_scaedu's prompt requesting raspberry fools, and was sponsored by the lovely zen_of_cayenne! But this story has more importance than just that; it is also the final prompt in my Stuff100, a project we have been working on since 2005! Yes, after almost nine years, we've finally finished, which means a new big Infinity Smashed project is on the horizon. Stay tuned readers, and happy writeathon!
Homecoming
Prompts: Stuff100 “Orange,” HC/Bingo “grief”
Word Count: 1500
Summary: After disappearing when Josephine MacGilligan was eleven, her big sister comes home, and it turns out she was keeping a lot of secrets.
Notes: This takes place after Time to Go, and there is constant misgendering and complete trans cluelessness here.
When Josie MacGilligan answered the knock at her door, the reflexive terror surged in her throat. Then her sense kicked in; the man was twenty years too young and three shades too dark. Not her father, just someone with an uncanny resemblance to him, someone she’d surely seen before…
She wrestled her face straight. “May I help you?”
The stranger shoved his hands in his pockets, hunched his shoulders in a familiar-but-strange way, and she’d just realized where she’d seen it before when he said, “Hey, JoJo.”
Nobody called her JoJo, except Mama and…
Josie put a hand to her mouth. “Beth?”
A wince flashed across her big sister’s face, almost too quick to catch. “I… don’t go by that no more.”
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rix_scaedu's prompt requesting raspberry fools, and was sponsored by the lovely zen_of_cayenne! But this story has more importance than just that; it is also the final prompt in my Stuff100, a project we have been working on since 2005! Yes, after almost nine years, we've finally finished, which means a new big Infinity Smashed project is on the horizon. Stay tuned readers, and happy writeathon!Homecoming
Prompts: Stuff100 “Orange,” HC/Bingo “grief”
Word Count: 1500
Summary: After disappearing when Josephine MacGilligan was eleven, her big sister comes home, and it turns out she was keeping a lot of secrets.
Notes: This takes place after Time to Go, and there is constant misgendering and complete trans cluelessness here.
When Josie MacGilligan answered the knock at her door, the reflexive terror surged in her throat. Then her sense kicked in; the man was twenty years too young and three shades too dark. Not her father, just someone with an uncanny resemblance to him, someone she’d surely seen before…
She wrestled her face straight. “May I help you?”
The stranger shoved his hands in his pockets, hunched his shoulders in a familiar-but-strange way, and she’d just realized where she’d seen it before when he said, “Hey, JoJo.”
Nobody called her JoJo, except Mama and…
Josie put a hand to her mouth. “Beth?”
A wince flashed across her big sister’s face, almost too quick to catch. “I… don’t go by that no more.”
( Read more... )
