Invoking Urania

Title: Home Stretch
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Words: 2,500
Notes/Warnings: Written for the Rare Women (rarewomen) fic exchange, for mortaltemples. Pre-series, and contains internalized patriarchal bullshit. Also mentions of Kanna/Pakku.

This was going to cover more of Kanna's life, but she and Hama had to have a 2000 word conversation about stuff. So I shall have to revisit 'Gran Gran had an exciting life off-camera and pre-series'.
Summary: Kanna has almost reached her destination. Now she actually has to face starting a new life at the South Pole.
Disclaimer: Avatar: The Last Airbender copyright Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko/Nickelodeon and this derivative work was created without permission.

( When Kanna first met Hama, she had thought the waterbender was a man.  )

Title: The Real Enemy
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Words: 1150
Notes/Warnings: Pre-series. Subtly dystopic in the way Ba Sing Sei can be (when it's not overtly dystopic I mean). Written for the avatar_contest prompt "Fear".
Summary: Long Feng during the seige of Ba Sing Sei.
Disclaimer: Avatar: The Last Airbender copyright Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko/Nickelodeon and this derivative work was created without permission.

( Long Feng wanted a good night's sleep, but he had to settle for a cup of tea gone cold and a few soggy dumplings that he had left at his desk when the latest crisis meant his lunch was cut short. )

Title: The Price of a Miracle
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Rating: PG13
Genre: Drama
Words: 1325
Notes/Warnings: Divergence AU. Character death. Written for no_true_pair's 2011 8 character promptfest, 'Katara and Zuko, the price you pay for miracles'.
Summary: Zuko's failed everything he's ever set out to do. Except possibly making tea. Why should he be surprised that he's made a mess of things again?
Disclaimer: Avatar: The Last Airbender copyright Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko/Nickelodeon and this derivative work was created without permission.

( He can't look Katara in the eyes, so Zuko curls his fists around handfuls of Appa's fur, focusing on a texture he never expected to feel.  )

Title: Unsheltered
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Rating: G
Genre: Vignette
Words: 100
Notes/Warnings: Written for day_by_drabble, prompt #3, 'shelter'
Summary: Toph has camp chores.
Disclaimer: Avatar: The Last Airbender copyright Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko/Nickelodeon and this derivative work was created without permission.

( Whenever they made camp, Toph would clear the ground.  )

Title: Til Human Voices Wake Us
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Rating: G
Genre: Drama
Words: 100
Notes/Warnings: The tile is from "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" by T S Elliot. The prompt was day_by_drabble, "#8 [picture of two swimmers kissing underwater]">
Summary: Yue dreams of the sea.
Disclaimer: Avatar: The Last Airbender copyright Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko/Nickelodeon and this derivative work was created without permission.

( Yue has had the same dream for all her life. )

Title: Rain Dance
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Rating: G
Genre: Drama
Words: 354
Notes/Warnings: Slight Katara/Toph. Done for the theme 'Oh how the rain sounds as loud as a lover's words' for 31days_exchange for tablyn24.
Summary: Toph shows Katara what her world looks like using Katara's element.
Disclaimer: Avatar: The Last Airbender copyright Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko/Nickelodeon and this derivative work was created without permission.

( Katara asked how Toph 'saw' the world, and Toph waited until a summer rain to show her.  )

Title: Tea at the Crossroads
Fandom: Slayers/Avatar: the Last Airbender fusion
Rating: G
Genre: Drama
Words: 2600
Notes/Warnings: This is technically written in the same universe as None So Blind, but all you really need to know about that fic is that the Avatar characters were their canon ages about a decade before Slayers present, and were born into the Slayers universe as normal members (as normal as Slayers characters get, at least). (There's also the passing mention of Zuko/Someone-probably-female.) Needs a spot-edit -- posting to get it up before the master list goes up.

I also wanted to have Zel get that (this universe's) Iroh was a distinguished sorcerer in his own right, or at least owned the shop he was running, but Iroh didn't want to talk about himself.
Summary: Zelgadis drifts into a teashop looking for a drink and a direction. Iroh gives him both.
Disclaimer: Slayers copyright Hajime Kanzaka/Rui Araizumi/Kadokawa/TV Tokyo/Medianet, Avatar: The Last Airbender copyright Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko/Nickelodeon, and this derivative work was created without permission.

( It was a bit after midafternoon when Zelgadis arrived, parched and dusty, in town. )

Title: Just Talk
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Words: 750
Notes/Warnings: Done for avatar_contest theme 'gossip'.
Summary: Captain Lu Ten gets word of some rumors from the homeland.
Disclaimer: Avatar: The Last Airbender copyright Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko/Nickelodeon and this derivative work was created without permission.

( "Is that it?" Captain Lu Ten leaned back on his stool. )

Title: A Light in Dark Places
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Rating: G
Genre: Drama
Words: 150
Notes/Warnings: Implied Mai/Ty Lee. Done for the 'alternate pairing' theme at avatar_contest
Summary: Prison isn't as bad as Mai thought, because Ty Lee was there and Azula wasn't.
Disclaimer: Avatar: The Last Airbender copyright Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko/Nickelodeon and this derivative work was created without permission.

( Prison wasn't that bad.  )

The idea for this fic came about wondering how Toph would adjust if she visited one of the poles to see her friends, and was there anything that could make it easier for her. And Toph and Sokka are fun to write.

Plus, I had cold feet. I hate cold feet.

Title: Cold Feet
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Rating: G
Genre: Comedy
Words: 270
Notes/Warnings: Done for '15 sentences' at avatar_contest @ LJ
Summary: Sokka gives Toph a gift, and an explanation.
Disclaimer: Avatar: The Last Airbender copyright Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko/Nickelodeon and this derivative work was created without permission.

( Toph practically tore open the cloth Sokka had wrapped the present in, feeling the contents beneath her fingers.  )