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Quick-Quotes Cliches by centaury_squill
NC-17, PWP (duh, it's Wankfest), 1060 words, Severus with some Severus/Harry fantasy. Warning: Implied bestiality fantasy involving 15 year old Harry. (I didn't think the content of that was very heavy though, given the goofy context.)
This was one of my favourites from Wankfest. It's so silly (although much less bizarre than the one that involved a rubber chicken!). The Quill narrates sexual fantasies and actions in the purplest of romance-novel prose (of course), with very amusing results.
The Quill wriggled in his grasp and finally broke free again, its feather bent and battered, dripping with spunk:
Sex god Severus Snape stands proud atop the tallest tower, flaunting his magnificent erection...

Potions by Rachel Indeed
K+ (G), romance/angst, 2400 words. Severus, Lily.
A sad almost-was-reconciliation picture of Lily and Severus's working together in NEWT Potions.
“Thanks for finally giving me a choice,” he called after her.
She turned in the doorway, frowning. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
He slung his bag over his shoulder but made no move to follow her. “It means that when you give me a choice, I choose you,” he said calmly. “You haven’t offered me one in a long time.”

Loyalties by Rachel Indeed
K+ (PG), general/angst, 3600 words. Severus, Voldemort, Dumbledore.
An interesting take on the details of Severus's abilities to fool Voldemort's Legilimency when he returns just after the end of GoF.
It was quite a natural error, to imagine that torture weakened the Occlumens’ control and stripped away his power. Perhaps for some men it was so. But the first step of true Occlumency was to empty the mind of thought and emotion, and pain obliterated everything in its wake.

Gently Into the Good Night by kitsunelover
K (G), general/romance, 900 words. Severus, Bloody Baron, Grey Lady.
This short piece still packs an emotional punch in drawing a parallel between the relationship between the Bloody Baron and the Grey Lady and that of Severus and Lily.
“A final word of advice: When you die, move on. There’s no point in becoming a ghost over a broken heart. The afterlife doesn’t mend shattered organs.”

This Moratorium on Life by lotrwariorgodss
PG-13, drama/romance, 10300 words. Severus/Lily and some slight Severus/Harry pre-slash at the end.
When Severus enters a dying Harry's mind to try to figure out how to reverse the curse that's killing him, he finds a comforting dreamland that's difficult to leave behind. This story has some wonderfully emotional moments in it, including hints of healing.
What he will come to realize later is that everything that had happened in the clutches of the curse – the slow, sweet kisses, the bliss of contentment, the feel of his child growing in the body of the woman he loved more than life itself – it all paled in comparison to that one kiss.
[...]
"I thought you said she hated lilies."
"She did." Severus reaches over the bountiful bouquet now lying in the snow and places the single white lily on the 'James Potter' side of the headstone. "But he didn't."

The Magic of Elvendork by Modwolf
K+ (PG), romance/humour, 740 words. James, Sirius, and Fisher/Anderson -- that's the two policemen from the "not-a-prequel".
This is just a silly little "companion". Just think what those two might have thought with all the people on brooms and a flying motorbike and all! Obviously they would find comfort in each other, right? Well, maybe with a little nudge...
“I-I don’t know,” Anderson quietly said, his small mouth gaping at the sky and his eyes, like Fisher’s, trying to have his brain somehow grasp any logic what so ever about what had apparently and incredibly just happened. “I don’t know.”

A Million Years Ago by freudian_fuckup
NC-17, smut/friendship (um? something like that), 2170 words. Sirius/James.
A hot little number that also manages to sound kind of poignant and sad.
Groins press and rock and thrust with the kind of reckless abandon found only in children and the damned, but of course, just then, they are a little of both.

First Time for the Prince by SaintRidley
T (I'd say R), general/horror, 2100 words, Severus, Voldemort. Warning: some bloody violence.
In my personal canon Severus had never directly killed anyone until he killed Dumbledore, but this is still a chilling take on the fanon idea that Severus had to kill someone (commonly his father; not in this case) in order to prove his loyalty to Voldemort.
He stalked the house, searching for its other occupant. He saw her, in the master bathroom, setting her scarlet hair into curlers, bright, pale green eyes examining her work. Severus felt something well up inside him, something furious at this woman who was nothing more than a mockery of Lily Evans.

Comments

[winged-panda.livejournal.com]

That first fic made me crack up so bad! Thanks for that! Hahaha!

[tehhonestybox.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for posting this, I can't wait to read some of these!