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Title: Has a Face
Author: speaky_bean
Characters/Pairings: L, B, A.
Rating: R
Word Count: 3,715
Notes: I got this idea from an RP-sequence I had with my sister ich_bin_puppy. I decided I really liked the idea and ought to expand on it. What started off as a simple hallucination caused by L’s profound lack of sleep turned into a nightmare where he finds himself being accused by A’s corpse of killing him, and then being physically and mentally assaulted by B. This is by far one of the strangest things I’ve written in a long time. The language includes a lot of bizarre metaphors and similes, and reality is rather tenuous here. I would call this a hallucination/psychological portrait, and I would not say that it makes perfect sense. This is very experimental for me, so I hope it turned out well! This was written for week #81 - hallucination, at dn_contest.
Warnings: This gets very gory and graphic in parts. I did a lot of research on how to accurately describe the victim of hanging, and I was shuddering as I wrote some of this. Please keep that in mind!

( And so, everything beautiful that L has ever done caused A to die. And so, this noxious beast hanging from the rafters belongs to L. He may as well have tied the noose himself. )

Annie-Dog - Smashing Pumpkins

Title: Three Mothers
Authors: speaky_bean
Characters/Pairings: Sachiko, Ms. Mikami, OC (Mello’s mother), their children
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 959
Notes: I haven't participated in dn_contest in a while, but I had some free time recently and thought I should. Anyway, I’m sure none of you are particularly surprised, but this story is about mothers. Sachiko, Ms. Mikami, and Mello’s mother are all waiting for their sons to come home. These three women approach the subject very differently. Anyway, enjoy!

( Of course I miss you—I always miss you, every moment you’re not with me I do. )

Title: An Elephant Never Forgets
Authors: speaky_bean
Characters/Pairings: Near, Linda, L, Multiple OCs (Orphans from Wammy’s House, and members of L’s family.) One-sided Linda/OC, and possible Near/Linda if you squint.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2,170
Summary: A few of the orphans who remain alive after L’s death get together to watch a home movie they dug up of L as a child, and they struggle with the concept of L as a human being instead of a golden idol. Written for week #57 at dn_contest, 'caught on tape'.
Warnings: This story deals with maternal death, so if that bothers you might want to skip the ending.

( His hands, which before his death were used primarily for typing and balancing sugar cubes, were once used to beat one alphabet block against another, and his voice, so eloquent and deadpan before it was cut off altogether, must once have consisted solely of words like ‘mommy’, ‘kitty’, and ‘cookie’. )

Title: The God Of Inconvenience
Author: speaky_bean
Characters: OC (Lamewad), The Shinigami King, Light, Sayu, Soichiro, A, Gevanni, Halle, Mello, Ryuk, Sidoh, Misa, Jealous
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 4,636
Notes: I am not completely responsible for the OC that this story focuses on. My sister ich_bin_puppy and I have a highly ridiculous RP that we engage in, and this OC, a death god named Lamewad (as he has been named by other death gods who don’t think highly of him), is straight from that. However, he appears in a rather different context here, one that I hope will make more sense in terms of actual canon. Lamewad is a death god who doesn’t want to be a death god—he thinks that human life is precious and he doesn’t want to end it. He obtains something called the Inconvenience Note—instead of heart attacks, it trips people. Instead of gaining lifespans he gains the time that the person is inconvenienced or hurt for. This becomes quite a bit more work than he bargained for, and he ends up having to do terrible things to people—maybe things that are worse than killing them.
Warning: I haven’t written anything in first person for about four years, so if it sounds awkward, please forgive me!

( To be a god of death is to be a god of selfishness. I will not be a god of death any longer. )

Titles: Saponification
Author: speaky_bean
Characters/Pairings: The Yagami Family
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,564
Notes: This is a series of loosely connected drabbles about the Yagami family and soap. Initially I was going to have a more diverse cast of characters, but I realized that most of my ideas could apply to the members of this family, thus making this a cohesive story rather than a set of random drabbles. At least I hope it’s cohesive.
Warning: This story contains shower sex! It isn’t incredibly explicit, but enough so that I feel like I should warn for it.

( His hands are bleeding again. )

Titles: Deadly Sins & Broken Commandments
Author: speaky_bean
Characters/Pairings: Matt/Mello, mentions of Near and L.
Rating: R
Word Count: 2,262
Warning: This story deals with, and makes fun of, a variety of religious beliefs, particularly Christian ones. It’s basically Matt’s interpretation of why Mello will be going to hell, so there are a lot of stupid, snarky jokes, and not a lot of reverence for the concepts being discussed. I don’t mean any offense towards anyone, and the ideas expressed here are not necessarily ones I agree with. Also, some of this may sound like Mello-bashing, but that’s not what it’s supposed to be.

( We regret to inform you that your immortal soul has been condemned to Hell. )

Title: Kyrie
Written For: stakeh. The prompt was dark religious themes and the relationship between Mello and his mother, so I had some fun with that. Hearing my fiance sing Kyrie in a choral performance was a major inspiration.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings/Characters: Mello (referred to as Mihael here) and his parents.
Warnings: This contains some mangling of the Lord's prayer, and some insulting words towards religion in general issuing from Mello's father. Please note that these do not reflect my opinion on the subject.
Word Count: 1,214

( Kyrie eleison -- Lord have mercy on us )

Title: Sitting Quietly
Author: speaky_bean
Characters: Sachiko, Soichiro, Light Sayu, two cats named Ichigo and Strawberry.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2,295
Notes: If anyone can be blamed for this story, it's reka. We were talking about how strange it was that the Yagami family didn't have pets--it seemed like a fairly standard thing for a family with a stay-at-home mother to do. reka decided that it was because Soichiro was allergic to them. And thus, this story was born. In this story, Sachiko desperately wants a cat, and can't have one because her husband is allergic--but as time goes on, he becomes more and more detached from the family--and so, it doesn't really matter if she gets a cat. Soichiro isn't there, anyway.

Oh, and it was written for dn_contest. The theme this week is 'cat'.

( She’s happy to be here, truly she is, but she’s used to being constantly blindsided by rampaging animals and younger siblings, not sitting at the kitchen table quietly sipping tea. )

Title: In Death There Is Silence
Author: speaky_bean
Characters: L, Watari, brief mentions of A and B.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 591
Notes: This is a strange little story I wrote on the bus home from school, for week #25 at dn_contest, silence. It was inspired by a few lines about cyanide in a Chuck Palahniuk novel. I thought about how L’s bad habits can be beneficial to him at times, and how he was probably being prodded to behave in contradictory ways throughout his training as L. I’m not sure how well it connects to the prompt, but it does deal with the possibility of L’s death, and thus, silence. I hope this makes sense. Enjoy!

( They just want to find your weakness so they can slaughter you and emerge as the new L. )

Title: Leaf
Author: speaky_bean
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Teru, Light, Kiyomi, Misa, Rem, Ryuk, and several OCs. Misa/Light, Teru/Kiyomi.
Warnings: This fic is written in second person. Some people find this irritating, so I'm warning for it.
Word Count: 7,083
Notes: I've been meaning to write this fic for a very long time. It's an AU in which Kira won. Light and Misa are married with four daughters, and Kiyomi and Teru are married with a girl and a boy. In this story, Teru struggles with his devotion to God (Light) in relation to his duty to himself and his family. His God is very demanding, and his son is anti-Kira...so things aren't exactly easy for him.

This fic is dedicated to viola_canina...if I remember correctly, she's partially to blame for this idea. It's also written for prompt #18 at dn_contest, umbrella.

( Maybe you're just children playing house, but your dolls are real children, your plastic dishes are ceramic, and your playroom is a brick house on its third mortgage, perched high on a hill in Yokohama. )

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