Summary: A selection of spuffy ficlets in a variety of genres and settings.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Post-Series, Crossover (AtS), Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Spike
Genres: Angst, Fluffy/Comedy, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 14
Word count: 4,499 Hit Count: 7,687 ePub Downloads: 78
Published: November 01, 2015 Updated: November 01, 2015


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Story Notes: SB_Fag_Ends is a fic-writing community on LiveJournal in which the challenge is to produce something less than a thousand words for a given prompt. In this year's Halloween Challenge I penned 31 submissions (in 8 days, yikes!) This collection contains all the ficlets too short to merit their own post (longer ones are in the process of being cleaned up and will be posted separately). If something here sparks a desire to see it expanded, please feel free to take it off my hands :) Completely unbeta'd. Feedback is loved like a vampire loves blood ;)
Disclaimer: written for love, not money.

1. 1 - The Trick to Being a Grown Up Is Negotiating With a Vamp by the_moonmoth - Likes: 7 Comments: 3 Word Count: 382 Hit Count: 895 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: Jeepers, It's the Creeper (fluff)

Summary: Dawn and Spike negotiate terms.

2. 2 - Spike's Guide to Successful Parenting by the_moonmoth - Likes: 8 Comments: 6 Word Count: 543 Hit Count: 613 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: The demon of the dugout (comedy)

Summary: Domestic silliness of the teenager-having variety.

Notes: I had to google was a dugout was. I dunno if they have them on softball courts but go with me here ;)

3. 3 - Hollow by the_moonmoth - Likes: 6 Comments: 4 Word Count: 410 Hit Count: 589 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: 1, haiku - Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo (angst); 2, prose - Pole to Pole (angst) 

Summary: Goes AU some time around Once More With Feeling. Buffy discovers what lengths she will go to to rescue Spike.

Notes: These two fills are related, and so I'm posting them together.

4. 4 - 'Til the End of the World by the_moonmoth - Likes: 7 Comments: 6 Word Count: 565 Hit Count: 617 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: Who's minding the monster? (AU - although not so much AU as extreme future fic)

Summary: They'd always been warned not to go in the basement.

5. 5 - Revenge of the Gator Ghoul by the_moonmoth - Likes: 6 Comments: 4 Word Count: 141 Hit Count: 595 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: The gruesome game of the gator ghoul (fluff)

Summary: When life gives you lemons… have sex with Spike.

6. 6 - A Limerick in Two Parts by the_moonmoth - Likes: 6 Comments: 4 Word Count: 67 Hit Count: 533 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: A Creepy Tangle In the Bermuda Triangle (comedy)

7. 7 - Effulgent by the_moonmoth - Likes: 6 Comments: 5 Word Count: 54 Hit Count: 527 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: Scooby's Night With a Frozen Fright

Summary: You can't keep a good poet down.

8. 8 - Ereptile Dysfunction by the_moonmoth - Likes: 7 Comments: 5 Word Count: 441 Hit Count: 478 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: The Curse of Viking Lake (fluff)

Summary: Buffy and Spike as Vikings! A little S7 detour.

Notes: I don't know anything about Vikings. I haven't even watched the TV show. On the plus side, I had a genuine Swede to ask re translations, so there's that. Warnings for gore and inappropriate sexytime venues.

9. 9 - Reunion by the_moonmoth - Likes: 7 Comments: 4 Word Count: 40 Hit Count: 471 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: The Scarab Lives! (angst)

10. 10 - Better Than Reality TV by the_moonmoth - Likes: 7 Comments: 4 Word Count: 189 Hit Count: 475 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: The Ghouliest Show on Earth (angst)

Summary: Spike and Buffy shut the potentials in a haunted house (S7).

11. 11 - Ass(et) Management by the_moonmoth - Likes: 6 Comments: 5 Word Count: 214 Hit Count: 472 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: There’s a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark (comedy)

Summary: Slayer dominance displays – always a turn on. Set in S6 during Tabula Rasa.

12. 12 - Let's Play Pretend by the_moonmoth - Likes: 9 Comments: 6 Word Count: 466 Hit Count: 465 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: Smart House (angst)

Summary: Grief has given them a new vocabulary (set in the summer between S5 and S6.)

13. 13 - More Fun Than At First Appearances by the_moonmoth - Likes: 7 Comments: 4 Word Count: 260 Hit Count: 520 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: The Scary Sky Skeleton (comedy)

Summary: Getting around the non-corporeal issue might be more fun than they originally thought.

Setting: AU A5 - Buffy has somehow found out that Spike's alive and comes to LA. They've reconciled, but Spike's still a ghost.

14. 14 - Nosferatu by the_moonmoth - Likes: 12 Comments: 6 Word Count: 727 Hit Count: 435 Published: November 01, 2015

Prompt: Haunted House Hang-Up (fluff)

Summary: Set during and after Checkpoint. Spike watches a movie with the Summers women.

Notes: Brought to you by my having been to a showing of Nosferatu last night, with live accompaniment by the BSO. It was amaze.