graculus

Pick five of your fic titles. List them in your journal and explain how you came up with each one.

All slash unless otherwise indicated.

1. Falls the Shadow - I use quotes a lot for titles. In this case, for a story where Jack initially thinks Daniel is dead and Daniel isn't quite sure *what* he thinks, it's TS Eliot:

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow.

2. The Deft Heart - one of my favourite gen stories.This time it's Philip Larkin:

And grief stirs, and the deft
Heart lies impotent.

3. Cicatrix - I'm also a fan of one-word titles, if I can find the right one word. 'Cicatrix' is an example of this, a Mag7 story where the observation of scar tissue (which is what a cicatrix is, a piece of scar tissue) breaks the barrier between fantasy and reality.

4. The Night of Recompense - WWW and UNCLE stories are easier to name than most, since both series have a strong naming tradition that's there if you want to use it. WWW has 'The Night of...' and UNCLE has 'The .... Affair'. This ones about debts owed, and (re)payment in kind.

5. 'Old Bones Buried Deep' - a Mag7 zine fic, which hopefully will see the light of day soon. It's all about the past coming back to haunt people and what impact it has on their present day lives. This one's a misquote of a line from a GK Chesterton poem, so I probably ought to change it before it hits print:

The brilliant smell of water,
The brave smell of a stone,
The smell of dew and thunder,
The old bones buried under,
Are things in which they blunder
And err, if left alone.