maybe there's a light that's always on

Title: Departure
Characters/Pairing: Jack, Gwen, and their respective daemons
Word Count: 365
Rating: PG
Summary: Jack is leaving, with or without his daemon.
Notes: Written for daemonprompts. Spoilers for Children of Earth.
Disclaimer: Doctor Who, Torchwood, and all characters belong to the BBC. Daemons belong to Philip Pullman. I am not affiliated with either, and am not making any money from this.

( Go then, there are other worlds than these. )

Title: (Imaginary) People
Characters/Pairing: Claire and Topher
Word Count: 583
Rating: PG
Summary: It might be simpler, Claire thinks, if she were one of the people who never has doubts.
Notes: Written for sunday_reveries.
Disclaimer: Dollhouse and all characters belong to Joss Whedon. I am not Joss Whedon, and am not making any money from this.

( Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters. )

Title: Damage
Characters/Pairing: Claire, mention of Topher, Alpha and DeWitt
Word Count: 550
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Nothing in Claire's life feels real anymore, but that's only natural.
Notes: Written for sunday_reveries. Set pre-canon, after the Alpha incident.
Disclaimer: Dollhouse and all characters belong to the Joss Whedon. I am not affiliated with Joss Whedon, and am not making any money from this.

( It was the year of questions. It was the year of fog over the vineyard. The year you started falling. A damaged year. )

Title: Love Me Just Enough
Characters/Pairing: Tenth Doctor/River, mention of Rose, Martha, Donna
Word Count: 291
Rating: PG
Summary: As a rule, the Doctor doesn't fall in love.
Notes: Written for sunday_reveries.
Disclaimer: Doctor Who and all characters belong to the BBC. I am not affiliated with the BBC, and am not making any money from this.

( Keep a tender distance so we'll both be free - that's the way it ought to be... )

Title: The Naming of Things
Characters/Pairing: Jack, various OCs
Word Count: 956
Rating: PG
Summary: Four people Time Agent 462O1 has been, and one he won't be again.
Notes: Written for flashfic_hub's five things challenge. Spoilers for Children of Earth.
Disclaimer: Doctor Who, Torchwood, and all characters belong to the BBC. I am not affiliated with the BBC, and am not making any money from this.

( The night starts here - forget your name, forget your fear... )

Title: Break the Loop of Habit
Characters/Pairing: Gwen and Martha, mention of Jack
Word Count: 499
Rating: PG
Summary: Making retcon is nowhere near as simple as you would think.
Notes: Written for writerinadrawer round 3.04. Spoilers for Children of Earth.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all characters belong to the BBC. I am not affiliated with the BBC, and am not making any money from this.

( We defend the future and give it back to you... )

Title: beneath the unsaid word
Characters/Pairing: Suzie, Jack, mention of her parents
Word Count: 500
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Suzie's life is a tangle of signs and symbols it would take a cryptographer to pull apart.
Warnings: Highlight to read - Non-explicit mention of suicide and rape/incest
Notes: Written for writerinadrawer round 3.03, using sign #4. trollopfop deserves a lot of credit for making Suzie an actual person - most of my Suzie characterization has been stolen from influenced by her.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all characters belong to the BBC. I am not affiliated with the BBC, and am not making any money from this. Quotes in the story are from, in order, "The Last Night That She Lived" by Emily Dickinson, "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath, "O Captain! My Captain" by Walt Whitman, and "Cartographies of Silence" by Adrienne Rich (which the title is also taken from).

( A conversation begins with a lie... )

Title: Remnants
Characters/Pairing: Gwen/Ianto, Rhiannon
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Gwen keeps going to see Rhiannon, once a month.
Notes: Written for writerinadrawer round 3.01. This one I actually did submit. Spoilers for Children of Earth.
Disclaimer: Doctor Who, Torchwood, and all characters belong to the BBC. I am not affiliated with the BBC, and am not making any money from this.

( Maybe there's a light that's always on... )