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Written in December for the 2010 edition of hoggywartyxmas - for Serpenscript (aka Parseltonguepen)

Title: West of Stockholm
Author:: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters and/or Pairings: Moody/Snape
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~2100
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Allusions to possible past non-con, but mostly talk and little action (and a bit of self-delusion). Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Word Count: 2100
Summary: In the midst of Voldemort's first rise, Severus Snape finds the 'hospitality' of the Ministry not at all to his liking. When Albus Dumbledore finds alternate lodgings for the young Death Eater, Alastor Moody finds these arrangements not at all to his liking. At first.
Author's Notes: The title "West of Stockholm" is, in part, an allusion to Stockholm Syndrome, "a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors...." This story, however, is not about Stockholm Syndrome. Or at least not about Stockholm Syndrome as we generally imagine it.

( West of Stockholm )

Written in December 2010 for the 2010 edition of Yuletide (the annual rare and obscure fandoms fic exchange) for boosette. Both Discworld and Huge were requested, and this story has a bit of both *g*

Title: Huge Gods
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Fandom: Discworld / Huge
Characters: Vorbis, Om, Brutha, Alistair Delgado, Becca Huffstatter
Rating: PG
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Nothing in particular. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Word Count: 1227
Summary: In which Brutha and Vorbis go on a journey, and Om makes plans. A post-canon(s) interlude, featuring a little meta, a little metaphysics, and a little omnipresence.

( Huge Gods )

Written for iulia_linnea for the 2010 Severus Snape/Hermione Granger Exchange (masterlist here). To see the story in situ, click here)

Title: A Matter of Life and Death
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Characters: Severus/Hermione, DEATH, various others of the HP and Discworld Universes.
Rating: PG-13
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)DEATH...but that's a good thing in this story. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Word Count: ~4600
Summary: In the end, Death comes for us all. For Severus Snape and Hermione Granger, it came with cups of tea and offers of employment.

Author's Note #1: Crossover with Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (for more on this, take a look at the Discworld Wiki), as well as a bit of a crossover with Neil Gaiman's Sandman. To learn more about what might seem like unlikely coincidences in this story, read the Discworld wiki entry on Narrativium *g*
Author's Note #2: I swear I tried to get Severus and Hermione to do something, but they flat out refused. Blame them!
Author's Note #3: Many thanks to vulgarweed for the sterling beta...and additional thanks to the ever-patient Mods.

( A Matter of Life and Death )

Title: Safe as Houses: A Wizard's Guide to Home Repair
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Beta Reader(s): femmequixotic
Recipient: iulia_linnea
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~3050
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Nothing to speak of, apart from a touch of meta.
Recipient's Prompt: After months of searching, Luna and Severus purchase a lovely old home that Luna adores; upon moving in, however, Severus is forced to accept that the house despises him. How does he solve the mystery of this animus without destroying the house or his relationship with Luna?
Summary: For Luna, it was love at first sight, but Severus took quite a bit longer to learn how to love.

( Safe as Houses: A Wizard's Guide to Home Repair )