Tag: Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery
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Deep Breath
Category: M/M, Kink: Kissing, Rating: E, Theme: Ableism, Theme: Alcoholism & Drug Use & Addiction, Theme: Art & Architecture, Theme: Artists & Designers, Theme: Child Abuse & Neglect, Theme: Chronic Illness, Theme: Consent Issues & Dubious Consent, Theme: Disability, Theme: Food & Cooking, Theme: Hunting & Butchery, Theme: Intimacy, Theme: Men Who Love Men | Homosexuality, Theme: Mental Illness, Theme: Neurodivergence & Neurodiversity, Theme: Obsession, Theme: Stalking & Surveillance, Theme: Suicide & Self-Harm, Theme: Thieves & Rogues & Burglars, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, World: Magic Beholden
Romance short. A painter is obsessed with the butcher across the road. Photo by Daian Gan via Pexels. 7k, M/M, rated M. A painter is utterly obsessed with the butcher across the road, and the butcher is a little obsessed back. Lots of mental illness in this one, lots of reference — implicit and explicit — to suicidality, drug use, alcoholism,…
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Jack and the Cat: Part I
Category: M/M, Length: 10k+, Rating: M, Serial: Jack and the Cat, Theme: Apothecaries & Pellars & Potioneers, Theme: Assassins & Paid Muscle, Theme: Incarceration & Imprisonment, Theme: Intimacy, Theme: Isolation & Loneliness, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, Theme: Violence & Killing, World: The DragonplanetFantasy & Romance. A young man becomes entranced by the Lord’s personal assassin. Part I is 10k, rated M, M/M. When Lord Axley’s assassin is out, the people of Roam flee inside and don’t even dare to look at him. Jack, a tavern boy, lays eyes on him once, and is bewitched. Violence and captivity…
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Cold Comfort
Category: M/M, Kink: Knifeplay, Setting: 1920s, Setting: New Jersey, Setting: USA, Theme: Antisemitism, Theme: Class & Caste Differences, Theme: Crime & Criminals, Theme: Crises of Faith & Belief, Theme: Faith & Religion, Theme: Homophobia, Theme: Immigrants & Immigration, Theme: Incarceration & Imprisonment, Theme: Intersex People & Intersex Bodies, Theme: Jewish Faith & Identity, Theme: Jewish Religion & Mythology, Theme: Mental Illness, Theme: Organised Crime & The Mob, Theme: Power Struggles, Theme: Queer Community, Theme: Servants & Service, Theme: Sex & Sexuality, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, Theme: Violence & Killing, World: Magic BeholdenQueer fiction. A mob boss takes in a rival’s hostage, and tries to keep him from suicide. Photo by cottonbro studio via Pexels. 14k, M/M, rated E for equally explicit sex and violence. Set in 1920s New Jersey. Nasty and violent. Alvis Hunter, boss of a significant crime operation, steals a captive out from under a rival—Naham,…
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Intensive Care
Category: M/M, Character: Doctor Geordi Haas, Kink: Age Gap / Age Difference, Kink: Anal Sex, Kink: Bareback, Kink: Hair Stroking & Pulling, Kink: Oral Sex, Kink: Sex at Work, Kink: Size Difference, Rating: E, Setting: Modern Day | 2020s, Setting: USA, Theme: Banter & Flirtation, Theme: Child Abuse & Neglect, Theme: Emotional Manipulation, Theme: Hospitals & Healthcare Facilities, Theme: Incest & Incestuous Abuse, Theme: Intimacy, Theme: Medicine & Nursing & Midwifery, Theme: Psychology & Psychiatry, Theme: Therapy & Counselling, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, Theme: Workplace Dynamics, World: Magic BeholdenA paediatric nurse takes some time after work with the Head of Psychiatry. 3.4k, cis M/M. Some fucky power play between coworkers, both of them very aware of each other’s character flaws, featuring age difference, size difference, riding, oral, anal, lots of physical intimacy and affection, with a hint of overstim at the end. CW…
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The Secretary
Category: Gen, Setting: 1960s, Theme: Anxiety Disorders, Theme: Books & Literature, Theme: Grief & Loss, Theme: Homophobia, Theme: Men Who Love Men | Homosexuality, Theme: PTSD & C-PTSD, Theme: Retirement, Theme: Sailors & Sailing, Theme: Secretaries & Personal Assistants, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, Theme: Veterans & Retired Soldiers, Theme: World War II, Theme: Writing, World: Magic Beholden
Short story. A young woman goes to collect her inheritance. 4.1k, rated M. Content warnings for loss of a loved one and non-graphic references to sexual assault. Sarah had never even known the man, so when the letter had come, it had been a surprise. She hadn’t even been sad at first — she’d felt somewhat guilty…
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Paper Houses
Kink: Size Difference, Theme: Ableism, Theme: Anxiety Disorders, Theme: Autism & ADHD, Theme: Banter & Flirtation, Theme: Child Abuse & Neglect, Theme: Debt & Money Troubles, Theme: Family Dynamics, Theme: Ghosts & Necromancy, Theme: Intimacy, Theme: Models & Figurines & Dioramas, Theme: Power Dynamics & Imbalances, Theme: Power Struggles, Theme: PTSD & C-PTSD, Theme: Scars & Permanent Injuries, Theme: Secretaries & Personal Assistants, Theme: Trains & Railways, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, World: Magic BeholdenFantasy/romance short. A train conductor begins a relationship with a regular passenger. 7k, rated M, M/M. Some sweet autistic 4 autistic love and affection with a build to the relationship and some fantastical elements on the side. Adapted from a TweetFic. CWs for past domestic abuse, physical abuse, scars, and implied ableism. Roy sees the…
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The Merman and the Fisherman
Fantasy romance short. A merman saves a fisherman from drowning, once. 4k, rated T. Just a cute one here with a merman who saves a fisherman from drowning, and the fisherman saving him back! There are descriptions of fear and drowning in this, but no other particular content warnings. Adapted from a Tweetfic. Years ago,…
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The Gorgon Lives Alone
Fantasy short. A snake-headed woman lives in solitude beneath the ground. 1.2k, rated T. CW for non-explicit references to sexual assault. The gorgon lives alone so that she can be at peace. She rests in the centre of a labyrinth of her own making, a sprawling network of tunnels made in the hollow spaces beneath the…