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    "Dad? Can you fix this?"

    Ah, the eternal call of a life with kids. Cooper set down his mug to inspect the toy Murph handed him. Not a toy, as it turns out. "The heck did you do to my lander?"

    "It wasn't me!" she insisted, her eyes wide.

    "Let me guess," Tom interjected through a mouthful of breakfast. "It was your tiny person?"

    "She keeps knocking stuff off my shelves."

    "There's no such thing, dumbass."

    "Hey," Cooper admonished. Murph glared at her brother across the table.

    "I read about it in one of mom's books. She's called a Borrower."

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    A series of (short) fills for G/T July prompts, specifically the list created by @ashtreegt on tumblr. I'm not even trying to hold myself to a daily schedule, thus this going up on July 4th instead of the 1st.

    Chapters (and tags) will be added as they're completed!

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    28/32
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    Armin, Mikasa, and Eren have dreamed of adventuring outside the safe walls of their colony and exploring the human world for years. When the chance finally arrives, they adventure onto a human ship and go out to see what they can and finally get a glimpse of the sea. But despite all of Armin's planning, he did not account for humans choosing to become curious about them and actively seek them out in non hostile ways.

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    1/?
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    In exchange for help, Dawn and the others are sent on a mission by Glinda to rescue Ozma. But they aren't the only ones stuck in Oz. Or looking for Willy Wonka.

    A continuation.

    A series of 31 shorts originally written for the Twisted Shorts 2025 August Fic-a-Day challenge. Each chapter was written with a time limit (24 hours) and a length constraint (300 - 3,000 words). Most are under 1,000 words.

    This story is also posted over at Twisting the Hellmouth and on the challenge site.

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    20/31
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    After the events of Baulder's Gate, Gale resides in his tower in waterdeep, but his research accidently reveals his roomate.

    tw: injury and blood

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    1/?
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    Oliver Oakwood's yearly routine is abruptly interrupted when he encounters a strange borrower and her even stranger and much larger companion. Caught up in their bizarre investigation, he quickly finds himself on an adventure he won't soon forget.

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    48,703
    Chapters:
    15/25
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    28
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    24
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    7
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    660
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    In a world where borrowers are real, so are soulmates, and only one of them is commonly known about (hint: it’s not the the tiny people living in the walls). Dean and Castiel stumble into fate and rebel against it at once, falling for each other despite the odds and changing one another for the better.

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    15,110
    Chapters:
    19/?
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    91
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    79
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    14
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    1,433
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    A stranded borrower named Roxie finds a strange smiling gentleman in a cabin along the Louisiana bayou - and gets more than she bargained for. In a thrilling tale of horror, deception, and unwavering hunger, Roxie finds herself at a crossroads with Louisiana's most famous radio host, Alastor; who threatens the very foundation of everything borrowers stand for. With Roxie's newfound friends in the mix, the borrowers and bartender of a New Orleans speakeasy must work together to save themselves and others from being served on a silver platter, once and for all.

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    417,575
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    98/?
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    37
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    22,348
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    Join Freya in a collection of shorts as she travels around with Tav's group while they search for a cure for the illithid parasite! In this journey, Freya will get to know each traveller personally.

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    Chapters:
    7/?
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    8
    Bookmarks:
    1
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    315
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    In an alternate universe without humans, Toons live peacefully across the land. One Toon in particular, Looey, has just moved to the small city of Gardenview to start his Troupe's business venture as Entertainers; everything goes according to plan, until Looey meets a type of creature thought only to be from legend: A borrower named Rudie. It's all up to time to see if these two will become friends, and who knows... maybe Looey will even learn something about Himself too.

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    18,805
    Chapters:
    2/3
    Comments:
    15
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    8
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    1
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    165
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    A borrower's life is pretty simple. Stay in hiding, grab the necessary food, and keep your head down. Steve Randle might be a little hard-headed at times, but even he was smart enough to know that having a human see you is a terrible thing.

    Sadly, Steve has a chaotic group he calls friends, and it's only a matter of time before one of their jokes becomes too much.

     

    (Updates are VERY irregular, but I will not forget this like I have my other fics, please trust me crying face emoji!!!)

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    1/?
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    *Based off Me_le_Shark_Bean's Fairy DCA AU, especially The Gardener Comic/Story*

    Borrowers and Fairies, little people from stories and myth. Many would think that the two people would get along and work side by side with each other since the world is so big and vast around them.

    They would be wrong.

    Magic less and wingless, Borrowers are seen as something below Fairies and Fairies are seen as dangerous things to the Borrowers lifestyle, letting Human Beans know that little people exist and many have to leave their homes when said Beans began to come their home for 'Fairies'.

    One Borrower, who lives in an abandoned Camp Site, was preparing for winter after a great forest fire when she found a feverish and weak Sundrop Fairy who was babbling nonsense about getting to 'Nan's House'. Normally she wouldn't do anything but splash water on him and scare him off with her needle, but...In what could be considered madness, she took the weak fairy into her home and began to nurse him back to health.

    She only hopes this won't come back to bite her.

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    1/?
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    2
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    Sometimes the biggest courage comes in the smallest bodies.

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    aka when you fall back down the gravity falls rabbit hole and before you know it you're brainstorming every possible g/t idea...

    and then you end up with something like this: ford's borrower friend is left alone and confused when a mysterious force jolts them awake one night... and discovers that the author of the journals has a mysterious twin brother

    currently posting this to my tumblr as well @obwjam!

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    30,598
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    7/?
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    6
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    37
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    An eccentric rich man discovers a borrower in his home and offers it to a small lamia he keeps as a pet.

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    2,121
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    1/?
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    2
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    13
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    This is part 3 of the In Darkness series. A fanwork of The Long Dark and the Borrowers. This story follows the story of Sage's parents (Maple and Dill) and what happened to them.
    Why did they leave Sage?
    Why did they go at the same time?

    ---Maple has lost everything thing. Haunted by regret and guilt over her choices. But there's no way to correct the past....the only way is forward. Faced with the challenges of surviving the wilderness on her own, will she trust this human who goes by the name Astrid? ----

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    1,594
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    9/?
    Comments:
    41
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    8
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    1
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    204
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    A woman named Clara Harper unexpectedly finds herself shrunken down by the Borrower woman living in her walls. Stuck at 3 and a half inches tall, she must try to re-adjust to her now massive home, and all the dangers and perils that come with seeing the world on a much larger scale. Having an incredibly flirtatious and teasing new roommate also doesn't help things.

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    5/?
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    Meet Ria, a 10 centimetre tall (4 inches) borrower who is trying her best to survive out in the wilderness of Faerûn without being crushed underfoot, squashed, or eaten. Astarion, weak with hunger, manages to catch a whiff of Ria's scent, and driven by his bloodlust he tracks her down with the intention of eating her. Of course, things get a little complicated when Gale becomes involved.

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    80,996
    Chapters:
    23/?
    Comments:
    349
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    404
    Bookmarks:
    58
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    11,538
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    Life has never been safe for a Borrower in a world governed by humans. Viewed as evil omens, any power-bearing “Fae” find themselves prey to black market circles where their fates are drawn to the highest bidder. And sometimes, the winners prefer to place them into the ring and hedge their bets even higher on a gladiatorial fight against something much, much worse.

    As is the fate of a pair of escaped siblings, surviving in the woods by the skin of their teeth. But when evading their opponent proves too challenging, it may take deciding between trusting the owner of a nearby cabin or trying to outrun an enemy that can’t be killed.

    But the tenants of that safe haven have one damning condition: they must reveal themselves to him first to be granted shelter. In order to make peace with the present, it may take unraveling the horrors of the past and the entwined destines between them all to save who still remains of all Borrowers, Cryptids, and Fae - and perhaps even the very forest itself.

    When on Borrowed paths, some things cannot be returned.

     

    [Non-Borrower folks: Think of it as “Inverse Tower.” No prior knowledge needed!]

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    16/25
    Comments:
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    A series of short stories set in the Borrowers universe. Some fluffy, some dark, almost all smutty.

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    8,008
    Chapters:
    1/?
    Comments:
    9
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    19
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    2
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