Hail and Well Met, Newsletter Friends!

Should've sent this out last night, but didn't, because sleepy.

Not another chapter of Shorts Steps this time, but rather a short notification that Hellebore has been completed and moved to AO3. I probably should've given it another round of edits, but I also got the distinct feeling that I could've fiddled without forever and never actually hit publish.

No preview for this one, incidentally, because it's a hard E and also plastered with warnings. If you need something (slightly more) happy maybe wait until I pull together the second chapter. You can read the original prompt here if you'd like to get an idea of how this started (although it has diverged somewhat from the prompt).

Hellebore, according to a handful of random book scans and websites, in used in flower language to indicate scandal. According to Wikipedia, it was used by Ancient Greeks and Romans to treat insanity and other ailments, despite actually being incredibly toxic.

On the WIP docket: Short Steps, I swear. Although it might take a little longer to get Chapter 5 out since I spent so much time distracted by Hellebore, and also I'm suppose to "do homework" and "go to work" and "not fail all my classes so I can go to grad school" (sounds fake but okay). I'm also 100% afflicted with "shiny new object syndrome", but I'm trying to keep a handle on all the drafts which somehow breed more drafts like rabbits when I'm not looking.

On the bright side, I only have like 50 pages left in The Wealth of Nations!

-unsmilingchuck