Prose Alchemist

Title: Foundling
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: Slightly PG for suggestions of dead things.
Characters: Alphonse and a strange critter.
Setting: General.
Summary: Al latches onto something even more problematic than a kitten.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: I wrote this over a year ago, and it actually won a third place award at fma_fic_contest. I had thoughts at the time of expanding it into something more, but I don’t see it going anywhere at this point, so it might as well stand on its own.

( According to Ed, roasted chimeras really did smell like chicken. )

Title: Buzz
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Al and several unwelcome creatures.
Setting: Prior to the events of my story “The Inn of White Roses”.
Summary: Alphonse has a pest problem.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written for the prompt word fly at fma_fic_contest. I decided to frame this as a brief outtake from the Elrics’ encounter with the Acid Alchemist—a non-existent (as yet) misadventure that I alluded to in my story “The Inn of White Roses”. It won fourth place.

( The chimeras prowling the Acid Alchemist’s study were part venom-spitting cobra. )

Title: Spark
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Ed and Al, as viewed by a special guest.
Setting: Post-Conqueror of Shamballa. Brooklyn, 1930.
Summary: A boy with a bright future finds inspiration in a chance encounter.
Disclaimer: Ed and Al belong to Hiromu Arakawa, and Isaac belongs to history.
Notes: When I was, perhaps, a bit too young, my mother introduced me to the works of an author who would nonetheless be one of my first inspirations to begin writing. Having moved away from his primary genre in adulthood, I can’t honestly call myself an active fan of his (or say that I respect his personal character as much as I do his writing talent)—but I certainly can’t forget his role in the roots of my own creativity. Now, some twenty years later, I offer this story as a token of appreciation for that gentleman.
My thanks also to the voters who gave this story a second-place win at fma_fic_contest!

( It was a bright and bustling spring afternoon in Brooklyn… )

Title: Imposture
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Ed, Al, Winry.
Setting: Sometime before Winry lost her parents.
Summary: Ed’s interest in human transmutation goes back a little farther than people think.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: This was written for the prompt word fake at fma_fic_contest. I wanted to examine what Ed’s attitude toward automail might have been before he had it himself. Even back then, having seen patients around the Rockbell home all his life, he must have had some thoughts about it.

( Hey, Winry! Come see what we made! )

Title: Detachment
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: PG for blood.
Characters: Ed and Roy, with a quick glimpse of Al.
Setting: General.
Summary: Sometimes resentment makes a flimsy shield.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: This is a curiously veiled bit of parental!antagonistic Roy&Ed. It was written for the prompt word quiver at fma_fic_contest.

( Ed hadn’t seen so much blood since the failed transmutation. )

Title: Steel and Serpent
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Al and Marta… and yes, it might even be faint one-sided Al/Marta.
Setting: First anime, during the events of the episode “Secrets of Ishbal”.
Summary: It was remarkable, the things a person could get used to.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: I have no clue where I got the notion to do this, but it came around in time for a “mismatched pairs” prompt at fma_fic_contest, so I thought I’d give it a shot—and hey, I won first place!

( It was remarkable, the things a person could get used to. )

Title: Red Carpet
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Mainly Ed, with contemplations on Al.
Setting: General.
Summary: Prejudice must be an awful lot of work.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Just a little something based on the prompt word comfort, via fma_fic_contest.

( Sometimes, I’d like to enjoy something nice for a change. )