thestuckylibrary | Entries tagged with length:20to50k

odetteandodile
Rating: M
Word Count: 38,427
Summary: Grover's Mill, 1938--Strange green projectiles have been spotted in the night sky, originating from the vicinity of Mars. When they fall it's not the space rock and meteorite dust everyone expects, but something much, much worse.

Steve Rogers is working at a newspaper in a small town, trying to move away from the memory of his mother's death in New York when the landings happen. When things go badly, he finds himself in the company of a young soldier also making his escape and they throw their lot in together--doing what they can at what seems to be the end of the world.

War of the Worlds AU based on the idea that Orson Welles' broadcast was the real deal.

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Title: I just met you (and this is crazy)
Author:

littlesystems
Rating: E
Word Count: 41,783
Summary: After Steve gets outed by a grainy cell phone picture, it takes the media less than 24 hours to discover Captain America’s secret relationship with James Barnes: classical musician, teen heartthrob, and son of a former president.

The only problem? Steve has never met James Barnes in his life.

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Title: How Buzzfeed Helped Bucky Barnes Get A Boyfriend
Author:

nickel710
Rating: M
Word Count: 40,308
Summary: In which Bucky Barnes, Iraq war veteran and bicycle enthusiast, streams Overwatch on the side for fun under the handle President15, and one day his friend-of-a-friend FalconKnight introduces a new player to the crew, THECapRogers. It would be totally absurd for the actual Captain America to hang out in his stream and argue about baseball, right? ...right?

This work is complete (roughly 35k). It is about 85% tooth-rotting fluff and 10% canon-typical angst and 5% Bucky Barnes being a disaster. **READ THE CHAPTER SUMMARY NOTES RE: CHAPTER 1A/1B PLEASE :)**

You don't need to know anything about streaming or Overwatch to enjoy, I promise.

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Title: Put It on Repeat, It Stays the Same
Author:

giselleslash
Rating: E
Word Count: 20,205
Summary: Steve and Bucky have a one night stand that turns into a friends with benefits situation. A weekend snowed in at Bucky’s apartment brings to light how much that really doesn’t suit either one of them.

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Title: Dark Lights of Brooklyn
Author:

jwdish98
Rating: M
Word Count: 31,270
Summary: Steve Rogers is a private investigator who is barely skating by. He spends more time in his office than his apartment, and he continues to watch all his friends live out their lives while he sits on the sidelines.

However, when a case falls into his lap that dredges up past mistakes Steve's life starts to veer off course- in a good way. Probably.

(He's not entirely sure yet.)

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Title: A Midsummer Knight's Dream
Author:

cobaltmoony,

GoldBlooded
Rating: E
Word Count: 29,050
Summary: Sir Steven, knight, alpha, and baron of a small countryside estate, receives an invitation to a Royal Tournament: It’s a winner-take-all competition, and the prize? The hand of Prince James, the kingdom’s most eligible omega, in marriage.

It seems like a lifetime ago that young Steven left the palace – and his best pal, the prince - to attend to his familial duties. Since that time, he’s dreamed of reclaiming his friendship with the prince; if not as a companion, then perhaps as a member of the prince’s guard.

Prince James, royal, omega, and heir to the throne is tired of being reduced to his designation and pressured into an arranged marriage like a political pawn. He devises the tournament as a means to an end: winner claims his hand in marriage, but if he wins? He’ll get to claim his own future.

Let the tournament begin...

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Title: sleeping lessons
Author:

glim
Rating: E
Word Count: 23,656
Summary: During the Fall Semester of 2012, Steve Rogers audits a Modern US History course.

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Title: Close Your Eyes and Dream
Author:

die_traumerei
Rating: M
Word Count: 28,289
Summary: Steve Rogers hooks up with this really hot mer-guy for a one-night stand. It's all pretty much downhill falling in love and being happy from there.

(An AU with Steve Rogers as we know, love, and occasionally sigh in frustration at him, but a modern, merman Bucky Barnes.)

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Title: Ice Can Also Burn
Author:

littlestarlolo,

maikurosaki
Rating: M
Word Count: 20,920
Summary: Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, there lived a Prince that never smiled. Despite his great victory against King Alexander and his hydras, Prince Steve forgot how to smile, too busy thinking about his people and the reconstruction of the kingdom. A fate-favoured prophecy and Lord Stark's meddling bring the Winter Knight back into Steve's life. But unbeknownst to everyone, there is history between the Prince and the Knight, one that might make them or break them forever.

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Title: To the Marrow of Our Bones
Author:

Sproings
Rating: M
Word Count: 22,614
Summary: "I'm Grant," the guy said shyly. He had jet black hair with streaks of bright blue that brought out his eyes, even from behind his thick rimmed glasses. "I'm Captain America's assistant."

"Am I supposed to be meeting Captain America today? Because I am not prepared for that," Bucky said. He tried to play it off as a joke, but seriously, he would have found something nicer to wear if he'd known he was going to meet a national icon.

"Uh, it's only me," Grant said, biting his lip a little, just enough to show off the bright gold of his lip ring, and Bucky kinda wanted to help out with the whole biting thing, because Grant's lips were lush and pink and very biteable looking.

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Title: There Should Be Stars
Author:

childhoodinfamy
Rating: T
Word Count: 45,469
Summary: “All memories to tell you the truth aren’t good.
But sometimes there were good times.
Love was good. I loved your crooked sleep
beside me and never dreamed afraid.

There should be stars for great wars
like ours. There ought to be awards
and plenty of champagne for the survivors.”
- Sandra Cisneros

Or, it takes them decades.

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Title: Thank God It's Christmas
Author:

alwayswithatoneofsurprise
Rating: T
Word Count: 23,194
Summary: Just over a week before Christmas, the spirit of the season is high, but even with the extra Christmas cheer in the air Steve still doesn't believe that things could ever happen between Bucky and him, that Bucky could ever love him, that his best friend, his flatmate, could ever want to be more than that. Nat and Sam both think Steve should say something, and as Christmas gets closer and closer Steve is unsure whether not knowing is better than knowing.... The buildup to Christmas.

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Title: Let your heart be light
Author:

relenafanel
Rating: T
Word Count: 21,122
Summary: Bucky looks like he’s had a difficult month, what with the eviction notice and all, but that’s not the reason Steve gives for allowing him to stay on his couch.

“You have somewhere to go?” Steve questioned, crossing his arms and attempting to look casual, not like he was worried for Bucky. He stepped into the apartment, ignoring how bare it was.

Bucky paused and gave him an exasperated look. “I’m not completely hopeless.”

A fic spanning from mid-November to early-February.

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Title: Thou Swell
Author:

cosmosmariner
Rating: G
Word Count: 30,065
Summary: He told his ma that one day he would have a good job, a real job where he could wear a nice suit, and a swell house, and Steve would live there with him, and he’d take care of him always, the way his dad took care of his ma. And his ma got a strange look on her face. She hugged him tightly and told him not to think about things like that, it wasn’t right for a boy his age to think about it.

Bucky wondered why.

Bucky Barnes has always loved Steve Rogers. This is the story of how that love grew.

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Title: But Never Alone
Author:

Be_eating_you
Rating: M
Word Count: 23,943
Summary: Steve opened up the door to Bucky's bedroom and stopped dead because his brain couldn't wrap around what he was seeing. Bucky was home, alright. Bucky was home and standing in the middle of his bedroom, his hands up behind his back as he struggled with the hook and eye closure of a bra. He froze only seconds after Steve did, both of them staring at each other in dumb silence.
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See notes at the end of the chapter for an explanation of some of the tags.

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Title: The Soul That You Used
Author:

WillowPerpetua
Rating: E
Warnings: Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con
Word Count: 21,412
Summary: Bucky Barnes wandered the earth as a ghost for seventy years. He found solace in the medium, Natasha, who gave him shelter, company, and one day, signed him up for an online dating service in the hope that he might find somebody else to talk to.
Steve was the man he found.

"Bucky did not know Steve, no, but he knew Steve’s type. He met many men in hostels and train stations, and while he had never before found the courage to touch them—even through somebody else’s hands—he had discovered the uniquely visceral brand of danger that they all craved in common."

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Title: Sharp Teeth and Bird Bones
Author:

Shaish,

Stringlish
Rating: E
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Word Count: 32,629
Summary: I'll always find you.

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Title: Red (White & Blue)
Author:

counteragent
Rating: E
Word Count: 25,156
Summary: “I’m dangerous,” Steve said softly, because he couldn’t say, I’m terrified. He couldn’t say, It’s killing me.

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Title: Open Your Eyes And See
Author:

iamsonny_j
Rating: T
Word Count: 32,674
Summary: Bucky is a veteran; a year on from losing his arm and the men of his team on patrol in Afghanistan, he has recovered enough to be living in Brooklyn. It's here that he starts to think about what the rest of his life is away from the military and how he can move forward beyond that, including questioning his sexuality and finding out what he really wants, or doesn't want. It's while at the VA centre that he reads about the Gender and Sexuality Support Group, run by Steve Rogers, and takes the first step to working out who he really is.

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Title: Unplugged
Author:

WaterandWin
Rating: Not Rated
Word Count: 31,959
Summary: A scifi AU with a fascist police state, a genetic caste system, a skinny young man who should not be alive for reasons too numerous to list, and the partially brainwashed assassin who shows up at his door in the middle of the night to send the world crashing down around his ears.