If anyone’s looking for the various Labyrinth, one-shots I’ve put up, here they are.  At this point, there’s six, but there will probably be more - soon, if I have any luck at all.

Odds and Ends

The name says it all, really; these are just tag ends of things that I wrote down because I needed to get them out of my brain.

No One Remembered - Out of love, the Goblin King had given her certain powers; in the end, it saves his realm, but in so doing almost destroys him.

Ginger Peach - The first time Sarah Williams kissed the Goblin King, it was she who tasted of peaches.

Thunk - Jareth muses upon goblins, grammar, and the increasing desire to slam his head repeatedly against a stone wall.

Historical Scraps

Bits and bobs of back-stories of the Labyrinth and its residents.  Look at me, I can alliterate!

Three - A glimpse at the histories of Sarah’s three friends, and their connections with the Goblin King.

The Road Through the Maze - They say the Labyrinth’s name is a misnomer; they say it is a maze.  They’re only half right, of course.  There is a road.  It is possibly the hardest road in the world.

The Winter King -  The Labyrinth is a collection of oddities; of exiles and singularities.  The Junk Ladies are but one such outcropping of the strange.  This is the story of how they came to have a King.

Three

I.

                Hoggle came with the kingdom (when it had barely become a kingdom at all,) with a greater baggage of guilt, sorrow, longing and helpless rage than should have fit within a pubescent dwarf.  He stood sullenly stone-faced at Grita’s funeral – a boy who lied as easily and badly as he sang, who wept to get out of trouble and was scared of toads, dry-eyed at his mother’s death.

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