Quick Fic

[cold_nostalgia]

Title:   Paperback Writer
Disclaimer:  Don’t own them
Universe: DCU
Rating: PG
Prompt:  Paperback Writer
Word Count: 173
Characters:  Harley Quinzel, mentions of Harley/Holly, Catwoman
Summary:  You took work where you could find it.

 

 

Okay, it wasn’t practicing psychiatry from an office overlooking Robinson Park, but it wasn’t cleaning the streets with her tongue either.  Like everything else in her life, it’d just been something that she’d kinda fallen into.

 

Besides, being one of the ghostwriters for the popular kids’ series, Little Monsters by G. G. Gremlin, was sorta cool in a way.  Writing the same story over and over again at four hundred bucks a pop was a pretty good deal no matter what way you looked at it. 

 

It’d only taken her half a day to write Greta the Grotesque Goblin, and Colin the Cranky Cyclops had taken even less time than that.  Not too shabby if Harley did say so herself.

 

Students on campuses across the land might not fawn over her literary works for years to come, but that was okay, really it was. Her efforts kept her girl sweet and her girl’s best friend’s mouth shut – for the most part at any rate.

 

And as far as Harley was concerned, that was as good as it got.

 

Comments

[senmut]

Awwww....I like that idea a lot!

[cold-nostalgia.livejournal.com]

I could see her doing it too...until she got bored with it at least. Thanks for the FB! :)

[sharkbites.livejournal.com]

You know, Harley having a literary side job just might work!

I can see her writing chick lit.

[cold-nostalgia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that too. I think the self-help route is closed to her unless she's reading it. Thanks for the fb:)

[roguecatwoman.livejournal.com]

I can so see this! *nodnodnod* =)

[cold-nostalgia.livejournal.com]

Yup, trashy children's books, ahoy! Thanks for the fb.:)

[stinglikeabee.livejournal.com]

but it wasn’t cleaning the streets with her tongue either.

Hee. Such an awesome turn of phrase.

I really enjoy the idea of Harley ghostwriting. If only she were to return to writing for an advice column, that would make my day! Or maybe she'd enjoy churning out cheap pulp novels about dinosaurs and skimpy women in bikinis, or grim-looking men in fedoras pointing Deringers in a smoky speakeasy :D

[cold-nostalgia.livejournal.com]

I'd love the advice column idea to come back, that would be so made of win! As for the pulp, well, maybe that can be something that she can aim for. Thanks for the fb!:)