Author's Themes

Pro-Shane. Pro-Merle (or just pro-Dixon). Accurate medical situations and treatments. Recovery from past abuse and addiction. Mental health recovery. Rick actually dealing with his PTSD instead of magically becoming the group's leader. Accurate portrayal of Southern and redneck culture and survival skills. Pro-Lori. Anti-SlutShaming. Children aren't cannon fodder.

No Evil Dooms Us

AU (Non-ZA) Gift Fic: A traffic stop in the October rain while his partner's on paternity leave sets wheels in motion for Deputy Shane Walsh to participate in the carefully off the books and unofficial domestic violence rescue his grandmother runs.

Meet the Shadowy Future

AU: Having a gun pointed at the back of his head by a pissed off woman on a hot Atlanta roof is enough to make Rick Grimes reassess his plans for the day. But the group leads him back to his family. Shane's world is rocked by Rick's return, leaving him grasping at anything positive to replace what's slipped beyond his grasp.

The Violence of Coarser Souls

AU: Leaving a sick man behind makes some of the Atlanta Quarry group reassess their own prejudices, but it may be too late for them to salvage the situation with the Dixon family. Reconciling the failure to patch together all these different personalities into a cohesive group leads Deputy Shane Walsh to finally come to grips with the fact that the apocalypse is here to stay.

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