shadows from the starlight | everwood recommendations

babywitch

Die Zeiten
Past, present, future. Bright/Colin, Colin/Amy, Colin/Ephram.
Because it's very beautiful and very cruel, and German is yay.

Nonsensical
So Bright was really sad, because people kept writing stories about him, and they kept ending sad. Bright/Colin.
Crack!fic is funny as hell.

Shattered
Colin still wakes in the night unable to feel his right side. Ephram/Colin.
Sad and gentle.

bigboobedcanuck

Instinct
"Trust your instincts. That's kinda why we have them, you know?" Ephram/Colin.
And the sequels: Expectation, Want, Bliss, Revelation, Numb, Realization & Acceptance.
I don't really Cram, but these stories almost do it for me. Angsty as all get-out, and porny, and Ephram's interior/exterior coming out = way real. note: series continued, but not linked. check author's page.

castalia

Threnody in Light and Dark
You are the fastidious one. Harold/Andy.
Confession and desire and obligation. Great title, great fic.

eilla

Break Away
Colin already knows. He's just holding on for as long as it'll last. Colin/Amy, Colin/Ephram.
All about not getting on with it. Post-"Colin the Second."

elizabeth

Awakening
You don't know what it's like. Colin v. Colin.
Imagine you're talking to the person who gave birth to you and ruined your life in the same afternoon.

Over to Maybe
Like it was perfectly acceptable, like the world was one where the two of them could go to each other's houses and talk to each other at school. Colin/Ephram.
This fic is breathtaking and heartbreaking and soul-shaking. And it's her first in the fandom.

insanegenius

End Over End
Set in the summer after season one, Bright and Ephram have summer jobs across the street from one another and are learning that maybe they have more in common than they previously thought. Bright/Ephram, canon pairings.
So sweet and awkward and snarky. I love her Bright, I love her Ephram, the Genius broadens her wonderful handle on both characters.

Full Circle
Bright and Ephram try to make it through the week. Bright/Ephram, canon pairings.
I absofrickinlutely love the first six parts of this one, and the seventh gives me a pleasant warmfuzzy even though I'm not really into warmfuzzy for this pairing. Check it out for her firm grasp of both Ephram and Bright's inner voices.

kate

Dark
He didn't really feel like crying. Bright/Ephram. Implied Bright/Colin, Colin/Ephram.
Holy fuck.

Light
After school he follows Ephram home. Bright/Ephram. Implied Bright/Colin, Colin/Ephram. Sequel to "Dark," recced above.
No, seriously. Holy fuck.

krissy

Eye for an Eye
Payback is a bitch, they say. Ephram/Amy, implied Bright/Ephram.
Indeed it is. Anybody who can write believable B/E without powerplay gets recced and cookied.

Fading Dreams
It just...runs in the family. Andy/Harold, Bright/Ephram.
This story is funny and nice. And mostly happy.

lifeinwords

Honey and the Moon
i don't know why i'm still afraid/if you weren't real i'd make you up. Colin/Ephram.
Not quite songfic, but oh. The Crammers are going to get me yet.

maybedarkpink

Unhealthy
Sometimes she thinks he would tell her that life is unhealthy. Amy.
Dark, bloody vignette about pain and hiding and repression. Canon pairings.

meg

Or Something
He thinks he will now. Bright/Ephram-ish, Ephram/other.
Meg's Bright is elusive and layered: she evokes the confused knowing we can see in his face on the show. Love her.

misswindy

Through the Wire
and through the wire i hear your voice/and through the wire i touch the power/and through the wire i see your face/it's through the wire. Bright/Ephram futurefic.
A work-in-progress. An interweaving of past and present, and both of these are the future to us. She has the voices as if they were her own, and I am more than motivated to wait for the rest of the story.

nefeleo

Strange Life
For a second, Colin swears he sees the bare tree limbs in the yard recoil behind Amy's head, twisting around her magnetic poles. But maybe that's his TBI. Or maybe it's just because he hasn't slept in a while. Colin. Colin/Ephram, Colin/Amy, Amy/Ephram.
An extraordinary characterisation of Colin, and of that weird effect Amy has on the world.

punk maneuverability & tiffany rawlins

Errata
It's hard to do this one-handed. Ephram/Colin, canon pairings.
Wonderful fic spanning from "Colin the Second" to just before "The Miracle of Everwood," curving around and threading through canon like, well, a thing that curves and threads. I love Punk, I love Tiffany, I'm so glad they're in this fandom like dirty shirts, and this fic makes so much sense, so much perfect sense. It's just really good, so go read it and stop listening to me blather like an idiot.

researchminion

Lists
It should be impossible to list the key moments of one's life on a 3x5 index card. Colin/Ephram, Ephram/Amy.
Short, subtle, not at all sweet.

Sister
Colin doesn't know why, but sometimes Ephram gives him the creeps. Colin/Amy, Ephram/Laynie, Ephram/Colin.
Great premise, and creepy!Ephram is a cool departure for the pairing.

shelley

Need
With so many people waiting for him, I didn't expect Colin to need me. Ephram/Colin.
"Snow Job," and dude. Who knew toothpaste could be so romantic?

various

Everwood Flashfic Challenge
It was three glorious weeks of frustration, shock, squick, frustration, and furious beta searches. And yet we all managed to a) survive and b) produce some beautiful, classic fic of all shapes and sizes (minimum 1000 words, of course). Props to Jenn for organising, wrangling, and being so very zen about it all.

vega rin

Double Blind
This doesn't hurt. Bright. Ephram.
Oh, oh. Her economy of language, use of repitition, the symbolism--a girl after my own very-already-taken heart. Post-"The Miracle of Everwood."

vlada

Love and Science
Love was a myth. Bright knew that now. Bright. Ephram.
Another post-"Miracle" piece, this one exploring Bright and Ephram's reactions to the New York Magazine article.

zahra

One Night in Heaven
It's supposed to be like this. Colin/Ephram, Colin/Amy, Ephram/Laynie.
"Snow Job," and the way things get messed up.