Once upon a Ficathon

Agent Carter may have been canceled (booh!), but there is fanfiction, and the SSR_Confidential 2016 ficathon has just gone live. I'm one pleased reader (and writer, since my as yet anonymous story got several comments already), and this is the gift I got (which is exactly the kind of story I've been yearning for since the season 2 finale and its reveal that Howard Stark and gangster Joseph Manfredi are childhood friends):

In the Dead Lava Streets (2671 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Agent Carter (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joseph Manfredi/Howard Stark
Characters: Howard Stark, Joseph Manfredi
Additional Tags: 5+1 Things, Backstory, First Meetings, Childhood Friends, Prohibition, Bath Houses, World War II, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Loyalty, New York City
Summary:

New York is a devil's dream, the most urbanized city in the world. It is all geometry angles and stone. It is mythical, a city buried by a volcano.

Five times Howard Stark met Joseph Manfredi, and one time he did not.

Fanfiction: Funeral Games

Because apparantly I can go through years of only writing Yuletide stories, but once the muses start yapping again... Anyway: this isn't the story I've written for the Agent Carter ficathon mentioned in the last post. It's the one I wrote after writing both my ficathon story and the one before that. Personally, I blame Civil War.



Funeral Games (5693 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Agent Carter (TV), Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peggy Carter & Howard Stark, Joseph Manfredi & Howard Stark
Characters: Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, Joseph Manfredi, Whitney Frost, Tony Stark, Nick Fury, Peggy Carter's Son, Peggy Carter's Daughter
Additional Tags: Captain America: Civil War (Movie) Spoilers, Male-Female Friendship, Relationship Study, Grief/Mourning
Summary:

A chance encounter with a face from the past at Howard Stark's funeral causes Peggy Carter to look for the truth - about Howard's death, and about their relationship.