Best Short Cowboy Bebop Fanfics
Cowboy Bebop novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 12 Short Cowboy Bebop Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Cowboy Bebop fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
Songs About Jane (Deluxe)
by strayphoenix
Faye wants to hate Julia. She REALLY does. She wants to hate how Julia helps Jet cook without being asked. Or how she and Spike slow-dance in the living room late at night when they think no one’s up. She wants to hate how these days, Spike only ever smells like cigarettes or sex. Or how every time
Play It By Ear
by mx_sinisters
A year after the fall of the Red Dragon Syndicate, life on the Bebop has gone back to normal for everyone. Everyone except for Faye. Memories from her past are constantly making unwelcome appearances and things have been awkward between her and Spike since his recovery. Just as she's about to accept
Karma
by ghuune
I know writing stories where Spike survives is considered dirty pool, but this is just an experiment. "Karma" is a series of vignettes exploring the relationships between Spike, Faye, and Jet now that they're alone on the Bebop. I'm writing this for my own joy and mean no disrespect to anyone else's
9 Crimes
by earthlostgirl
This is an AU, where Spike doesn't leave the syndicate and meets Faye in a completely different way.
The Baby Diaries: Part I
by BeccaNoodles
But now…now she knew it would be hard to beat the fear she felt in that moment as she clung tightly to the little home pregnancy test in her hands... In other words, I put a baby in the lives of my ship, because I have the power! Enjoy!UPDATE: This might eventually get a re-write, just saying (:
These Days
by galateas
Not with a bang, but not with a whimper either. It turned out the end didn’t come for Spike at all.He had said he wasn’t going to meet Vicious to die and that hadn’t been a total lie, but Spike had still expected to find an answer, or finality in some form. Only it hadn’t come. After everything he h
Collared and Kept
by Rachello344
In his past life with the Syndicate, Spike and Vicious were closer than close, fighting back to back and sharing everything, even their bed. Having finally found Spike alive and well after Spike's attempt to leave the Syndicate (and Vicious) behind, Vicious decides not to leave anything to chance t
Heroines in Peril (Season 1)
by DeathstalkerLives
Every week, a new heroine faces a new peril.
The Past is Prologue
by BucketsofFrogs
Spike didn’t die when he fought the Syndicate. Someone saved him, pulled him back into the land of the living against his will. He woke up, bound and cold in some sort of lab, no idea where he was or what these people wanted from him. All he knew was one thing, they’d take their dues for saving his
The Blue Stigmatist
by Molly_Millions777
A mysterious virus has spread in Alba City on mars and the trio (Faye Valentine, Spike Spiegel, and Jet Black) are quarantined in the city. Suspiciously, a cough syrup that allegedly treats all symptoms of the virus is advertised on TV by a woman with blue hair wearing reflective circle lensed glass
i can lead you to bed but i can't make you sleep
by itsudemo
a ghost in the room, a place the snake is and isn't. a blue-eyed boy who knew him then. a wolf who will try everything once.
Two of Hearts
by spiked_spiegel
Before Vicious became a feared Syndicate official, and before Judy became a central television personality of “Big Shot”, there was a time in the distant past where the two were nothing more than two teenagers in love… This is a small Vicious and Judy (yes, you read that correctly; Vicious and Judy
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This list of 12short Cowboy Bebop fanfics spans 313,736 total words. Kudos range from 2 on the newest entries to 646 on the most established. 58% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Mature (6 of 12 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Canon-Typical Violence · Slow Romance.
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