Best Short CamPal Fanfics
CamPal novellas — 10k–50k words, perfect for a weekend. All curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 7 Short CamPal Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length CamPal fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
Once Upon a Time with Her Divine Highness…
by juurensha
While taking a break (not hiding out) from the ball to find Her Divine Highness a spouse, Harrow meets a red-haired guard wearing sunglasses and slacking off from her duties. On the other hand, Gideon meets the Reverend Daughter of Drearbruh and suddenly has a reason to dance at the ball.
Aught But Death
by PrioritiesSorted
Gideon was having a perfectly normal, perfectly pleasant evening (or at least, what passed for normal and pleasant in Canaan House) when Harrow looked up from her flimsy-strewn desk and said, "In the interest of remaining transparent, you ought to know that I've asked Sextus to marry me." ORHa
Captured
by Rohad
Gideon's had it bad for Harrow for a long time. There's just never been a good time and she's starting to think there never will be.Then she receives some unintentional help from an unlikely and unwilling source.
persuasion tactics
by patiencespardon
It's finals week, and Palamedes will not go to bed. Cam is trying everything she can think of to get him to get some sleep. Absolutely nothing is working. Time to get creative.(Or, a 5 + 1 multi-chapter med school au.)
Curve Your Little Spine and Tell Me That You're Mine
by Uncle_Cool
When John and Priam marry, Harrowhark moves in. Step-sister? Her own personal live-in cum dumpster? It's all the same to Kiriona.-In which Kiriona is an absolute dork who grew up spoiled rotten, and is going mad with power.
nothing but dark and sound
by syntheseas
When the Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus dies transforming Cytherea’s blood cancer into bone cancer, she leaves three people behind. When Camilla Hect dies by her own blade to save her necromancer one last time, she leaves two people behind. And when Gideon Nav disappears in the aftermath o
oh no (i'm falling in love again)
by patiencespardon
Pyrrha has had a hell of a year, capped off by the fact that she's just seen Palamedes Sextus and Camilla Hect achieve the impossible: perfect Lyctorhood. Now, she needs to figure out where she stands in the aftermath, as they all try to pick up the pieces.Or, Pyrrha Dve learns how to fall in love a
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Why Read Short CamPal Fics?
Novella-length CamPal fics — roughly 10,000 to 50,000 words — let writers fully develop a single AU, trope, or relationship beat without sprawling. Plenty of time for setup, payoff, and a satisfying ending; not so much time that you're juggling fifty bookmarks.
Great for trying a new author or testing whether you'll enjoy a sub-genre before diving into something longer.
About This List
This list of 7short CamPal fanfics spans 178,002 total words. Kudos range from 303 on the newest entries to 1,544 on the most established. Nearly all (86%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (4 of 7 fics).
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