Top 9 Short McShep Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length McShep fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
Ordinary Life
by astolat
"So, uh," Wharton said, with a little nervous cough. "You're not so much his mathematician as you are his—mathematician."
Weddings, Plural, and a Yak
by Speranza
By the eighth time John Sheppard married Rodney McKay, they were old pros at the wedding thing, having weathered not only an Ouishan blood wedding, but also a twelve-hour Avalonian handfasting, a Malanese necklace exchange, and a Thurtu joining ceremony that invoked a fire god and featured seven kin
Small Primes and Square Roots
by Liviapenn
"I hope you picked someone really intelligent, otherwise it seems like it would be kind of a waste. Of incubation time, if nothing else."
Loving Rodney
by LadyRa
Atlantis comes to love Rodney, and so does Sheppard: a romantic shmoop fest.
No Refunds or Exchanges
by astolat
It shouldn't have been that hard to get good help. For the sga_flashfic Harlequin challenge.
A Beautiful Lifetime Event
by astolat
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
Wild Card
by GillianInOz
An alternate reality where The Trust tried to destroy the Atlantis Expedition before it had even begun. The wild card instead changes everything, putting Major Sheppard in command of an expedition cut off from Earth.The choices he makes shape a very different Atlantis from the one we know, and six
Four Military Men
by LadyRa
Blair, Tony, Daniel and Rodney all meet in high school and become good friends. When their twenty year high school reunion comes around, Tony decides to get them all to attend--with their significant others.
Transcendental
by astolat
tran·scen·den·tal (trăn'sĕn-dĕn'tl) adj. Philosophy. Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge as independent of experience. Surpassing all others; superior. Beyond common thought or experience. Mathematics. Of or relating to a real or complex number that is not the root of any po
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Why Read Short McShep Fics?
Novella-length McShep 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 9short McShep fanfics spans 226,754 total words. Kudos range from 2,611 on the newest entries to 6,436 on the most established. Nearly all (100%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (4 of 9 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Originally Posted on LiveJournal · Romance.
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