Best Long Grief & Mourning Fanfics
Grief & Mourning fanfics from 50k to 100k words — full novel length with room for slow development. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 5 Long Grief & Mourning Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with grief & mourning and falls in the 50,000–100,000 words range.
Let The River Run
by astolat
The deep satisfaction of having made the right choice; of having found a clear-flowing wellspring of true honor to protect.
A Happy Medium
by buildoblivion
Klaus is okay. He's always okay. Nothing to see here, he's fine.Except Ben is gone, the whole timeline is royally fucked, and some asshole is out there wearing his brother's face.Now the Hargreeves are stuck in a 2019 that's the same but not quite, and while the rest of the Academy unites to get the
Halcyon
by Crownofpins
A story about walking in place to get where you are already.Written prior to S2.
Ballad of the Golden Phantom
by Nebrasska
For years now, Sonic has been presumed dead. Shadow carries his grief heavily with him. Unspoken feelings and secret attractions all remain clutched close to his chest as he struggles to move on from a tragic love. The world is bleak without Sonic, and because of this, Shadow finds himself purposele
Semper Fi
by Hiruko_chan
Jack Abbot finds himself feeling oddly protective over the new night shift attending. He tells himself it's natural. You were the young widow of a Marine, a military spouse who brought the greatest sacrifice for her country - your husband. He watched you push on with gritted teeth, haunted by your o
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About Grief & Mourning
Stories that sit with loss: characters mourning a death canon rushed past, or grieving losses that aren't deaths at all — homes, futures, versions of themselves. Grief fic ranges from raw immediate aftermath to the strange long tail of missing someone for years.
Canon kills characters and moves on; fandom holds funerals. Readers return to grief fic because it treats mourning as a story worth telling rather than a scene to survive.
Common scenarios: A character finally crying at a grave two years too late, or the survivor of a duo learning to do alone all the small things they used to do together.
About This List
This list of 5long Grief & Mourning fanfics spans 382,669 total words. Kudos range from 752 on the newest entries to 5,537 on the most established. 60% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (3 of 5 fics).
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