Tropes Terminal Illness Long

Best Long Terminal Illness Fanfics

Terminal Illness fanfics from 50k to 100k words — full novel length with room for slow development. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.

Terminal Illness 4 long fics Avg 80,292 words 50,000–100,000 words

Top 4 Long Terminal Illness Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with terminal illness and falls in the 50,000–100,000 words range.

1

Chance

by Holly_Sinn

One year after leaving Runway, Andy Sachs' life is falling apart at the seams. Bruised and broken in more ways than one, fate delivers her, quite literally, right back into Miranda's arms when she needs her the most. Okay, maybe it wasn't fate. Maybe it was just a crack in the pavement she'd tripped

1,194 kudos 90,576 words 27/? chapters Explicit
2

Scenes from two Marriages

by ohnoanno

At the age of fourteen, Maekar is married off against his will in a kingdom in crisis and sent to Starfall to live with the Daynes—and a woman he has never met before. More than ten years later, he suddenly finds himself a widower and, once again, in an arranged marriage.

654 kudos 75,712 words 24/? chapters Not Rated
3

Akakuro Oneshots

by zuzu418

No summary provided.

26 kudos 75,030 words 22/22 chapters Not Rated Complete
4

з чого б не були створені наші душі

by ua translations (StarlessRebel)

Уві сні ця рука ковзає вгору по Реґулусовій шиї та обхоплює його обличчя. Він тулиться до неї, заплющивши очі, насолоджуючись цим відчуттям. Без маски, без холоду. Більше не занімілий перед відчуття тепла мозолистих пальців на його щоці. І ось це якраз той самий тягар, котрий стає дедалі важчим, кот

23 kudos 79,849 words 14/25 chapters Mature

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About Terminal Illness

A character is dying on a known clock, and the story is about what they — and the people who love them — do with the time. Some fics walk all the way to the end; others find a reprieve; all of them are clearly tagged for readers choosing how much heartbreak to sign up for.

A deadline makes every ordinary moment luminous, and these fics distill love to its essentials: presence, honesty, and the courage to stay.

Common scenarios: A bucket-list road trip narrated by the healthy partner who is not coping as well as they pretend, or a character spending their last months writing letters for every birthday they'll miss.

About This List

79,849
median words
25%
complete
1,194
top kudos
~5.3 hours
median read time

This list of 4long Terminal Illness fanfics spans 321,167 total words. Kudos range from 23 on the newest entries to 1,194 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Not Rated (2 of 4 fics).

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