FICATHON - I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF by DRAYCEVIXEN, GREEN CORTINA.

[draycevixen]

Title: I’m a Stranger here myself.
Author: DrayceVixen
Characters: A few.
Rating: Pale green Cortina.
Warnings: Yes, these are bad idea jeans I’m wearing.
Word Count: (2158 words)
Notes: Written for the 2008 Ficathon.
Prompt: #40 Time travel, unreliable narration, minor characters (like Leonard! or Gwen!) being given some prominence.

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Comments

[silvaa]

This was utterly inspired and I loved it! I don't know if I'm miles away with this...at first I thought maybe one of Robert Rankin's character's had wandered into the LoM universe...but now I'm thinking maybe it was H.G.Wells?

[draycevixen]

Thank you very much for the kind words. :D

Sometimes my brain just gets hijacked by an odd idea and, well... I wasn't terribly confident that anyone would recognize Wells' Time Traveller. Here, have some pink wafers! I'd have offered you my first born, but I seem to have forgotten to have children. *g*

[silvaa]

I accept the pink wafers gladly, they taste much nicer than children! It was such an original idea, and Oswald as HG Wells has now made it into my personal canon!

[candesgirl]

Throwing my comment in here because I really want to say that I think it is not that your brain gets attacked by odd ideas, it is that it gets attacked by brilliant ideas! At the very least, that which starts out as odd in your mind comes out as utter brilliance on the page, er, screen.

I am not sure I can add anything different than what everyone else has said, so I will stick with that this is just wonderful! I absolutely loved it.

[nepthys_uk]

You, Madame, are a genius. Brilliantly creative and in pitch-perfect voice, with a corker of a last line. Genius, I say! ♥
P.S. loved the description of Sam and Gene 'hammering out a productive working relationship' :)

[draycevixen]

*hugs you to the squishy point* Thanks! ♥

My stomach's been tied in knots over this one, fearing no one would "get it," particularly with the whole literary mimic bit... how many people have *really* read the book?

I couldn't resist the hammering... a little something for the Vixen. *eg*

[nepthys_uk]

*hugs you back*

I also loved all the {notes for future reference} - quite, quite briliant :D

I have read it (along with a few of HG Wells' other short stories), although it was some time ago now. His 'Time Traveller' is never named, is he?

[draycevixen]

Again, thank you. ♥

No, he's never named... I really think Wells had a sort of Everyman in mind.

[angeweeks]

H G WELLS FOR THE WIN!!!!!

This is inspired. Witty, captures the tone of the Time Traveller perfectly - and the paragraph about Sam & Gene hammering out their differences made me sporfle mightily.

I really enjoyed this. Thank you!

[draycevixen]

Ange! *tackle squishes*

Thanks Petal! ♥

[angeweeks]

Drayce! *bundles to the floor trying not to stain the papal frock*

And you're welcome, as ever. *g*

[gritsinmisery]

That was so brilliant, but I must confess that I thought for a little bit it was Dr. Watson, not H.G. Wells.

Oh hey, there's a bunny for you...

[draycevixen]

Dr. Watson eh? He didn't leap immediately to mind for a Time Travel prompt, but then again The Time Machine probably shouldn't have either. *g*

Thank you for reading. :D

[gritsinmisery]

Well, that's my own fault for leaping into the fic w/o reading the prompt, eh?

But honestly, Watson would be great to dump in here... He's used to solving crimes. Sam would think he'd died and gone to heaven, having somebody who is used to looking for evidence and motives.

[draycevixen]

See, that's an interesting thought because I never think of Watson as solving crimes. As Holmes' personal Boswell, he's the one who records the cases and does as Holmes tells him to do, but he's not the consulting detective. I *have* written somewhat drunken *cough* comment fic where Holmes moved in on Gene's turf, but that's a disaster of a different colour. *g*

[birggitt]

This is sheer brilliance. I love your unnamed Time Machine constructor voice. He's so perfectly accurate.
His vision of 1973 England is great, and yes, as much as I know XIX Century wasn't such a joyous time, the chap has a point there.
And his following notes! *laughs*
Also, Sam and Gene efforts to conceal their disagreements? Love it!
And, of course, your last line is just perfect.
If this is what happens when you use your bad idea jean I'm willing to buy you the whole manufacturing plant.

[draycevixen]

I just thought as much as 1973 is a shock to Sam's PC sensibilities, it would be an equal shock to a Victorian gentleman's sense of decorum too.

*blushes* Thank you very much for reading Petal, I'm so glad you liked it! ♥