I'm not sure if this fic is complete or not, but since I haven't finished or posted anything in forever, I decided to bite the bullet and post it as is. It's just a little slice of (post-513) life for our favorite QaF couple ( Read more... )

Title: Competing with a Ghost
Author: mysid
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Ralph, Laurie, and Andrew belong to Mary Renault.
Author's Note: Written for the maryrenaultfics Halloween challenge: Ghosts don't always have the best timing. I thought in this case, any timing would be poor timing.

( As he turned his key in lock, Ralph could hear Laurie's gramophone )

Part of my story The Concealment Charm is set in a gentlemen's dining club, Aster, run by Alphard Black. The members are a mix of muggles and wizards, and all are gay. eleish correctly identified the couple by the window as Ralph and Laurie from The Charioteer. As a reward, she got to request a fic.

She said, "I would like to see a sequel or a ( Read more... )

I used to love the old Ellery Queen tv series, but I'd never read any Ellery Queen books until recently. (FYI: Ellery Queen was both the writers' pen name and the main character of a series of mystery novels written in the 40's through 70's.) I just read EQ's Calamity Town and discovered that the fictional town of Wrightsville contains characters ( Read more... )

If you love (a) The Charioteer, (b) dogs, or (c) romantic slash, you must go read Good Boy by trueriver. Everything she writes is wonderful, of course, but this one just struck me as one I should point my friends' list toward. You don't have to have read The Charioteer to enjoy this one--although it would certainly help.

Since my first version of this story was a resounding dud, here is the new and improved version of A Gift of Understanding. My thanks to westwardlee for encouraging the changes I made.

Title: A Gift of Understanding
Author: mysid
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: All characters belong to J.K. Rowling. The book they discuss, The Charioteer, was written by Mary ( Read more... )

Here's a fic I wrote based on one of my very favorite books. You'll enjoy it much more if you've read The Charioteer, but you might want to give it a try either way. You just need to know that Rev. Gareth Straike's stepson, Laurie Odell (Laurence to Straike) is living with a former schoolmate, Ralph Lanyon. What Straike doesn't know is that ( Read more... )

Despite my crippling case of writer's block, I just wrote a new fic! Yea!

Over at maryrenaultfics, we've been having a chapter by chapter discussion of The Charioteer, one of my favorite novels. Immersing myself in The Charioteer led to my writing a fic based on those characters. Don't bother reading this unless you're familiar with the novel ( Read more... )

Liver transplant-- My daughter finally asked about the green ribbon I'm wearing (and the matching magnetic one on my car). I explained (in simple terms) what organ donation/transplantation is. After asking if she would need a new liver, and hearing, "Yes, eventually you will," she said, "OK, can I have dessert now?" We meet with the liver ( Read more... )

For those of you wondering about my daughter's last trip to ( the hospital )