A personal pscyhological speculation:

JKR overtly did not write a romance.  Her story is ultimately about love, but it is the "greater love hath no man" kind of love rather than romantic love.  Yet I found myself always drawn to the love stories in the books to the exclusion of other threads.  In DH, I was more interested in what was going to  ( Read more... )

Here's Chapter Two of the Snape fic.  With it, I now have completed the first three chapters, and I think I feel safe beginning to post on PS and Mugglenet (no use even trying with SIYE).   In case you haven't read the others, Chapter One, the prologue, is about Eileen Prince's intention to marry Tobias Snape, while Chapter Three is about their son ( Read more... )

It’s taken me long enough, but this is Chapter Three of my Snape fic, Returning Were As Tedious. I’ve already posted Chapter One (Prologue: Things That Do Sound So Fair), and what’s probably Chapter Seventeen (Take Any Shape But That). I’ll work on Chapter Two next. As soon as it’s done I’ll begin posting the story on one of the archive sites ( ( Read more... )

Here's a new one-shot, rather different in style (but not, ultimately, in sentiment) from my usual fare.

Summary:
Gideon and Fabian are out of options, but not out of choices.

Style/Genre:
Action/Adventure & Angst

Rating:
PG-13 / Teens

Length:
About 3,600 words.

Warnings:
Violence and death.

Plans, Executions and Results

by Rhetor

Fabian had warned them ( Read more... )

I'm temporarily setting "The Torch" to "friends only," because the admins at the Phoenix Rising Challenge asked me not to post it (on PS) until the contest closes -- from which I infer that they'd probably not want it to be publicly available here either.  I'll happily reset it at the same time I do post it.

Meanwhile, here's an obscure joke.  If ( Read more... )

I've completed a revised draft of "The Torch," with the idea of posting it on Phoenix Song. 
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I saw this bumper sticker this afternoon and my daughter and I both burst out laughing.


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My original plan was to write the chapters to my Snape story in sequence, but I've also found that certain images keep crowding themselves into my head, and I know better than to ignore them.  So I wrote what I thought was just a short snippet from one of the later chapters of the story (somewhere around Chapter 15), a pivotal moment in the story ( Read more... )

Here is the first Fan Fiction story I ever posted on SIYE, "The 312th Edition."  I'm not sure, technically, that it really counts as a "story", because it doesn't have a conventional narrative style.  It's written in deliberately dense prose (it's supposed to be a fragment of a history book), but there's a marked change in tone for the payoff at ( Read more... )