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That monstrous country where I lived
when I was a child,
where everybody looked like me;
that monstrous country
where we played cowboys and Indians,
and the Indians were fierce warriors,
and the cowboys rode over the hill
to save us;
that monstrous country
where the good guys always won,
and the bad guys died peacefully,
tumbling down like leaves
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A daughter of Bajor (Tora Naprem story, chapter 2)
Without actually getting into full-on nanowrimo, I've been trying to make November into a writing month. This hasn't been altogether successful, but my Deep Space Nine story about Tora Naprem, Gul Dukat's Bajoran mistress, has advanced to the stage where there is a rough outline, and a few chapters are starting to emerge. Here is the first of them ( Read more... ) -
Tora Naprem
The prologue to a new fanfic I am writing, telling the story of Tora Naprem, Gul Dukat's mistress from Star Trek: Deep Space 9.
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Death of a Russian doll.
I haven't posted on here for ages - I haven't even logged on for ages. Sorry. This is more of an attempt to post for the sake of posting than anything - that, and, I hope, something of an exorcism ( Read more... ) -
My rather heroic grandfather.
I did plan to be posting more this year - unfortunately events, mostly family ones, have rather caught up with me. However, things are going pretty well on that front at the moment, so I will try to get round to posting every few weeks again - or once a month, anyway ( Read more... ) -
Gareth Thomas
I woke up this morning to the news that Gareth Thomas, who played Roj Blake in Blake's 7, died yesterday at the age of 71.
In memory of him, I am posting this short story I wrote a while ago, in which Jenna Stannis, Blake's pilot and lover, mourns him after his death on Gauda Prime.
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The Moral of the Story.
Still on the topics of Deep Space 9, Cardassians, and Gul Dukat, I'm afraid. I was struck by a comment in an online discussion of DS9 that the episode 'Indiscretion' (where Dukat finds, and fails to kill, his illegitimate, half-Bajoran daughter Ziyal) is almost half-way through the entire run of the show, and affects everything that happens ( Read more... ) -
Sympathy for the devil?
Well, we seem to have been here before. I think I must be naturally insubordinate - I can remember watching Dr Who as a child and feeling that the Doctor (in his Tom Baker incarnation) was far too smug, and imagining stories in which he got it wrong and had to be rescued by other characters (mostly of my own devising). As an adult, it often seems ( Read more... ) -
New Year.
Well, I've already broken one new year's resolution, which was to post to this journal once every two weeks. It is now seventeen days into January, and I do not have much to write about at all. It has been a very wet winter so far, and York has flooded badly - the flood barrier on the smaller river, the Foss, failed, so water was able to back up ( Read more... ) -
Snape's patronus
A link to a very lovely Snape and Lily story - a few years old now, but beautiful.
http://musamihi.livejournal.com/32233.html?view=201961#t201961