[Meme] Stories I haven't written

[edenfalling]

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you between one and three sentences a few paragraphs from that story.

(I am trying to be honest about my length issues. *wry*)

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Responses so far:

Utilitarian Virtue for cherokee1 -- original fic about a wanderer between universes and her mysterious task (opening paragraphs of a novel

Comments

[cherokee1]

Tell me about the wanderer that crosses from one universe to another, using the keys
etched into their bodies by their IA keeper.
The keys are sigils, fashioned by scarifications, and metals produced with the body.
Why do they wander? What is their job? Where do they go?
What happens when they are traveling? How did they get the scarifications?
Why are they chosen?
C

[Fic] "Utilitarian Virtue" -- original

[edenfalling]

Clearly this is the start of an action/adventure story, in which Aujae and her latest target work together to figure out the story behind the Keeper and what, exactly, it's trying to prevent from happening in universe after universe. But I am not going to write that.

Aujae crossed universes with her eyes open once. After she nearly ripped herself apart by trying to turn around mid-step, and vomited the entire contents of her stomach, down to pure bile, from the nauseating visual wrongness of the process, she returned to closing her eyes like the Keeper had advised

Re: [Fic] "Utilitarian Virtue" -- original

[cherokee1]

Wow. That... made me really happy.
I am always in awe of those who can make the words do what they please.
Dramatic! Stylings! seems to be a default write device of mine unless it is
academic, and I always feel so silly trying to write a story.
This is wonderful, and I want to know more.
It went down very well, just like all your writing does, smooth flow, interesting ideas,
nice word to picture in head path.
Your stories are an artist's drug, very compelling!
C

Re: [Fic] "Utilitarian Virtue" -- original

[edenfalling]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked the snippet!

[aishuu]

That really awesome Naruto/Narnia crossover in which the Pevensies are originally from the Naruto-verse before stumbling into Narnia.

[Fic] "The Lion, the Witch, and the Ninja" (only not really ninja; that's just for the sound of it)

[edenfalling]

No fair! That totally demands a several proper fic of at least ten thousand words, which I obviously do not have time to plot or write. *glares at you* But anyway, the opening:Mukashi mukashi, there were four children named Ishimaru, Yuri, Keiei, and Shoumeiko, whose mother and father sent them away from Konoha during the Third Shinobi War because they had already been killed and resurrected once and that is more than enough for any parents to bear. They were sent to the estate of an elderly noble who had some tenuous connection to a previous daimyo of Fire Country, and who consequently kept many peculiar and dangerous objects in his storerooms. As the noble lived miles from the nearest village and his only contact with Konoha had been through the legendary Jiraiya, nobody knew about the problems until too late

Re: [Fic] "The Lion, the Witch, and the Ninja" (only not really ninja; that's just for the sound of

[aishuu]

You should be very, very careful what memes you use if you want to avoid getting plunnied.

<3 So much fun!!! I really have to wonder at how shinobi children crash into the christian allegory... the cultural values are just so different!

Re: [Fic] "The Lion, the Witch, and the Ninja" (only not really ninja; that's just for the sound of

[edenfalling]

Well, they are civilian children except for Keiei/Edmund, who has one or two years at the academy under his belt (...I couldn't resist, it explained various things so tidily), but even so. Definitely different cultural expectations! And just because they aren't shinobi doesn't mean they don't have a much greater familiarity with archaic weapons and an ease with the concept and reality of violence than British schoolchildren would.

[animus_wyrmis]

Tell me about that story where Lucy and Susan go on a quest without their brothers, and Lucy makes a choice and Aslan takes Susan into his confidence.

[Fic] "Grass and Silence" -- <i>Chronicles of Narnia</i>

[edenfalling]

There was no stone or shrine to mark this circular clearing on the riverbank as the place where the legendary Tree had stood for nearly nine hundred years, its magic mingling with the blood and breath of Narnia to keep Jadis out. But somehow it was impossible to mistake. A great good had lived here once, and a great ill had tried to obliterate it. The echoes twined and repeated still in the song of the water over the stones of the riverbed, and Susan was torn between gladness and unease

Re: [Fic] &quot;Grass and Silence&quot; -- &lt;i&gt;Chronicles of Narnia&lt;/i&gt;

[animus_wyrmis]

Uuuuuugh Lewis why do you do this.

I love the idea of Susan questing. It drives me absolutely up a wall when parts of fandom restrict her to boys and lists and dresses and nagging. And sisterrrrrrrrs omg.

Re: [Fic] &quot;Grass and Silence&quot; -- &lt;i&gt;Chronicles of Narnia&lt;/i&gt;

[edenfalling]

I don't understand it, either, because Susan is an excellent person to have along on a quest. She will make sure you have all the correct supplies in the correct amounts, she can hunt game for extra food, she's good at dealing diplomatically with any strangers you meet on the road, plus I bet she knows a lot of stories, since she was the one looking after Edmund and Lucy when they were very small. Practicality is a virtue, not a sin, no matter what Lewis insinuates about it being associated with witches!

Sisters are the best. Brothers are good too, but there should always be more stories about sisters. :-)

...I have far too many projects in the air right now, but I will sit on this idea and see if it grows into a proper fic in the spring.