I've been meaning to add to my paltry DS9 recs collection for months, but 'Quark's Day' was the catalyst that made me actually do it! Many thanks for the prod :) I also loved your Five Things That Never Happened, by the way -- I read it after I'd compiled this post, which explains why it isn't included (yet)...
Thank you so much for the recs! Glad you've enjoyed my work. As for the prospects of a longer DS9 piece, there's a sort of cowritten crossover thing in the works, if we can get it off the ground.
Re: "While the Women Came and Went": I've no idea how authentic the portrayal of Afghanistan is
My girlfriend is a recent veteran of the US Navy, and I have several friends in the service, including one who just returned from a short tour in Iraq. So I had some good advice on my portrayal of life as a low-ranking enlisted soldier in the American military, but most of the Afghani culture is culled from news reports and the internet. And now I have utterly ruined the story for you.
Also, I'm friending you, mainly because you've done lovely things for my ego.
Hi Mosca -- sorry not to respond faster (people rarely reply to my existing threads, and I don't use e-mail alerts). altariel1 got me into DS9 some time ago, but I'd run through most of the authors she recommended, so it's lovely to find another group of great writers via the LJ community who've since moved into DS9. I hope the DS9 crossover does get off the ground, as I'm a sucker for crossovers.
I put the caveat on the Afghanistan story purely because some people tend to assume that I've fact/canon-checked all my recommendations, for some reason -- so I was intending to point up my ignorance there, not any deficiencies in the story. The story felt believable to me as a reader, which I think is all that matters! Great response to a really inspired challenge. Oh, and I loved the title, by the way.
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Re: "While the Women Came and Went":
I've no idea how authentic the portrayal of Afghanistan is
My girlfriend is a recent veteran of the US Navy, and I have several friends in the service, including one who just returned from a short tour in Iraq. So I had some good advice on my portrayal of life as a low-ranking enlisted soldier in the American military, but most of the Afghani culture is culled from news reports and the internet. And now I have utterly ruined the story for you.
Also, I'm friending you, mainly because you've done lovely things for my ego.
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I put the caveat on the Afghanistan story purely because some people tend to assume that I've fact/canon-checked all my recommendations, for some reason -- so I was intending to point up my ignorance there, not any deficiencies in the story. The story felt believable to me as a reader, which I think is all that matters! Great response to a really inspired challenge. Oh, and I loved the title, by the way.
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