Here you'll find links to all my stories, sorted by fandom, gen, het, pre-slash, slash or unclassifiable and approximate length. Includes ratings.

Drabbles and Snippets: Less than 1000 words.
Short Stories: 1000 to 25,000 words.
Long Stories: 25,000 to 50,000 words.
Novels: 50,000 words or more.

( My Starsky and Hutch Stories )

Both my children (grades 7 and 8) have been studying the H1N1 flu virus ever since starting school last week. I assume it's some sort of effort on the school's part to make their learning relevant to the real world ( Read more... )

Who ever said two women can't reproduce? Our evil hive mind has taken on a life of her own. And the fact that we've named her is in no way psychotic ( Read more... )

I know I promised elizabethhelena that I would write a fan letter to Daisy Duke AKA Catherine Bach, but this past week I was inspired to write to a completely different person.

( Why everyone should read The Graveyard Book... )

This one arrived in my junk folder titled, "Take an extra 20% off ( Read more... )

I'm a Real Writer!

One of my - non-fanfic - short stories just got accepted for publication in On Spec, some time in the indeterminate future. Which means everyone should totally buy the magazine for the next year and try to guess which story is mine ( Read more... )

It seems my 11yo son never just gets a cold - he gets horribly, horribly ill. But there's still always moments that make us laugh.

This afternoon, for example, he was in the bathroom coughing up a lung. When he staggered out, he announced that every time he spat up it, "hurts both my ribs and my crotch ( Read more... )

I've been on a cleaning/organizing binge lately, and yesterday I found a bunch of old family photos.

Check it out!


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There's a war going on between the French teacher and most of his Grade 6 class this year. My son has been doing his part sowing the seeds of disorder by asking questions such as, "Why are we learning this?" "Are we ever going to need to know this stuff?" This morning I sent my son off to school with instructions to sit down and be quiet in ( Read more... )

I was cleaning (AKA 'mucking out', 'excavating', etc...) my 10yo son's bedroom, when I found a scrap of paper crumpled up in the corner. He collects old machines and fixes them - this story was obviously typed on his "portable" manual typewriter. (I've transcribed it below the picture.)


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