I always feel rather awkward about this, since, on one hand one writes so people will read, but on the other, I don't really like to self promote. This is why I'm a technical writer, not a promotional writer.
Anyway, somehow you've wandered in here and you're wondering, what is this page?
Well, you see, this is a link page to fiction that I've written over the last ten years or so.
And um, I guess if you have words for me, in some sort of order...sure, I'm game: fresne at ix dot netcom dot com.
Category: Horus/Easter
Description: Horus is mumbling in the Berkeley hills. Easter is brooding over hot cross buns in the Haight. Really. It's all Set's fault.
Rating: G.
Written for the 2004 New Year's Resolution on yuletidetreasure.org. Horus' odd form of sanity/insanity was wonderfully fun, while Easter required some thinking. An extra bonus if you can figure out what BART stations Horus uses.
Listen to this storyCategory: Raphael/Tobiah with nothing really happening or going to happen or thought of happening. Just being alive.
Description: Raphael and Tobiah in brief conversation and harmony as they walk to Media. From the Book of Tobit.
Rating: G. They go fishing.
2004 New Year Resolution Yuletide Challenge. Why? Well, I've always had an enormous crush on Raphael. Well, since reading the R. A. McAvoy's Damiano series. Here I wanted to write a story where nothing happened. That doesn't sound good does it. Hmmm...sometimes when I write, I have a vision of the prose as being very clear water through which you can see all sorts of rocks and fish underneath, and yet the thing itself is smooth. That's what I was going for here. That and imitating the original Apocrypha.
Moon River
Fandom: Bible Old Testament ~
Rating: G
Summary: Prince Ramose, Moses who never left, looked into the eyes of his brother Thutmose, and dreamed a new age.
For yuletide 2007 - a treat
Writhed in the Birthing of Her
Fandom:Bible Old Testament ~
Ratin: R
Summary: Deborah wore the lines of peace on her heart. Bathsheba gave herself to God's eyes. Esther waited and watched.
For yuletide 2007 - a treat
Title: Bread and Fish (and wine)
For: Toft
yuletide 2008
rating: G.
word count: 1117
Fandom: Bible - New testament
note:They departed thence by ship into a desert place apart. So to the crowds. So to the fish.
Title: Tambourine Woman
For: kastaka
yuletide 2008
rating: G
word
count: 676
Fandom: Bible - old testament
note:She watched, but she was not quiet.
Category: Jason Bourne post 2nd movie.
Description: He liked to watch the way she moves, turning the pages of his file, her back to the wide, wide windows.
Rating: G.
2004 New Year's Resolution Yuletide. There's something about the quality of watching someone that I find interesting. Gaze is a potent and yet intangible thing.
Joss Whedon’s Pride and Prejudice
The text of Pride and Prejudice – okay I didn’t write this and I had help from my housemate. But it in a completist sort of way, it is a work. Original text with genders reversed and with Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters and fight scenes. Oh, and a bazooka.
Rating: Err...it's Pride and Prejudice. With fight scenes.
Written in 2001 because I read a post on Usenet (which tells you how wild and woolly that was) comparing Spike to Elizabeth and Buffy to Darcy. And wrongness ensued. Search and replace, it can do a lot of damage.
Yes, that is the entire title. What you think it should be longer?
A Divine Comedy/Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover. Dante and Virgil go to Sunnydale, L.A., and England and have wild wacky, and yet efficacious adventures
The Tragedic Comical Historie of Buffy the Slayer of the Vampyres
It's Buffy. It's Shakespeare.
The plot, such as it is, finds the fair city of Sunnydale torn by conflict between vampires, demons, watchers, slayers, etc., etc., etc. The majority of the lines are from various Shakespeare plays and Sonnets. However, there are some exceptions. Anyanka speaks mostly in Broadway musicals and Faith speaks in ancient Spartan sayings. Why? I felt like it.
Rating: A tragic comedie of epic proportions. Sure to run a million years.
In 2003 to complete the series. This thing ate my brain. I was reading/watching plays for months. It was enormously hard to write. And yet, enormous fun. Finding those little nugget quotes and thinking, ooh, Angelus could say this.
Rating: Cleaner than Dante. There are no tar pits or naked people. Hmmm...maybe I should fix that.
Written in 2002 to keep the whole bad literature thing going. Really this is my favorite of the series. But then...it would be. I loves me my Dante.
Category: What could have been S7 Buffy.
Summary: A series of vignettes set in S7 Buffy. Giles scenes as I would have had them.
Rating: G with a dash of powdered melancholy.
Written post S7, because, that was lacking. It needed more characterization.
Category: What could have been S7 Buffy.
Summary: Anya goes on a road trip to San Francisco to find herself. Well, why not. There are two other stories in the same flow written by other authors, which when I find the links, I'll put them here.
Rating: G with some psycho-babble.
And again, with the missing character arcs, that could have been there, but weren't. But that's what fanfic is for.
Listen to this story Category: Static Shock/Justice League, Spoilers for ABW, and Static Shock’s A League of Their Own..
Summary: Stream of Consciousness Static. Waste not want not.
Rating: It’s ABW-verse, beyond that, actually not much beyond the P of the G.
Ah, didn't A Better World spawn such lovely fic. And look the opportunity to write crazy/coherence.
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Category: PWP Flash/Poison Ivy stream of consciousness sex pollen fic (well, and sweet potatoes ) set during Swamp Thing’s rampage through Gotham city from the Swamp Thing comic.
Description: Sort of a Swampthing/JL cross. Sortof. While Swampy trashes Gotham, Ivy feels left out and small (he is the elemental of all living things) and hey, look Flash. Drabble.
Rating: Well, I’m not that euphemistic, so R, or if you can work your way through the crazy prose NC17.
Tharamis posted a challenge to write a sex pollen fic. And then I thought, as much as I enjoyed Swampy's rampage, how would Poison Ivy feel? After all those years of struggle to have a god waltz in and just toss the place around. She might need a little pickmeup. Plus, the challenge of sex pollen is I wanted to write genuinely incoherent sex. They're high. I wanted them tasting rainbows and sparkling with a touch.
Category: 1602 in between chapters. Masters Grey, Werner, Scottius, and Trefusis not quite studying, with goodly McCoy presiding.
Description: A drabble dusty moment in the class room.
Rating: G. It's a classroom. They discuss literature.
2004 New Year's Resolution Yuletide. Because everyone was so much fun to write.
Category: 1602 pre-story for Hank/Beast.
Description: Hank contemplates Man or Beast, while collecting some small turnips thrown his way at the local market, for what college student is not in wont of funds and sustenance.
Rating: G. There are roof tops and soup.
Stocking stuffer 2006 Yuletide.
Listen to this storyTitle: Blue Rose of Ontario -
For: slipsthrufingers
yuletide 2008
rating: G
word count: 1488
Fandom: The Fall
note: She saw him again on Saturday. Just a half turn of his face as the hero dangled off a long metal girder high above some city street.
Title: Words Rise
for: eid
rating: G
Note: Original Characters. Tell stories as the breath fades. Open the door.
Belly Rumble
for: eid
rating: G
Note: Original Character. Chinese Mulsim observing Ramadan. Reavers. The valley below.
Title: Twelve Months, Plus one
For: thermidor yuletide 2008
rating: NC-17. It's about prostitutes. There's m/m, f/f, m/f. But all fairly short and poetic. Some characters from the books. Others not.
word count: 1448
Fandom: Jacqueline Carey - the Kushiel's Legacy Series
note:Janvier to decembre in the Houses of Night Blooming Flowers.
Meaning of a Word
Rating: PG13
Summary:The word broyay isn't exactly in the dictionary.
For yuletide 2007 - a treat
Title: Angulimala
For: Nestra
rating: pg-13 (okay probably R) Charlie/Ted m/m sex not really off screen. Although, not exactly descriptive. Mostly in prison.
word count: 1149
Fandom: Life
note: Charlie could not have said if the sun shone in the sky or if the world had washed away in a great flood. Well, except if the world had washed away in a great flood then the tiny cell would have flooded too. In which case, he would have been dead, which since he had not
yet reached a sense of oneness with all beings that would have been unfortunate.
Category: Jane Eyre. PWP, there was a novel of plot. This is about the love.
Description: Dear Reader, she married him. Jane and Edward *finally* fall back into the downy softness of a married bed and they begin that wedded work of becoming flesh of each other's flesh.
Rating: Depends on if you read romance novels. R cuz, there's not plot. Just a wedding night.
2005 Yuletide. I saw the request and went, yes, this is the story I will write. And I will write it while I'm feeling on NaNoWriMo.
Title: Emostein
For: thingswithwings
yuletide 2008
rating: pg. Fingers touch and Victor cries. Alot.
word count: 1428
Fandom: Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
note:Long had Henry longed for a friend, someone whose gentle and yet courageous heart, and cultivated and yet capacious mind could approve and amend his own ardent and yet irregular flaws. Here then at his very side stood that potential of friendship, Victor Frankenstein.
Category: Shakespeare - The Tempest.
Description: Miranda add persimmons and mint. Kneads the mud between her fingers and confuses Ariel in no small manner.
Rating: G .
Stocking stuffer for 2006 Yuletide.
Gathering Rosebuds
Fandom: Shakespeare Hamlet
Rating: G
Summary: She concentrated on the floor. On pulling petals from wild flowers, while her Papa had fed, would feed the worms, they go round and round.
Coffee
Fandom: Profit
Rating: G
Summary: Gail's job is complicated, like jumping out of a plane.
For yuletide 2007 - a treat
Purls before Pie
Fandom:Pushing Daisies ~
Rating: G
Summary: Emerson knitted. He didn't crochet. People who couldn't tell the difference were damn fools who made Jebus the slack yokel seem like Dorothy Parker table dancing on the Algonquin, which is to say the height of drunken wit and sophistication.
For yuletide 2007 - a treat
Category: Oh, umm...Buffy, Smallville, Highlander, Harry Potter, Femme Nikita crossover. With a giant Mary Sue. She's as big as Godzilla. Well, actually no. But she does stride around like him. However, her rubber suit is fitted. I wrote this every other chapter with my housemate.
Description: Mary Sue finally goes on vacation only to discover, horrors, she's a Mary Sue. But then she goes with it. Jocularity eats, shoots and leaves.
Rating: Umm...well, she's constantly about to have sex, so PG-13.
Disclaimer: No really, I don't even own the Mary Sue trademark. Wish I did. I'd make a fortune.
Sometimes my housemate and I get to talking. And this is the sort of thing we talk about.
Category: Cross over of Toy Story, Buffy, Cartoons, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings. And it's a musical.
Description: Toys from Toy Story do a musical version of Lord of the Rings
Rating: G.
This was from a All Things Philosophical About Buffy the Vampire Slayer discussion board thing. It just kept growing in posts.
Category: T.E. Lawrence/Prince Faisal
Description: Oh, good Lord, um, I suppose it's PWP. Although, it has footnotes. What? There needs to be more of that kind of thing. It's in three parts of varying degrees of stream of consciousness. Hopefully it rolls like a son of thunder.
Rating: NC-17. It gets fairly...well, descriptive for me. I refer you to the stream of consciousness part and the rolling like thunder.
2004 New Year's Resolution Yuletide. A) I've read many books about Lawrence. B) Up until then I hadn't written any sex scenes. I felt uncomfortable with writing them, but I wanted to stretch as a writer. So, I wrote this. Which is an interesting way to start, but as I said, I'm very comfortable with the source material.
Really, this should be in a Lawrence of Arabia section, but... well, see above.
Title: 27 Postcards
For: Raurey
rating: pg
word count: 5748
disclaimer: don't own it
Fandom: Lawrence of Arabia
note: 27 snapshots of sepia faded conversation. "27 Articles" in conversation with "of Arabia": Ali, Daud, Majid, Farraj, Auda, and the whirlwind (half seen). Basically follows the plot of the movie from the POV of 5 of the Arab characters. My key thoughts being how conversation is about oneself as much as the one talked about. Well and fire & water and how to have each section converse with both the next one and the italicized text, which is taken from Lawrence's "27 Articles"
Five Times they danced, one time they didn't
Subject: Fred Astaire/Hermes Pan
Description: Dancing for 5 of the 30s era movies and one time they didn’t dance
Rating: Err… I am really terrible at this. Nothing happens. They dance a lot. Pan buys socks and a tie. On the other hand, have you seen the “Night and Day” dance number?
Disclaimer: Do I need to disclaim? Real people who I don’t own, never met, but who I know a lot about. I got the idea from a post trascendenza made about watching the “Top Hat” extras and wanting some Fred/Pan slash. Since I’m an insane Fred fan... the research was fun.
Title: Commedia of Sinking
Category: Gen
Fandom: Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
Characters:
* Phileas Fogg (SAoJV),
* Rebecca Fogg,
* Jules Verne (SaoJV)
Collections: Yuletide 2009
Words:1180
Summary: Venice is sinking. This is not entirely Phileas' problem.
Title: Orchid
For: lyrebard
yuletide 2008
rating: NC-17. M/F - PWP
word count: 196
Fandom: Secretary
note: She's his to bruise.
Category:Smallville/Sandman crossover. Delirium challenge fic
Description: Delirium has lost her dog and so she looks for a hero to help.
Rating: Pre-slash. Clark/Lex. S1. Pretty Gen.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of it.
Category: Superman Returns
Description: A ficlet based off of the Alex Ross painting floating to the side and the end of every Superman movie ever (okay, so not the 1940s serials, but you know, he's floating above the earth. That bit.) I've read it before, I hope to read it again.
Rated PG - for poetry guidance
Mostly just a drabble, but I loved the poetry of the movie and the odd Norman Rockwell moment.
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Category: Horus/Easter, Sam and Dean. Crossover Supernatural /American Gods (Horus and Easter). Actually, it’s kind of a sequel to Waiting for Easter
Description: Have you been on the S.F. vampire walking tour? Well, it’s that restaurant where people disappeared. Mwahahahaha. Only now, and actually vampires, and it’s been going on for a hundred years. Sam and Dean, they investigate. Get stuck with Horus and his amazing magic eye, no the other one. Hijinks and Mochaccino ensue.
Rating: Oh, I don’t know. PG. I mean someone dies and there’s mild swearage. But at most people grope in a park. Well, and die horribly.
Spoilers: Gaiman’s American Gods, Germanic and Egyptian Mythology, Supernatural up to Benders, and some slight White Wolf references.
Category: Crossover with Requiem for the Devil/ and some small Apocrypha.
Description: Gen story, structured like an episode. I wanted to cross Bob, a character from Requiem, and Azariah, a err., um character from the Book of Tobit. So I did. The boys hunt down something that’s eating people in a small college town in Arizona. Vague enough?
Rating: PG-13 Language, err…off screen deaths (it helps keep things in budget), off screen sex (sorry)
Spoilers: Occurs sometime after Dead in the Water. Vaguely. Since this is a Crossover with a book most of you probably haven’t read “Requiem for the Devil” (great book BTW) I suppose there are spoilers for that, although it’s all fairly self explanatory.
Category: choose your own adventure style Supernatural fanfic. Click on the links to jump about. Don't try just scrolling because the sections are not in any sort of order and no really, not linear.
Description: There is some language, including really bad Latin. There's some sex. Much as my mother described the process at age 13, but we are talking my mother. The story is Gen, Wincest, Mary Sue riddled, Mary Sue dead, zombies, aliens, ghosts, little baby quiche - chomp, characterization as random as you click it. It is for the most part Dean's pov, although there some Impala pov. Mainly because trying to track two characters was getting, well, my flow diagram was getting complex
Rating: It could be PG-13. It could be NC-17. Since you may stumble over it, go with NC-17.
Category : OTP/OTP, Dean/OTP, Sam/OTP
Summary: In between, on a dark desert highway, Sam n' Dean stop at a hotel for the night. Structured like an episode, so what you'd expect ensues. Or perhaps not. There's music, there's poetry, there's clichés, there's a horrific concatenation of mythology. Personally, I blame Homer, Herodotus, or the Eagles. Or a random two of the three.
Rating: R. There's sex. Sorta. Violence. Definitely. Language. People get eaten. Sorta. Well, no. They get eaten.
Spoilers/Timeline: Set sometime early S1.
Category : Gen
Summary: The problem here is this ficlet has a central conceit that I don't want to just blurt out. Not a complex conceit. It's a ficlet. A cute twee little ficlet. With no spoilers.
Rating: Gen, and G and there you go.
Spoilers/Timeline: Set sometime.
Title: Tight
For: KC yuletide 2008
rating: pg-13 (okay probably R) m/errr... f? m/machine. Derek/Cameron. Although, sorta vague.
word count: 1133
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
note: Today she's a motorcycle cop. The tiny slip of her is all in tall boots and mirrored sunglasses. He prefers her with those reflective eyes. Because she's metal and that's all she is and all she'll ever be.
Dream of the Burning Heart
Subject: Sarah Connor Sarah/Cromartie – because someone made a comment and I thought of this.
Description: Sarah dreams of a burning heart. Cromatrie doesn't dream.
Rating: Err… sort sex. Sorta death. PG-13
Disclaimer: don’t own ‘em. They’d be horrified. Well, not Cromartie, but Sarah.
Memory of Green
Subject: Sarah Connor Sarah/Derek - well really, Kyle. But he's dead
Description: Sarah dreams of a burning heart.
Rating: Sex. R.
Disclaimer: don’t own ‘em.
Note: They're both trying to remember
Well, mythologically based fic. It's actually all connected in one way or another. And there a couple more stories that are currently bubbling. Or not. Who knows how long this has been sitting on the internet.
Category: Norse/Egyptian Mythology
Description: The City was cold poison, like the martinis and champagne that Loki downed every night. Always returning for more. Hard and beautiful, glittering like a diamond on Frejya's arm or the heady flush from rolling dice in one of the rip out your heart rooms at the 'Smoking Mirrors' with Huitlipochli. The things a giant had to do to keep himself in the godlike lifestyle to which he was so accustomed. But the gods of the City played for keeps, and Loki wasn't the only one playing with loaded dice.
Rating: NC-17. There's a lot of sex.
2006 Yuletide. I've linked here to a local version purely because this one has footnotes.
Category: Greek Mythology. Eros/Psyche
Description: Psyche dreams stained glass butterfly wings to fly her high above the City. Eros already has his wings.
And mind you, I think this one is my favorite child..
Rating: Again with I'm not sure. They have sex and Icarus' wings melting fall. PG-16?
Category: Greek Mythology. Hades/Persephone
Description: The dead wait for spring. A retelling of the myth of Hades and Persephone.
Rating: G. A kiss. A pomegranate kiss.
Category: Greek Mythology. Persephone/Hades
Description: Same story as above, but the other side.
Rating: Still G.
Category: Egyptian Mythology / Greek Mythology
Description: Retelling of a 4000 egyptian best seller, everyone was buried with it. The title gives it away.
Rating: G.
Category: Greek Mythology Orpheus/ Euridice
Description: Orpheus goes into the underworld. Anticipates stuff.
Rating: PG. There's off stage sex.
A Day at the Mall
Fandom: Excellent question. Let’s say a medley of "Dawn of the Living Dead", and various mythologies. It's set in the same location I'll be setting my Nanowrimo. Well, the same City.
Rating: PG13 for well desiccated dead people
Summary: The dead rise. This is makes it difficult to run a shop at the mall.
Disclaimer: Oh, spirits of the dead, restlessly awaiting the day when the doors between the worlds thins and breaks open, please play nice.
Fandom: Gilgamesh/Enkidu
Rating: PG
Summary: The Great Goddess Ninsun had made of Enkidu's mouth a secret. She made of Gilgamesh, the great King, perfection. And this is what Gilgamesh, the great king dreamed, this is what he wrote, this is what he read.
For yuletide 2007
Three Across
Fandom:Mythology Greek ~
Rating:PG ~ 5k ~ for iphianassa -
Summary: On the longest night of the year, two gods play an earnest game of Scrabble. In walks a goddess and her Protégé. Words ensue.
For yuletide 2007 - a treat
Title: Of Nightingales and other things
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or: minyan
yuletide 2008
rating: pg-13
word
count: 1137
Fandom: 1001 Arabian Nights
note: Words, those languid coquettes flirted from the silken couch of her tongue. The smoky husk of her much trammeled
voice caught and twisted its long barbs into the Sultan's ears.
Title: Dragonic Intervention
For: WhiteCat
yuletide 2008
rating: pg-13
Implied m/f sex, off screen. Not based on anything.
word count: 1150
Fandom: Fairy Tale (Trad)
note: The dragon kidnapped Princess Ranni's prince on a Wednesday afternoon. This made her feel miffed, but a Princess has got to do what a Princess has got to do.
A Long Millenium
Fandom: Mythology Egyptian
Rating:R ~ 3k ~ for DemonicFury -
Summary: Spend a thousand years in your mother's womb with someone and you get all sorts of bad ideas.
For yuletide 2007 - a treat
Some of my older work.
Category: Celtic-ish Mythology
Description: Let's say you took the Little Mermaid (not the original story, yeesh, depressing) and mooshed it with the story of Medusa and a few other legends. What you'd get is this lovely tale of a young mermaid and how she gets tired of waiting for true love, and what happens when she finds it. Those who say you just can't change a man, aren't trying hard enough. Use a bigger chisel.
Rating: PG-13. There is some sex and violence. Like on the news.
Category: Err...Australian, Southern India, with Dragons. Lots of Dragons
Description: During a previous ice age, dragons are forced to flee their homeland and journey to warmer climes.
Rating: Umm...hmmm...PG. Things die. Things try to to seduce. Things die.
Category: Sumerian Mythology
Description: Mardak makes a wife. Tiama makes something else.
Rating: PG for some death.