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Short stories

Fiction

I've been writing short stories (or least coming up with stories) since I could imagine the idea.

Here is a section on some of my fiction.

Hebrew Bible

Title: Bread and Fish (and wine)
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Bible New Testament
Pairings: None/gen
Rating: G
Summary: They departed thence by ship into a desert place apart. So to the crowds. So to the fish.
For: yuletide 2008
words: 1117
Mp3: 6:05, 2.35 Mb
~Read it on Archive of Our Own
~Listen to it

Title: Faith is Blind (but that doesn't mean no eyerolls)
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Bible
Pairings: Sarah/Pharoah/Abimilech/God/Abraham, Abraham/Hagar
Rating: PG.
Summary: Sarah was silent, which isn't to say that she didn't say a great deal.
For: yuletide 2009
words: 1428
Mp3: 5:54, 2.29 Mb
~Read it on Archive of our own
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Title: Moon River
Author: fresne
Reader: not yet
Fandom: Bible Old Testament ~
Pairings: None
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
Words: 234
~Read it on yuletide
~Read it on Archive of Our Own

Title: Sparrows Fall in Flight
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Book of Tobit
Pairings: Gen
Rating: G
Summary: Raphael and Tobiah in brief conversation and harmony as they walk to Media. From the Book of Tobit.
For: New Years Resolution 2004
Words: 2068
Mp3: 10:00, 1.75Mb
~Read it on yuletide
~Read it on Archive of our Own
~Listen to it

Title: Tambourine Woman
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Bible
Pairings: None
Rating: G
Summary: There were quiet girls. Miriam wasn't one of them.
Words: 676
Mp3: 3:56, 1.52 Mb
~Read it on yuletide
~Read it on Archive of our Own
~Listen to it

Writhed in the Birthing of Her
Title: Writhed in the Birthing of Her
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Bible Old Testament
Pairings: Bathsheba/God/David, Esther/Xerses
Rating: 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
Words: 1803
Mp3: 10:04, 3.81 Mb
~Read it on yuletide
~Read it on Archive of Our Own
~Listen to it

Buffy Crossed with Literature

Good Literature Done Wrong I

Joss Whedon’s Pride and Prejudice

The text of Pride and Prejudice – okay I didn’t write this and I had help from Karen. 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.

Good Literature Done Wrong II

Title: Dante and Virgil’s wild and Wacky, yet Efficacious, adventures in the Lands Buffalonious, Angelic, and Britannic, with some small appearances by familiar characters: a Comedy in 3 parts (three parts each, sortof)
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Divine Comedy
Pairings: Canon
Rating: G
Summary: Dante and Virgil go to Sunnydale, L.A., and England and have wild wacky, and yet efficacious adventures
Words: Lots
Mp3:
~Read it
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Sunnydalio - Canto 1 - 15:55
Sunnydalio - Canto 2 -
Sunnydalio - Canto 3
Los Angelesio - Canto 1
Los Angelesio - Canto 2
Los Angelesio - Canto 3
Englandio - Canto 1
Englandio - Canto 2
Englandio - Canto 3

Good Literature Done Wrong III - the Final Chapter

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.

Eid fic

Title: Cup of Charity
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: eid_fic
Pairings: none or an ifrit, a jinn and an malaekah walk into a bar.
Rating: G
Summary: Mikha'il has been told to wait by the door until his cup is full. His cup is made of Styrofoam. It is a large, not a small. Umar has not been told to wait. He's waiting anyway. Danya doesn't wait at all. That's why there's sand everywhere. A story in which nothing much happens. Or a lot. Depending.
Collections: eid_fic 2009
Words: 1891
MP3: 9:42, 1.71 Mb
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Fairy Tales

Title: Queer as the Fork when the Knife Ran Away with the Spoon
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast
Pairings: Beauty/Beast
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Beauty grew up in a box. He divided himself. How could he know who he was, unless he undid the wrapping? / Beauty is a black, gay, magic using (but not abusing) man with a leather fetish and knack for roses. Beast doesn't quite know what to think (but he kind of likes it). Mom is mom and therefore awesome.
Words: 4,482
Mp3: 21:53, 8.35 Mb
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Literature

Title: She Wants Revenge
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Aeschylus - The Oresteia
Pairings: Gen
Rating: PG
Summary: She tends to the bath herself.
Words: 281
MP3: 1:51, 327Kb
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Title: Garwaf
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Lais of Marie de France
Pairings: King/Garwaf
Rating: PG.
Summary: The world is full of Garwaf, but only one Bisclavret. Or a lesson in courtesy.
For: yuletide 2009
words: 1057
Mp3: 5:23, 994Kb
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Title: Emostein
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Pairings: Victor/Creature/Henry
For: thingswithwings yuletide 2008
rating: PG.
Summary: 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.
words: 1428
Mp3: 9:08, 3.38Mb
~read it yuletide
~Archive of our Own
~listen to it

Bleak House

Title: No Jarndyce and Jarndyce
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Bleak House
Pairings: Guardian/Esther
Rating: PG
Summary: In Chancery, the ash and mud rained down. But these Twelve Twelfth Nights past the close of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the Guardian would be of good cheer. But it was not easy.
Words: 1088
MP3: 5:47, 1.01Mb
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Title: Garwaf
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Lais of Marie de France
Pairings: King/Garwaf
Rating: PG.
Summary: The world is full of Garwaf, but only one Bisclavret. Or a lesson in courtesy.
For: yuletide 2009
words: 1057
Mp3: 5:50, 2.19 Mb
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Title: Music of the morning
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Phantom of the Opera
Pairings: None
Rating: PG-13
Summary: note:Christine decides Erik is a psycho stalkerboy rapist and Raoul is a whiny twit, and runs off with Meg Giry instead.
words: 476
Mp3: 3:04, 1.17 Mb
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Really, this should be in a Lawrence of Arabia section, but... well, see above.
Title: 27 Postcards
Archive of our own
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"

Mythology

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.

The Big Sleep (with footnotes)

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.

Title: Chrysalis: A Love Story
~ported no link
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Greek Mythology
Pairings: Psyche/Eros
Rating: R
Summary: Psyche dreams stained glass butterfly wings to fly her high above the City. Eros already has his wings.
Collections: yuletide
Words: 9400
MP3: 5:05, 6.92 Mb
~Read it
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Title: Tale of the shipwecked Sailor
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: Ancient Egyptian literature
Pairings: None
Rating: G
Summary: The fresh wind in Neco's face is the sweetest of perfumes. The blue water white with foam, Ra's light shining down, are Neco's lapis-lazuli, his ivory, his gold. Then each afternoon, he sails home to his treasure.
Collections: eid_fic 2009
Words: 1891
MP3: 28:15, 6.92 Mb
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A Day at the Mall
~Copied but not linked
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.

To the Westward Shore
-not yet ported over

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

-not yet ported over
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
Author: fresne
Reader: fresne
Fandom: 1001 Arabian Nights
Pairings: Storyteller/Sultan
Rating: PG
Summary: 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.
MP3: 5:03, 890Kb
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 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

 

Battlefield Romance thing
For: strongplacebo yuletide 2008
rating: PG-13. Achilles/Penthilisilea fight and kill things.
word count: 196
Fandom: Mythology - Greek and Roman note:It was one of those battlefield romance things. Achilles, battle raging son of Thetis, with his straight spear. Penthesilea, the great-hearted daughter of man-slaying Ares, with her curving axe.

 

 
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