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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

This retrospective is rapidly catching up with me, as we come to "Better Late," written just last summer. I have only three more stories from then to now to list. Good thing I have a new one underway!

In fact, "Better Late" is not, in all ways, quite as new as last summer. I first drafted a version of it in 2002; it was from Nick's perspective, shorter, and more conventional. My perceptive beta-readers didn't like it. So I set it aside, and did not seriously pick it up again until spring 2007. In addition to being from Natalie's perspective, the final version has flashbacks, and a presence by Lacroix, that were nowhere in the original. I believe it's stronger for the changes. I'm bemused that it took me so long to grow into a capacity for those improvements.

	•	Title:	"Better Late"
	•	Length:	~6,100 words
	•	Date:	Posted to FKFic-L on July 30, 2007
	•	Rating:	PG (m/f)
	•	Summary:	Natalie suspects more behind a change in their daughter's custody arrangements than her ex-husband Nick has said.
	•	Setting:	2012 Toronto
	•	Characters:	Natalie, Nick, Lacroix, Others
	•	Quotation:	"One reason of many for not telling Joanie had been to keep her innocent by the Enforcers' code if they ever came for Natalie and Nick. Silence was safety."

What's good? For March, the FK recommendation-of-the-month project features Dorothy's novel "Evidence" (1998), set shortly after "Trophy Girl." The Reese subplot (in and around a serial-killer cop plot, Renaissance flashbacks and some Natalie psychology) makes me think again that as Dorothy is most often publicly praised for her N&N romance content, her spot-on rendering of Reese is perhaps an underappreciated gift to the fandom.

What's new? In February 2008, fkfic-l happily saw these two new stories posted.

"What Would Happen" (an FK/Smallville crossover, adult) (1 Part) by abby82
"Steamer Trunk Space" (a Janette vignette) (1 Part) by me

At least, I presume it was happily. I was happy at the advent of new fiction, even though one of the stories was my own. I would be happier if there were more, always. Fandom does not live by discussion alone.

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