Entries tagged with character:foreverknight:reese

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FK Fanfic: "Party Favors 2011" (8 Drabbles)

These are my half of the "door prize" drabbles (100 words each) written for the on-time players in FKFicFest 2011. (See the whole slate for eight more by amilyn. My thanks to her for beta-reading mine, and for writing hers!) They're assorted, answering a diversity of prompts.

	Available:	The Ficathon \| My Fansite \| The AO3
	Length:	8x100 words
	Date:	FKFicFest 07/29/11
	Rating:	Assorted
	Characters:	Nick, Natalie, Lacroix, Janette, Feliks, Reese, Jenny, Jody, Perry
	Quotation:	"She had been growing, working, straining toward this almost since she could remember, before her school chorus, back to her dad’s cassette tapes. Stravinsky, Parker, Lennon... even polka."

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FK Recommendation March 2008

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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FK Fanfic: "In the Light of Day"

Someday, I may write a sequel to this novella, and it may be called "Under a Long Shadow." Someday. If I figure out the theme. I know what happens next, you see, but I'm not sure it matters, because "In the Light of Day" fulfills its whole original purpose. To write, I must have purpose.

"In the Light of Day" is a parallel-reality tale. The break with canon comes after "Fever," and the story then progresses through "Dead of Night," "The Games Vampires Play" and "The Human Factor," reworking each episode given Nick's new mortality, until things are so different that the parallel snaps, and the alternate reality floats free.

One tidbit of which I'm fond here is Natalie's on-the-fly psychoanalysis of Lacroix, in which she concludes that no one will ever love another person as much as he has, over eight centuries, convinced himself he loved Fleur. I also like the garden I built for Feliks Twist (but I really owe him a nice story of his own for his fate here). And the flashbacks! I did more research for them than any before or since (so far). For this story, I became queen of a certain slice of Trivial Pursuit questions. :-)

•	Title:	"In the Light of Day"
•	Length:	~53,000 words
•	Date:	Posted to FKFic-L in October 2003
•	Rating:	PG-13 (m/f)
•	Summary:	Nick regains his humanity, but he's not the only one. And no one is prepared for all the consequences.
•	Setting:	After "Fever," with flashbacks 1226-1228
•	Characters:	Natalie, Nick, Norma, Stonetree, Urs, Tracy, Reese, Vachon, Feliks Twist, Lacroix, Myra Schanke, Janette, Others
•	Quotation:	"Nick strolled back to his loft in the crisp morning light, feeling everything was right with his world. Granted, his arm was in a sling, his shoulder throbbed like thunder, he remained on enforced medical leave, his partner might never again pass a police physical, and the Enforcers could well be coming to get him and the woman he loved..."

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Drive-By Dorothy Praise: Reese

Is Dorothy not the most outstanding, as well as most prolific, writer of Captain Joe Reese? Is there anyone who does Reese better? I've been rereading Dorothy's 1998 FK novel "Evidence" (which I've requested permission to officially recommend on Bright Knight for February, but of course have not yet heard back because I asked only yesterday) and while there are many aspects on which to comment, including a nice recognition of Natalie's accumulated traumas, I am once again bowled over by her spot-on rendering of Captain Reese.

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FK Fanfic: "Grievances"

My meta-parody "Grievances" is one of those few pieces that have never yet made it to fkfic-l. I archived it on Bright Knight in 2001, but as far as I knew, no one read it until tv_elf recommended it on her LJ two years ago, when several people kindly commented on it.

It was my first attempt at comedy (well, since my contributions to the My Parental Units Invaded Earth and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt FK/DS/XF humor zine, anyway).

•	Title:	"Grievances"
•	Length:	~2,900 words
•	Date:	Summer 2001
•	Rating:	G
•	Summary:	Canonical characters organize to protest the working conditions in fanfiction.
•	Setting:	Where characters await stories
•	Characters:	Vachon, Fleur, Janette, Lacroix, Schanke, Cohen, Stonetree, Nick, Natalie, Others
•	Quotation:	"Bad day on the fic list? Let me guess -- you spent an entire shift making love to Tracy Vetter for no emotionally established reason in no logically explained manner, and you need an aspirin and a shower?"

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FK Fanfic: "Corners of the Mind"

This was my first lengthy fanfiction. I'm still pleased with it. It shows traits of its age (among other things, I appear to have owned stock in semi-colons), but it musters an actual mystery, and builds a future and a past for the characters. When writing it, I didn't make an outline, and I'm not sure I even knew how it would end when I began -- imperatives when writing today -- but it came like an onrushing wave, covering all the ground, and then there it was.

Tracy's guy, Paul, is my best original character yet. Her coworkers and the people from whom she gets clues aren't just stick figures, either. I seem to have felt much more free to invent guest stars in those days, for some reason. You can't let them overshadow the canonical characters, of course, but the presence of guest stars is certainly canonical; rereading this story has made me wonder where that's gone for me.

•	Title:	"Corners of the Mind"
•	Length:	~32,200 words
•	Date:	Posted to FKFic-L in June 1997
•	Rating:	PG-13 (m/f)
•	Summary:	Resurging memories plunge Tracy into the unsolved mysteries of Natalie's murder and Nick and Vachon's disappearances.
•	Setting:	Three years after "Last Knight"
•	Characters:	Tracy, Reese, Lacroix, Janette, Vachon, Screed, Bourbon, Jenny Schanke, Others
•	Quotation:	"She told him everything she had learned about that wrinkle in their reality -- everything, except that her own blood spoke of apricots and calla lilies. For now, she kept that to herself."

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FK Fanfic: "Happiness Is"

Fluff. Utter, unremitting fluff. My first fiction response to "Last Knight" was apparently thoroughgoing denial wrapped in sappiness and sprinkled with humor. Eeep! A few years on, this would have been satire, but at the time, I meant it just as it is.

•	Title:	"Happiness Is"
•	Length:	~1,700 words
•	Date:	Posted to FKFic-L in June 1996
•	Rating:	G (m/f)
•	Summary:	Natalie and Nick chat about friends and family, happily ever after.
•	Setting:	"Nobody Dies; Nobody Ever Dies"
•	Characters:	Natalie, Nick, references to everyone else (that's right: everyone!)
•	Quotation:	"How about you, Natalie Lambert Knight, love of my eight hundred and four years? Are you happy?"