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Author has written 18 stories for Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Life, Humor, Fable, General, and General. I'm Smudge and I write science fiction and fantasy. The stuff you'll find on here is mostly ideas I've spent some time thinking about but know I'm too lazy to develop into longer stories. I have a lot of ideas but I often end up abandoning stories I'm working on because I get bored of them; this way I can explore a lot of ideas and at the very least get them down in their basic form as short stories. Imagine putting Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman into a blender, then travelling back in time and adding Douglas Adams when he was still alive. That's sort of what I aspire to be like (not a murderer of random authors, I'm talking about the thick gloop of genius you'd end up with). Disclaimer: I don't mean to say that I am a gloop of genius. I just aspire to be one. Here are some concepts I'm interested in and you may expect to see in my fiction: Gender and sexuality (not gender and sexuality issues, those are boring. What I want to do is make gender and sexuality irrelevant. And I like to mess with the gender of other peoples characters, but that comes under fanfiction.) Doppelgangers, mirror images and alternate universes (this can also be tied in with my first interest - what if one of your genes was different and you happened to be the other gender? How would this make you different?) Transformation (from one sex to another, from human to animal and vice versa - and some of my characters are half forms.) Re-writing fairy tales (and I like to mess around with Alice in Wonderland, changing the genders of all of the characters, reversing it so that the white rabbit follows Alice into our world, exploring the relationships between seemingly two-dimensional characters.) Hypothetical futures (what if? scenarios - see "They Came At Us With Dragons." I like to imagine how the human race would react to threats we thought were impossible) | |||||||||
1. ChoicesA man sits in his car in somebody else's driveway, alone with his hallucinations and a decision to make by dawn.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,904 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-6-09 - Published: 6-6-092. The Mirror » reviewsA short series of linked poems and set pieces that chronicle a woman's breakdown.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 7 - Words: 689 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-21-09 - Published: 5-21-093. Ballad of Jack reviewsWritten for a creative writing class. Ballad of Jack the Ripper.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 350 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-20-09 - Published: 5-20-094. MirrorA poem I wrote for a week-long university exam. The prompt was "a 30 line poem about reputation". I wrote about a footballer with a secret.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 278 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-2-09 - Published: 2-2-095. Forgotten reviewsWritten for a week-long university assignment. The prompt was to write a story about an ultimately unsuccessful search. An old man wakes to find the sheets cold beside him.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,630 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-2-09 - Published: 2-2-096. How The Rat Got Her TailThis is the story, Best Beloved, of how the little rat girl, the cleverest one in the nest, went out to discover things for her very self. A 'Just So' story.Complete - Fable - Fiction Rated: K - English - Adventure/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,608 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-26-09 - Published: 1-26-097. Drunks Wha HaeA parody of or, as I like to think of it, an homage to Scots Wha Hae by Robert Burns. The original concept was "Ode to my hangover" but then I got fancy with it.Complete - Humor - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 244 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-14-09 - Published: 1-14-098. They Came At Us With Dragons reviewsWe thought we'd reached the limits of human knowledge, proved beyond a doubt that we are alone in the universe and explained away the supernatural with science. We were wrong.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 498 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-9-09 - Published: 1-9-099. Culture ShockI wanted to write something from the viewpoint of a being that saw the "essences" of people, objects, events and speech and different colours... so here's a first contact from the alien's point of view.Complete - Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 440 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-8-09 - Published: 1-8-0910. A Martian In A Shopping CentreIn my creative writing seminar we were asked to write a poem based on "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" by Craig Raine. The title we were given was "A Martian in Princesshay" a local shopping centre.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 208 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-31-08 - Published: 10-31-0811. Somewhere Else reviewsOne drone among thousands has a secret wish to be free. He follows a signpost to Somewhere Else and finds himself in a mysterious land that you may find disturbingly familiar. Of course, that's if I'm motivated enough to finish writing it.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 893 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-25-08 - Published: 9-25-0812. A Dish Gone ColdAn assassin is about to undertake her final assignment. Written for the prompt My Sweet Revenge on UKFur, so the characters are Anthro.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,027 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-31-08 - Published: 7-31-0813. Creative WritingUnleash your imagination...Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 456 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-31-08 - Published: 7-31-0814. John reviewsOne man's Happily Ever After is another man's Hate Crime.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,489 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-28-08 - Published: 7-28-0815. Agent Ferrett and the Secret SantaThis was a secret santa present for my housemate. It's like a James Bond novel set in my mind. With vicious fairy lights, a Yeti, an agent in disguise as an elf and a bunny.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,387 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-11-07 - Published: 12-11-0716. Truth or Dare reviewsTypical abduction story with a twist and some interesting aliens. Language is clean, but it's a little scary in a Dr Who kind of way. OK, it's not very scary, really.Complete - Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,722 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-10-07 - Published: 2-10-0717. Corridor of Infinite Destiny reviewsThe Cloaked Stranger is the last of his kind. He wanders his corridor into infinity, helping those who need to be helped to their destiny. This is his story. It's a little angsty, but when you're as old as the world, you experience a lot of loss.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,832 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-10-07 - Published: 2-10-0718. The Next Best ThingIt's not until after her death that Zodiac learns what it is to be alive. Rated T for some violence and the death of a character. Twice.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,179 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-10-07 - Published: 2-10-07
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