Fortescue
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Joined 01-06-12, id: 819283, Profile Updated: 03-28-14
Author has written 17 stories for Sci-Fi, Romance, and Fantasy.

"Some people are ridiculously talented. Me, I'm just mediocre with a smile."


Hullo. I'm Fortescue (formerly Lost But Found), and I mostly write character-focused sci-fantasy. I also love fiction far too much for my own good - certainly, it seems to take up far more of my time than real life. If you read my stuff, expect vignettes, odd ideas aplenty, and far too much focus on what goes on in other people's heads. If you like that sort of thing, welcome - you may be in for an enjoyable ride - and it's usually wise to expect a PM in reply if you review me.

I try to make all of my own avatars and cover images. If you ever want an image I use sourced, just ask - I'll have it around somewhere.

Some of my favourite writers around are Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Arthur Conan Doyle, Andy Hamilton and Joss Whedon.

If you like my writing over here, you might enjoy my blog.


Current projects: Past Lives, my favourite and most-updated project, is still ongoing. You can find "extras" such as a timeline of events and illustrations over at this page.

There's also something completely different - Red, a present for a friend, a departure from my usual subject matter but a very enjoyable love story.

Important note: If you're enjoying something that doesn't seem to have been updated for a while (and if you are, thank you!), it most likely isn't dead. I tend to work on at least a couple of projects at once, and it probably just means that my focus has shifted. Unless I've actually said that it's on hiatus, I'll be coming back to finish it ASAP. (I'm the sort of odd person that actually can write multiple stories at once.)


Knowing if you're reading a story by Fortescue

If:

- it's British, with all the slightly weird slang that goes with that;

- it has much overuse of italics and rambling nonsensical thoughts dotted around;

- books, a bookshop, a library or a pub are mentioned;

- there are copious music references to melodramatic lyrics...

then you're probably reading one of my stories. Oh, you poor thing - you really have no idea what you're in for, do you?

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Run by Racktash reviews
Terry Holloway, a werewolf, is forced from his London home by thugs. Run introduces the discrimination and trials Terry faces everyday. How will Terry confront the antagonism his race faces? A story about friendship, discrimination and confronting negatives with positives.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,608 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/21/2012 - Complete
Mirror by Lenarea G. Tiger reviews
Evil isn't born, it's made. And sometimes it's made because of love.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,948 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/10/2012 - Complete
Five Moderately Easy Steps to Having a Life by write-this-down reviews
[Slash] Liam mostly keeps to himself and spends his time painting, until one day a neighbor shows up with his mail. After that, it's only a matter of time until Liam finally gets the hang of actually having a life. OneShot.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,173 - Reviews: 155 - Favs: 653 - Follows: 49 - Published: 2/27/2007 - Complete
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Not to Yield
Chasing tales of strange draconic beasts, an explorer travels to a previously unknown isle. However, what he finds there may change him forever, and make him question everything he thought he knew... A tale of misunderstandings, dragon slayers and Victorians. Oh, and trout. Lots of trout.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,794 - Published: 7/17/2015
An Ocean And A River reviews
When I was nine, I had an imaginary friend. When I was twenty-four, I discovered he wasn't quite as imaginary as I'd thought. Two-parter.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 9,472 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 10/16/2014 - Published: 9/1/2014
Past Lives reviews
Melinda, List and Mary. One is a private investigator with a long, tangled history and an unnerving talent for exorcisms, another is her young partner, struggling to find his feet, and the other is her secretary, an ex-waitress who isn't all she seems. Vignettes and short stories featuring dreamwalking, demons, and Melinda's tangled past.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Friendship - Chapters: 54 - Words: 34,637 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 3 - Updated: 10/14/2014 - Published: 8/31/2012
To The Seas Again reviews
There's a new girl at school, Eve, who is odd, beautiful and hiding far too many secrets. Lana is becoming more and more enchanted by her, but beginning to suspect she may not be entirely human... Eve can't pretend forever, and all mermaids must eventually return to the sea.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Friendship - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,655 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 6/30/2014 - Published: 12/28/2013
Heavy
In the aftermath of a slaughter, a young king attempts to repair his kingdom and his heart.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Family/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,283 - Published: 10/18/2013 - Complete
Red reviews
All the best stories start with a couple, and sometimes - just sometimes - they start in a small café somewhere in Aberdeen.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,373 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 8/20/2013 - Published: 3/24/2013
Threads reviews
She is sentenced. Sentenced to sew eternally, they say, until her spirit finally breaks. Or her body does, and lets her soul free. A malfunctioning fairytale.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 623 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: 6/27/2013 - Complete
Signing reviews
"Make it out to Gloria," the last person at his table says, with a smile in her voice. He looks up and sees the wide smile he heard, long lashes and a woman that doesn't technically exist. "Hello," the heroine of his novel says.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,183 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/2/2013 - Complete
Hawthorne reviews
Once, there was a man. Not a particularly tall man, and not a particularly handsome one, though he'd been told different occasionally - but strong, and willful, and changeable as the tides. Brown hair, brown eyes, the stature and the chainmail of a knight. Dragon-slayer, king-servant.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,533 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5/30/2013
Anonymous reviews
He'll rob from the rich and give to the poor, because it's all he can do. He doesn't have a home, but he has hope, and the memory of trees to hide in. A paranoid computer hacker and a new twist on an old story.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,540 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Published: 5/28/2013 - Complete
Crossing The River reviews
When a mysterious, wounded swordswoman comes into his care, Martin begins to wonder: who is she? Why is she here? What, exactly, is haunting the moors, and can a killer and a healer ever come to understand each other?
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 7 - Words: 7,334 - Reviews: 4 - Follows: 3 - Updated: 5/9/2013 - Published: 12/8/2012
On Duty reviews
A park, a haircut and a meeting with Death.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 832 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: 3/27/2013 - Complete
Little Purple Flowers reviews
In which two men watch the end of the world and drink tea.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 640 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/21/2012 - Complete
Autumn reviews
It comes for us all, in the end. Four visions of Death.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,328 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/12/2012 - Complete
Scars reviews
"This was not a date; this was a dinner with my best friend in the world - simple, platonic. The one man who had never judged me, and the one man I could never imagine doing this. Yet you are." A woman, her childhood friend and a night that changes everything.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,707 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 3 - Published: 12/8/2012 - Complete
Palmistry reviews
You have such fine hands.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,407 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/27/2012 - Complete
Crew reviews
Rewritten and revised. Sci-fi ensemble drama. This is the story of the good ship Montreal and its rag-tag crew: three pilots on a mission, a team of renowned medics, three aliens and... a travelling theatre company. Cultures clash, economies collapse and war is declared, but they'll survive... somehow.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,400 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7/9/2012 - Published: 7/8/2012