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Wasting Time the Helen Raven Way |
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“... that she did, with malice aforethought, devote twelve years to making Bodie and Doyle miserable, and is now entering her second year of doing the same to poor, poor Wesley. This is the menace that must be confronted if our fucked-up, insecure, fictional men are ever again to sleep safe in one another’s beds.” |
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Kungai |
The full history of the relationship between Gunn and Wesley in the Birthdayverse. |
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The Long Term |
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The Tailor-Made Sequence |
An A/U horror fantasy: Bodie as the angel of death (sort of). Two short stories followed (two years later) by a novella. |
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Heat-Trace |
An A/U drama of... um... psychological-realism? If I’m allowed to claim realism for my own work. Bodie is in CI5 and Doyle is a police constable. They meet and become lovers when work takes them to North Africa, and decide to continue the relationship when they get back to London but to keep it secret. They find it steadily more difficult to make one another happy, given the demands of their jobs, the strain of keeping the relationship secret, and their particular psychological needs. |
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A sequel to Sebastian’s Siren sequence. The story does not stand on its own, and in the HTML version, I have given (unauthorised) links to the Sebastian stories at the start of the story. |
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An A/U semi-romance. Doyle was a police constable but is now a massage therapist, and Bodie, recently invalided out of CI5, is Doyle’s newest, least-friendly client. |
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The Same River |
A horror story. Three years after Bodie had died in action, mechanoids have just been issued to the security services and Doyle has come back to CI5 as a Trainer, socialising the machines to the point where they can start working effectively with humans. From the zine Noughts and Crosses |
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Technique |
A short and twisted piece of porn, of which I am still very proud. I’d got so much flak, though, for “The Same River”, that at the time I wimped out and published the story under a different pseud: Wild Horses. From the zine Chiaroscuro |
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The Cook and |
An A/U science-fiction domestic drama. The year is 1983 and an alien fleet appears in orbit around Earth, wanting to establish a trading base and headed by the royal family, who all wear masks. Bodie is with CI5 and is part of the British security team for the negotiations on board the flagship, when he receives an offer of marriage from one of the alien princes, who he had talked to for maybe five minutes and whose face he had not seen. |
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A Balcony and a View of the Sea |
An A/U science-fiction domestic drama that has the same underlying premise as “The Cook and the Warehouseman” but that heads off in a different direction within a matter of paragraphs. It’s a completely separate novel, not a rewrite, and can be read without any knowledge of the first novel. The angst levels are probably lower than in the first, and I have reason to believe that the jokes are even better. |
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Darcy at Cambridge, paired with a man I made up out of my own brain (oh, all right, think Hutch, out of “Starsky and Hutch”). It’s bizarre: I spend months obsessed with “Pride and Prejudice” and my admiration for Elizabeth is a large part of that; but my main way of expressing this fascination is to arrange for Darcy to have sex with another man. Do you think my subconscious could be the teensiest bit fucked? Or can I count it as a victory for my feminist principles that I deliberately set the story well before the action of “Pride and Prejudice” so that Elizabeth wouldn’t be undermined? |
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