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Fan Fiction

What is "Fan Fiction"?

  • Tales told to keep away the darkness. 

  • Stories unsuitable to the corporate mind of commercial TV. 

  • Tall tales they didn't have the time/money/inclination to tell us.

Fan Fic started with Fanzines, stories told to continue the adventures of favorite characters from Science Fiction stories and films.  The first ones I ever saw were mimeographed.  Quality varied from very professional to one step up from waste paper, but all of them shared one thing.  There was a love of the characters from Books, Film, Radio and TV in all of them.

We want to take them out to play, to see how they'll react to other situations and people.  We do things to them we would never do to "real people" and revel in it. Thanks to the Internet fan fiction no longer takes months to get from originator to reader.  No more corflu, no fighting with stencils, you can make a fool of yourself overnight.

There are some characters that reach us and won't let us go.  Kirk, Spock and McCoy. Duncan MacLeod, Joe Dawson and Methos. What did they do before we met them?  What happened after the series/episode ended?  We speculate on their drinking habits, their love lives and create new people and places for their adventures.  Fan fiction nourishes our imaginations and fuels our fantasies.

Bill ShatnerThe first  time I got involved with this odd phenomenon, it was the original Star Trek. 

Star Trek-TOS, hit all my buttons. Heroes always touch me and Kirk was special. William Ware Theiss who added so much to the show with his amazing outfits has his own page..

Then, in 1992, a local TV station started carrying a new series.  It had swords, 'a kind of magic' and a star who looked terribly familiar.  I wandered into the "Highlander" world and was immediately taken willing prisoner. 

The writing on the show, particularly after Mr. Abramowitz came on board, impressed me. I watched, enjoying the grace and deadly beauty of the sword fights and the slow, gradual development of the main character.  DM-Finale IHe was not cardboard.  He had a vulnerability that made him human in spite of his immortality.  He had friends, enemies and a history. 

The flashbacks were lush, the costumes elegant, and the star...  I was never attracted to "Tall Dark and Handsome" before, but this one... Oh, my.

Second season Joe Dawson, (Jim Byrnes) appeared and I had two fascinating men to watch.  In the third season The Powers That Be, added still one more man to the mix.  Duncan (Adrian Paul) was tall, dark and beautiful.  Joe, a silvering bear of a man and Methos, (Peter Wingfield) well, the man had to be one of the elvenkind.  MethosAll this and swords too?  I was in heaven.

Then came "Archangel".  The devastating death of the young student/friend hit me harder than the death of any earlier TV character.  It did something I'd sworn would never happen.  It forced me back into the waiting arms of Fan Fiction. I couldn't leave well enough alone.  Over the past few years I've written novellas, short stories and created Cyberart based on the characters. 

Two stories, "Demons in the Darkness" and "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" are archived at the Highlander Quill Club Library along with Part One of "Illusions and Memories". The link above will take you to the main entrance.

I'm listed there as Merrie. All of the Maggie Stories are rated NC-17 for sex (m/m, m/f) and violence.

This site is a wonderful collection of Eng's art work and stories of all kinds from dozens of authors.

The Seventh Dimension

Some of my stories are also available through The Seventh Dimension Archives.  The Text format works well for computers with older, slower browsers.  This site has me listed as Merrie Gail.

WARNING
The Stories listed below are Adult in nature.  Many  of them are Slash and involve homoerotic as well as hetroerotic activities.  If you are under age in your demesne or simply prefer not to read such, feel free to leave.

These stories draw on characters and other properties of the Highlander and Star Trek universes created by Panzer-Davis, Rysher and Gene Roddenberry.  There is no intention to infringe on their copywrite and no profit is being made either from their characters or other characters deriving from the fevered brain of the web mistress. Please respect the work that has gone into the creation of these pieces and do not link, repost or use any of the materials here without permission.  Thanks.

Futures Without End IV

The On-line version of the 'Zine is now available

Descending Angel
(10/98)

In the aftermath of Archangel, Methos and Joe search Paris for the missing Highlander

Dreamer/Nightmare
(12/98)

Duncan has just met a Legend, Methos has found a Hero

 

Requiem
(10/98)

"In the end, there can be only one."

 

Mists Of Time - Duncan
(1/99)

Time to leave town after O'Rourke, Duncan's POV

 

What Happens to the Hero?
(5/99)

A cry of pain in the darkness...


Mists Of Time - Methos
(1/99)

Time to leave town after O'Rourke, Methos' POV

 

The Journey Begins
(6/99)

Joe gets a look at MacLeod's 1st
years as an Immortal.
Out of the Darkness
(6/99)

Duncan left Paris after "Not to Be"  but there's no escape from the Game.

Demons in the Darkness
Maggie I
(2/98)

After Richie's death, Methos and Joe enlist Amanda and Maggie to find MacLeod

 

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
Maggie II
(3/98)

The return of Cassandra
(Temporarily Unavailable)

 

Illusions and Memories
Maggie III
(7/99)

Methos in the 15th Century
Tales of Joan of Arc

All Through The Night
(1/2000)

AU Tessa

 

Aftershocks
10/2000

The Forces of the Quickening...

 

Daybreak and Morning

7/10/2001

Journeys end in lover's meetings

 

Memorial Day

9/12/01

Joe, and a day to remember

Midnight

3/9/02

After the Horsemen, complications...

From Futures Without End IV

Evensong
6/17/02
In the aftermath of the madness that was Kell -
Duncan MacLeod has another Battle to win

The Lyric Wheel Challenges...

Amand-r, a talented fictioneer in her own right, got together with a couple of friends and decided to create a challenge by exchanging a lyric, poem or other source and writing a four to eight page story using a line or more from the source.

It escalated as these things so often do. Here are some of my entries. Lots more entries can be found here:
The Lyric Wheel Forum

The Millennium Lyric Wheel
On My Own
(1/2000)

Duncan missing an
old friend

 

The Crossover Lyric Wheel
Epilogue to V'ger
(7/2000)

Two strong men, heroes, meet for the first time

 

The Halloween Lyric Wheel
Champion
11/2000

The walls between the Worlds are thin on Halloween...

The Watcher Lyric Wheel
(8/2000)
Jillian's Tale

Adam Pierson has a friend...

The Quickening Lyric Wheel

Of Books and Swords...
6/14/2001
All kinds of things can show up at
an auction...

 

The Picture/Fairy Tale Wheel

Remember Tam Lin
9/05/01
Young Duncan is Dreaming...

The Lyric Wheel -
On the Street Where You Live

Torchlight and Memories

5/15/02

MacLeod returns to the Northwest

 

The Origins Lyric Wheel

Sunny Days, Lonely Nights...

11/8/02

A sketch drawn in the past grants a moment's warmth to a lonely present

The Lyric Wheel
Leaving Holy Ground

There Comes a Time

04/30/05

 

The Lyric Wheel
Summer, 2004

An Old Fashioned Boy

07/25/04

 

The Lyric Wheel
New Years, 2004

The End is the Beginning

The Lyric Wheel-2nd Edition

Fall holiday-Autumn 2005

And the Fault is All My Own

The Fifteen Minute Challenges

Members of a small writer's group were bemoaning the fact that we weren't writing as much and the comment was made that perhaps we needed to just write something fast, let it flow, as it were. So, several ideas were thrown out and the race was on.

Carmel, President of Highlander World Wide, offered to give us webspace and we've been having a lot of fun with it. Use the link above to read the other contributions. Good stories by an assortment of authors.

"Without A Word"

Methos does have a habit of dissapearing...

"Out the Otherside

After all he's been through, Duncan is a Survivor

"Archangel Revised"

Duncan has found a refuge, but not from dreams

"I Miss You Most of All" I

Mother's Son

Saying goodbye

"I Miss You Most of All" II

"The Leaves of Autumn"

Falling leaves remind Duncan of a missing friend

 

"If Only"

Sad words...

Additional Challenges

Sometimes a Challenge is just something that comes up in conversation, nothing official... Sometimes these are even more fun than the formal ones.

 

The Highlander Holy Ground Forum MWC

Winter's Nights

updated 1/22/04

 

Taselby's Challenge

Inquiring Minds

Methos' flat is empty...

 

Killa's Challenge

It's Not About Revenge

This isn't my usual type of thing, but Consonne is such arrogant bastard that the temptation was too much.

 

What Happened after...

Coda, Studies in Light

Tessa and Duncan

Swordsman's Challenge

"Jumping to Conclusions"