31 July 2020
Hello, fellow fans!
This site was so important to me back when I created it – only eleven years ago in late 2008! The world has changed so much that it feels like eleventy years! At the time I was after an independent place to post my fic in ways that wouldn’t be under anyone else’s control.
Since then, of course, AO3 has really come into its own. I created an account there in early 2010, but I didn’t really commit to it for a long while. Now I have! I’ve been uploading a lot of my old fic over recent months, and it’s all gone onto AO3…
If you’re interested, you can find me there on AO3 as julie, along with my historical pseuds.
I’ll leave this site here, as it still gets a lovely amount of traffic, and of course I’ll reply to any comments, but otherwise this is me officially moving house.
all the love, Julie ♥
3 June 2019
Title: The Ineffable, the Infernal and the Inelegant
Author: Stew
Universe: Good Omens
Characters featured: Crowley/Aziraphale
Category, Word count: Short story; 4,500 words
Rating: R
Summary: Crowley feels at a loose end once Armageddon is averted, and he’s looking for some tempting to indulge in.
Notes: I wrote this way back when, because I loved the novel so much. Posting it now in honour of the new Amazon Prime series.
Warnings: Attempts at philosophy.
First published: 1 January 1996 in Espresso One
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13 January 2019
Title: The Heart that Made a Family
Author: Harlequin
Universe: Merlin
Characters featured: Gaius/Geoffrey
Category, Word count: Short story; 2,740 words
Rating: PG13
Summary: Gaius and Geoffrey have been together for decades, and have long been set in their own wonderful ways. But perhaps it’s not entirely unexpected that the festive season brings them more than one surprise?
Notes: Written for the WinterKnights 2018 fest.
Thank you to the prompter tari_sue for such a delightful prompt! I hope I’ve done you proud.
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13 January 2019
Title: Of Ghosts and Gooseberries
Author: Harlequin
Universe: Merlin
Characters featured: Leon, Arthur, Merlin
Category, Word count: Short story; 2,010 words
Rating: PG13
Summary: Arthur is rather surprised when Leon visits him late one night in order to read him poetry.
Notes: A humble offering for my dear friend Cello on her birthday … with apologies that the story didn’t turn out quite as Leon or I wished! (My sister suggests I write a sequel for you, for your next birthday.)
Set immediately following ep 503 The Death Song of Uther Pendragon, and humbly borrowing Poem #31 by Sappho.
Just in case it’s not clear, the word “gooseberry” in this context is an informal British usage: “a third person in the company of two people, especially lovers, who would prefer to be alone, e.g. ‘they didn’t want me playing gooseberry on their first date’.”
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13 January 2019
Title: Our Best Intentions
Author: Harlequin
Universe: Merlin
Characters featured: Merlin, Gaius
Category, Word count: PWP; 1,040 words
Rating: PG
Summary: Merlin knew he’d done the right thing in having Gaius’s love Alice arrested. So why couldn’t he sleep that night?
Notes: A follow-up to episode 309 Love in the Time of Dragons, for the Merlin Canon fest 2018.
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13 January 2019
Title: Beltane
Author: Harlequin
Universe: Merlin
Characters featured: Gaius/Merlin
Category, Word count: Short story; 4,200 words
Rating: R
Summary: Gaius hasn’t seen Merlin since the aftermath of Camlann, and misses him dreadfully, but the Beltane celebrations bring a number of visitors to Camelot along with the promise of renewed life.
Notes: For riventhorn, in humble gratitude for the beautiful story Ember Day, and also for isisanubis and moonflower999. I love that you all love these two men as much as I do.
With humble apologies to those who know far more about Beltane and all things medieval than I do. I’m afraid I went with the show’s example of wantonly borrowing and adapting only what suited the story.
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24 February 2018
Title: Play for Blood
Author: Stew
Universe: Tombstone
Characters featured: Johnny Ringo/Doc Holliday
Category, Word count: Short story; 2500 words
Rating: R
Summary: Johnny Ringo kept haunting me until I told this story (which he dictated, mumbling and delirious, to me in the small hours one morning). Problem is, he haunts me still…
First published: 1 January 1996 in Espresso 1
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24 February 2018
Title: Then I Defy You, Stars
Author: Stew
Universe: Tombstone
Characters featured: Doc Holliday/Juliet (OFC), Doc Holliday & Wyatt Earp
Category, Word count: Story; 34,000 words
Rating: R
Summary: My version of Doc’s early years, his affair with the cousin he oh-so-briefly mentions in the film, and his later life, including his friendship with Wyatt. It is almost entirely a figment of my overactive imagination.
Notes: With thanks to William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, John Keats and Frederic Chopin for quotes and inspiration.
First published: 1 January 1996 in Espresso 1
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23 February 2018
Title: For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour
Author: Stew
Universe: Tombstone
Characters featured: Billy Breckenridge/Mr Fabian
Category, Word count: Short story; 3300 words
Rating: R
Summary: Everyone thinks Fabian is the most beautiful man in town – so what hope does a lowly bank clerk have of gaining Fabian’s attention?
Warnings: This story includes the deaths of two main characters, as shown in the film and written in the novelisation.
Notes: The classical words come from Shakespeare’s HENRY V.
First published: 1 January 1996 in Espresso 1
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22 February 2018
Title: Requiescat
Author: Stew
Universe: Tombstone
Characters featured: Doc Holliday/Johnny Ringo, Doc Holliday/Wyatt Earp
Category, Word count: Short story; 8900 words
Rating: NC17
Summary: Doc Holliday is surprised by Johnny Ringo and fascinated by Wyatt Earp.
Warnings: This story includes the deaths of two main characters, as shown in the film.
First published: 1 January 1996 in Espresso 1
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