Original Fiction fanfic
Orphea's Song
This story has 3 reader comments.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm making this viewable to all and sundry
beause I decided that the basic premise is unrecoverably flawed.
The entire text is first-draft quality. If you do decide to read
it, I would very much like to know where you stop, even (or,
rather, particularly) if it's early in the text.
In 2037, a mistake in a nanotechnology laboratory leads
to the destruction of Britain. Tens of millions of people are
evacuated to the continent before the advancing nanomachines
reach their homes and so survive, but the European economy is
crippled for decades.
In 2067 the world has almost recovered, and the world's greatest
living musician, Orphea, is just about to begin a tour commemorating
the loss of Britain. An orphan from the refugee camps, she's a
rags-to-riches tale straight out of a fairy tale. Everyone knows and
loves her. Including one freelance journalist, who thinks that she has
found something strangely wrong about Orphea's origins...
The Artist and the City
This story has 2 reader comments.
A re-write in English of a short story I wrote in Swedish
a few years back. It was meant to be published in an anthology,
but the publishing company vanished without a trace before they
got as much as a single word published.
The Proteus Manuscript
NaNoWriMo 2004
This story is flawed in many ways. Some of them come from
the fact that it got cut down by 2/3 of the intended story to
get anywhere close to 50k words and one month of writing time.
Others are just plain bad writing. One of the main characters is
too dull for words and needs a complete personality transplant.
The bad guys are hardly visible and don't make sense. Several
supporting characters have no reason to be in the story at all.
The central mystery is never explained. Quite a few things about
the background don't quite make sense.
If, in spite of all this, you still want to read it, feel
free.