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Four years ago I began reading MFMM fic. Impressed with the quality and creativity of much of what I found, I stuck around and starting writing my own a few months later.
I had unusual goals for my fics. On the one hand, I was a mechanic taking an engine apart to learn what made it work. On the other I was rehearsing, overcoming writer’s block and getting back in a groove for the writing I do professionally.
Events led me to orphan most of the works, although I remained proud of the quality of the writing.
But the world keeps spinning, and recent events have led me back to a re-appreciation of many of those stories, seeing a continuity between past and present where earlier I had only seen rupture. Now, I see a deep intuition at work in the version of Phryne I constructed in these stories.
I’ve posted a few links here, rescuing the stories from the depths of the archive. These are the ones that particularly hold up for me -- that still ring with a deep truth. Perhaps some of you will enjoy reading them again now as I did -- or reading them for the first time.
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What Comfort in Truth
Rosie returns to Melbourne to testify at Sidney Fletcher's trial and unexpectedly lodges for the night at Wardlow. While there, she asks Jack an uncomfortable question.
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A Message to Your Soul
Phryne Fisher doesn't believe in soulmates. A bartender in Mykonos thinks she's wrong.
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Blue
Phryne faces a decision involving her niece Lillian.
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Mind Over Matter
September, 1937. Phryne returns to Australia after burying her father.
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Private Island
In the aftermath of the Sanderson case, police business puts too much distance between Jack and Phryne, so she proposes a little adventure.