Sunday, July 20, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: Mission on Mimban

Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: Mission on Mimban

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Luke Skywalker pushed the hyperdrive lever of his X-wing, returning the snub-fighter to subspace. A murky green-white sphere sat ahead with its star, Circarpous Major, angled behind him so they approached the planet’s dayside.

He frowned at the transponder in his cockpit. Mara’s presence in his mind approached. The transponder pinged as her X-wing rippled into existence on his port side.

“Rogue Three reporting in,” Mara Jade said crisply over the comms.


Summary: Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade’s exploration of Mimban is derailed by the unexpected Imperial presence on the planet and their way off-planet depends on finding the Kaiburr crystal before the Imperials do.

2019: the end of the first story of Rescue the Farmboy AU (Liberation) is in sight, so what to start next is bubbling up. Unexpected Consequences is outlined and I don't foresee needing a lot of research to get started on it. Then of course there's the next novel in Rescue the Farmboy's series covering ESB events. But I'm not ready to start another novel.

I've already written a short story for Rescue the Farmboy set after the Battle of Yavin and before Hoth. Another short idea I had was Luke and Mara getting the snot kicked out of them while on a separate mission and that finally gets rid of any lingering doubts over Mara's loyalties and also makes Obi-Wan move healing techniques up in the lesson plans. Nothing else gelled until I was fixing my Darth Vader issues in the outline and realized the background crazy from Splinter of the Mind's Eye can be that mission with a lot of tweaking.

And now in 2025, Mission on Mimban is available to read. I hope you enjoy this latest novel in the Rescue the Farmboy series.

Tags: #my fic#six sentence sunday#star wars legends#star wars#luke x mara#luke skywalker#mara jade#leia organa#han solo#obi-wan kenobi#darth vader#padme amidala#original trilogy AU#rescue the farmboy AU

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: One More Service

Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: One More Service

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Obi-Wan sighed in the telepathic conversation and his body in meditation followed it. Master Yoda, they should be told the truth.

No! As hard as it was to communicate like this, Yoda’s meaning was clear and strong as transparisteel. Lose them to the Dark Side for attachments we will not. Train them in what they must know to defeat the Sith, Master Obi-Wan. May the Force be with you.


Summary: Princess Leia Organa of the remaining Alderaanians has a question over something Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi said to her. She finally gets a chance to ask about it after the evacualtion of the Yavin IV base is complete.

It had always bugged me from first viewing the Original Trilogy that Princess Leia never got a title upgrade to Queen when the Queen of Alderaan so very clearly died. My answer to that is publicly adopted Leia was never going to inherit the Throne of Alderaan and it was due to go to another branch of the family, which is now also dead. After I had plotted out how the Original Trilogy events would change in the Rescue the Farmboy AU, I had a few more ideas for smaller stories that fit into this AU and answered some of my lingering issues. So I decided to fit them in between the novels. This story is the first of those, and I hope you enjoy it.

Sunday, July 06, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: Liberation

Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: Liberation

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Luke Skywalker tightened his grip on his duffel bag and strode off the landing platform. The mass of other beings in the spaceport walkways slowed his gait. He gazed up and down at the massive buildings that dwarfed the liner he and Biggs had just disembarked on this local afternoon. The wind gusting over and around the aerodrome tugged at his shaggy blond hair. The sharply acidic smell of the air irritated his nose. He clenched his teeth. He wasn't gawking at Coruscant like the spacers said he would.


Summary: The comment said: "Now I want a Star Wars AU where Luke went to the Imperial Academy and his name set off all kinds of alarms." And my muse wanted that too, and added "What if Luke became the damsel in distress; the one who needed rescuing from the Death Star?"

The first notes of this alternate universe take on Star Wars were dated for May 12, 2016. I forget if it was a comment on one of the movie essays or if it was on one of the book reviews for the Extended Universe Legends line, but it was a comment in Tor.com's Star Wars collection. The conversation was on how nobody really tried all that hard to hide Luke Skywalker from Vader/Empire. The comment said: "Now I want a Star Wars AU where Luke went to the Imperial Academy and his name set off all kinds of alarms." And my muse wanted that too, and added "What if Luke became the damsel in distress; the one who needed rescuing from the Death Star?"

The plot bunny started hopping and damn, this idea had the potential of fixing the prequels and being so much better than the fix-it fanfic I wrote in high school. This series is so much better than that and I hope you enjoy it.

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Star Wars: Crude Matter

Star Wars: Crude Matter

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Jade’s Fire swooped gently over Anzat’s grasslands and the comm system chimed that Mara’s prey was in voice broadcast range. She toggled it on. “I got your text comm and my ETA is fifteen minutes, Skywalker. Anything I need to be alert for on the ground?”

For a moment, she wondered if he would respond. The way the text comm had been phrased she thought it had been sent through his astromech droid. The landing beacon that she was flying toward was bound to be the droid’s work. The Force wasn’t giving her a warning, but that didn’t mean she’d find a conscious Luke Skywalker.


Summary: Mara Jade answers a comm from Luke Skywalker. Maybe she should stop doing that.

This story is also known as my muse having a "you want to write what now?" reaction. Early in 2019, the Star Wars Fic Whining Circle (aka the Slack group of fellow writers I whine to) issued a writing challenge with a pair of kinks picked at random. My random selections were gender switch and aphrodisac.

They offered to have me draw again but I didn't want to take a chance on getting a worse pair. So I went away to think about it. The muse gave me the plot line. Excellent, that was quick! Shared it with the Slack group and JediMordsith summed up the theme for me:

We live our lives on the boundary where luminous beings meet crude matter.
I hope you enjoy this story.

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li: The Real Ending

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li: The Real Ending

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

The underling swallowed hard as he paused in his report. He wished he had not lost the office draw on who had to give news to their boss. "The Thai government has seized the assets of the holding company, as well as stopped the demolition of the slums."

The man in the grey business suit did not turn from the plate glass window, looking down at the night life. "Enough assets were left behind to fool Interpol into thinking they crippled Shadaloo?" His accent was vaguely Asian, sounding even more so coming from so fair a Caucasian.


Summary: The Schoolgirl destroyed the monster who destroyed her family. Or did she?

Let me be straight up with two facts: Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li was a bad movie and Neal McDonough was the reason I paid money to see it in the theater. The first Street Fighter movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia was campy bad, but fun. The plot and characters make sense within the movie. I've got no problems with using a video game as the source material and changing things as long as it makes internal sense and improves the story (see my Legend of Zelda fanfics for example). The movie becomes fanfiction of the video game, and enjoyable in its own right if done correctly. Now what makes me writing this little short story to fix canon material so odd is I did it to reverse something seen on screen. I have filled in plot holes, revealed more backstory, expanded characters, and extrapolated their futures, but if someone died in canon, they were dead in my fanfiction. But Bison's death was such a boneheaded, idiotic, and potentially franchise-killing move, I had to reverse it. I hope you enjoy the story.

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Tin Man/Medical Investigation: Alchemy

Tin Man/Medical Investigation: Alchemy

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

At first the people would say good luck had Princess DG and her companions visiting Finaqua when the town of Neverdale fell ill. Her compassionate heart would have made her travel with the Queen to see what new calamity had befallen the citizens of the O.Z. Instead the eldest daughter and the Consort accompanied the Queen, and the frenzied messenger had another member of the Royal Family as a destination.

He straightened his travel-stained uniform. All the Heroes of the Eclipse sat in the gazebo by the lakeshore. Wyatt Cain's reputation as the last sight whoever upset Princess DG saw was already legendary, but the Viewer and the former Headcase were just as bad. Oh well, at least he will die in service to his Queen. "Your Highness."


Summary: A mysterious illness suddenly puts DG in charge and she seeks help where no one in the O.Z. expected her to.

After ErinM_4600 introduced me to Medical Investigation and fanfic based on it, the muse was intrigued with somehow getting the MI cast to interact with the Tin Man cast. It lurked in the back brain for years, working the snarls out.

So when the TM Challenge 4th Annual Big Damn Challenge said crossovers were okay, I started writing Alchemy on June 4, 2011. Each section of the story matched up to a prompt from the prompt table, but I didn't use them all. I hope you enjoy the story.

Sunday, June 08, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Tin Man: Not His Kink

Tin Man: Not His Kink

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

DG never expected to wake up in the O.Z. tied to a chair with a ball gag in her mouth. Zero leered at her, so it was still the O.Z. "We were afraid you would miss the guest of honor." He seized her chin. She shook her head out of Zero's grasp with a glare. The four former Longcoats behind Zero chortled. "The Princess woke up grouchy."


Summary: Zero knew her weakness. And he would make her help torture Cain. She wouldn't let herself cry. She had to get Cain out of this. This wasn't his kink.

Once upon a time (2009), I put aside all fiction to work on the Master of Arts Exam Part One (otherwise known as the thrice-damned Faulkner paper from Hell). My muse was not happy with this development; even though I was writing, it didn't count as fun writing. So in retaliation, she plopped into my mind an NC-17 scene involving bondage with a threesome I hadn't read about in the fandom before: DG, Wyatt Cain, and Elmer Gulch.

I had to ignore the muse and concentrate on Faulkner. She worked out the details of how that scene evolved and tacked on torture with sexual abuse from Zero into the story as well. I shudder to think what this story would have turned into if I hadn't finished the M.A. Exam Part One and started writing down the erotica the muse had developed. I hope you enjoy the story.

Sunday, June 01, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Holes in the Brick Route: Dragons and Ninjas

Holes in the Brick Route: Dragons and Ninjas

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

DG decided to erase the phrase what’s the worst that could happen from her mental vocabulary. She thought it before speeding to work and got a ticket. She thought it before jumping into the travel storm with her roboparents. She thought it before leaving the Central City Palace for this adventure. Now working her going-numb fingers to fish his razor out of Cain’s vest pocket with tied hands, she vowed never to think it again.


Summary: Five months after the Eclipse, Longcoat attacks and dragon sightings terrorize the population, so DG and her companions set out to save the O.Z. again and cross paths with a Slipper on a mission of his own. Part of the Zackverse.

There are universes I enjoy without needing to delve into creating fanfiction for them. Hellsing is a great example. So when I initially found some Tin Man music videos on YouTube, I made a playlist. Then the playlist led to reading fanfics that the video makers said inspired them. No biggies. Then I downloaded the Tin Man miniseries to double check some of the fanfics. Next thing I know is Zack Baker had teamed up with another princess and I was buried in the story. I hope you enjoy it.