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.

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Holes in the Brick Route: Victory Ball

Holes in the Brick Route: Victory Ball

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Someone needed to bleed and right now. DG’s hands both fisted on the nearest ruffle, but she didn’t rip the pink monstrosity off. Her butterflies over her official introduction to the realm in celebration of their victory at the Eclipse collided together to form a Japanese robot of dread now marching in her stomach. No, she couldn’t face her adoring public in pink making her skin crawl.


Summary: None of this was worth a lousy medal.

In Chapter Eighteen of Tin Man: Dragons and Ninjas, I got the idea to do something cute. The miniseries flashbacks all had young DG dressed in reds and pinks while adult DG wore blue in homage to the original Dorothy Gale. When I realized she wore a pink velvet dress when she was killed by Azkadellia and brought back to life by the Queen and she also had reoccurring nightmares of what had happened in the O.Z., I thought giving her a loathing of the color pink made perfect sense. This story was written for tm_challenge Round 12A: Honored, but with only two submissions no prizes were awarded. I hope you enjoy it.

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Holes in the Brick Route: Don't Know What the Other Hands Are Doing

Holes in the Brick Route: Don't Know What the Other Hands Are Doing

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

The dark-haired woman glanced scornfully at her younger companion in the shadows of the alley. The younger eyes were focused on the drama surrounding the log of prisoners and missed it.

"What you did was stick your six, greedy, little hands into something far bigger than a bounty. Get rid of her."

"What? No! Zero, don't do this! Give me my money. Zero!"

Tempestofnight crossed her arms as she focused on the instructions between the General and another Longcoat. "Never trust a Longcoat. Airofday should have known better,” she told her younger sister.


Summary: What happened to Airofday when the Longcoats dragged her away?

This story was written for tm_challenge Round 7: One-Hit Wonder back on February 8, 2010. It is a deleted scene in Part Three of the Tin Man miniseries, inspired by the image of the two other women in the window with Airofday. It won third place in the challenge. I hope you enjoy this story.

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Holes in the Brick Route: Where Did That Come From

Holes in the Brick Route: Where Did That Come From

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Glitch fed the branch into the tiny stove before surveying the back compartment of the wagon again. Cain was sleeping under all the blankets. The wind wasn't beating as hard against the sides of the wagon now.

DG was gone, taken. Azkadellia said the Slipper had something the Sorceress needed. His finger brushed against the chilly metal of his zipper. They had time before headcasing, hopefully.


Summary: How did Glitch and Cain get to the Sorceress' Tower so quickly?

This missing scene from Part Two of the Tin Man miniseries was written for tm_challenge Round 11A: Things Unseen. I wanted to answer the question of how Glitch and Cain got to the Sorceress' Tower so quickly. It won third place. I hope you enjoy this story.

Sunday, May 04, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Nonestic Tales: Making Whole

Nonestic Tales: Making Whole

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

The flight of the Scarab over Shifting Sands and the Nonestic Ocean past the Isle of Yew to the kingdom of Wonderland gave Azkadellia plenty of time to think. So she sat beside the pilot, stared out the glass of the flying vehicle, and found she couldn't stop thinking about her traveling companion. Yes, that man watching the mechanics of this vehicle partly because it fascinated him but mostly because it put him on the opposite side of the compartment from her.

He would have much rather buried himself in his laboratory after their confessions to each other, but her mother had insisted he be part of this official envoy to Wonderland. A new monarchy had asked for help, and the kingdom was outside the Sorceress' sphere of influence. Azkadellia and Ambrose would make the perfect ambassadorial team. "And please, my dear Azkadellia, keep a more open mind than your sister. The Ten of Clubs said his King is unmarried."


Summary: Lovers at odds seem to end up in Wonderland, but does this realm have a way to give Azkadellia what she wants no matter how hard Ambrose objects?

Pirates of the Nonestic (BookWorm's Library | Ao3) was supposed to be a one-shot novel. Then Tin Man Crossover Fanfiction issued its first Crossover Challenge. Catyuy had asked me nicely for an Ambrose/Azkadellia-centric story eventually, when I got less busy, so there was the Tin Man half. How do they meet Wonderland and Alice and Hatter back on Earth? It didn't take me long to figure that out once I realized I could use all the worldbuilding I had done in Pirates of the Nonestic to put Wonderland on a different continent of the same planet. I hope you enjoy this story and the Nonestic Tales series.

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Nonestic Tales: Pirates of the Nonestic

Nonestic Tales: Pirates of the Nonestic

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Wyatt Cain cantered through the gates into the Royal Palace's compound. The Royal Army hadn't finished renovating the former Longcoat headquarters, but the Palace next to the barracks gleamed in the suns. He wondered which tower housed DG before shaking his head. A lowly Tin Man--even if he was a hero of the realm--shouldn't be concerned about such matters. He cast one more glare at the Palace before stopping his horse in front of the guard on duty. He tilted his fedora as he looked down at the uniformed young man. "Commander Wyatt Cain to see Captain Cain."


Summary: Away from the familiar O.Z., the runaway Princess and the Tin Man join Captain "Blood-rage" Betsy Bobbins' quest and cross swords with sullen pirates, the navy out to stop Bobbins, and a legendary evil lurking in the Nonestic Ocean.

The second story in the Nonestic Tales series takes place an annual (year) after the Tin Man miniseries. DG runs away from the princess gig and Cain is sent after her, and they end up outside the borders of the Outer Zone with pirates. Because nearly everything is better with pirates!

On a more serious note, this is the story where all my headcanons began to bounce around and really expand the worldbuilding. I pulled from L. Frank Baum's original Oz series, Gregory Maguire's Wicked series, and a fascinating movie adaptation of Return to Oz from 1985 that also traumatized many of its viewers. I ended up making a more detailed history timeline than I normally do, making maps to illustrate the changes to the landscape between what we know of Oz and what the miniseries portrayed as the Outer Zone, and finally detailing out the solar system the best I could so I could figure out the calendar. I hope you enjoy this novel and the series it is a part of.

Sunday, April 20, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Nonestic Tales: What Memories Can Bring

Nonestic Tales: What Memories Can Bring

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

She propped her head on her elbow and considered the nude man standing at the large window. The glow beyond the glass tinted his scarred muscles and fair hair green. Heat pooled in her belly as she remembered how those strong limbs had tangled with hers on this bed. But he seemed content to expose his glory to Central City below. "I married as exhibitionist."

His lips stretched into a grin. "Only for you."


Summary: Now I see you standing with brown leaves falling around and snow in your hair. Now you're smiling out the window of that crummy hotel over Washington Square. Our breath comes out white clouds, mingles and hangs in the air. Speaking strictly for me, we both could have died then and there.

This short prequel story to the Tin Man miniseries had two germinating ideas. The first developed from my analysis of a scene we get in the miniseries:

So later after Jeb has said Zero killed Adora, after seeing Jeb has his own suit with his camp (and that must have made packing in a hurry a bitch. I hope it came in handy with interrogation sessions.), Cain has a nightmare of finding a time loop projection of Adora's death. Not even her real death, a projection of it! *Pause to snuggle issues!Cain*

Okay, so now that we've established that we interpret these two scenes through Cain's macho POV, here comes the question that popped into my head. What if Adora was the one in the suit?

The second germinating idea was hear "Diamonds and Rust" by Blackmore's Night. The lyrics were haunting and for me fitted perfectly for a woman who lost her husband and the pain involved in the memories. And the story grew from there. I have linked it directly to the Nonestic Tales series, but it also works as a prequel for Dragons and Ninjas, Not His Kink, and Alchemy. Content warning for a suicide. I hope you enjoy this story.

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Turbo

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Turbo

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

"You sure are going to a lot of trouble." Vinnie leaned against the bathroom's doorjamb, and watched Throttle buttoning the black, long-sleeved shirt. "You two should be way past the bribing into her pants stage."

Throttle rolled his cybernetic eyes. Who in the universe picked me to teach Vinnie about relationships? "Trust me, it's easier if you keep the lady happy. Charley wants to go to this concert, and I want Charley happy."


Summary: Turbo arrives in Chicago, and secrets Throttle has kept buried for most of his life now threaten Charley.

Let Us Give Thanks (BookWorm's Library | Ao3) ended up being my headcanons about Charley's past, but Turbo was all about my Throttle headcanons from the start. His past, other than dating Carbine, hadn't been established by the show, so we know even less than what we know about Modo and Vinnie. And I had a blast filling in some blanks and writing the bros before the Plutarkian-Martian War. I hope you enjoy the story, and the rest of the series.

Sunday, April 06, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Evil Jack: For Worse

Evil Jack: For Worse

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Hannah Davidson leaned her back against the wall of her mother's garage. The sun shone down on her knees. Her uncles told her to guard the bag of kitty litter that towered over her head. But they just wanted her to watch while they played.

Uncle Modo revved his purple bike near the end of the block. The tires hit the puddle of oil in front of the Last Chance, but he controlled the skid heading for the bottle.


Summary: Jack returns to Chicago determined to use Charley and Throttle's drunken mistake to destroy the Biker Mice.

This story finally deals with the Vinnie-Charley-Throttle triangle that has been hovering in the background of the Evil Jack series (until the characters decided to change things up in the future on me--authors, always the last to know). And Jack makes his reappearance to cause deadly trouble. I hope you enjoy the story and the series.

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Evil Jack: In Sickness

Evil Jack: In Sickness

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

"Well, if you would just kick his cheesy ass for keeps, you could come home." Carbine's voice punched through the whispering static.

Throttle stared at the communication receiver before he closed his eyes. "Not this argument again."

"What argument? Limburger's the reason you won't come home, take out Limburger. You just don't want to do what it takes."


Summary: Hannah is in the hospital with an unknown disease. How can Throttle save her from that?

Evil Jack: Domestic Bliss was a huge success and spawned another series in my head. Thankfully, only five stories long this time; not counting the crossover that takes place after the series is completed. Evil Jack: In Sickness came together fast, and is important to the series despite the lack of Jack MacCyber. This story does take place in a hospital with a sick child. I hope you enjoy this story and the series.

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Let Us Give Thanks

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Let Us Give Thanks

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

"Another Earth holiday is comin' up." Sparks plopped down on the couch between Throttle and Modo. The Sunday night football game was on a commercial as he maneuvered a thick book in his lap and opened it. "It's called Thanksgiving."

"Must not be real important." Vinnie stretched out between the couch and the TV set. "The stores are already decorated for Christmas, have been since Halloween."


Summary: Sparks wanting to celebrate Thanksgiving sets off a mystery from Charley's past. Can the Biker Mice find the answers?

Back when I was planning the Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare series, I realized holiday stories were popular: Christmas, Halloween, New Year's. I was going to do Mardi Gras later, and nobody had used Thanksgiving. It is an American holiday and Native American culture is appropriated and fails to acknowledge the violence colonists did to the Native American tribes, which was also beyond the scope of my story and wasn't on my radar when I wrote it in 2006. But being thankful for blessings and family is a universal theme. It is the perfect holiday for exploring Charley's past and showing proof that this band of Martin mice and humans have become a family. I hope you enjoy the story, and the rest of the series.

Sunday, March 16, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Family, Friends, and Foes

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Family, Friends, and Foes

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Zack tapped the ink pen against his bottom lip. He stared down at the blank loose-leaf paper and wondered how to start. Detailed snail-mail letter writing had never been a skill this fifteen-year-old had bothered picking up. For him, e-mail was quicker and flowed more naturally. But he wasn't even sure how this letter was going to reach his errant sister, so e-mail was out of the question. He sighed as he used the pen to brush his straight black hair out of his dark, almond-shaped eyes. It's not gonna write itself, he thought. He brought the pen tip down to the paper.


Summary: The bros are being chased by mutated humans who aren't working for Limburger. And Chi-town is shaken by the arrival of two more vigilante groups who are attacked by Limburger. Can the mysterious Ronin pull the good guys together? Or will Manuelo's family pay the price? A crossover with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

"You were expecting maybe turtles?" -- Modo

I don't remember when I first saw "Rock 'n Ride." I must have started watching Biker Mice From Mars at the end of their Saturday morning run and the switch to weekdays--which Fox put on in the mornings; Disney Afternoon filled the after-school hours--but I was hooked. However, I don't remember what episode I saw first. Not that it mattered when I got up a half-hour earlier than I needed to just so I would be dressed and could watch them. That's how I got up every morning my senior year of high school.

But the first time Modo uttered that line, all the "what if" receptors fired in my brain. When I saw the following exchange in "Chill Zone"

Throttle: "Oh no, man! You don't really want toys that look like waterlogged reptiles, do you?"
Vinnie: "Yeah! Fuzzy and buff is where it's at!"

it was cinched. This crossover was destined. I hope you enjoy this story and the expansion to the Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare series.

Sunday, March 09, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Evil Jack: Domestic Bliss

Evil Jack: Domestic Bliss

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

She stood up out of the water and felt it sheet down her muscular and curvaceous body. She faced the shore, a secluded area with a grassy spot right under a large oak tree perfect for reclining beneath. Three males were already taking advantage of the shade.

"Even us interplanetary heroes need time off now and then." The tan mouse stretched out on his back. His black leather vest fell open and gave an unimpeded view of his fur-covered, sculpted abs and pecs.


Summary: Charley is married to Jack, and they have a four-year-old daughter. But why can't Charley remember anything from the past four years? And why do three bikers keep following her?

Biker Mice From Mars: Evil Jack: Domestic Bliss is a what-if story. What if Jack McCyber was so totally evil everyone would have justification to hate him? So I made him a lot crazy. I also wanted to have Charley solve her own problem. And since the episode "My Cheese is Quick" was screwed up as a mystery, I'd make it a mystery. Charley would have to figure out what happened to her life. It ended up spawning a series. I hope you enjoy the story and the sequels.

Sunday, March 02, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: A Mist of Prophecies: Regrets

A Mist of Prophecies: Regrets

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Owen Burnett sighed as he lowered himself into a chair in the parlor of his living quarters. The majordomo was faced with a singular problem he had limited experience with, free time. The Xanatos family had gone to Maine to visit Petros Xanatos. So no teaching Alexander as an excuse to let the Puck out to play and Owen's duties were finished for the day, provided no emergencies developed.

He could use this time to reminisce with Cassandra, but she was out with the rest of the Manhattan clan. The hawk-faced man let his stoic expression relax into a slight but unmistakable smile as he thought about his former pupil. He had worried about the halfling gargoyle living alone on her Mediterranean island. He had to pull her out of that isolation before.


Summary: A Gargoyles Fanfic. What compelled the trickster Puck to create the role of Owen Burnett? Second place winner in the 2001 Gathering's Writing Contest, Category: Pucking Around.

I had already brought up Bridget in A Mist of Prophecies: Shivers the Heart to Hear (BookWorm's Library | Ao3). The wraith took her form and completely unnerved Owen. But I left the why a mystery. I figured I would eventually go back to explain her connection. Why not now for the contest? But how to tie it into the current story line I have developed? Then I had the brainwave, that resulted in this story. I hope you enjoy it.

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: A Mist of Prophecies: The Party

A Mist of Prophecies: The Party

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

The ball of flame appeared inside the dark forest. It expanded then disappeared, leaving two gargoyles in the small clearing. The brick-red male dressed in a leather loincloth let go of the jade-green female dressed in a silk kimono. "Well, where and when are we?"

Sata threw her black hair over her shoulder. "We are here and now." She kissed Brooklyn's beak as he grimaced.


Summary: A Gargoyles: TimeDancer Fanfic. Brooklyn and Sata find themselves in the future, just in time for the MidSummer's Eve party given by some members of the Manhattan Clan. Members they have never met before. Well, all except one.

My whole purpose for a TimeDancer story was to foreshadow some of the things coming in stories I have planned to fit between Gargoyles: A Mist of Prophecies: Shivers the Heart to Hear (BookWorm's Library | Ao3) and TimeDancer: A Mist of Prophecies: The Party. I also wondered what happened to Jerusha after TimeDancer: Requiem. This story takes place between TimeDancer: Menagerie Part Two and TimeDancer: To the Soul, both second season episodes. I hope you enjoy the story.

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Reunions

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Reunions

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Mice eased back from the floating silver sphere. The Captain frowned down at it and then at the salvaged transport booth it had just arrived through. "It reeks of stinkfish. Fry it," she ordered from the metal catwalk above.

The two closest mice pulled out their laser guns. Two shots and the blackened and cracked sphere fell to the floor.


Summary: Limburger's latest attempt to kill the Biker Mice results in transporting the bros and Charley to the Olympian Fury, a refugee ship reported destroyed during the Martian-Plutarkian War. But this new hope for the future is dashed by a threat worse than the Plutarkians.

Biker Mice From Mars: Reunions was the first Biker Mice fanfic I wrote back in 1994. I realized it was the second in sequence and then wrote its prequel, Jack-of-all-Trades to introduce Tala.

Fast forward to 2000. Having just complete the Jack-of-all-Trades rewrite that became Shatter Your Illusions (BookWorm's Library | Ao3, I still wasn't ready to end my Biker Mice writing kick (I was also in the middle of a summer class for Spanish and the furry trio was keeping me sane). I had the second story, Put Me Back Together (BookWorm's Library | Ao3), all planned out but a problem developed. The radio station wouldn't play Matchbox Twenty's "Bent" so I could tape it and get the lyrics. I had to have that song for the story. These were the days before you could ask the Internet for everything.

Not a problem. I'll just do the Reunions--now the third story in my series--rewrite next. So I got started. The essential plot didn't change: Limburger sending the bros and Charley to an asteroid mining/refugee spaceship that Throttle's half-mouse cousin Hot Rod is now the Captain of and the insane mouse in charge of the Internal Security forces, Colonel Exhaust, threatens the ship along with some slavers. I ditched the slavers and expanded everything else. I hope you enjoy this version and the rest of the series.

Sunday, February 09, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Put Me Back Together

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Put Me Back Together

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Charley Davidson smiled down at the appointment book laying open on the desk. Work had been steady for the past week. The bank balance was positive and would stay that way for a while thanks to her share of the three million. She glanced out the window in the Last Chance garage's office. She could see the bright blue, cloudless sky. "Life is good," she said to herself quietly.


Summary: Sequel to Shatter Your Illusions. Now that Throttle has lost Carbine, he feels that he has nothing left. Can Charley help him realize who still cares for him? Or will Limburger's goons confirm Throttle's worst fear?

This story was finished third in the series after deciding that I was going to write a sex scene and that yes, I would use Matchbox 20's "Bent" in it even though it broke my only use songs current to the time setting of the story rule. Throttle is in the middle break-up depression and Charley helps him get out of it, and the song lyrics describe it perfectly. I hope you enjoy this story and the rest of the series.

Sunday, February 02, 2025

Six Sentence Sunday: Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Shatter Your Illusions

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Shatter Your Illusions

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

"Now this just reeks!"

Charley looked up from the carburetor she was working on to see Throttle crushing the morning paper in his fist. "I didn't have a chance to read that yet. A paying customer showed up first."

Throttle either didn't hear her or ignored her, for he chunked the stick of newsprint into the garbage can.

"This is why I don't bother with current events." Vinnie pulled two cards from his hand and drew two more from the stack. "You get all hot and bothered by it but there's nothing you can do about it."


Summary: Limburger is scheming, the Biker Mice are thwarting, and a new player is riding into Chicago--on a Martian bike. What do you believe and who can you trust?

Shatter Your Illusions started off as a much shorter story called Jack-of-all-Trades in 1994, back when Biker Mice From Mars was still on the air. In Jack, I introduced the character Tala who delivered the news to the Biker Mice that Carbine was dead. She ferried them to Mars, helped them solve Carbine's murder, and brought them back to Earth. And Vinnie fell for her hard. I finished the story and its sequel, Reunions, for my own amusement.

Fast forward to the year 2000. Surfing the Net one day, I stumbled across The Unofficial Biker Mice From Mars Fan Club's site. Hurray! I wasn't the only gal in love with the furry trio! And it seemed like everyone had tried their hand at Biker Mice fanfics. I was inspired (that's putting it mildly). I pulled out Jack and made a face; the six-years-old story needed a lot of help. Major overhaul work. But all in all, it was a fast rewrite of what turned out to be the first story of a series that will span a large chunk of the fandom universes I have written stories for. I hope you enjoy this story and the rest of the series.