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30Facebook Shorts written for the Times »
Collected short pieces originally written for a Facebook group. To be added to as I retrieve them. A series (eventually) of very short chapters.Discworld, T, English, Humor, chapters: 25, words: 12k+, favs: 7, follows: 7, updated: 10/3 published: 12/21/2016
4The Red and the White »
born out of a one-paragraph short which had potential. Set in Lancre, a long time before the present, with three suspiciously familiar Witches who may be Ancestors. Lancre has a Castle. But how did it come to be? In our age, Alice Band speculates. As she knows well, Folklore and History have the answers. birdwhistle's "Antiquities Of Ye Kingdomme of Lancre" is consulted...Discworld, K+, English, Fantasy & Humor, chapters: 2, words: 9k+, favs: 4, follows: 3, updated: 9/11 published: 9/4, Magrat, Nanny Ogg, GrannyWeatherwax
108Clowning is a Serious Business »
The Guild of Fools, Joculators and Minstrels is a forbidding place and a closed world where everyone hears rumors but nobody, other than Fools, sees the reality. Until now. A sort of sequel to "Nature Studies".Discworld, K, English, Humor & Friendship, chapters: 33, words: 170k+, favs: 41, follows: 41, updated: 7/10 published: 6/28/2010, Vetinari, Lord Downey, Lady Meserole, Dr. Whiteface
7The Price of Flight »
In which flight-minded Witch Olga Romanoff gets a very big challenge. Can she fly this? A spin-off from "Strandpiel"Discworld, K, English, Adventure & Humor, chapters: 2, words: 13k+, favs: 4, follows: 3, updated: 7/8 published: 12/22/2018
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Strandpiel »
A girl with a foot in two continents and how she responds to dual nationality. Glimpses into the later life of Bekki Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons and her wider family.Discworld, T, English, Family & Humor, chapters: 59, words: 389k+, favs: 20, follows: 20, updated: 12/19/2018 published: 9/12/2017
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The Many Worlds Interpretation »
The wizards of Unseen University created a pocket universe. They learnt how to interact with it and to visit one particular planet. Where there is the USA. California. Pasadena. Caltech. Where other academically and scientifically minded people - with personalities as quirky as those of UU's wizards - strive to solve the mystery of the Big Bang. And then they met.Discworld & Big Bang Theory, T, English, Humor & Sci-Fi, chapters: 42, words: 255k+, favs: 68, follows: 74, updated: 8/12/2018 published: 11/1/2013, Hex, Ponder Stibbons, Leonard H., Sheldon C.
134The Discworld Tarot »
NC "DEATH" AT chap. 15! The Tarot Pack is either a neat psychological tool, or it offers genuine portals to the world of The Other, or it's a good way for plausible bluffers like me to earn 20 quid a reading. Or it could be about Discworld characters...NOW WITH MINOR ARCANA! (building slowly but surely.)Discworld, T, English, Humor & Mystery, chapters: 40, words: 105k+, favs: 34, follows: 34, updated: 4/29/2018 published: 1/29/2011
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Puns, Mordor's gift to humour
Came out of a challenge on an FB page... ultra-short shortsLord of the Rings, K+, English, Humor, words: 262, favs: 3, follows: 2, 1/28/2018
5The Music Meme Game »
My take on Miss Yetigoosecreature's challenge. This is Side One: chosen pieces of music which have inspired Discworld shorts, plus one crossover.Discworld, K, English, Humor & Fantasy, chapters: 2, words: 3k+, favs: 3, follows: 1, updated: 7/26/2017 published: 3/12/2011
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Gap Year Adventures »
Going with the muse. Two recently graduated Assassins decide to take a Gap Year and tour the Klatchian/Howondalandian continent. Letters are sent back to Ankh-Morpork recording their progress. We begin in a place on the Circle Sea that may be suspiciously reminiscent of a certain Earth nation. But taken Up To Eleven. To be continued as two friends leave memories. And mayhem.Discworld, K+, English, Humor & Adventure, chapters: 42, words: 235k+, favs: 17, follows: 14, updated: 4/18/2017 published: 1/13/2017
40There's nothing like a fresh pair of eyes, is there? »
I heard an old fondly remembered song from teenage years, and it gave me EXACTLY the right sort of inspiration to tie up a loose end dangling from "Nature Studies." A young student Assassin, blinded, receives new eyes. But at what cost? Pioneering Igor(ina) surgery combined with a music meme. Or two.Discworld, K, English, Supernatural & Humor, chapters: 17, words: 93k+, favs: 24, follows: 23, updated: 12/30/2016 published: 12/7/2012
1Mythic Smeg Opens The Door To The Arcane
About the daily horoscope pages of the Ankh-Morpork Times. How does it work on the Disc? Building on the notes in canon, from the Celebrated Discworld Almanac, as retrieved from a privy somewhere in the city. It even has the string threaded through the hole in the corner. birthcharts of the celebrated and famous, with analysis. And comments by William de Worde and others.Discworld, T, English, Humor & Fantasy, words: 2k+, favs: 3, follows: 2, 12/9/2016
7An Obituary
Unusually for me, it's short. I already posted it on Facebook and the general opinion was that it doesn't need to be longer. Noting the passing of Leonard Cohen, a singer universally acclaimed and suspected to have provided the sort of song DEATH would be happy, or at least satisfied, to hum while he works. Deceased Fri 11th Nov, 2016.Discworld, K+, English, Humor & Tragedy, words: 192, favs: 2, 11/11/2016
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Hyperemesis gravidarum »
Taking the ongoing story a logical step further. In which three of my Assassins realise they're all part of a select little club. Assassins have family too...Discworld, K+, English, Humor, chapters: 20, words: 144k+, favs: 29, follows: 13, updated: 3/2/2016 published: 10/1/2015
43I shall endure to the end! »
In which Aziraphale takes great pleasure in alerting Crowley to the youth at the epicentre of a psychic disturbance in the West Midlands. Victorian England is about to be shocked by the antics of a Great Beast... much to Crowley's embarrassment.Good Omens, K+, English, Humor & Supernatural, chapters: 11, words: 53k+, favs: 30, follows: 38, updated: 2/4/2016 published: 8/15/2009, Aziraphale, A. Crowley
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Goodness gracious me, that was a most Big Bang
British-Indian sketch show "Goodness Gracious Me" depended a lot on inverting well-known situations to raise a laugh and point out something about the experience of being Asian in the West. "The Big Bang Theory" has four central characters, three white North American and one an Indian immigrant trying to find his feet in the USA. How might GGM run with this idea... yes indeed.British Comedy & Big Bang Theory, T, English, Humor & Parody, words: 2k+, favs: 1, 5/2/2015
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Let's bungle in the jungle »
formerly known as "Openings of Discworld novels as yet unwritten…". This became not just an opening but a fully realised tale in its own right. In the aftermath of "Snuff", there is darkness in the heart of Howondaland. Ankh-Morpork sends in an expeditionary force to tie up loose ends. witness flying elephants, machete mayhem and even a romance or two!Discworld, K, English, Adventure & Humor, chapters: 14, words: 83k+, favs: 23, follows: 11, updated: 3/26/2015 published: 7/1/2011, Ponder Stibbons, Wee Mad Arthur, Buggy S., Vetinari
A Witch Abroad (part two)
Very definitely a stranded opening with no apparent continuation. Re-listed to a different and more appropriate place, as a story opening coming up behind it ballooned into a full-blown tale. In which Tiffany Aching gets a mission to Genua. As before: if anyone wants this, it's theirs to continue.
Discworld, K+, English, Fantasy & Humor, words: 977, favs: 2, follows: 2, 3/25/2015
2Contamination: Day of the triffic?
Revising my hideously inaccurately titled "Opening Chapters". this is an orphaned drabble, a first chapter based in the aftermath of "The Last Hero" which is at present bereft of a continuation. moved as a subsequent "opening chapter" launched a fully-fledged story...Discworld, K+, English, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, words: 1k+, favs: 5, follows: 2, 3/25/2015
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johnny and the Cars
Not sure where to put this. There isn't a separate category for "Johnny Maxwell" books. Going by author, I've bunged it in "Discworld", even though it doesn't quite fit here. But the idea came at me whilst reading about "driverless cars" being trialled on British streets. Where else but Blackbury, Lancashire...Discworld & Transformers, K+, English, Humor & Sci-Fi, words: 2k+, favs: 4, follows: 2, 2/12/2015, Bumblebee
