Arctic Light

Several people whose journals I read are posting progress updates on their various stories. Seems a fine idea to me. Here's what I'm presently working on. Teaser clips (a few paragraphs each) are under cuts, so you don't have to read them if you don't want to be teased and perhaps slightly spoiled (but only slightly). Also, obviously, the teaser scenes are subject to change before the stories are actually posted.


"Ghost in the Machine"
Halloween story, using a combination of prompts from spook_me's Halloween ficathon and from kodiak_bear's ghost challenge. I'm starting to think I won't have this one done by Halloween, but I intend to get at least a couple of chapters posted by then.
Current word count: about 13,000 words

( Teaser )



"Nor Iron Bars a Cage"
Fic-a-thon story. The request was a hostage situation with John and Rodney.
Current word count: about 10,000 words

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(as yet untitled)
Fic-a-thon story. The request was a friendship story focused on Carson and Rodney. I've just started this one, but I have the plot roughed out, including a grand-finale scene that I'm quite looking forward to writing.
Current word count: 1400 words

( Teaser )


"The Light of a Fading Sun"
A fairly dark Season 2 AU in which the team fragments after the Seige. The interesting thing about this one is how it starts out generally sticking to the canonical sequence of events and then slowly spirals off into totally different territory as the characters' increasing isolation from each other pushes their lives in very different directions from the course of Season 2. Of course, this is also the story in which I discovered that I can't write dark and depressing to save my life. It always turns into a friendship story sooner or later.
Current word count: about 10,000 words

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Of all of these, "Ghost" will most likely start posting first (because I want to start getting it up before Halloween) but may not *finish* first.