6 January 2004: Just a quick update! The Spooky Awards are in, and I did pretty well! All in all, I'm happy enough. I got more top-three placings than last year, I was treated well by voters and had the affirmation of my peers, all while working in subject areas most readers won't touch with a bargepole. It doesn't really get much better than that. Thank you, everyone!

16 December 2003: Posting another Krycek/Diana story today. Tell Me A Story is another take on a hurt/comfort relationship between these two in Season 6, while Marita and Mulder are out of reach. Set in a different universe to The Cold White Room, this one is a bittersweet tale of sacrifice and renewal.

10 December 2003: Posting one new story today. The Cold White Room is an angsty moment between Krycek and Diana on Christmas Day in Season 6. I've also updated my Awards & Recs page with some recent or forthcoming recommendations of my work, and details of my finalist nods in the 2003 Spooky Awards. If you haven't voted in the final round yet, there's still time! Voting closes on Friday. Thanks to everyone as always for all your support.

I'm known for being pretty tardy with my email anyway, but I want to issue an apology for those of you who've written to me in the last two months. I've been swamped with XFVCU and, more recently, some unexpected curve balls in real life. I'm not ignoring you - I'm just chronically behind. I'm hoping to catch up over the Christmas break.

18 November: I'm posting three new stories today. Before is a tiny 155-word Knowle/Shannon snippet. I don't normally write 155-word pieces, but this one - originally meant to be part of a larger work in progress - just seemed to work on its own. There is a longer Knowle/Shannon backstory in the works revolving around the same idea, but that will be a while off yet.

Also up today is The Slender Line, a somewhat experimental retelling of the Cigarette Smoking Man's descent into madness. I'm particularly proud of this one, and it plays with some of my pet theories about his character. Finally, Before I Walk On Fire is an XFVCU tie-in, an NC17 elaboration on Follmer and Yolanda's love scene in Prism. You can probably get by without reading Prism for this one, though obviously it will have a fuller meaning in context. I've also done some site tweaking. Stories have a more user-friendly layout, as do some of the collections. As you may be able to see, I've changed the default fonts for most pages to Georgia and News Gothic MT (if you can't see any difference, you may not have those fonts installed). I've also split the 2002 stories off onto their own page to make room on this page for the coming year.

In other news, the Spooky Awards are here again, and I have quite a few nominations. Thank you to everyone who is nominating and voting (for myself or others) - the fandom's support is what makes these awards worthwhile. Finally, I have a special treat for Krycek/Marita fans at Blondie's Ratcave - second production unit outtakes from the Patient X kiss.

5 November: I'm adding my two latest XFVCU episodes, Catacomb and Prism today, as well as a tiny Catacomb missing scene called Other Duties. Prism was co-written with CindyET, Emily M, Eodrakken Quicksilver, Lara Means and Maidenjedi, and I'm particularly proud of that one.

26 September: Posting one short story today. Like Glowing Embers is a follow-up to Caro de carne mea. It's a gentler story of solace after the harshness of the first. It's situated in 1991 and rated R for low-key sexual references.

19 September: Posting two new short stories today. Caro de carne mea is a moment between Knowle and Shannon pre-XF. It's NC17, so don't read it if you're too young to know what goes where. The Beginning Of The Long Goodbye is a Follmer/Reyes vignette set after NIHT II.

10 September: I'm posting the XFVCU pilot today. Midnight In The Firing Line is a casefile and an introduction to a new-look X Files mythology set eighteen months after The Truth. Mulder, Scully, Doggett, Reyes, Krycek, Fowley, Spender and Follmer have been reunited in the basement, and no-one's happy about it! But a new political landscape makes them take stock and keep on working.

7 September 2003: I've made some minor edits to this week's fic Evolution, just for better flow. It's unlikely anyone but me will notice the difference! If you haven't seen it, Evolution is a post-col Knowle/Shannon vignette, in which humanity is at the forefront of their minds and the focus of their bond. Plus, I'm this month's featured author over at How Will It End - go take a look! Circe ran a heap of questions by me, and as always, I have lots to say. *cough*

I have also finished tweaking the revised layout - I've made the various pages more uniform, added some navigation links, broken up the date and collections listings for quicker load times, and added a few more collections, as well. This completes the transition to the new look, with the exception of converting 1996-2002 stories to the new scripts for better accessibility. That's an ongoing project for the next couple of months. Thank you for your patience, and don't forget to check that any bookmarks or links you might have to the site are correct. Meanwhile, I'm off to finish writing the XFVCU pilot.

1 September 2003: One new story today. Evolution is a post-col Knowle/Shannon vignette, in which humanity is at the forefront of their minds and the focus of their bond. Also today is a major revamp, with a revised layout and new scripts added to convert stories to large print and archive-friendly formats. These have been implemented for all 2003 stories and will be added in the near future for older stories as well. I'm moving the site over to deslea.com to accommodate the scripts, so many URLs will change. Archivists who link to stories need to check their links. I'd like to thank Amy at xfilesfanfiction.com for her generosity in hosting me for the last few years.

24 August 2003: Adding a short story today. Don't Stop Swaying is a moment between Knowle and Shannon in the aftermath of NIHT 2, in which fleeting hostilities speak of deeper things. I'm working on a casefile for XFVCU, a new virtual series, as well.

12 August 2003: Adding new cover art to the Knowle/Shannon vignette I posted on August 2. Act Of Contrition is an Eschaton missing scene, in which we get a glimpse of Shannon's journey through that universe. It can be read without knowledge of Eschaton. I wasn't happy with the original art, and didn't feel it captured what the story was about.

29 June 2003: New short post-col, I Believe, in which Marita delivers a speech to the tattered remnant of casualties of war. This one's been knocking around my hard drive in bits for a while, and I'm glad to finally have it out there.

7 June 2003: New, short smut biscuit today. It was for a challenge, and it's higher-level smut than I usually write, so don't read it if you aren't old enough to know what goes where, 'kay?

30 May 2003: One short new piece today. The Lone Hand is just a moment between Diana and Jeffrey early in their partnership. In this The Beginning missing scene, the new partners reach an understanding. Also, some students at a school with which I am involved have discovered my sketch art site, and although it would take several off-clicks, it's not impossible that my students could find this page. So, I've added a parental advice.

21 May 2003: Posting a new, short piece today. Wonderment is just a quick glimpse into the world of Mrs Van De Kamp, the woman who adopted William.

7 May 2003: Posting a short piece today. Hybrid Kisses is a short Knowle/Shannon piece situated in December 1983, the night before the transformation. Also, thanks to everyone for the lovely response to Eschaton, which was recommended at Musea.

27 March, 2003: The Knowle/Shannon backstory that ate my brain is done! Eschaton is here, and I'm going to get some sleep. Phew!

17 March, 2003: Posting a short fic for KristenK2's birthday today. I've had trouble writing Skinner the last couple of years, but hey, anything for friendship. *grin* It was a bit of a challenge, but I think it turned out pretty well. It's called The Visitor, and it's a post-col Existence tie-in with shades of Krycek/Marita.

22 February, 2003: Posting a piece of insanity that arose from the same challenge as the one that yielded The Hubris Of Theodora. No, I don't know how I got such vastly different fics out of the same challenge. Anyway, it's a parody XF/Addam's Family crossover called A Family Affair: A Fractured Fairytale. Be warned, it's pretty creepy, a little kooky. *grin*

19 February, 2003: I'm posting a very short piece today, just over 600 words. It's a The Truth post-ep, Shannon McMahon POV, written for a Haven challenge. I don't normally do elements challenges, but the frame of reference for this one intrigued me, so...uh...here it is. It's called The Hubris Of Theodora.

11 February, 2003: Posting a new novella today. Restitution is a Krycek/Marita mytharc tie-in, covering the years from Herrenvolk to The Truth. I'm really, really happy about this one. It's around the 22,000 word mark - a nice long read.

Thank you to everyone who voted for me in the Spooky awards. Several of my works were recognised (details here). Thank you, so much.


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