The Writing Desk

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Welcome to the Writing Desk, housing the works of

(trying to keep the queer romance separate from other contexts. Success debatable).

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In this section, you can find most my stories (fan fiction, Über & novels – some originally written under aliases) archived for you to read. Some of them may be offline due to editing and/or publishing plans.

Many of these stories take place in historical settings, and all of them revolve around women falling in love with each other (but if you’ve made it to this page, you probably knew that already).

The current project – (2015-God knows when) – is “Stages”, an opera romance set in Aix-en-Provence in 2015, though writing is on hold at the moment (2016-2022 so far) due to work constraints. It will continue eventually.

There are also parts of my sketchbook on this page, with projects that are further down on the list or that didn’t make it, and some extra material from and for stories that have been around for a while.

The stories are in reverse order, chronologically. I was  tempted to remove a few of the earlier ones, simply because they don’t reflect my writing standards any longer, but then decided to leave them available. This place is not about my writerly vanity, but about your reading interests. (Just be aware that the farther you scroll down, the less polished the writing may be.)

My two novellas “Timeless” (Warehouse 13, Myka/HG) and “Troubled Passage” (J/7 Über) are accessible through here for easier reading, but they’re unedited. For the respective passwords, check the password page (as to why there are passwords: I’m tired of bots and thoughtless people stealing and reposting my work).

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Campus – currently offline due to editing/publishing plans

Small Steps –loosely based on Maca/Esther (Hospital Central),
originally written 2007-2009; edited reissue 2022/2023

Into The Jungle – currently offline due to editing/publishing plans

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Stages (Warehouse 13, Bering & Wells Über/AU, 2015) – [work in progress, on-going!]

Bering & Wells; Opera AU

“If you’re going to be my ex-lover, you’ll have to be more convincing than that.”

Helena Wells is an ambitious soprano moving up. Myka is a mezzo-soprano who still can’t quite believe she has stumbled into a stage career. Cue the music.

Chapters: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10
                   11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16

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A Campus Christmas (Twenty Years Later)
(Star Trek: Voyager, Janeway/Seven Über/Original, 2020)

Janeway & Seven; Campus Über

This is not an actual story. It is merely a nostalgic vignette to commemorate twenty years of “Campus”, and it has no plot to speak of. Let me aplogize upfront for the fact that it will likely only make sense to you if you’ve read the original (which I still want to make available again in some format, but it needs editing, and there is simply no time. This is the first thing – and it’s barely a few pages – that I manage to squeeze in, in stolen half hours in far too late nights, in almost four years)

“I’m sorry I’m late!”

The apartment door fell shut, the sound mingling with the thud of a pair of heels dropped quickly onto the hallway parquet.

“When did a dean ever respect our schedules?” Further down the hallway, Brett Garland came into view, wiping her hands on a dishtowel. “We still have a couple of hours before everyone gets here.”

Chapters: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13

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The Key (Warehouse 13, Bering & Wells Über/AU, 2014)

Bering & Wells; Early Modern Spain AU: Myka & Helena in 1492 (Columbus does not appear in this story)

María Blazquez does cross herself and kneel in church, but the most heavenly creature she can think of is Haya, daughter of Abraham ha-Levi Abenhayon.

Chapters: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7

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The Goblet (Warehouse 13, Bering & Wells Über/AU, 2014)

Bering & Wells; Medieval AU: Myka & Helena as Tristan & Isolde

Oh, there is no shortage of stories about King Arthur’s gallant niece, not on all the islands. And Helena does not want to hear them, least of all the one where Lady Myka of Canoêl persuaded her uncle to stop paying toll. Where she headed a party to break the old contract on Irish soil. Where, in battle, she killed the Sir Nathaniel, the pride of Eire, only to return to claim his bereft bride as a prize for her vassal uncle. What a fine story that makes.

This one in particular, she has heard more than enough. Petrus Curvenal tells it on deck, time and again, to the roaring laughter of the seamen. He makes sure to tell it loud enough to carry down here.

It isn’t Curvenal who is keeping her under deck, though. The insults, she can handle. Whatever Petrus Curvenal throws at her, she will scoff at.

But going up would also mean seeing her.

Chapters: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7

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The Abbey (Warehouse 13, Bering & Wells Über/AU, 2014)

Bering & Wells; Medieval AU: Helena is a knight, Myka is a nun.

Claudius’ whisper carries over to her. “A nun, my Lord? Do you want to send us to the fiery pits of hell?!”
Myka pretends not to listen as they walk away.
“She’s not yet a nun,” Sir George points out.
Claudius gives him a stern look. “She belongs to God.”
“Good,” Sir George replies. “You keep telling me that I should get closer to God, don’t you?”

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Big Dipper (Warehouse 13, Bering & Wells Über/AU, 2014)

Bering & Wells; a Classical Mythology AU:

Myka is the Goddess Diana.
Helena has divine taste.

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Warehouse Story (Warehouse 13, Bering & Wells Über/AU, 2013)

A Bering & Wells version of the musical West Side Story.

There’s a brick wall at their backs, blank and standing too close to the wired maze of fire escapes across the alleyway. Helena looks up. She has to tip her head back to see a spot where the sunlight actually reaches down and touches the windows behind the metal.

One of them is opened, despite the heat.

Helena blinks.

Someone is sitting on the windowsill, soaking up the sun. Helena can only make out a fall of curly brown hair and two hands holding a book, and one bare leg dangling low against the metal stairs, back and forth, back and forth.

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She Walked Up To The Castle (Warehouse 13, Bering & Wells Über/AU, 2013)

Bering & Wells; medieval through a preraphaelite/symbolist lense; an exercise in rhythm.

“One tapestry she brings, as a dowry to prove her reign of the house. And there, in the faded yarn, the tale can be read: the king on the merlons and, down on the bridge, a figure with a crown and wild curly hair, and another one, pale, in a black hooded cloak.”

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Crossroads (Warehouse 13, Bering & Wells Über/AU, 2013)

Bering & Wells in a WW2 setting:

It is dark underneath the city.

Next to Pavel, a woman steps up, willowy thin, black hair swept up. She’s pale in an elegant way, the kind of woman Myka would never have met if not for this war. She steps forward with reserve – Myka supposes that hesitation is not a trait that runs in her circles –, a suitcase clutched in both hands.

Myka looks at her and she knows she will lose that suitcase. Perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow. By the time she makes it out of here, she’ll be lucky to own the skin on her back. And she’ll know it.

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Horizons On Fire (Warehouse 13, Bering & Wells Über/AU, 2013)

Bering & Wells in a WW1 setting:

The steps sound on the gravel road every afternoon. It’s not quite Tuscany. The colors of the fields are burnt by the sun, and the hillsides are not gentle slopes. There’s nothing around here, just the dust on the road and, set back among the crops, a finishing school for girls whose parents don’t want any distractions around them. In most cases, not any further distractions.

And there is the airfield.

And every afternoon, the pilots come down the gravel road, their flight jackets open, shirts stained by sweat under the burn of the afternoon sun.

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A Mid-Aisle Summer Night’s Dream (Warehouse 13, Bering & Wells Über/AU, 2013)

ACT I

SCENE 1

CLAUDIA (moving through the aisles):
Through aisles, through shelves, through stuff, through items, ha.
Sometimes a wiz I’ll be, sometimes a geek,
Tonight, a poor soul doomed to inventory,
As if I had no other plans…

                                                 ARTIE (yelling from out of sight):
You don’t!

(to be added eventually. This story is entirely set in iambic pentameter (with some feminine endings), and the formatting of the enjambements on WordPress is a pain. But until I get around to doing that, it is available on AO3)

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Timeless (Warehouse 13, Bering & Wells, 2012)

an alternative Season 4 of sorts, setting in after 4×01 – with the Warehouse restored, Myka and HG get caught up in the  side effects of Artie’s time reset. Time to solve some more puzzles and save the day. And apropos time…

1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10
11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20
21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 – 30
31 – 32 – 33 – 34 – 35

(password here)

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Troubled Passage (Star Trek: Voyager, Janeway/Seven Über, 2012/2013)

an Über story based very loosely on “Killing Game” (episode 4×18): France, 1944. Catherine Jonville doesn’t want any trouble at her inn, but then an intriguing stranger appears on her doorstep, suitcase in hand.

1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10
11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20
21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 – 30
31 – 32 – 33 – 34 – 35 – 36 – 37 – 38 – 39 – 40

(password here)

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Dare (Terapia d’urgenza, Marina/Esther, 2009/2010)

– edited version in ten chapters –

Since the short-lived Italian medical show ended with Marina being gunned down in the parking lot by a madwoman before she could patch up things with Esther, this is a novella-sized epilogue to the show, trying to give it a proper ending. – What happens after Marina is shot?

Chapters 1-3 — Chapter 4 — Chapters 5&6 — Chapters 7-10

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Lemon Cheese Cake (Desperate Housewives, Bree/f, 2005)

What would happen if Bree met her housewife match? Desperation of another kind ensues. (Season 1 timeframe)

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Long River In Egypt (CSI, Catherine/Sara, 2005)

The events around the funeral of Catherine’s ex, Eddie, bring up old memories and new revelations for both Catherine and Sara.

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Crash And Yearn (CSI, Catherine/Sara, 2004)

Catherine and Sara don’t like each other. But then Sara is caught up in an explosion at the lab together with Catherine’s daughter, and things begin to change.

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Non Me Lo So Spiegare (I can’t Explain It To Myself) (Law & Order SVU, Alex/Olivia, 2005)

a short story settled around the episode „Ghost”.

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Sere Nere (Black Nights) (Law & Order SVU, Alex/Olivia, 2005)

a “getting Alex back out of witness protection” story.

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Game’s End (Star Trek: Voyager, Janeway/Seven, 2003)

an epilogue to the show’s final episode, “Endgame”.

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Quando me’n vo (Star Trek: Voyager, Janeway/Seven Uber, 2001)

the result of a J/7 “Phantom of the Opera” challenge.

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The Dark Vault of Soap Embarrassment

(perhaps never to be posted, but it admittedly did happen)

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Rykoe having some fun with the leading ladies of Campus:

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Some “projects that didn’t (quite) make it” & Extra Materials:

“Capture“ (2000/2001)- a non-Über J/7 story, built around the question of what would happen if the power dynamics between Janeway and Seven shifted and Janeway would have to deal with a moment of weakness/helplessness. first 20 pages written, story layout. Definitely a case of “early works”.

“Prussian Blue” (2004) – first story layout for a “Mädchen in Uniform” tribute J/7 Über, set around 1900 in an all-girls boarding school (I still hope to get to write this, I really liked the idea.)

the unnamed Maca y Esther (Hospital Central) “gap fic” (2006) – a story woven into Season 8, filling in motivations and additional scenes for the Maca/Esther romance. Brainstorming file/tentative layout

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The original Campus 13 chapterboard

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Sketches for “Timeless”:

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Sketches for “Troubled Passage”: