2007 LMFA New Slash Author Nominee

2008 LMFA New Gen and Slash Author Nominee, Four Slash Story Categories Nominee

MASTER FICTION LIST for THE SENTINEL


Welcome to my journal. I'm listed as an author under Laurie and laurie_ky. Stories written In the last six months will be marked as NEW. I began writing in 2007, and I find it a very satisfying endeavor.
I was nominated in 2007 for new slash author at Light My Fires Awards and in 2008 for new gen and new slash author. Several of my stories have been nominated for 2008 LMFAs, which thrills me to pieces, and I thank everybody who recommended my stories.

I want to thank the wonderful people who have beta’ed my stories. t_verano who has put in an enormous amount of time and energy and whose thoughtful comments not only help me with the nuts and bolts of grammar, but tutor me in the ways of crafting a story. janedavitt for her assistance and for being so willing to help me with posting as well.

To the readers: Thank you so much for reading my stories. I've found that feedback is very interesting to me, as I learn new things about my own stories that way, but I don't regard it as payment for reading a story. And if you would rather read quietly, that is fine. I did it for mucho years before giving my first comment to an author.

Warnings Policy I think the most fair thing for me to do is to list these warnings/spoilers under a LJ cut on my journal. It seems the best way to balance between those who want or need warnings and those who would like to be surprised where the story goes. On archives or other communities, I will post warnings as per their policies. Multichapter stories will be warned both on the Master Story List and for each chapter. My warnings -- click to see them I'm willing to add to the list if I'm told something was left out that needs a warning.

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( Cover Art for M4b Podbooks )Master Podfic ListPodfics(recorded fan fic or original stories) are permanently housed at Audio Fic Archive and while I post podfics at a variety of communities, these links are to the Audio Fic Archive where I am listed as a reader and author under the tags, reader:laurie and author:laurie. Disclaimer: Not making any money from these and they are transformative in nature. All podfics are recorded with the permission of the author. All podfics read by Laurie (laurie_ky) Podbook covers by cybel, and I thank her very much for her artwork and converting the podfics into M4b format. Podfics listed here will state if they are slash or gen, and the minutes and MP, but links to text can be found by clicking on the link next to the the story title. PLEASE READ THE TEXT FOR ANY WARNINGS! Podfics posted in the last four months will have NEW listed next to them. ( Sentinel stories written by Laurie ) ( Sentinel stories written by Skye ) ( Sentinel stories written by Polly Bywater ) ( Sentinel stories written by T. Verano ) ( Sentinel stories written by Psychgirl ) ( Sentinel stories written by Arnie ) ( Sentinel Stories written by Resonant ) ( Sentinel stories written by Jane Davitt ) ( Sentinel stories written by Karieauthoress ) ( Sentinel stories written by Lit Gal ) ( Sentinel stories written by Mab ) ( Sentinel stories written by Fluterbev ) ( The Dresden Files stories written by CCCarioca )

Film Processing and Kodak Moment by Laurie

A generous friend sent me a bunch of Sentinel zines a couple of years ago and it's okay with her if I donate them to Moonridge. So, I don't know much about pricing them. Anybody have a clue what's an okay price to ask for, since this is a charity auction?


In other news, I did turn in my Sentinel Reverse Bang, and I ended up using every bit of the extension granted to me for editing. Upon a Mountain's Edge came in at 37,500 words. I used Wordle as an editing tool. It makes a graphic pattern out of the words pasted into it and the more a word is used the bigger the size in the pattern. I was able to see which words were being used a lot and substitute more appropriate ones, if necessary. Besides, it was fun.

This is one of the patterns for Upon a Mountain's Edge. To me, it's like a snapshot overview of the story.




I'm slowly, slowwwwly, replacing the links to podfics that I had up at dear old Megaupload. So far, I've re-uploaded about eighty files to MediaFire. I haven't fixed my posts at my Lj or tspodfics yet, but if anybody has been waiting or is interested, my reader tag at Amplificathon now has the correct links to MediaFire on the posts where the tags show that the podfics haven't been archived yet. It's a lot of work for the mods at the Audio Archive, and only recently has the Archive been fixed so that archiving was possible again. Eventually, all of my podfics will be available again at the Audio Archive. My reader tag at the Audio Archive.

I'm finishing up two podfics that will be available for Moonridge, arrow00's Sentinel fic, Somewhere to Be, and a Due South story-podfic combination of mine, The Effects of Hypothermia Upon the Heart. I hope to have Arrow's all done this week,(still working on the non music version) and then I can do a post and send the blurb to Aly.

Also thinking about having my story, or stories for the Sentinel Mini Bang do double duty as another Moonridge offering. Not sure if I'll do it. There's a word cap of 10,000 words, which means no epics. Maybe some comedy? I dunno. Still mulling over ideas. If somebody was going to pay for it, what kinds of stories would get their interest going?

Anyway, that's what I've been doing. What I haven't been doing is sticking to my resolution to go to bed by 11pm. Oh, well. I have a good reason for not being in bed. Me and the Mister are gearing up to watch The Avengers next Sunday, so I brought home THOR, tonight. The movie, not the actual Norse god. It was great.

Laurie

Look here, ear disease. I feel you creeping up on me and you can just go back into hiding. I've got tons of stuff to get done today, and I don't want to put up with your shit.

So cut it out with making me feel lightheaded and dizzy, and don't even think about pulling out the whole vertigo thing. Seriously. I was done with having room spins back when I was a freshman in college, and I don't need to go back down memory lane with you.

You've been warned.

I'm off to drink a ton of water and see if that helps.

Laurie

Title: A Fair Distance: Comes a Time. Chapter Seven
Fandom The Sentinel
Author: Laurie
Type: Slash
Rating: PG-17 (for the series)
Word count: 1993 words
Warnings: Link to warnings for the entire series

Written for Sentinel Thursday Challenge 221: ER
Beta’ed by t_verano She gives good beta.





Summary for A Fair Distance: A year after Blair left Jim, and Cascade, they meet again in a small Tennessee town. Blair's been arrested and is being held for questioning at the request of the Cascade PD.

This is the third and final arc to the story, and the two earlier arcs, A Fair Distance:Running on Empty and A Fair Distance: Ball and Chain, as well as several time stamps, can be located at my LJ here or at Artifact Storage Room 3 here or at AO3 here. I believe that AO3 has a nifty feature that allows you to download onto E-readers.

( A Fair Distance:Comes a Time. Chapter Seven )


Laurie

Title: A Fair Distance: Comes a Time. Chapter Six
Fandom The Sentinel
Author: Laurie
Type: Slash
Rating: PG-17 (for the series)
Word count: 4445 words
Warnings: Yes! This could be triggering so if that is a concern please check the warning page. Link to warnings for the entire series

Written for Sentinel Thursday Challenge 176: Death
Beta’ed by t_verano She's a star. Her assistance is always deeply appreciated.






Summary for A Fair Distance: A year after Blair left Jim, and Cascade, they meet again in a small Tennessee town. Blair's been arrested and is being held for questioning at the request of the Cascade PD.

This is the third and final arc to the story, and the two earlier arcs, A Fair Distance:Running on Empty and A Fair Distance: Ball and Chain, as well as several time stamps, can be located at my LJ here or at Artifact Storage Room 3 here or at AO3 here. I believe that AO3 has a nifty feature that allows you to download onto E-readers.

( A Fair Distance:Comes a Time. Chapter Six )

Laurie

A Fair Distance: Comes a Time. Chapter Seven.

For the last hour, I saw a bunch of fireflies this evening when I was walking down to the spring to get drinking water. It's magical, especially when the stars are out, too.

In other news, I'll be offering two podfics for Moonridge, Somewhere to Be by arrow00 (four hours long) and a Due South story I wrote and podficced. (Well, I recorded half of it so far and I haven't edited any of it. I'll be working on it this coming week) More blurbs on that later. I've got to find an upload service that's free, easy to use, and doesn't require people downloading to join them. If anybody has one to recommend, I'd love to hear about it.

Megaupload, I dearly miss ye.

Also, I'll be posting the next chapter to A Fair Distance: Comes a Time , sometime tonight. I intend to do it before I go to bed. That's chapter six. Chapter five ended on a cliffhanger. This one isn't much better in that regard. Also, warnings for the story apply heavily for chapter six.

I find the spellcheck feature for posting totally useless.

Laurie

Deadline for the Sentinel Reverse Bang rough draft is tomorrow night and I'm still working on the sucker.

I'm at 15,212 words. I need to be at seventy-five percent to turn it in. I'd like to get it to around 20,000 words. I'm kind of guessing about the length, but I think it will be at least that long.

Any other stragglers in the same boat still? mab_browne?

I also need to do laundry, can dried beans (they were donated to us), bake a birthday cake for my oldest, color eggs for the baby, shove gift cards in envelopes, make some CDs for gifts, and fix picnic stuff for Easter. My daughter is turning thirty-one on Saturday and will be camping Saturday night in the Daniel Boone Forest. There are bears around, but they're pretty sure they know what to do if they have contact and they know not to leave food outside in reach.

We're not camping, but we're driving over to meet them on Sunday. We'll hang out and hike and make s'mores and eat and watch the baby (eleven months old now) look for Easter eggs.

Okay, I've got a lot to do. Time to put the beans on to soak overnight, throw some laundry in the washer, stick a blank CD in the computer and copy some music, and figure out the next scene in the story.

Laurie

I'm putting this one under a cut because it could be triggery. Child abuse, animal death story follows. It's kind of stuck in my head.

( Read more... )

Laurie

The Audio Fic Archive is up and running again, and the busy mods will be working on the backlog of podfics and podbooks that need to be archived.

Also, Cybel made a post about her podbooks for the future.

All my podfics and podbooks(courtsey of Cybel)are or will be housed at the Archive. In addition, I plan on eventually having them all duplicated at two other sites, for back up purposes. This requires me to fiddle around and right now I don't have the time, but it is on the to-do list.

Right now I'll be busy with some massive editing for quite a while, and I probably won't do podfics as much as I've done in the past. While I'm not going to do any podfics this year for Moonridge, I probably will for next year.

Also, I'm not doing amplificathon (podfic contest) this year, but I think I will do it next year, probably for the last time.

Laurie

The writer's checkpoint for the Sentinel Reverse Big Bang is on March 24. That's, um, five days from now. Right? How many words have I written? Zilch. I have been writing, but it's the very last chapter of my epic WIP A Fair Distance, that I started uh, I think four years ago. There's an epiloug but that I can put off. This last chapter is eating my brain, and it's like writing with molasses for ink.

And I can't stop it to start the Big Bang, which will not be short, either. And I have other stuff to do (work, projects, walking). ARGH!

I decided not to do amplificathon this year. (That's a podfic contest) I think they started it earlier than last year, and the timing isn't right for me.

Okay, I just needed to freak out for a moment.

Laurie

This is a rant post. Sorry about that.

I buried my client's puppy this morning. In the rain. Why? Because her family is useless. They can't be depended on for anything that requires any real effort on their part. When it gets tough, they get going. She's still a teen, and in a wheelchair, but lives on her own with home health assistance during the day. They did a deal to get her this puppy, which cost her $125 dollars, although that's another complicated story, and in the three days she had it, she kept telling them it was sick. They kept insisting it wasn't. Mom even called me, and left a message saying that the puppy was healthy and the kid was being over anxious, and driving them nuts calling thirty times a day to tell them the puppy was dying.

Well, guess what? The kid was right. And when she told me what had happened, (the dog had died sometime the day before), she said that her family couldn't bury it because they didn't have a shovel.

A FUCKING SHOVEL COULDN'T BE FOUND, BOUGHT, OR BORROWED!!

Her mom had put the body in a trash bag and stuck it under a brush pile in the big back yard.

The kid was worried about how to get the dog buried, so I told her I'd come back today and bring a shovel from my house.

I made a cross to put on the little grave so she can see it from the kitchen window.

I couldn't exactly say in my documenation note that I'd spent part of the time with her today burying her puppy. I did an end run by saying I'd provided resource assistance to her. I'm the resource.

And then there's the other useless people I heard about yesterday, the family and friends of three of my clients. These lowlifes stole their medicine. FAMILY AND FRIENDS! It's bad enough when it's random crack heads breaking in and taking meds, but when it's people you trust, that's extra low.

And for an encore rant, there's my other client, who's afraid to go back to the trailer she shares with her mother (mom's left, too) because her alcoholic, sociopath brother got out of jail and is holed up there, drinking. He beats the crap out of them both, so she's staying with a friend. She says there's no help from the cops (he narcs for them, and so he's protected from his actions) or his probation officer.

Well, now that I've got all of that spouted off, I'm going to drink a cup of tea and be glad that I'm off of work till Monday.

Laurie

I want to thank everybody for their crossed fingers when I posted about the bad storms that hit in our general area. If you've seen the news you've seen how destructive these two storms were that came last Wednesday and Friday up from the south to the midwest, and over to the east.

I lucked out in that I didn't have to go to work either day to do visits in the area. I worked from home doing the unending paperwork or was out of hours for the week. We were on the edge of where the tornado warning was listed, and the tornados didn't turm our way. Last year, we did have a smaller tornado hit and bounce along the ridge above us, (half a mile away) and it took down a lot of trees as it ripped through some of the hollers, and did a little damage to some buildings, but basically we dodged a bullet.

The tornado that hit in one of the counties I work in, approximately 45 miles from my house, was a EF2, 125 miles an hour monster. It was a half a mile wide and stayed on the ground for eleven miles before lifting up and heading up the mountains. This is about seven miles from my office.

According to the news reports I heard, there were about seventy homes that were destroyed or damaged. People were hurt, but nobody lost their lives here. Other communities did lose people, some incredibly sad stories have been reported on the news.

One guy videoed the storm in the county my office is in as it was coming, and some of the damage afterwards. His note said he chose not to go to the worst areas hit, and on the news they asked that people not come by to sightsee, as it was causing some problems for the responders. I think where he videod was close by his house.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6MwyKt0abc

Laurie

Looks like we'll get pounded sometime in the next couple of hours. Nashville's got hail and tornados. Tornados have been spotted south and east of us, getting closer fairly rapidly. Also to some of our kids.

I washed dishes and clothes, in case power goes out. We went for a walk, me and my husband, and it's so windy. I kind of love the wind, always have. When I was a little girl I'd run with the wind, so that I felt it was blowing me around.

Okay, hopefully this will dodge us. At least I'm home and not driving around for work today.

Laurie

Ah, I have wee blue dragons to look at on my profile. Thank you, janedavitt, luicat, aerianya, and kalijean for sending them over to roost at my place.

And I happened to be at the right place at the right time, and raised my hand when lapetite_kiki offered an icon of her lovely picture of Blair testing Jim's senses with something a lot more pleasant than a sour glass of milk. Take a look

We've had tornados in the general area, and we're still under a watch for a couple more hours, but it looks like none will drop in on my holler. I worked a half day at home and took off the other four hours, so I was glad to not be out driving in the areas where tornados were spotted.

I made my February productivity for my job yesterday, by the skin of my teeth. February is always tough because it's a short month, but compared to other years, this February was a lot easier. The weather didn't cause roads to be shut down, which helped a lot. I took three days off, between sick days and taking some time when my grandbaby and daughter and son-in-law stopped by on their way home from visiting relatives in Texas. This meant my productivity was adjusted downward, which is a good thing, because otherwise I don't have enough clients to make the regular numbers. One lost his insurance, another landed in the pokey (again), and others couldn't keep appointments for one reason or another.

One guy was drunk as a skunk when I came over. He's off his meds, self-medicating with booze, and has very strong opinions on politics and religion, which he shared. At Great Length. I had to fend off a drunken hug from him, but it wasn't sexual. He was just so happy to have somebody to talk to. I actually got off fairly easy by getting him to turn me loose and shake hands instead. He told me he actually kissed two guys from his church who came to check on him, after giving them big ol' drunken hugs, too. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall, because when he does attend church, it's with a very conservative denomination.

I came by the next day and gave him some resource information on rehab and crisis services. I think he's high risk for making a suicide attempt, but he denied it both days. He wasn't drunk, although he had been drinking, on the second day. I can look into my crystal ball and predict that if he doesn't go back to rehab, he's going to be picked up for DUI and end up back in jail.

I'm trying to finish up my WIP Comes a Time, the third arc of A Fair Distance. Some upcoming chapters are really short, other fairly long, and I'm on Chapter Sixteen. T, my beta, is working on Chapter Six, which is about 4,500 words long.

This weekend I'm going to start my Reverse Sentinel Bang story, which will be a new story in the A Glimmering From Afar series. I'm basing it on some gorgeous art work by a very talented artist who uses paper cutting as his medium. Want a look?

The grandbaby is crawling and getting into everything. My daughter said he's teething and couldn't sleep last night and played with banging pots and pans together from three am to five am. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The years that we raised our three (the oldest had just turned five, and the middle girl was 22 months old when the baby boy was born) are a blur, probably from being sleep deprived a lot, but I'm sure we had similar nights.


Poplar around seven months or so.

See this post for heading information and links to warning page

( Part B of A Fair Distance. Comes a Time. Chapter Five Part B )

Laurie

A Fair Distance: Comes a Time. Chapter Six

Title: A Fair Distance: Comes a Time. Chapter Five (Part A)
Fandom The Sentinel
Author: Laurie
Type: Slash
Rating: PG-17 (for the series)
Word count: 14,531 words
Warnings: none for this chapter. Link to warnings for the entire series

Written for Sentinel Thursday Challenge 236: Obsessed.
Beta’ed by t_verano As always, her comments are very deeply appreciated.





Summary for A Fair Distance: A year after Blair left Jim, and Cascade, they meet again in a small Tennessee town. Blair's been arrested and is being held for questioning at the request of the Cascade PD.

This is the third and final arc to the story, and the two earlier arcs, A Fair Distance:Running on Empty and A Fair Distance: Ball and Chain, as well as several time stamps, can be located at my LJ here or at Artifact Storage Room 3 here or at AO3 here. I believe that AO3 has a nifty feature that allows you to download onto E-readers.

( A Fair Distance:Comes a Time. Chapter Five )

Continued in the next post because of the size of this chapter.

Laurie

( Typical day of work for me. )

Laurie

The Audio Fic Archive has been hacked and the owner, General Jin_Jur has posted that it will probably take ten days or so to restore it. So any of my posts with links to the podfic on the Archive will be redirected elsewhere. Here's her post with the details. ETA Cybel posted just now that the download direct links are also compromised. Don't try to download anything.

The podfics that I didn't have archived there were uploaded to Megaupload and since they were shut down by the Feds, I'm out of business until I upload them somewhere else again. Two kind people are sharing their webspace with me,(Thank you, Paraka and Elaine) so I'll probably use that space for backups and also to another upload site. This will take a lot of time, so for the time being, my podfics are shut down.

I'll post a notice when they are available again, either through Audio Fic Archive or the other backup sites.

Laurie

I finished up my forty hours by Thursday so I didn't have to work yesterday, which is always great. so here's what I'm up to.

( Blathering about me driving Crack Van next month, podficcing, writing, and projects I'm doing )

Laurie

Simon likes to collect statues of angels, does anyone remember if there was any particular religion he follows?

Laurie

So I just got home and found out Megaupload is in TROUBLE, and the site is shut down by the Dept of Justice.

All of my fanmixes and all of my podics were uploaded there, athough a lot of my podfics were mirrored at Audio Fic Archive except for the last bunch I've done in the last few months because the archive is dealing with a problem about adding new stuff. The link I posted is to my reader page.

I had a website, where I had uploaded some podfics and fanmixes so they could be streamed, but it was hacked recently and I haven't figured out how to fix it.

So. If you are trying to download something I did with a Megaupload link or listen to the streaming version, it's not going to be available.

Laurie

Fandom: The Sentinel
Title: One Word, Many Uses
Characters: Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg
Rating Gen
AuthorLaurie
Word Count500 words
Notes: Written for 2011 ts_secret_santa Much thanks go to aimn for running the comm.


The prompt was "ice."


( One Word, Many Uses )

Laurie

Fandom: The Sentinel
Title: Love, Joy, and Wassail
Pairing: Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg
RatingTeen
AuthorLaurie
Word Count500 words
Notes: Written for 2011 ts_secret_santa Much thanks go to aimn for running the comm.



Love, Joy, and Wassail

( I can hear Sandburg singing off-key as I trudge up the stairs. He's bellowing out a mangled version of that Christmas song about wassail )

Some fun links:

Wassail Recipe | The Wassail Song


Author's note: I wrote this story after spilling some Maker's Mark whiskey on a counter (I didn't lick it up, but I was tempted).


Laurie

Fandom: The Sentinel
Title: Flying Down That Slipperie Slope Towards Change
Pairing: Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg
RatingTeen
AuthorLaurie
Word Count893 words
Notes: Written for 2011 ts_secret_santa Much thanks go to aimn for running the comm.

Dedicated to the memory of Bee, our own Slipperie-slope.


( Sandburg's message was short, and he sounded breathless, excited. )

Laurie

Reader's note: First, the new podfic:




There are two versions of this podfic, a music enhanced version where I utilized music to introduce the story, indicate chapter breaks and whenever the author used a visual break in the text, and to end the story.

And then there is a music free version, for any listeners who prefer their podfic with just the reader's voice. There is silence to indicate the visual breaks in the text and to indicate a chapter is ending.


Recorded for Moonridge 2010.

Fandom:Staragate SG1, NCIS. Pairings: Gibbs/Tony, Jack/Daniel
Fanfic Title:A Couple of Lucky Bastards
Rating: R
Format: Mp3s. Non Music Version:, 15.1MB 00:16.30 minutes. Music Version: 16.3MB, 00:17.48 minutes.
Fanfic Author:Lady Ra ladyra
Author's email: Ladyra11@yahoo.com

Read by:Laurie laurie_ky
Reader's email:holler@duo-county.com
Cover Art Adapted by Laurie from art by Lady Ra.
Story SummaryJack and Gibbs meet up while on Christmas vacation and go sailing.

Non Music Version Megaupload Link

Music Version Megaupload Link


Second, this is a list I compiled for a request for holiday podfics, and I thought I'd share it here, too.

Self recs. I read all of these.

I linked to podfic comms, since they have a tad more information than the Audio Fic Archive, which is where most of these podfics are housed, but there are links to the archive or to Megaupload.

The Christmas Elf by Lady Ra Sentinel Slash.

Polishing Shoes by T. Verano. Sentinel Gen.

and a sequel, which I wrote and podficced also.

Discerning the Magi's Gift

Lodestar, a Sentinel Gen story in the A Fair Distance series that takes place on Christmas day. (later stories in this series are slash)

Lord of the Drunks by Arnie. Sentinel Gen with some Christmas elements Something's wrong with her web page, so I couldn't check the story but I remember there were stolen plastic reindeer and inedible Christmas cookies.

Film Processing by Laurie(me) and a non christmas sequel Kodak Moment. Sentinel, slash, but gen in tone.. Blair dresses as a Christmas Elf for a children's party sponsered by the Police Department. Jim is starting to get a clue.



Happy Holidays,

Laurie

Whew! I've been very "snowed under" by work(done now till January 3rd), and getting ready for Christmas and visits from my kids and in-laws. snailbones, maybeatdawn, and pattrose sent me lovely snowmen a few days ago, and I can finally catch my breath and tell them thank you. They were very much appreciated.

Laurie

Briefly:

My minor allergy to cats has been kicked up to the major leauges today after a hour long home visit with a client and her two cats this morning. Ugh. I took antihistimines and they helped, as did the shower I took when I got home tonight, but I'm all bleary eyed. I might have to swap this client for another one if this happens again. Next time I'll take the antihistimine before I enter the place.

I'm still alive and kicking (if you missed me talking about this before, I had a death threat from an ex-client's father). The guy hasn't stormed into the office with a gun, so yay. /sarcasm. Actually, I'm betting that he's complaining bitterly to the insurance company. Ironic, if he is, since they are the ones who turned his kid down for in-home counseling. He thinks it was my fault.

The Christmas stuff is piled everywhere in boxes, and I'm not in the decorating mood.

I won a prize for my podficcing Jane Davitt's Point of Contact (because it was sooo long). Check out my cool graphic here.

My second daughter is with child, and the babe shall be born in June. They think. We're all very excited about our new little sprout (the babe's nickname for now). My seven month old grandson is too cute for words, of course. He isn't crawling yet, but he gets up on his knees and makes sounds like he's jerking weights at the gym. It cracks me up.

We lost a friend last week to cancer. My husband worked with him for a couple of years many moons ago. When Tom couldn't be left by himself any longer, my husband sat with him during the day for months last spring and again this fall. He kept Tom company and made his last days much more bearable. I'm very proud of him for stepping up to the plate to help and because he came in the role of his friend, not a paid caretaker. (in the interest of complete disclosure, my husband was given ten dollars a day, but mostly that paid for the gas for me to take him there and for a few beers). Tom's wife is a teacher and was able to stay home with him during the summer, but she had to keep working so they could keep his health insurance. We'll miss him.

My major fandom-ish project right now is podficcing Bent Justice for Whyskeyes. I'm 6/30 hours recorded, 0/30 hours edited. I'm going to do fic_rush in a week or so, and I hope to work on another chapter for Comes a Time.

Wel, I think that's it for now. God, I wish the Christmas Elves would show up and decorate this place. I'm going to hit up the eggnog and rum, try and get in the holiday mood.

Laurie

Sentinel Thursday Challenge 274: In the Kitchen
Title: A Fair Distance: Comes a Time. Chapter Four
Fandom The Sentinel
Author: Laurie
Type: Slash
Rating: PG-17 (for the series)
Word count: 2385
Warnings: none for this chapter. Link to warnings for the entire series

Beta’ed by t_verano. I'd throw her a parade if I could.






Summary for A Fair Distance: A year after Blair left Jim, and Cascade, they meet again in a small Tennessee town. Blair's been arrested and is being held for questioning at the request of the Cascade PD.

This is the third and final arc to the story, and the two earlier arcs, A Fair Distance:Running on Empty and A Fair Distance: Ball and Chain, as well as several time stamps, can be located at my LJ here or at Artifact Storage Room 3 here or at AO3 here. I believe that AO3 has a nifty feature that allows you to download onto E-readers.


( A Fair Distance: Comes a Time. Chapter Four )

A Fair Distance: Comes a Time. Chapter Five

Going out of town for Thanksgiving, won't have computer access. So if you comment on a post and I don't answer, I'm not shot, just gone away for now. Back Sunday evening.

Laurie

Oh, well, I was going to type out a more detailed post, but fuck it.

My boss called to let me know that the father of one my ex-kids, a five year old, has again gotten irrationally angry at me, and made a death threat. (the dad saw me yesterday and after his son and the boy's mother initiated contact with me while I was outside the center taking a phone call. I did talk to the little guy for a minute. I didn't want to snub a small child, who likes me and doesn't understand why I don't come to his house anymore. I'd seen this family in the office waiting room and had made minimal small talk to the child and mother before without the dad blowing his top, so I didn't think it was going to be a problem. Oh, but apparently it was.)

He'd like to put a bullet in my brain, and take his chances with the jury. He called the psychiarist and told him that. Oh, Joy.

The company has terminated his case, (I feel sorry for the little guy, but they have some in-home services right now). The police in the town where my office is and in the town where the family lives has been notified, and I was told to stay out of the office today. The company is going to do some sort of complaint with the police against him, but hopefully I won't have to go to court.

Isn't that just lovely holiday news?

Laurie

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Art by Mella


Title In Our Time of Need
Author Laurie
Fandom The Sentinel/Magnificent Seven (ATF)
Rating and Warnings Mature, NC-17, Rape
Word Count ~ 69,400
Characters JD Dunne, Buck Wilmington, Chris Larabee, Ezra Standish, Nathan Jackson, Vin Tanner, Josiah Sanchez, Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg
Pairings Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg, JD Dunne/Buck Wilmington

Author's Notes Written for Nell for Moonridge. Beta'ed by Sallymn, with additional assistance from Mab and Marns. Thank you all, ladies; I very much appreciated your insights. I was blessed with an abundance of art, from Mella, who claimed the story, and from Patt, who made additional banners and icons in case it was needed for a pinch hit. Mella gave a thumbs up for Patt's art to be included and both artist's pages are listed below; please let them know that their lovely work is appreciated. Written for sentinelbigbang 2011.

This is a "Sentinels are known" story, and touches on political and legal issues, bonding, and the spirit world.

Story Summary: Blair goes to Denver to help train a new sentinel and guide pair who bonded under traumatic circumstances; Jim comes along, not willing to be apart from Blair. For four men, choices will be made that will affect them the rest of their lives.

Links to art Mella's Art Page (official big bang artist) | Pattrose's Art Page (additional art)

Links to story AO3 | ASR3 | DW Master Post | LJ-Part One | LJ-Part Two | LJ-Part Three | LJ-Part Four | LJ-Part Five | LJ-Part Six | LJ-Part Seven | LJ-Part Eight | LJ-Epilogue

Art by Pattrose

Master Post on my LJ
Master Post at sentinelbigbang


( In Our Time of Need -- Part Two )

Continued in In Our Time of Need -- Part Three

Art by Mella


Title In Our Time of Need
Author Laurie
Fandom The Sentinel/Magnificent Seven (ATF)
Rating and Warnings Mature, NC-17, Rape
Word Count ~ 69,400
Characters JD Dunne, Buck Wilmington, Chris Larabee, Ezra Standish, Nathan Jackson, Vin Tanner, Josiah Sanchez, Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg
Author's Notes Written for Nell for Moonridge. See the master post for additional links to art by Mella and Pattrose. Beta'ed by Sallymn, with additional assistance from Mab and Marns.. Thanks you all, ladies.

This is a "Sentinels are known" story, and touches on political and legal issues, bonding, and the spirit world.

Story Summary: Blair goes to Denver to help train a new sentinel and guide;Jim comes along, not willing to be apart from Blair. For four men, choices will be made that will affect them the rest of their lives.



Art by Pattrose

Master Post on my LJ
Master Post at sentinelbigbang

( In Our Time Of Need -- Part One )

Continued in In Our Time of Need Part Two

Master Post Links A Sea Change Series | A Sea Change | And Weigh Our Sorrow With Our Comfort
Fanmix created for: A Sea Change and And Weigh Our Sorrow With Our Comfort(2011 Sentinel Big Bang).
Music and art illustrations compiled by:Laurie laurie_ky
Cover Artist:;Debbie Stone, stoneygirl77
Notes: The stamps (The Seal Woman) are from the Faroe Islands, located between Scotland and Iceland.The selkie tapestry banner was adapted from artwork by Lelia Thompson. There is no streaming or downloading of music. Email me at holler (AT)duo-county.com to discuss how to acquire the music or look for it online at Amazon or Itunes.

This music mix features Celtic, Folk, Soft Rock, World Music, and selections from the soundtrack of The Last of the Mohicans; there is quite a bit of instrumental music.

Return to DW Master Post.




A Sea Change

Elk Hunt / Trevor Jones
Crawled out of the Sea / Laura Marling
The Grey Selchie / Solas
Promentory / Trevor Jones
The Selkie of Skaill Bay / Kathie Touin
All That You Ask Me / Solas
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / U2
Harp Song Meditation / Amy Camie
The British Arrival / Trevor Jones
Sorry / Solas
Possession (piano version) / Sarah McLachlan
Pieces of a Story / Trevor Jones
Somewhere / Hem
The Courier / Trevor Jones
Great Silkie of Sule Skerry / Paul Clayton
Will Find You / Clannard
Can't Find My Way Home / Alana Davis
The Kiss / Trevor Jones
The Open Sea / Pentangle
The Crows Set jigs and reels) / Solas
The Heart of the Ocean / Gaelic Storm
Family / Dar Willilams
Fort Battle / Trevor Jones
Another Day / Solas

And Weigh Our Sorrow With Our Comfort

River Walk and Discovery / Trevor Jones
Season of the Witch / Donovan
When You Come Back / Nickel Creek
Darkness, Darkness / Solas
Song of Nephilim / Yasunori Mitsuda
Breathe / Alex Murdoch
This Love Will Carry / Solas
Procession of Sages and Warriors / Cantiga
Set Me Free (When the Night is Over) / Pentangle
Ocean Swells/The Kiss / Sound Effects/Trevor Jones
The Glade(pt 2) / Trevor Jones
Pinnacle / Daniel J Nielsen
Alchemy / Johnny Hollow
The Old Ways / Loreena Mckennitt
Now We Are Free / Lisa Gerrard
Beyond the Dreaming Place / Steeleye Span
Who knows Where The Time Goes / Fairport Convention
Selkie Lulluby / Jennifer Pratt-Walter

( click to see additional art work compiled by Laurie, and story synopsis with lyric selections. )




Laurie

Sorry that there is no streaming on downloading available online. Email me at holler (at) duo-county.com to discuss how to acquire the songs. Or you can find them at Amazon or Itunes, I should think.

Project (Fanmix) Kingdom Come Fanmix: 24 songs by Laurie laurie_ky
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters Mary Winchester (centric), John, Dean, and Sam Winchester. Bobby Singer. Ellen, Bill, and Jo Harvelle
Pairings: Mary Winchester/John Winchester; Dean Winchester/Bobby Singer
Content Notes/Warnings: There is no streaming or links to a download, sorry. Email me at holler (AT) duo-county.com to discuss how to acquire the music or look for it online at Amazon or Itunes.
Acknowledgements: This is a complement for (DW user name) Morgan's story, Kingdom Come.
Link to story by Morgan briarwood | DW | LJ | AO3 | lj-master="LJ-Master" post | DW-Master Post | Ladies Big Bang Master Post

Kingdom Come Fanmix

Bad Moon Rising / Rasputina
The Child is Gone / Fiona Apple
Confessions / City and Colour
Out There / Brad Caleb Kane
Night Terror / Laura Marling
Welcome to the Jungle / Guns N' Roses
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight / Mumford and Sons
Purple Haze / Vitamin String Quartet
At This Point in My Life / Tracy Chapman
Spoilin' For a Fight / AC/DC
Stand by Me / Jason Mraz
I am a Wicked Child /Radiohead
Hells Bells / The Dandy Warhols
Winds of Change / Jefferson Starship
Red Is The Color / Steve Earle
Once / Brad Caleb Kane
Longer / Brad Caleb Kane
I Won't Back Down / Johnny Cash
Gimme Shelter /Patti Smith
The Part Where You Let Go / Hem
Girl in the War / Josh Ritter
House in the Woods / Tom Petty
Family / Dar Williams
For Whom the Bell Tolls / Apocalyptica


( Lyrics, story selections, and streaming )

Laurie

Sorry that there is no streaming or download links available to listen to the music. You can email me at holler (AT) duo-county.com to discuss how to acquire the music or probably most of it can be found at Amazon or Itunes.

"The Last Stand" - story, podfic, and fanmix by Laurie laurie_ky
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters/Pairings: Ellen Harvelle (Centric), Jo Harvelle, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Bobby Singer, Castiel. Ellen Harvelle/Bobby Singer. Hints of Jo Harvelle/Dean Winchester, Castiel/Dean Winchester
Content Notes/Warnings: Canon Death
Rating: Teen. PG-13
Summary: "She waited, steady, a hunter, and a mother, and by God she would blow these bitches back to Hell." A Supernatural story based on the episode, "Abandon All Hope."

Acknowledgements: Beta'd by neurawkward, who came to my rescue at the last minute. Thanks, Baybee. Thanks also to JJ, for her encouraging comments. Thank you, mods.

Banner, podfic and fanmix covers made by Laurie laurie_ky

Links to story LJ | DW | AO3
Links to podfic LJ | DW | AO3
Links to fanmix LJ | DW | AO3

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