Fics by Tears_of_Mercury (UPDATED 10/21)
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:05 pm
Hi, ya'all! I thought that I should put one of these up about now, since I'm pretty far into my first Roswell fic and have tons more on the way. My sneak peak section is, as of now, pretty much the biggest.
WIPs
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Reconstructing Madonna
Summary: A story set in (somewhat) present time that leaves cannon behind after Ch-ch-changes. For Max, Liz leaving was just the latest in a long line of painful events, but for Liz things just got worse from there. Six years later and she's still struggling to control her powers, hold down a job she didn't aspire to, and keep her friends from worrying. When her nightmares evolve and become premonitions she finds herself working next to Max once more and struggling to come to terms with why she ran away in the first place.
Link to story: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... 98#p688398
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Trick of the Light
Summary: At the end of Max to the Max, a tragic misstep leads to Liz being captured by the FBI instead of Max. As clashing opinions on a plan of action divide Max, Alex, Maria, Tess, Michael, Isabel, and Nacedo, Liz begins to develop alien powers and discovers that sometimes the worst hell isn't the one created by someone else. Based on the challenge by FrenchDreamer.
Link to challenge text: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... &start=130
Link to story: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... sc&start=0
One-shots
Anchor
*UC
Summary: 'He has the inconceivable wish that she would linger for a moment.' After his altercation with Hank in Independence Day, Michael goes back to see Isabel.
Link to story: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... =5&t=18863
Different
Summary: A pre-pilot Max thinks about the differences between him and the object of his affections.
Link to story: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... =4&t=18961
Equilibrium
*UC
Summary: Isabel has some problems with her balance. Michael helps. This takes place sometime in and after ‘The Toy House.’ It references later cannon, though it doesn’t change anything significantly. This story is the prequel/companion piece to Anchor, and although I’d love if you read (and reviewed) that story, it’s not required to understand this one.
Link to story: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... =5&t=19004
Falling into Place
Summary: ‘She’d forgotten that world-changing doesn’t always mean bad.’ A somewhat angsty and generally OOC musing where the author follows Liz’s non-existent storyline in A Roswell Christmas Carol.
Link to story: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... =4&t=18870
The Protector
Summary: Post- EOTW and –Harvest. Michael invites Courtney to homecoming… kind of, anyway, and our favorite peeling alien gets a front row seat to the drama of Michael and Maria. She also finds a confidant in an unexpected place. Because sometimes it’s the people who don’t know you at all who understand you best. Done for the Avant Garde '07 Fall Challenge at Roswell Heaven.
Link to story: http://roswellheaven.yuku.com/topic/2990
Upcoming Fics
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Signal Fire
Summary: When Max sees Liz and Kyle in bed together, his small hold on control slips away. He finds himself isolated from all of the people who are supposed to care about him and decides leave Roswell. When Liz finds out about his disappearance she immediately begins searching for him, flashes that he's left behind guiding her way. The answer to the challenge from Zanity.
Link to challenge: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... &start=130
The Polaris Series
Summary: The ancient Arabs thought Polaris was an outcast among stars. The Moguls and Scandinavians believed it held the universe together. Only the Omaha Indians knew the truth: Polaris was the star that guided all weary travelers home. An alternate version of Breaking Dawn in which Seth is the werewolf to imprint on Renesmee.
“She followed slowly, taking a long time,
as though there were some obstacle in her way;
and yet: as though, once it was overcome,
she would be beyond all walking, and would fly.”
– from “Going Blind”, by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
“Few men can keep alive through a big surf
to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches
in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind:
and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband,
her white arms round him pressed as though forever.”
– from The Odyssey, by Homer
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
“Clock time is our bank manager,
tax collector, police inspector;
this inner time is our wife.”
– from Man and Time by T.B. Priestley
“You need chaos in your soul
to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…”
– from “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats
Sneak Peeks
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Souls Mate Eternal
Summary: Ever since Max and Tess came back from New York, Liz has been plagued with vivid and heartbreaking dreams - dreams where she isn't Liz Parker but Liz Valenti; where Max, Michael, Isabel, and Tess do not exist; and where she is left, virtually friendless, to keep her life together. As the dreams intensify in frequency and emotion, a new character enters the scene - the mysterious Zan, who is both a help and a threat.
An excerpt from this story can be found here: http://mercuryandrain.livejournal.com/1149.html
Other Shows Fanfic
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Ten Thousand Miles
Summary: Mistakes were made; lives were taken. Sixteen years later, Renesmee Cullen is righting a wrong and making history by breaking a flawed imprint. Feeling isolated from the only family she's ever known but unable to turn her back on them completely, she makes the long journey to the ex-pack member who can tell her the truth about the night she was born. In the end, it's the lonely Seth Clearwater who makes her realize that even what's shattered can be made new again. [SethxNessie]
Link to story: http://www.twilighted.net/viewstory.php?sid=837
*In Progress
This is the link to my profile on ff.net, where I have Heroes, Harry Potter, and One Tree Hill fiction among others:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1074070/Tears_of_Mercury
Awards:
Runner-up for Best Overall Fic and Saddest Fic
Winner for Best Exploration of a Minor Character and Best Author Stepping out of their Comfort Zone
In RoswellHeaven's Avant Garde Challenge Fall '07
Nominated for Best Use of a Supporting Character for Eileen
Runner-up for Favorite Portrayal of Serena
In RF's Round 12 Fanfic Awards
WIPs
banner by Tarajeff73
Reconstructing Madonna
Summary: A story set in (somewhat) present time that leaves cannon behind after Ch-ch-changes. For Max, Liz leaving was just the latest in a long line of painful events, but for Liz things just got worse from there. Six years later and she's still struggling to control her powers, hold down a job she didn't aspire to, and keep her friends from worrying. When her nightmares evolve and become premonitions she finds herself working next to Max once more and struggling to come to terms with why she ran away in the first place.
Link to story: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... 98#p688398
Banner by FrenchDreamer
Trick of the Light
Summary: At the end of Max to the Max, a tragic misstep leads to Liz being captured by the FBI instead of Max. As clashing opinions on a plan of action divide Max, Alex, Maria, Tess, Michael, Isabel, and Nacedo, Liz begins to develop alien powers and discovers that sometimes the worst hell isn't the one created by someone else. Based on the challenge by FrenchDreamer.
Link to challenge text: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... &start=130
Link to story: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... sc&start=0
One-shots
Anchor
*UC
Summary: 'He has the inconceivable wish that she would linger for a moment.' After his altercation with Hank in Independence Day, Michael goes back to see Isabel.
Link to story: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... =5&t=18863
Different
Summary: A pre-pilot Max thinks about the differences between him and the object of his affections.
Link to story: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... =4&t=18961
Equilibrium
*UC
Summary: Isabel has some problems with her balance. Michael helps. This takes place sometime in and after ‘The Toy House.’ It references later cannon, though it doesn’t change anything significantly. This story is the prequel/companion piece to Anchor, and although I’d love if you read (and reviewed) that story, it’s not required to understand this one.
Link to story: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... =5&t=19004
Falling into Place
Summary: ‘She’d forgotten that world-changing doesn’t always mean bad.’ A somewhat angsty and generally OOC musing where the author follows Liz’s non-existent storyline in A Roswell Christmas Carol.
Link to story: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... =4&t=18870
The Protector
Summary: Post- EOTW and –Harvest. Michael invites Courtney to homecoming… kind of, anyway, and our favorite peeling alien gets a front row seat to the drama of Michael and Maria. She also finds a confidant in an unexpected place. Because sometimes it’s the people who don’t know you at all who understand you best. Done for the Avant Garde '07 Fall Challenge at Roswell Heaven.
Link to story: http://roswellheaven.yuku.com/topic/2990
Upcoming Fics
Banner by me
Signal Fire
Summary: When Max sees Liz and Kyle in bed together, his small hold on control slips away. He finds himself isolated from all of the people who are supposed to care about him and decides leave Roswell. When Liz finds out about his disappearance she immediately begins searching for him, flashes that he's left behind guiding her way. The answer to the challenge from Zanity.
Link to challenge: http://www.roswellfanatics.net/viewtopi ... &start=130
The Polaris Series
Summary: The ancient Arabs thought Polaris was an outcast among stars. The Moguls and Scandinavians believed it held the universe together. Only the Omaha Indians knew the truth: Polaris was the star that guided all weary travelers home. An alternate version of Breaking Dawn in which Seth is the werewolf to imprint on Renesmee.
“She followed slowly, taking a long time,
as though there were some obstacle in her way;
and yet: as though, once it was overcome,
she would be beyond all walking, and would fly.”
– from “Going Blind”, by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
“Few men can keep alive through a big surf
to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches
in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind:
and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband,
her white arms round him pressed as though forever.”
– from The Odyssey, by Homer
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
“Clock time is our bank manager,
tax collector, police inspector;
this inner time is our wife.”
– from Man and Time by T.B. Priestley
“You need chaos in your soul
to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…”
– from “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats
Sneak Peeks
Banner by me
Souls Mate Eternal
Summary: Ever since Max and Tess came back from New York, Liz has been plagued with vivid and heartbreaking dreams - dreams where she isn't Liz Parker but Liz Valenti; where Max, Michael, Isabel, and Tess do not exist; and where she is left, virtually friendless, to keep her life together. As the dreams intensify in frequency and emotion, a new character enters the scene - the mysterious Zan, who is both a help and a threat.
An excerpt from this story can be found here: http://mercuryandrain.livejournal.com/1149.html
Other Shows Fanfic
banner by me
Ten Thousand Miles
Summary: Mistakes were made; lives were taken. Sixteen years later, Renesmee Cullen is righting a wrong and making history by breaking a flawed imprint. Feeling isolated from the only family she's ever known but unable to turn her back on them completely, she makes the long journey to the ex-pack member who can tell her the truth about the night she was born. In the end, it's the lonely Seth Clearwater who makes her realize that even what's shattered can be made new again. [SethxNessie]
Link to story: http://www.twilighted.net/viewstory.php?sid=837
*In Progress
This is the link to my profile on ff.net, where I have Heroes, Harry Potter, and One Tree Hill fiction among others:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1074070/Tears_of_Mercury
Awards:
Runner-up for Best Overall Fic and Saddest Fic
Winner for Best Exploration of a Minor Character and Best Author Stepping out of their Comfort Zone
In RoswellHeaven's Avant Garde Challenge Fall '07
Nominated for Best Use of a Supporting Character for Eileen
Runner-up for Favorite Portrayal of Serena
In RF's Round 12 Fanfic Awards
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