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Title: "Circular Logic"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Fourteenth Doctor, Donna Noble
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 1538

Summary: The Doctor is talking about circles. Donna thinks he's talking nonsense.

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Author's Notes:

I'm coming in just under the wire for my "post a story a month" thing, at least in Pacific Daylight Time. I wanted to call this "Circular Time", but I didn't want to sully the title of the excellent BF audio of that name.

I'd actually written a completely different story for this month, a Blue Rain thing, and I got the first draft done a week ago, but on the first editing read-through, I realized that it was a piece of complete gosa. It was 1.6k words, and the first half was unnecessary and the last quarter was dense. I could salvage it by rewriting the second half, but honestly, the main idea wasn't all that great in the first place.

But luckily, we happened to watch "The Runaway Bride" for the first time in probably five or six years. (My husband just started to pull random blu-rays from the DW shelf and pop in an episode from whatever he grabs; we're currently on "Terror of the Autons".) And that got me thinking about how David Tennant and Catherine Tate couldn't possibly have dreamed that they'd be playing the same characters (more or less for Tennant) seventeen years later. That's where this story came from.

It's not particularly well-written or well-edited, as I only had a few days to work on it AND my days have been filled with Guild Wars 2's new expansion, but here it is.

Just as a note about timing: this story is set on Christmas Eve 2024, and so the Doctor's statement about having met Donna seventeen years earlier is accurate, as they met on Christmas Eve 2007. (Series 1 after "Aliens of London" was in 2006 and Series 2 was in 2007, so "The Runaway Bride" must have been Christmas Eve 2007.)

Title: "Shoetopia"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Nerys
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 2415

Summary: Blue Rain AU. Donna and Nerys go shopping. Jon carries the bags.

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Author's Notes: Misquoting Donna from "Death and the Queen": Not my best story. Not my worst.

Nine years now, and I'm still planning (but not actually executing) more for Blue Rain, so this one just moves the characters along so that if I do ever get to the things I want to do, people will understand why some things are so different. It's otherwise not remarkable.

Just like with my David AU, I have things I want to do here, but so much that needs to be written first before I can proceed. Sigh. Too many dreams, not enough time or motivation.

Title: "Style over Substance"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Melanie Bush
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 915

Summary: This ideal world is wrong and Mel is going to fix it.

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Author's Notes: I decided, who needs editing? Though honestly, this "story" (i.e. not a story in any sense of the word) isn't going to get any better with all the editing in the world. It was just an exercise in comedic timing in prose form, sparked by my husband's question of "What do you think Mel did in that elevator on the way up to her big entrance?"

Also, apparently I subscribe to the "only capitalize prepositions in titles when they're five letters or more" rule. I agonized over that capitalization far longer than I'd like to admit.

Title: "Mothers and Daughters"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Sylvia Noble, Donna Noble
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 3349

Summary: On a rainy night fifteen years ago, Sylvia's world was turned upside down and she lost her daughter. Today, after three days of the world flipping over again, she has gained her daughter back.

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Author's Notes: Wow, two works posted this month! Though I just realized that I never posted my other one here, so I better do that.

Anyway, this isn't much of a story. It's just a scene, a conversation. When I read the novelization of "The Star Beast" by Gary Russell, I was fascinated by the characterization of Sylvia. She'd already been the star of the episode, both by the writing and by Jacqueline King's excellent portrayal, but Gary added another layer to her by discussing her difficulties over the last fifteen years. And then, he also tied Sylvia and Donna back to Beautiful Chaos, my favorite DW novel, where Sylvia had also gotten additional exploration.

Thus, I really wanted to explore the connections between the two novels, as well as the aftermath of "The Giggle", because despite how optimistically the episode ended, you know the world was left in a state of disaster. I really couldn't not write this snippet, seeing as how I am such a Gary Russell fangirl and I love writing episode aftermaths. I only wish that this could have been part of an actual significant work, and not just a random unconnected slice-of-life scene. (Though, it's not really slice-of-life, unless random gods throw the world into a blender every day. Which I suppose they do in the DW universe.)

Title: "How to Fight a God in Three Easy Lessons"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: The TARDIS, Fourteenth Doctor, Donna Noble
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 1585

Summary: The TARDIS' uninvited passenger is waking, and the Doctor isn't prepared.

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Author's Notes: Two fics this month (so far)! Though the last one really doesn't count and I didn't even post it here.

Basically, my husband and I had a lot of questions about how things went down during the 60th and the last season, and after coming up with answers that satisfied us (i.e. a dual headcanon), I decided that writing a story about them would be more fun and interesting than discussing them in a meta post.

I wrote the story, then my husband reviewed it, offered suggestions, and worked with me to shore it up. While 98% of the words and the overall shape and progress of the story is mine, I definitely want to credit him here because he definitely made important contributions. He's done some proofreading on my stories before, but this time, his contribution was much more substantial.

Also, I got to practice some CSS here, something I haven't done in nearly a decade. I have no idea how I'm going to post this to Teaspoon, as they have only very basic formatting options.

Title: "'Tis the Season"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 2636

(Blue Rain AU) Whoever said that the winter holiday season is relaxing?

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Author's Notes:

I'd noticed that recently, I've been maintaining a once-a-month story-posting cadence, which is a lot more than I have been for the past few years (though admittedly, two of them were 100-word drabbles), so I thought I would try to keep that up. I opened my pile of WIPs to look for a suitable candidate to finish, and the first one was not only a holiday story, but also nearly complete - like, missing only a couple of paragraphs.

I don't actually remember writing this (other than an inkling that I once wanted to try to write a holiday story) and as I read through it, I actually had no idea how it was going to end. Luckily the ending was written, so I didn't have to try to figure it out.

Also, I figured out from the document history that I wrote this last year, not the years ago that I had assumed. From the dates, it looks like I didn't get it done in time for Christmas so I figured I'd save it for the next year. And now it's the next year. It's weeks before the holiday and I've already spent the last week in editing and rewriting, so it's ready to post early! Woohoo!

Title: "Beyond Dust"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Donna Noble
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 100

Warning: Major character death

Donna sat at the table by the pond, with a coffee that had long grown cold.

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Author's Note: Just a little thing I thought of this morning. But yes, major character death within 100 words.

Title: "Back in Action"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Martha Jones, Mickey Smith
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 2679

Martha and Mickey disagree about how to respond to an unexpected phone call.

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I don't want to be spoilery, so notes are hidden behind this cut.

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Title: "The Long Journey"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: The Doctor
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 100

Summary: A journey of a trillion years...

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Title: "The Temptation"
Fandom(s): Good Omens
Characters: Crowley, Aziraphale
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 1637

Summary: Crowley's been assigned a temptation by Hell and Aziraphale assists.

Notes: Set before the end of the world.

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Here's the other GO fic I wrote this week. This won't get as much attention as the previous one, because it doesn't have the Aziraphale/Crowley ship tag. It's really nice actually getting something done. I'd like to write more, but I'm out of ideas for GO for now. Back to picking at WIPs. I did get a few paragraphs of one of them written on Tuesday.