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• | Title: | "He Never Blames Her" |
| • | Length: | ~100 words Fourteen lines in three stanzas, unrhymed |
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| • | Date: | Posted to FKFic-L on June 4, 2006 | |
| • | Summary: | Nick never accuses Janette of complicity in his condition. | |
| • | Characters: | Nick, Janette | |
| • | Quotation: | "a wound he wears because she so wanted him" |
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• | Title: | "Mai's Little Boy" |
| • | Length: | ~660 words Seventeen pentameter quintains, rhymed |
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| • | Date: | Posted to FKFic-L on December 29, 2005 | |
| • | Summary: | His mother's murder has shadowed Doctor Chung's entire life. | |
| • | Characters: | Doctor Chung, Nick, Janette | |
| • | Quotation: | "a heart can miss what it never possessed" |
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• | Title: | "The Coming Choice" |
| • | Length: | ~220 words Five pentameter sestets, rhymed |
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| • | Date: | Posted to FKFic-L on August 2, 2003 | |
| • | Summary: | Janette contemplates the choice the Code will demand of her when Nick regains his humanity. | |
| • | Characters: | Janette | |
| • | Quotation: | "Kill him. Convert him. Or make him forget." |
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• | Title: | "Someone Like Me" |
| • | Length: | ~150 words Five tetrameter quintains, unrhymed |
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| • | Date: | Posted to FKFic-L on August 25, 2002 | |
| • | Summary: | Nick reflects that he is not the first vampire to seek his lost humanity. | |
| • | Characters: | Nick | |
| • | Quotation: | "those unknown saints who succeeded / in escaping this life alive" |
"At Issue" tied for FK fanfiction poem of the year for 2000, the last year for which those awards were held. I am grateful to those who voted for it! That kind recognition has meant a lot to me.
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• | Title: | "At Issue" |
| • | Length: | ~290 words Ten pentameter quatrains, rhymed |
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| • | Date: | Posted to FKFic-L on July 15, 2000 | |
| • | Summary: | While interrogating the suspect in "Dead Issue," Nick identifies his struggle with hers. | |
| • | Characters: | Nick, Linda Fiori | |
| • | Quotation: | "bound hand and heart to civilized evil" |
"Longer Than the Medicis," my first fan poem, was nominated for FK fanfiction poem of the year for 1999. My thanks to those who nominated it! (The poem received only three feedback comments at the time, so without the generous nomination, I wouldn't have known anyone else read it, and I might not have tried writing fan poetry again.)
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• | Title: | "Longer than the Medicis" |
| • | Length: | ~1,200 words Nine pentameter 18-line stanzas, unrhymed |
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| • | Date: | Posted to FKFic-L on August 30, 1999 | |
| • | Summary: | In Renaissance Italy, Janette and Nick host a party. | |
| • | Characters: | Janette, Nick | |
| • | Quotation: | "But through candlelit hours of music / and talk, she could feel Nicolas waiting, / waiting, waiting for her, his molten voice / singing a long, slow kiss through the chamber." |






