"First met" stories

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

Hi!
I really would love to read some "first met" stories.
Could you please make some suggestions?

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[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Oh, this has made me think (an experience I'm not too keen on)...there are plenty of 'first time' stories but not so many 'first met'.... I can think of a couple which aren't *great* examples because they're not in ci5 but I suppose it's better than nothing: Brother's Keeper - the inspiration for Helen Raven's Heat-Trace: http://www.kelper.co.uk/trace/keeper.htm and Arabian Nights and Professional Dreamer both by Pamela Rose and, I think, both at the Circuit Archive. There's a great first time meeting in an off-line zine and it's either in Fruit of the Spirit or Paper Flowers but I'd have to go and check which one. Harlequin Airs by Ellis Ward is also first met and I think one by Russ called Learning Trust which, if I remember right, is probably 'gen' hinting at something more for the future - both of those are up at the Circuit. I'll have to go away and think a bit more on this question....

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

Wow!

However a lot for the beginning!!!
Thanks!
And I wonder, why there are "not so many 'first met'....", as you said.
I really could imagine so many interesting situations (I agree it should be in CI5!). I somehow miss the first two years before the episodes start.

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

You're absolutely right, I'd like to see more 'first times' with the promise of things to come......

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

So or so......

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

Hi! ;-)

Preliminary report: I started with Russ - and "Learning Trust" is very good!
Very exciting! I love the sentence: "You're a nasty little sod when you're roused, aren't you?" Isn't that a good beginning for a friendship?

Arabian Nights isn't my kind of stuff. I think first I stay in England in "their" time. Maybe later?

But I think I go on reading some other stories of Russ.

Good tip!!! Thanks!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Sorry, only just seen this post! Very glad that you enjoyed Learning Trust.

I hated the idea of Arabian Nights before I tried it (didn't really like AUs) but once I'd read it, it became a real favourite and I've read it several times since.

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmmmm.....
O.K. I try it. And I'll give you report! ;-)

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

If you start it and don't like it please don't feel you've got to finish it, *but* I really hope you like it. And it may take a few pages before you can really get into it.

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, I even leave the cinema if I don't like a film in the first 10 minutes...

And I started Arabian Nights... and... it's done!
(O.K. - one or two sleepless nights...)


You are absolutely right!!!!!

I love it!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

I'm *so* pleased you enjoyed it! It really is a sweeping saga of a story, isn't it? I think one of its strengths lay in the well-written extra (original) characters which the author created such as Cambridge, Gaston and Zachery - I loved them all and found the scene with Zachery reuniting with Doyle really moving. So glad you liked it and thanks for letting me know that you did.

Have you read Pamela Rose's Professional Dreamer by any chance? Even though I haven't read it and the plot is nothing like Araban Nights, I've heard so many good things about it I wondered if you'd enjoy it. Apparently it's well-written, very funny and cleverly plotted.

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

Again something I would never read!
But I think there is something strange that rules me... ;-)

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

But I think there is something strange that rules me.

Sounds like your heart and not your head....?

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

My heart always...

And:
Curiosity.
Good experiences with tips.
Bad experiences with own fishing in the story pool
Strong fear of some LJ members with such scary names as "Shooting To Kill", with Cowley manners, who send out newbies to try out things they do not dare... ;-)

Ups its late... 03.26 am AT NIGHT...