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Elliott Silver's Pretender Fiction

 

Just when you think it’s all over, inspiration comes anew. Enjoy The Lacemaker, a contemporary Pretender story, and its sequel, Coup de Grâce. 

 

Welcome! All the old Pretender pieces are re-archived at Tripod now and hopefully this will be their home for a long while. My time to write seems to get perpetually shorter and shorter, so if you would like new Pretender stories, please be sure to email me and let me know, otherwise I fear reality will get the best of me!

Please Email Elliott Silver

Please note, I have a new email address: elliottsilver@yahoo.com

I am no longer at Hotmail - because they closed my account! So if anyone has been trying to email me, I apologize. I have changed the links on the index page and this page, but not on any of the stories older than The Lacemaker – so anything from Shiraz down will still link to the old Hotmail address and I won’t be able to read it. Simply change Hotmail to Yahoo and let me know what you think.

 

Stories listed most recent to least.

Please read "A Word" first, for background, explanations, and a tour of this site.

 

A Word at a Time: How to Tell a Pretender Story 

 

The Stories:

New! Coup de Grâce

Etymology: French coup de grâce, literally, stroke of mercy
1 : a deathblow or death shot administered to end the suffering of one mortally wounded
2 : a decisive finishing blow, act, or event

New! The Lacemaker

Summary: In no way could he have them both.

Shiraz

Summary: She wasn't what Miss Parker had planned, but she was Shiraz and the cobwebs that stopped the bleeding.

Her Aquitaine 

Summary: In 1122, Eleanor of Aquitaine was born; by age 30, she had become queen of France and England, and the most powerful, intriguing, and beautiful woman in the world.

Fedayee 

Summary: Miss Parker saw the whole world fall, not because of hate but because of love, and it was a terribly, horrifyingly beautiful thing.

On Red Wax and Relics

Summary: In some lifetimes, death is the only way to freedom.

Dark Chocolate

Summary: Trigger: verb, to set in action or initiate, "trigger a reaction"

 

The following stories are what I affectionately call the "old" Pretender stories. They were written way back when - Dark Chocolate marked my return to writing after more than a year's absence and was written in March 2002. These stories vary by styles and characters and endings - from the novel-like What Hour Come to the more poetic versions of Sazerac and everything else in between. Please enjoy the words for where they may take you.

The Keening

Summary: When you cry for desire.

Cure

Summary: Sometimes the only cure is no cure at all.

Slurred

Summary: Jarod's past and future collide.

Cobweb

Summary: Jarod confesses the one thing Miss Parker can't forgive.

Pale Dark

Summary: Everything is never quite enough.

Verses

Summary: When a blue Christmas turns black.

The Sazerac Trilogy

Saboteur

Summary: A glance into what used to be forever.

Suzerain

Summary: An old feud, a new duel.

Sazerac

Summary: What will be.

Warning: R, for sex

Pirate

Summary: Even gold is black.

Warning: PG, for sex

Siphon

Summary: The alibi of good-bye.

Warning: R, for sex

Vespers

Summary: He came one promise too late.

Caduceus

Summary: Healing is coming home.

Reveille

Summary: A soft place to fall.

Warning: PG-13, for sex

Lure

Summary: When too much of a past destroys the present, where does the future lie?

Anesthesia

Summary: When you lose everything, you have to gain something.

Caesura

Summary: The most important things come to you when you least expect them.

Salvageable

Summary: In the midst of storm, where does salvation lie?

Alternate version

Solace

Summary: The destination is never what is most important, or most dangerous; it is

the journey.

Warning: PG-13, for language and sex

Blue Angel

Summary: A lesson in flight, night flight.

Charnel

Summary: When the end is only the beginning.

Warning: PG, for violence

Alternate ending

Incalescence

Summary: Sometimes the cure to heat sickness is more heat.

Warning: NC-17, for sex

Permission Granted

Summary: Sometimes asking isn't aloud.

Impulse

Summary: A celebration of tulips.

Warning: R, for sex

What Hour Come

Summary: Jarod tracks a death fetishist when the case takes a disastrous

- and personal - turn.

AWOL

Summary: An assignation and an unexpected turn of events.

Warning: R, for sex

Paradise Regained

Summary: Miss Parker's view on paradise lost, and paradise regained.

Warning: R, for sex

 

 

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Disclaimer: The characters of "The Pretender" are not mine; they rightfully belong to NBC, MTM, and Pretender Productions, as well as the actors and actresses who give paper and ink a life and a voice. I am making no profit from these writings; imitation is the highest form of flattery.