Let the Centre arrest you.
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.
Summary: She wasn't what Miss Parker had planned, but she was Shiraz
and the cobwebs that stopped the bleeding.
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.
Summary: Miss Parker saw
the whole world fall, not because of hate but because of love, and it was a
terribly, horrifyingly beautiful thing.
Summary: In some
lifetimes, death is the only way to freedom.
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.
Summary: When you cry
for desire.
Summary: Sometimes the
only cure is no cure at all.
Summary: Jarod's past
and future collide.
Summary: Jarod confesses
the one thing Miss Parker can't forgive.
Summary: Everything is
never quite enough.
Summary: When a blue
Christmas turns black.
The
Sazerac Trilogy
Summary: A glance into what used to be forever.
Summary: An old feud, a new duel.
Summary: What will be.
Warning: R, for sex
Summary: Even gold is
black.
Warning: PG, for sex
Summary: The alibi of
good-bye.
Warning: R, for sex
Summary: He came one
promise too late.
Summary: Healing is
coming home.
Summary: A soft place to
fall.
Warning: PG-13, for sex
Summary: When too much
of a past destroys the present, where does the future lie?
Summary: When you lose
everything, you have to gain something.
Summary: The most
important things come to you when you least expect them.
Summary: In the midst of
storm, where does salvation lie?
Summary: The destination
is never what is most important, or most dangerous; it is
the journey.
Warning: PG-13, for
language and sex
Summary: A lesson in
flight, night flight.
Summary: When the end is
only the beginning.
Warning: PG, for
violence
Summary: Sometimes the
cure to heat sickness is more heat.
Warning: NC-17, for sex
Summary: Sometimes
asking isn't aloud.
Summary: A celebration
of tulips.
Warning: R, for sex
Summary: Jarod tracks a
death fetishist when the case takes a disastrous
- and personal - turn.
Summary: An assignation
and an unexpected turn of events.
Warning: R, for sex
Summary: Miss Parker's
view on paradise lost, and paradise regained.
Warning: R, for sex
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.