From: "L-Soft list server at Indiana University (1.8d)" To: "ARTF@MemoryAlpha.nil" File: "LOISCLA-GENERAL-L LOG9811B" ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 01:02:22 -0400 Reply-To: ruthlg@apk.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Ruth Link-Gelles Subject: Re: Biology Lesson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi This is just a thought, but so many people have been talking about the possible guestions that Biology Lesson answers or creats that maybe someone could take a crack at a contiuation to answer some new questions and it would probably be interesting. I know I'd like to see what Lois and Clark's rection would be to him having a child. Somehow I don't think Chip off the Old Clark really answers it. Just a thought. Ruth ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 23:36:35 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Erin Klingler Subject: Re: OOPS!!!! In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathy wrote: > Kathy (who just remembered that this fanfic -- the "old" version -- was > what started Erin and I on the road to our beatiful friendship. Do you > remember how, Erin? ) LOL! Let me see....by telling me to learn how to write and take another crack at that mess of a story??? It was then that I knew you were one tough cookie! :) Erin (ducking and running :) _______________ erink@ida.net Visit my updated LNC website! http://www.ida.net/users/davek/ ***** "No one knows how long they've got. Anyway, it's not the years that count, it's the moments...right now, as they happen." _______________ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 09:09:35 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Erin Klingler Subject: Re: OOPS! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all! Just thought I'd send an addendum to my previous email... For those of you who do not know Kathy Brown, I hope you know I was only teasing in my recent email! Kathy is one of the kindest, nicest people I've ever met, and she would never, ever say anything like I teased about. She truly has a heart of gold. :) Just wanted to make sure everyone knew that! Erin :) _______________ erink@ida.net Visit my updated LNC website! http://www.ida.net/users/davek/ ***** "No one knows how long they've got. Anyway, it's not the years that count, it's the moments...right now, as they happen." _______________ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 09:04:15 PST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: julie slisz Subject: Superman Obsession (kinda long) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Ok, I don't know if any one remembers, but a while back I asked if any one knew where I got that Superman Obsession test that I have. Well, a few people, I think, said they wanted to see this test. So, I figured I'd post it here. Well, I lost it :( But, I found it :) on a disk hiding at the bottom of my desk drawer. So, here is is. But, its a little long. :) ‘S’ on Your Chest Are You Obsessed? Are you completely obsessed with Lois and Clark? Well, we’ll be the judges of that! Answer the following questions, then see how you scored below!  1. You are thinking about Lois and Clark: a. all of the time b. some of the time c. every now and then d. never 2. You dream of Lois and Clark: a. all of the time b. some of the time c. every now and then d. never 3. You find your self quoting from the show: a. at least once an hour b. at least once a day c. at least once a month d. never 4. True or False: You have been to the toy store more than once looking for Space Rats. 5. True or False: You feel the temperature rise every time Lois and Clark kiss. 6. True or False: If you are not watching Lois and Clark, you suffer >from Lois and Clark withdrawal syndrome. 7. True or False: You have memorized all the show titles and a brief summary of each. 8. True or False: You plan on naming your children after characters in the show. 9. True or False: You find yourself jumping up and down before a show starts. 10. You watch: a. every show there is and then even some twice b. the show every other week c. on nights you have nothing better to do d. never 11. True or False: You name your pets after characters in the show. 12. True or False: You can write fanfic easily but when it comes to English papers...don’t go there. 13. True or False: You get excited every time you pass a town like… Clarksville… Loisiana. 14. True or False: You think that town in Missouri should be called St. Lois. 15. True or False: You envy your friends that live on a street with a character’s name in it. 16. Your favorite type or ice-cream is: a. Rocky Road b. Chocolate c. Semi-Sweet Chocolate d. Vanilla Here is how to score it: For every ‘a’ you wrote down, score yourself 3 points. For every ‘b’, score yourself 2 points. For every ‘c’, score yourself 1 point. For every ‘d’, score yourself 0 points. For every ‘true’ you marked, give yourself 2 points. For every ‘false’, give yourself 0 points. If you scored 24-37 points, you are: A true FoLC! You would never miss an episode, and feel neglected when you don’t have access to L&C. You love surfing the net for great L&C web sites, and enjoy reading fanfic. Your idea of a nice evening is watching reruns of L&C. You can quote from almost any episode, and you find yourself doing so in everyday life. Consider yourself 100% obsessed! If you scored 16-24 points you are: Part FoLC. You may not be thinking about it all day, but Lois and Clark is definitely part of your life. You like spending time around this wonderful fairy tale, action, horror, romantic, and story come true. But don’t worry, keep watching the show, and son enough your obsession will rise. You are 75% obsessed. If you scored 8-15 points you are: Far from a FoLC. You rarely watch Lois and Clark, but are interested enough to do so. Well, don’t worry. There are places you can go to help. A L&C support group. “Hello, my name is (put your name here), and I am not obsessed with Lois and Clark. Something is very wrong with me.” Once you pinpoint the problem, it is easy to fix. I recommend some serious L&C overdose. Tape it and watch it over and over and over. And in no time, you will be a normal 100%obsessed. You are now, however, 5% obsessed. If you scored 0-7 points you are: Insane! Not normal! Completely out of it! These scores are as low as they get, and if you have them, you are in VERY serious trouble. I would leave this area before a mob of angry FoLC hears about your score. You are –10% obsessed. Ok, well, there it is. If anyone recognizies this and can tell me where I got it, that would be nice :) Oh, by the way, I got a 34 :) Julie ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 12:41:56 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Annette Ciotola Subject: Re: OOPS! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/8/98 11:10:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, erink@IDA.NET writes: << Kathy is one of the kindest, nicest people I've ever met, and she would never, ever say anything like I teased about. She truly has a heart of gold. >> I know we are not supposed to post "me too" posts, but this one I can't resist. I will definatly second that!!! Anne ( and so is Julie, Crys, Annie, Eray, Georgia, Zoom, Misha, Carol, Erin, and just about everyother FoLC I know the list can go on forever!!!!) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:46:51 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Donna Lehman <102262.2435@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Superman Obsession (kinda long) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, >If you scored 24-37 points, you are: A true FoLC! You would never miss an episode, and feel neglected when you don=92t have access to L&C. You love surfing the net for great L&C web sites, and enjoy reading fanfic. Your idea of a nice evening is watching reruns of L&C. You can quote from almost any episode, and you find yourself doing so in everyday life. Consider yourself 100% obsessed!< This sounds like me!! This was great. Had never heard of it before but it= was fun. Donna ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 21:08:53 -0600 Reply-To: mfwillia@flash.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: WILLIAMS Organization: THE SKYWATCHER Subject: Re: [Fwd: [DeanCainFans] Vote for Dean!] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Erin J Vance wrote: > > Hi everyone. Just to let you know, if you go to this site to vote for Dean, > you can also vote for Teri. So far, she only has 4 votes, and she deserves > so much more than that. So, head on over to that site, and vote for both > Dean and Teri. > > Here's the URL again: > http://www.bradfitz.com/votingbooth?lockhart1 > > So, go and vote. You can vote up to 3 times per day. > > --Erin V. Somehow Teri is on the list twice once with about 50 votes and once with 10. The second one did not identify any tv show or movies which she was affliliated with; so I voted for her in both places Jacqueline ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 21:23:27 -0600 Reply-To: mfwillia@flash.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: WILLIAMS Organization: THE SKYWATCHER Subject: Re: Old version WYNMM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Erin Klingler wrote: > > Hi Donna :) > > Thanks for responding!! It's always nice to hear that someone's enjoyed > reading something I wrote, even if this piece was just a tossed aside > version. > > > After reading this "Old" version, I do really like other one better. I am > > not a critic and do not look for plot loopholes. > > I do, too. :) Glad to know I made the right decision by chosing the other > ending instead of this old one. > > > I don't think I really liked so many people knowing CK was SM > > I totally and completely agree with you. :) If so many ppl knew, it would > no longer be a secret. ;) I have been toying with the idea, though, to > write the fic telling about the start of the future that H.G.Wells fortold > of. Everyone finds out then, somehow. But how? And what, then? Just > a thought that's been turning over and over in my mind for a while. :) > > >but I really > > enjoyed the first one and the way you wrote Jimmy finding out and the fact > > that Perry already knew but had kept quiet. The home birth was wonderful > > and the care CK was giving Lois. I could just see Dean and Teri doing all > > these scenes. It made me wish and wish and wish and wish for another > > season....but it never will happen. You wirte in the true character of LNC > > and I love that most of all. > > Thank you!! You made my day. :) I, too, long for more seasons of LNC. > The last 2 years when the Fall Preview issue of the TV Guide arrived, I > found myself sighing wistfully. :( But at least the S5 and S6 make up for > some of the withdrawal. > > Anyway, thanks so much for your nice comments! It's always great to hear > from fellow folcs. :) > > TTYL! > > Erin :) > _______________ > erink@ida.net > Visit my updated LNC website! http://www.ida.net/users/davek/ > ***** > "No one knows how long they've got. Anyway, it's not the years that count, > it's the moments...right now, as they happen." > _______________ Yes, yes, yes. I clicked over and found I had been to your site before. Also read all your stories in the archives (I have read EVERYONE's stories in the archives). When will the fanzine be out and how much? Must read, must read HimVideo. Loved "Where Do Supes Clothes Go?" Jacqueline ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 22:32:22 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Lansbury 1 Subject: (no subject) Comments: To: LOISCLA@VM.EGE.EDU.TR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello, It's that time again. The Writer's Showcase has a new Featured Writer of the Week. You can check it out at the following URL. http://www.simplyorganized.simplenet.com/showcase.html If you would like to suggest someone for the Writer's Showcase please do so. Annie Lansbury ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 22:39:44 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "K.M. de Castro" Subject: Re: Mini Combo Post Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 98-11-05 16:17:21 EST, you write: << I also have an internal clock: 20 minutes for naps. In college when I had four hour breaks and three hour breaks, etc, I napped in the library a lot but I was NEVER late for class because my internal clock worked so well, adjusting up to 45 minutes, when the breaks were longer. I would otherwise never have made it thru my first year. >> Gee, and I thought that I was pretty much alone in that realm at college! The Library was THE best place to sleep! At least it was better than the car! Thanks for the memories, Marie ChoirGirl2@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 21:41:29 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kathy Brown Subject: Re: OOPS! In-Reply-To: <000001be0b32$2df12000$0200a8c0@erink> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 9:09 AM -0700 11/8/98, Erin Klingler wrote: >Hi all! > >Just thought I'd send an addendum to my previous email... >For those of you who do not know Kathy Brown, I hope you know I was only >teasing in my recent email! Kathy is one of the kindest, nicest people I've >ever met, and she would never, ever say anything like I teased about. She >truly has a heart of gold. :) Just wanted to make sure everyone knew that! Awww, shucks. The funny thing is, I remember how I agonized over pointing out the plot holes ("so big you could drive a truck through them" just seemed so rude ), but when I finally got all my suggestions down on paper (er, cyber-paper) and sent them to Erin, she surprised me by not only not taking offense, but laughing at some of the things she missed. We brainstormed and she did a great job of reworking the story. And we became great friends in the process. After all, I think we are the only people who subscribe to the "jigsaw puzzle" style of writing. It was destiny. Kathy ______________________ Kathy Brown kathyb@fgi.net KathyB on IRC ______________________ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 15:32:29 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Atcliffe, Phillip" Subject: Re: The People Who Knew Clark was Superman In-Reply-To: <4596f1ef.36434a1e@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:12:30 EST The Zoomway wrote: > I agree with Charlotte that the fewer people who knew, the better. As she pointed out, Lana Lang knows in the current version of the comics, and I can't figure out one good reason for her knowing. < I'm undecided as to whether or not there is a "good reason" for Lana knowing, i.e., what John Byrne had in mind when he decided that she should know, but I do think that it made sense in the context of Clark's backstory before he became Superman. Time for another Comics Retrospective (hi, Leanne!).... Take a look at "Man of Steel" #1 and #6, and when and how Clark told Lana about himself. He's only just found out that he's a) "adopted" and b) someone who was found in a spaceship(!). On top of that, Jonathan's none too happy about Clark showing off on the football field and quite possibly having the beginnings of a swelled head, so the young man has some heavy thinking to do. This is big, life-twisting news, and Clark needs to talk to someone about it. Who does he choose? His oldest and best friend, Lana. Unfortunately for her, he doesn't return her love for him, but she is the person that he feels closest to, other than his parents -- who are, after all, part of what he needs to think and talk about. It's interesting to think that here, Lana is filling a very similar role to that which Clark fills for Lois in the series, once they become friends: she's a sounding board for him, someone whom he knows he can trust with his deepest secrets (okay, so Lois was never that sure about Clark that way; in comics or on TV, Clark gives his trust more readily than Lois does) -- and someone having to deal with unrequited love. Why Byrne did it, I don't know, unless he felt that it was a natural development of the way in which he set up Clark's childhood. Of course, in my more cynical moments, I suspect that it was done purely so that Luthor could torture her in Superman #2.... [Snip] > Not to mention [that] in the comics, some of the superhero crowd know the truth about Clark's identity too, further diluting the secret and its impact. < I have to say, I liked the old JLA days when they all knew each other's secret IDs and were wont to hang around with each other socially (in particular, I consider Byrne's shattering of the Superman-Batman friendship to be a crime!). I remember with considerable fondness the scene in one issue where six or seven JLAers are sitting around a table, masks off, drinking coffee and playing poker -- and Hawkwoman is taking them all to the cleaners! (Thanagarian beginner's luck is potent stuff! ) Maybe this meant that too many people knew for "realism", but it gave the team some real camaraderie that's been missing for a long, long time. Phil ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:03:42 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Gary Subject: Re: The People Who Knew Clark was Superman MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT At 07:02 AM 11/06/1998 +0000, you wrote: > >When Lane Smith was doing his Q&A at the Metropolis Superman festival >this June, I asked him about his take on Perry "knowing" - said that >sometimes he gave just a *hint* that Perry had figured it out, but >being the "newsman knows how to keep a secret", he wasn't ever gonna >let on that he knew. There was just this look in his eyes.... > > Lane smiled and said "well.......", then smiled wider, and said >"that's 'acting'........ And part of what I tried to give Perry." >(or something like that; it's been 5 months, and I'm getting old and >Alzheimers is setting in :}....) But the gist of it was that in his >portrayal, the audience was supposed to get these little hints that >Perry *might* know, but he loved L&C too much to say anything until >they told him. > >Barbara > Perry did know a secret, that Clark was in love with Lois and she with him. It's important to remember that Perry had more than one type of 'knowing'. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 15:59:42 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Carolyn Schnall Subject: Clark's internal clock and Supes stuff Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Just a note of thanks to Williams (real name?), Marie and Dana for continuing helpful contributions to the answers to my questions. Keep 'em coming.:) The WB store catalog features some new items, like a talking bean bag doll of Sman and other characters. Kid Sman PJ's are there and there is a whole page with figures, a watch, bust, a picture frame and the Stamp Collector's lithograph featuring the one from the post office. 1-800-223-6524 or check wbstore.com. Thanks, Carolyn cschnall@mail.med.cornell.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:28:59 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Pam Jernigan Subject: Re: Baron Sunday Comments: To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@compuserve.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> The IRC round robin fanfic group did a Baron Sunday sequel back in October which was posted to this list - JUST ANOTHER MANIC SUNDAY. It's currently= being edited for the archive, and should be available there soon. Check = it out. :) << I knew someone would mention this one :-) It's pretty good... And I may add, until such time as it shows up on the Archive, you can find this (and other IRC fanfics) on my webpage :-) Jus= t click on over to http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jernigan/folc.html and follow th= e link to the round robin fanfic. = PJ !^NavFont02F01E5000FMGJHGC1MGC3HHE6FEFF Pam Jernigan (jernigan@compuserve.com) ChiefPam/PregrPam on the IRC ~~~~~ http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jernigan/folc.html Find all the IRC roundrobin fanfic -- Featuring recommended fanfics ~~~~~ Read L&C Season 5 at: http://www.tempus.simplenet.com/season5/ and look for Season 6, coming soon! Distribution: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of S INTERNET:LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:41:44 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Eileen F. Ray" Subject: NEW FANFIC ALERT ;) Two for the price of one Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi everyone, The IRC Round Robin fanfic writers have been *really* busy and as a result I have the pleasure of posting two stories to the list. The first is "Happy Anniversary" which is a look at our favorite couple's attempts to have a romantic and *private* celebration of their wedding anniversary and the *little* things that keep getting in their way. The second is "Murder, They Wrote", a seasonal story which finds Lois and Clark putting their investigative skills to use when someone decides that a charity masquerade party at the Daily Planet is the perfect place to get away with murder. We enjoyed writing these stories and we hope you will enjoy them too. As always comments are welcome. Cheers, Eileen ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:54:20 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Eileen F. Ray" Subject: NEW FANFIC: "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY?" Part 1 of 5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY?" An IRC Round Robin by Zoomway (zoomway@aol.com); AMCiotola (AMCiotola@aol.com); Eraygun (Eraygun@aol.com); Ckgroupie (NKWolke@t-online.de); Misha (mhall@sound.net); chrispat (cp13607@aol.com) ________________________________ 9:00 a.m Thursday - Lois straddled Clark's lap. "Three days, Clark, count 'em, tha-reeee whole days." "Mm," Clark cooed. "Just you and me, and I have to tell you, honey," he sighed, "after working two weeks solid with no rest so we could *earn* these three days, I'll make every fantasy you have for our anniversary come true." Lois lifted the glasses from his face. "I'm working on one right now." She laughed. "Since we had a big party last year for our first wedding anniversary--" "And they said it wouldn't last," Clark interrupted. Lois put her hand over his mouth. "Then we can pretty much do *anything* we want this year." Clark kissed her palm and pulled her hand away. "Yeah, I've been telling everyone that we have no real plans for our anniversary, so that way they can plan on clearing their calendars of that day, and not worry about us having any upcoming party." "You're sexy when you say 'calendar'," Lois said wistfully. Clark smiled. "It has been *too* long since we've been completely alone." "And not completely exhausted from work," she said and nuzzled his neck. "Well," Clark said in his gravelly tone as he moved her down to the sofa. "We can work on being exhausted for a *good* reason." "Ooh," Lois smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I dare you to wear me out." "How about if I just 'wear' you?" The phone rang. Lois and Clark groaned with mutual disappointment. "Let the answering machine get it, Clark," Lois said, grabbing his outstretched hand away from the receiver. "If it's urgent, we can call back." "Okay," he said softly, and then began to kiss her neck as the machine asked the caller to leave a message. "Lois, this is your mother, and though I'm sure you'd never have me speak to a machine, unlike your father, if you were *really* able to answer the phone--" "It's urgent," they said in unison, and Lois picked up the receiver. "Hello, Mother," Lois said breathlessly into the receiver. Clark wrapped his arms around her from behind as she reluctantly turned away from him. "Lois, just what were you doing that it took you this long to answer the phone? Makes me think that you don't want to talk to me ..." Clark began to nibble on Lois' other ear and she began to lose total concentration on what her mother was saying. Playfully pushing Clark away, she tried once again to focus on the phone. "I'm sorry, Mother, that's not it at all. We were, er, I was just ... busy is all." Ellen wasn't fooled for a minute. "I see. Do you think I could drag you away >from Clark long enough for us to have lunch this afternoon? I called the Planet to see if you had plans already and they said you had taken the next few days off. Never thought I'd see the day when you could do that. I've never been able to get your fath --" "Mother!" "I'm sorry, baby. " "That's ok, but I'm sorry too, Clark and I --" Lois was interrupted by the sound of the all-too-familiar swoosh and a note floated its way into her lap. 'Sorry , honey. Emergency in the Middle East. Be back as soon as I can. Love, Me.' With a heavy sigh Lois turned back to the phone. "You know what, I think I can make it to lunch after all." "That's great, sweetie, because I *really* need your help choosing my outfit for the dinner next Sunday. I'm going with your father and I want to just *overwhelm* him! Not that it really matters, but I would *feel* so much better..." "Mother," Lois interrupted her, "next Sunday is a long time from now. Why don't we meet on Friday and then we'll have much more time. I must admit that today my time is a little bit..." "Oh I understand!" Her mother's voice was pitched a few octaves higher. "Don't think about me. I won't bother you! If you're too busy, I can ask the cleaning woman. She'll be *just* fine!!" Lois cast her eyes heavenwards. "Please, Mother," she tried to calm Ellen down. "I just meant that today is not the best time..." But it was too late. Ellen was already miffed and so lunch wasn't going to happen today. Nevertheless, when Lois hung up the phone, a satisfied smile threatened to twitch her lips. Usually she liked to have her husband around as often as he could find time for it, but today she wasn't completely sad that Superman was keeping him busy. She had plans. Big plans. Last year's anniversary party had been really nice and their friends had given them a great time, but Lois had secretly been a little disappointed. She would have preferred celebrating their first anniversary in private, alone with her husband. Of course the celebrating *after* the official party had been... well spectacular, but she was determined that this year it would be just her and Clark, the whole day. Clark made his way to the Middle East in record time. To his great relief the problem turned out to be not as bad as expected and he was able to bring everything under control pretty fast. It took him only a few hours and he was back on his way to Metropolis. He didn't choose the direct way home, though. He had plans. Big plans. He had been a little bit disappointed that last year they hadn't been able to celebrate their anniversary in private. Just him and Lois... Okay, there had been a little private party afterwards and that one had been... spectacular. But this year would be very different. He'd originally thought of whisking Lois off to a deserted island in the South Pacific for the celebration, and while that was still an option, if Lois wanted it, he personally felt a celebration right there in their own home would be much more fun and romantic. So Clark decided to do a little shopping for the celebration as he made his way back to Metropolis, stopping in Italy for some pasta, France for some wine, and of course, Switzerland for chocolate. Perfect, he thought. This is going to be just perfect. * * * "Perfect, Jonathan. It'll be great if you and Martha can get that flight out here tomorrow. It will be just perfect," Perry said as he leaned back in his chair and placed his feet up on the desk. "You're sure ...?" Jonathan replied hesitantly. "Positive. I know the kids will want to see you two." "But are you sure Lois and Clark want to have a party?" Martha interjected. Continued in part 2 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:56:29 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Eileen F. Ray" Subject: NEW FANFIC: "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY?" Part 2 of 5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY?" Continued from part 1 ____________________________________ "Why, of course they do! And last year's was such a blast we're planning something even more spectacular now. You've just got to be here. No doubt about it." * * * "You've just got to be here, Lucy! Perry's putting together this major event for CK and Lois." "I don't know if I can ... I just started this new job and ..." "Hey, you missed out last year, don't do it again." Jimmy twirled his pen between his fingers. "Just take a late flight and call in sick on Friday." "All right. Just one thing." "Name it." Jimmy triumphantly checked off another name on his list. "Could you pick me up at the airport? I'd rather not ask Mom for a ride." * * * Lois suppressed another sigh as she tightened her death grip on the passenger's side door handle. Ellen careened the car around a corner of the parking garage, and Lois glanced back to see if they'd put another set of skid marks in the concrete. The black mini-van was still waiting patiently for the Subaru to get her act together and back out of her parking spot, just like the first time they'd passed them. "I don't know why we can't find a space!" Ellen huffed out. "How many levels does this parking garage have, anyway?" "Six." Lois kept her eyes open with effort, wincing as they narrowly missed hitting a support pillar for the third time. "Aren't we almost at the top? This is section E, isn't it?" "What do you mean, Mom? This is 2-E." "Two? As in level two? Not as in level E?" "Yes..." "Great! Just great! Now they're making parking garages with fake ramps!" "Mother..." "I try and take my beloved daughter out to lunch, just to get her advice, and this is what I get! Parking garages that don't go up!" Lois bit her tongue as they passed the up ramp. They hadn't even reached the restaurant and lunch already seemed interminable. Ellen finally stomped the brake. Lois strained against the shoulder harness. "Mother, you can't park here! We're in the middle of the--" Ellen unfastened her safety belt and exited the car. Lois shook her head and followed. "Ladies!" a man in a white jumpsuit shouted. "You can't park there." Ellen smoothed back her hair and handed him the keys. "Then you park it. Maybe you can find the phantom ramps that go somewhere." "I'm not a valet," he said flatly. "Obviously not," Lois huffed. "You're the guy that runs the merry-go-round and watches people stuck in your twilight zone parking garage!" The man, wisely, decided to move the mini-van from the center lane rather than be caught between the Lois and Ellen Lane. The mother and daughter tag team nodded to each other and took the garage elevator to La Grande Biftek. Ellen opened her purse, removed a compact, and checked her makeup. "This place sounded so elegant .. well, in they yellow pages anyway. I think you'll be a bit underdressed for it, Lois." "Thanks, Mother. I just looked in my wardrobe and carefully picked this 'sore thumb' ensemble." The elevator doors opened; Lois raised her eyebrows. "You're right, I am underdressed. I forgot my lariat and branding iron." "Oh my God," Ellen said and put a hand to her chest. "They're wearing cowboy hats." "You noticed that too, did you?" Lois said, and tried not to laugh. A woman in matching red hat and boots, wearing a lovely fringed blouse accented with sequined 'slug trails', greeted them. "Corral for two?" "Yup," Lois nodded. "Just a couple of hungry heifers." The waitress laughed. "That is so cute, honey! Ya'll follow me, and I'll get a couple of menus." Lois glanced at her mother. Ellen had her head lowered, and held her purse to the side of her head. "If anyone sees me here," she muttered. "Just throw me out the window." "Mother, it's kind of cute here. Lighten up." Ellen quickly squirmed into a booth seat. "What has happened to you, Lois? You were never this good-natured," she sighed. "I know, Mother. Where did you go wrong?" "I'm serious, sweetie. You've changed." "For the better, I hope." Ellen sighed. "To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure." "Mother!" "Now just hear me out. I went through a similar change when I was first married to your father." "And your point is?" "My point is that when things went sour between us, the fact that I had lost my edge made it even harder on me. And on you and Lucy," Ellen added in a low voice. "I just don't want that happening to you should things with you and Clark..." "Mother, that's not going to happen," Lois interrupted. "That's what everyone says, but --" "But nothing. It's not. End of discussion." "All right." "Besides, what makes you think I've lost my edge! Loving Clark, marrying him, didn't make me soft. It's made me stronger." "Okay, I --" "I can't believe my own mother would think such a thing!" "Think what? That I don't know my own daughter any more? That she's changed so much that I can hardly tell what she's thinking or what she wants?" Ellen pushed aside her water glass, and brushed at the trail of water droplets on the polished wooden table. "I used to know you, Lois." She sighed. "You were so much like me. And now..." Lois pursed her lips together. "Now?" she prompted as the silence lengthened. "Now..." Ellen looked up at her. "Now you're happy." Lois cursed the Lane luck that drew the sequined servitor to their table like a heifer to the feeding trough. She continued to hover for the rest of the painfully silent meal. * * * Clark landed softly inside the townhouse. He placed the chocolate and wine in the refrigerator and spun himself into something more comfortable. A quick survey revealed that Lois was gone and so he reasoned she'd taken her mother up on the lunch offer. He sighed and switched on the TV. It was even too early for the playoff game. He glanced at his watch. It was nearly two thirty. "That must be some lunch," Clark smiled. "Or lecture." He stopped on a channel where a man was pulling a train engine with his teeth. "Maybe he could stand in for Superman this weekend." The phone rang and Clark drifted over and picked up the receiver. "Hello?" "Clark!" "Lois?" "Could you come down to Precinct 41 right away?" "Honey," he groaned. "I thought we weren't doing any work this weekend." "If you don't come down here and bail me out, we're not doing *anything* this weekend!" In a blur of motion, Clark shut off the TV, changed, and flew to the precinct. He was Clark Kent again as he walked through the doors. "Sergeant, my wife--" The officer behind the desk held up a hand as he finished scribbling something down on a report. "Okay, buddy," he finally said, looking up. Clark noticed the sergeant had a black eye and scratches on his face. "I'm here about my wife, Lois Lane." The sergeant pointed to his eye. "*This* Lois Lane?" Clark shook his head and sighed. "Probably." The sergeant then pointed to his scratched cheek. "Your mother-in-law?" "Definitely." "Ricky!" the sergeant shouted. A young officer, holding an ice pack on his knee stepped out. "Yes, sir?" "Release the hellcats." Continued in part 3 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:00:20 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Eileen F. Ray" Subject: NEW FANFIC: "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY?" Part 4 of 5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY?" Continued from part 3 ______________________________________ "No..." Clark turned his attention to a much more interesting sight beside him. "It's probably nothing. Besides, I'd much rather spend the day with you than off flying around." "Even in a stuffy Council meeting?" "Well," Clark's voice dropped to a murmur. "I'd much rather have you all alone, but I suppose we can work in a Council meeting fantasy somewhere." Lois melted against Clark lazily. "Remember our first day back after our honeymoon?" Clark tried not to grin. "You grabbed that red button just in time, honey." "Oh?" "Yeah, I didn't want to have to carry my jacket out of the elevator .. if you know what I mean." Lois laughed and grabbed his tie. "Want a repeat?" "No, ma'am!" Clark said, and stepped backward. "We miss that meeting," he said, and lowered his voice, "even for a great cause, and Perry will kill us." Lois shrugged as the doors opened onto the lobby. "Come on, I've never taken you to the spit ball seats in the Council chamber." * * * The cool October breeze ruffled Jimmy's hair as he stood on the tarmac of the airstrip watching the turbo "puddle jumper" land. He smiled and waved at the Kents as they disembarked. Jonathan, despite the weather, was perspiring. "Not feeling well, Mr. Kent?" "Well, son," Jonathan said shakily. "I don't mind full-sized planes, but those little ones--" "Yeah, me too," Jimmy sympathized and grabbed their bags. "Though they have a kind of cool takeoff, like when you beat the green light on Super Mario Kart." "Uh huh," Jonathan nodded. Martha hurried up towards the two men with their carry-on luggage. "Hey, Mrs. Kent, you seem to do better flying than your husband," Jimmy joked. "Well, dear," Martha sighed. "I think I'm the only one in the family who loves flying. Clark just can't stand to be cooped up in a plane." "Like father, like son," Jonathan said, and shared a private smile with Martha. * * * "So," Clark whispered. "This is the 'spit ball' section?" "Sure," Lois smiled and leaned forward on the mahogany rail. "See how far away we are? It's a great place to say rude things out loud and not be heard." Clark leaned back and folded his arms. "Kind of give the Council the Mystery Science Theater treatment?" Lois laughed. "Exactly." "I'll tell you a little secret, honey," Clark said softly. "I knew you came up here when we used to be assigned these dull Council meetings." Lois turned her head back to face him. "Oh? Why didn't you come up?" "The view of you up here leaning on the rail--" "Yes?" "It was real spectacular." Lois raised one eyebrow and gave Clark a playful pat on the chest. "You've been giving me the once over for that long?" she said with a wry smile "I thought you were a *very patient* man." "Honey, I was *patient*, not *dead*. Lois giggled, and grabbed Clark's tie, using it to pull his face closer to hers. "Well, Mr. Kent, after we finish here, maybe you can show me just how *alive* you really are," she whispered. "Sounds good to me." * * * "I can't believe this session is still droning on." Lois said with disgust. "It's been four hours! They haven't even taken a coffee break. We've got to get out of here!" "Uh, honey..." "You've got that look again." Lois' tone was flat. Clark merely nodded and shrugged helplessly. "Fine. I'll meet you back at the Planet after this is all over." Lois settled back into her chair and fished around in her purse for her recorder as the window above the balcony opened briefly. Maybe she could catch up on her rest now. She was hoping she wouldn't be sleeping later. * * * Lois paused in her typing to glare at the clock in the corner of her screen. It had no right to read 11:53 p.m. No right at all. Just like those convenience store robbers had no right to hold her up when all she wanted was a Double Fudge Crunch Bar to last her through the last hour of the Council session. Or like MetPD had no right to arrest her for aggravated assault on said convenience store robbers when she managed to place them under citizen's arrest. She was already on a first name basis with half the hookers in Metropolis, thanks to the cell she was beginning to think of as her home away from home. Sources, Lois, sources, a tired corner of her brain reminded her. A second corner of her brain reminded her that it was Jimmy who'd bailed her out today, instead of Clark, and she might consider starting to worry about his whereabouts as soon as she finished the write-up on the robbery and the Council meeting. The first corner of her brain dismissed that thought. Invulnerability and a firm tendency towards boy-scoutishness were handy traits to have when alleviating any worry about her husband. Lois finished the write-ups with a last tired flourish of the mouse and leaned back in her chair. She arched her back to ease the strain she'd gotten when she'd tossed the one robber into the chip display, and found herself looking into the most welcoming pair of brown eyes. "Hey, handsome." Clark dropped a quick kiss on her forehead, and then knelt by her side. "Hey there, beautiful." "Where have you been?" "Nairobi, Kenya, Egypt, you name it." Clark sighed heavily. "I just want to go home now." Lois smiled tiredly. "I wanted to go home hours ago." Especially when she had the chance to stare at a lovely red and black garter belt strung across the cell bars. "But I'll let you make it up to me by taking me home the fast way." "Scoop and swoop?" "The only way to fly..." Lois snuggled into Clark's arms and was asleep before they cleared the newsroom windows. Continued in part 5 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:57:33 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Eileen F. Ray" Subject: NEW FANFIC: "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY?" Part 3 of 5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY?" Continued from part 2 ______________________________________ The young man paled. "Darryl is a lot bigger than I am, Sarge, and I have a date--" "I don't care *who* releases them as long as I never have to see them again!" "Yes, sir!" Ricky said, and vanished. "Sergeant," Clark said, lowering his glasses slightly as he watched the young officer cautiously approach the 'cage'. "What exactly happened? How did my wife and mother-in-law end up in jail?" "Sorry, Mac, I'll let your missus fill you in on that one," the sergeant replied. "All I can say is you're the bravest man I know to have married into that family." * * * "Thanks for the invitation, Jimmy." "No problem, Dr. Klein. It wouldn't be a party if you weren't there." Jimmy hung up the phone and checked another name off his list. "You know, Chief, I'm glad we decided to have the party here at the Planet. I didn't think Lois would ever forgive us for surprising them at their place on Clark's birthday last year." He blushed as he remembered the sight that had greeted them when the lights had gone on. He was still amazed at how fast CK had managed to do up the buttons on Lois' blouse. For a moment there, he had wondered, but nah... "Okay, everything is set, but how we are going to get them here?" "Don't you worry about that. I'll get them here." Perry grinned wickedly. * * * Clark rubbed his forehead as he pulled away from the curb after he and Lois had driven Ellen home. He had never suffered from headaches until Ellen entered his life. Lois glanced at him sympathetically and reached over to rub his knee. "I'm sorry, sweetheart. I don't know why Mother and I end up in jail so often, but this time it wasn't our fault." Clark sighed. He'd been doing that a lot today. "You always say that." Lois moved her hand a little higher. "Come on, honey. You must admit it was funny." Clark glanced over at Lois and started to smile. "Yeah. I guess it was, but I don't think that sergeant would agree with you." Lois grinned back at him and began to chuckle. "You should have seen his face when Mother ... 7:00 p.m Thursday -- She was still 'explaining' as they entered the town house. "The sergeant led with his left." Lois shrugged. "Made him a sucker for a jab." Clark wrapped his arms around his wife. "Okay, Rocky, I've got wine and chocolate in the fridge, the bed is turned down--" "Who needs a bed?" "I'm starting to get the feeling I should have flown us to a deserted island," Clark said, ducking down so he could drape Lois over his shoulders. "Do you realize how many deserted islands we've discovered, Clark?" "Hm," he pondered as he continued up the stairs. "I just remember how we christen them." "True," she smiled, and ran her hand down the front of his shirt. "I like being carried this way better when you're Superman." Clark stopped walking. "Why? Some kind of fantasy going there?" A wicked smile curled his lips. "No, but from this angle ... nice topographical view." He laughed. "Sort of a relief map?" "Oh, Clark," she giggled. "It's not just a relief, it's a ... shrine to masculine symmetry." "Okay," he said, and set her on the floor. "Let me make it count." He ripped his shirt open. "Yes!" Lois whistled as Clark stood there so ... so Superman-ish. He smiled down at her, and thought that there was some sort of other-worldly turn-on at moments like this. He began to duck his head again, but the phone rang. Clark crumpled all the way to the floor and stayed there in a heap. "Honey, tell me why I shouldn't grab that thing and throw it into space. Tell me quick, or it's the very next thing Superman is gonna do." Lois patted his head. "There, there, Superman. You've ruined our budget this month on alarm clocks alone. We'll let the answering machine get it this time ... honest," she said, and then snaked herself back around his shoulders. Clark rose slowly ... majestically ... frustratedly into a standing position. Lois rubbed her hand on the S shield. "Ooh, now you're talking." Clark laughed, feeling his enthusiasm returning. A distant cry caught his blushing ear. "Help! Superman!" "Just hold that thought," Clark said as he moved away from Lois and spun completely into costume. "I'll be right back." With that he kissed her quickly and flew out the window, Lois sighed. "I've heard that before." She walked out of the bedroom and back downstairs. "I wonder what's on HBO tonight?" * * * Unfortunately, the faint cry for help turned out to be the first in a series of mishaps and natural disasters that night. Floods in California, mudslides in Peru, and a dozen other disasters kept Clark busy until almost dawn. He found Lois curled up on the couch. Clark sighed. "Some anniversary celebration this is," he mumbled as he picked Lois up and began to carry her upstairs. 8:00 a.m. Friday -- "Only two more days..." Lois sighed into her coffee as she rubbed the side of her neck. "What was that, honey?" Clark appeared at the door of the kitchen and spun out of the suit and into jeans and a tee shirt. "Oh, just wishing it were Tuesday again and we had our three days gloriously alone together still ahead of us..." "Mm-hmm," Clark agreed, and started walking his fingers up and down the tensed muscles of her neck and back. "Oh..." Lois wanted to melt into a puddle as the crick in her neck faded and was replaced with the soothing warmth of Clark's caress. "So where were you this morning?" "The usual. A trucker lost his temper and tried to take a load of jet fuel across three lanes and the median." Clark's hands slowed. "Superman gave me a brief interview." The phone rang and Lois tensed even more despite Clark's soothing touch. The answering machine went into its spiel and then Jimmy's apologetic voice spoke. "Sorry to call you in, guys, but it's an emergency. The Chief wants you." Clark's hands stopped moving altogether. "Oh..." Lois dropped her head to the rim of her coffee mug. "Please let it not be the City Council. Please let it not be the..." * * * "I need you kids to cover the City Council meetings today and tomorrow." Perry held up a hand to forestall any comment. "I know. I'm sorry to call ya'll in to cover this." "You're not the only one who's sorry," Lois glared at Perry. "Exactly what kind of family emergency did Jurgens have?" Perry hesitated. "Ah ... his mother had surgery." "I thought his mother died last year," Clark said thoughtfully, and Lois muttered, "I'm surprised he has a mother." Clark suppressed a grin. "Honey, you know Perry wouldn't do this unless it was some kind of emergency. Right, Chief?" Perry nodded. "Exactly, son. These sessions are the most important Council meetings of the year, and with Johnson sick and Jurgens called out of town, I had no choice but to grab you two. I can have someone there next week for the wrap-ups. I'll do my best to make it up to you later." "Sure, Chief." As soon as the two were headed toward the elevator, Perry called Jimmy into his office. "How are the plans coming?" "I've talked to everyone on the list. Everyone except for a girl called Lana Lang is coming." In the elevator, Perry saw Clark's head come up and he met his eyes briefly before the doors slid closed. "Good. Now, Clark's parents are flying in tonight, and I need you to pick them up at the airport. Alice has offered to put them up." "I'm picking up Lois' sister tomorrow morning. Is there anyone else?" "No, Jimmy. I think that's it. It's all coming together nicely." * * * As the doors slid shut, Clark's head came up with a snap. Lois sighed. "What is it this time? Middle East? Earthquake in China?" Continued in part 4 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:04:22 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Eileen F. Ray" Subject: NEW FANFIC: "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY?" Part 5 of 5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit HAPPY ANNIVERSARY? Continued from part 4 ____________________________________ * * * 2:00 p.m. Saturday -- Lois and Clark made a rather mechanical walk up the steps to the Council meeting. One more day of this, and they'd be ready for the rubber pencil squad. "Clark!" Lois shouted. "Honey," Clark winced. "I'm right here." "Look, the afternoon meeting has been postponed for an *hour*" A smile spread across Clark's lips. "Well, I'm not one for quickies, but--" Lois elbowed him playfully and tugged him around the corner of the building. She ripped open his shirt. "Do the spin thing, and take us home." Clark laughed and spun, but was standing there only in his briefs. "Sorry," he blushed. "I'm getting ahead of myself here." He spun again, and as Superman, rushed them home. Lois was still laughing as they landed in the living room. "I liked the 'brief' spin, Clark. You'd be the one going to jail this time." Clark swayed her in his arms. "You'd be worth it," he said softly and kissed her. The kiss deepened, and they both sighed for air after a moment. "You whoosh upstairs and turn down the bed, I'll get the wine." Clark gave her another quick, but deep kiss, and 'whooshed' up the stairs. He happily began turning down the covers. His head snapped up. His expression darkened. "That's *it*!" he growled. He was back in the suit in an instant, and out the window. The door to Casey's Pub splintered from its hinges as if propelled by nitro. Superman, angrily brushing splinters from his costume, stormed into the bar. "Now what?! Several men, cowering in the corner, pointed to a huge man swinging an autographed baseball bat he had purloined from a display case. "Come and get me, Superman!" Clark would normally just disarm the man, but today he had expended his last good nerve, and there was nothing left to spare for the hapless idiot in the bar. At super speed he grabbed the bat and tossed it to the floor. "Listen, pal," he said, tapping the drunken man in the chest, causing the man to sail backward six feet, stopped only by the pool rack. "Every *idiot* who owns a car is behind the wheel today. Every joker with a grudge is phoning in bomb threats, and every *jerk*," he said, and lifted the man from the floor, "who's had too much to drink and just can't stop, is stepping on my free time." The man swallowed, but had no place to go. He reached behind him and grabbed a pool cue, and broke it over Superman's head. "Oh," one man sitting in the corner groaned. "That was smart." Another man sitting with him nodded. "Probably the kind of guy that would wear a porkchop to a pit bull fight." There was a blur of activity, and when it was over, the drunken troublemaker was sitting on the pool table with the ball rack on his head like a crown, and the 8-ball in his mouth. A cocktail napkin gave instructions for the police. Lois brought the wine and glasses into the bedroom. "Well," she smiled. "You look lazy leaving me to do all this heavy carrying." Clark, his arms behind his head, just smiled. "I suddenly had a barmaid fantasy." "Mm," Lois purred as she neared the bed. "Maybe I can find that old Metro Club cocktail waitress outfit." Clark took a glass from her. "That was the first time I noticed what long, beautiful legs you have." Lois happily hiked up her skirt as she poured the wine. Clark touched her ankle, and then ran his hand slowly up her calf, and then her thigh. "I love how your body temperature starts to increase the higher up I move my hand." Lois braced herself a moment on the night table. "Clark," she said breathlessly. "A corpse's temperature would rise with that hand motion." Just then the doorbell rang and Lois moved so quickly, the wine bottle headed for the floor. Clark saved it. Lois took a deep breath. "If I scream, do you think whoever it is will go away?" Clark focused his vision downstairs. "Not likely," he said, his tone flat. "It's your sister." "Of course!" Lois blurted and headed for the bedroom door. "Why not? If Daddy comes by while we're in the shower, I'll have the whole set!" Lois stood at the foot of the stairs, trying to compose herself. She failed and continued on to the door. She flung it open. "What!?" Lucy smiled sweetly. "Gee, Sis, I'm glad to see you too." Clark came trotting down the stairs, adjusting his tie. "Lucy, what a pleas.. what a surprise." "I know I should have phoned," she said, feigning a politeness that was rare in Lane women. "But I just got into town, I have a big interview, and --" Lois followed behind Lucy, opening and closing her hand, mocking her sister's chattering. "I wish you'd gone to see mother instead .. uh .. that is, she sees me too much .. er .. more often." Clark faked a smile. "Lois and I have a Council meeting we have to cover in about --" he hiked up his sleeve, " --half an hour." "Great," Lois sighed. "At this rate it'll be a *super* quickie." Clark's eyebrows nearly crawled into his hairline. "Yes," he laughed. "It's amazing we get to eat at all anymore." The phone rang. Lois and Clark, their bodies frozen, looked over at the infernal machine with just their eyes. "Lois! Clark!" Perry's mechanical voice called. "Get your fannies back to the Planet on the double!" Lois forgot for a moment exactly which one of them had the heat vision, and attempted to make the answering machine explode in a shower of sparks and light. It simply sat there, however, happily rewinding the message tape with a cheerfully sadistic hum. "Lois?" "What?" Lois rounded on her sister and decided that Killing Glare Mark III was only for inanimate objects, and managed to tune down her version of super- vision to Killing Glare Mark I. "If you're going to the Planet, can I have a ride?" "Fine, sure, whatever." Lois grabbed her keys and stormed out the door. The trio drove in a silence that rivaled the South Pole for frigidity. Lucy wondered if the elevator doubled as a refrigerator when Lois was really mad. As they approached the newsroom floor, she cleared her throat. Letting Mad Dog Lane loose on people who only wished her happiness was not a good idea. "Lois?" Lois turned. "What?" "Happy Anniversary." Lois stood there for a moment, trying to hang onto her bad mood. Clark's soft "Thank you, Lucy" melted the ice she was trying to force into her spine. "Thanks, Luce." She smiled apologetically. "It's been a lousy week, I'm..." "SURPRISE!!!" The elevator doors slid open on the shouted chorus from the newsroom, followed by a hail of 'Happy Anniversary' and 'Congratulations' and more scattered 'Surprise's. Lucy watched her sister and brother-in-law disappear into the crowd of friends, co-workers and well-wishers. She'd almost gotten an apology out of Lois. Maybe this marriage thing wasn't so bad after all. * * * 10:00 p.m. Saturday - Lois and Clark, arms wrapped around each other, climbed the steps to the townhouse slowly. They stopped at the top and faced each other, their bodies close, mouths only millimeters apart. "You know what the best part of leaving our anniversary party at the Planet is?" Clark asked with a grin. Lois didn't bother to answer, being busy nibbling on his neck while he retrieved the door key from his pocket. "Being absolutely sure that everyone who might possibly interrupt us is right this minute happily scarfing down champagne punch and lobster puffs on the other side of town." Lois reluctantly moved away and leaned against the door as he inserted the key into the lock. She pulled Clark back to her the moment the door was opened, backing into the foyer blindly, and he followed, hands already sliding her jacket from her shoulders, fingers busy at the buttons of her blouse. Lois's voice was a bit breathless, but she managed to speak despite her reaction to what he was doing. "Clark, do you think we're ever going to have an anniversary that's normal?" She shrugged and her blouse fell to the floor. Clark's jacket and tie joined it. She started on the buttons of his shirt. "I mean, one where we have a nice dinner alone and make love in our own bed and you don't have to go to Timbuktu and nobody gets arrested or ..." Her words trailed off as she was distracted by the feel of Clark's bare skin under her hands. His soft laughter was almost as potent as the excitement of his body now pressed to hers. "Lois." He stilled and, pulling away just a bit, brought her hands to his lips, dropping a kiss into each palm. "Lois," he repeated her name, and that was a caress, too. "No matter what happens, normal or not, any day that ends with our coming home together is a special day. It's all I've ever wanted, and for me, it's enough." Lois' eyes were bright with love as she lifted her mouth to his, her answer a joyous murmur almost lost in his kiss. "Oh, yes, it's enough." THE END ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:08:36 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Eileen F. Ray" Subject: NEW FANFIC: "MURDER, THEY WROTE" Part 1 of 4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit MURDER, THEY WROTE An IRC Round Robin by Misha (mhall@sound.net); Zoomway (zoomway@aol.com); Eraygun (Eraygun@aol.com); chrispat (cp13607@aol.com); Mackteach (Mackteach@aol.com) ___________________________ "It was a dark and stormy night..." Clark intoned in a sepulchral voice. "Clark!" Lois glared at him over her shoulder as he helped her out of her coat in the Daily Planet lobby. "It's never dark in Metropolis, and it hasn't even started to rain yet. You're going a little overboard on this whole Halloween thing." "Mmm..." Clark pondered that for a microsecond before the full effect of Lois' costume hit him. "Nope. Can't be that." He ran his hands over the shot silk that slithered close to Lois' sides and bent over for a kiss. "Hold on." Clark backed off, a tad bewildered. "What?" "Your mustache is crooked, Nick." Lois traced her finger over Clark's lips, the tip of her tongue mimicking the movement. "Ah...Lois?" Clark bit back a groan as his eyes followed her tongue's path. "Nora, darling. I'm Nora tonight." "My mustache is a little higher up." "True." Lois reached up on tiptoes and pressed her lips to his. She was almost distracted enough to forget to adjust Clark's fake mustache. Almost.. Her lip tickled as she brought up a finger and tweaked the mustache into position. She giggled. "Am I straight now?" Clark twitched the mustache from side to side. Lois grinned as the elevator doors opened behind him, and pushed him backwards. "Yep." Clark floated back a foot, then stumbled as Jimmy and his date beat the first few drops of rain into the lobby. "Hey, CK, Lois!" Jimmy called out as he tried not to appear to be dragging his date across the lobby. "Hey, Jimmy." Lois held the elevator doors for them. "Actually, it's Frank Hardy, ma'am." Jimmy grinned. Lois rolled her eyes. "Ma'am?" "I'm Nancy Draw," the rather bored young woman shrugged. "Whoever that is.." "Oh," Lois smiled. "Nancy Drew in the present tense." "Yeah, whatever," she said, and tugged at the high collar of her blouse. "She dressed like a dork whoever she was." "Well," Jimmy said breathlessly. "I think you look really cute, Clarissa." "Why couldn't I be someone sexy instead of 'cute'? This is starting to bend my aura." Lois and Clark exchanged pained glances. "Here we are," Clark said cheerfully as the elevator opened on the city room. "Your aura can have some breathing room now." The young woman bustled from the elevator muttering, "Thank god." Jimmy shrugged at his friends. "I know, I know, she's kind of ... out there, but when you get to know her--" "Yes?" "She's still out there," he sighed. "But she's cute enough that you're willing to overlook ..." Clark searched desperately for a tactful word. "Idiosyncrasies," Lois said, and leaned against Clark's shoulder. "Yeah," Jimmy smiled. "Besides, she lives alone!" Lois and Clark watched Jimmy trot off happily. "Were you ever that desperate, Clark?" Lois asked, still lazily leaning against her husband. "Only when I met you, honey. I had it pretty easy until then." Lois smacked his chest playfully. "Well, you remained patient till you met me, so you didn't have it *that* easy." Clark extended his arm. "True. My dad said, 'Anything worth having--" "--is worth waiting for," Lois said, taking his arm. "Actually, he said 'Anything worth having is a lot cheaper at CostMart'." "I hate you, Nick." Clark pulled Lois to him and squeezed her waist. "And I love you ... Nora." His eyes twinkled as he placed a soft kiss on her lips. He felt Lois smile against his mouth. "Mmm. Much as I'd love to continue to do this, I hear Perry walking toward us." Lois sighed and muttered something that made Clark chuckle. As they walked down the ramp toward the center of the newsroom, he whispered. "Maybe later." Lois looked at him and raised her eyebrow. "Count on it." She turned her attention to Perry. "Hi, Chief. Or should I say ... Lieutenant Columbo?" Perry grinned as he removed the cigar from his mouth. "Right on the money. Inspector Henderson had a spare overcoat, so he let me borrow it." Clark grinned. "Speaking of Inspector Henderson, what did he come as? Himself?" Perry's loud guffaw made a few heads turn. "That would be something, wouldn't it? Nah, he came as Charlie Chan." Perry turned toward the rest of the partygoers. "See? That's him over there. His wife is dressed as Number One Son." Lois and Clark nodded as they surveyed the room. In keeping with the theme of the party, 'Law and Order', there were several Keystone Cops, two James Bonds, another Hardy Boy besides Jimmy, and ... "Clark? Isn't that Dr. Klein over there?" Clark looked to where Lois was pointing. "It sure is, honey." He grinned as he turned to her. "And look who he's playing Watson to." Lois quickly identified Sherlock Holmes. Laughing, she clutched Clark's arm. "Dr. Friskin?!? Oh, that's great!" Lois waved to Holmes and Watson as she and Clark approached the buffet table. They greeted her with a wave and nod before returning to their discussion. "And how did that make you feel, Dr. Klein?" Dr. Klein munched on a broccoli floret as he considered her question. "Actually, amazingly free of any insecurities, Dr. Friskin. You see, they've moved me into management at STAR Labs, overseeing the R&D section. That's a lot of responsibility, and while I enjoy it, I miss the hands-on part of research." Dr. Friskin nodded slowly. "So, you're saying that my assuming the role of Sherlock Holmes, the 'lead figure', and you being Watson, the 'sidekick', makes you feel no less important?" "Not in the least." He popped a baby carrot into his mouth. Dr. Friskin smiled. "You have quite a stable self-image, Dr. Klein." Klein winked. "And how does that make *you* feel, Dr. Friskin?" As they moved away from the buffet table, their conversation continued. Lois shook her head in disbelief. "Did I hear right? Are they *analyzing* each other?" Clark nodded. "Sounded like that to me, honey. Dip?" He turned to put some chips and dip on his paper plate. Lois grinned as she watched Clark put more 'non-nutritional, high-calorie' appetizers on his plate. She sighed audibly. "Sometimes I wish I had your metabolism for eating." Clark leaned over and kissed her cheek. "Go ahead and indulge. I'll help you work it off later." Lois grinned as Clark leered at her, his eyebrow rising, and his fake moustache twitching. As she reached for some chicken wings, a not-so-subtle voice reached her. "Pigging out, Lois?" "Speaking of pigs," she muttered. She straightened and turned. "Hi, Ralph." Continued in part 2 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:10:14 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Eileen F. Ray" Subject: NEW FANFIC: "MURDER, THEY WROTE" Part 2 of 4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit MURDER, THEY WROTE Continued from part 1 _______________________________ Ralph was dressed in a long trench coat and had an old fashioned fedora mashed down on his head. His cheeks were stubbled and he almost pulled off the look of a tough detective, until Lois noticed the piece of toilet paper stuck to his shoe. She giggled helplessly, leaving Clark to carry on the conversation. "Hi, Ralph. Who are you supposed to be? Inspector Clouseau in disguise?" Ralph drew himself up to his full (but still meager) height. "Inspector Clouseau? No. I'm Mike Hammer." Clark grinned. "Well, there's something..." He was interrupted by a shriek coming from the direction of the dark room. The door crashed open and a woman rushed out. "There's a body in there," she screamed. Clark used a little unobtrusive superspeed to get to the door before anyone else. When he looked in, he sighed with relief and began to laugh. Someone had rigged up a fake corpse and hung it from the ceiling. "It's okay, folks. It's just a little Halloween joke. Let's get back to the party." Mr. Stern had materialized with the Mayor at his side. They were dressed as Batman and Robin respectively. Stern wasn't exactly physically right for the Caped Crusader, but his voice certainly was commanding, Lois thought. He cleared his voice again and the room grew silent. "First of all, I want to thank all of you for coming here tonight" "What choice did we have?" Ralph mumbled. "Care to share that sentiment with Mr. Stern, Ralph?" Lois asked pointedly. Ralph blanched a little. "Nah, that's okay..." Stern glared in the direction of Ralph, and continued. "Your generosity has made the Planet's fundraisers for the Coates Orphanage big successes in the past, and I know that this year will be no exception. But that's enough business for now, let's get on with having *fun*. Right, Mayor Greenburg?" he asked the petite woman dressed as Robin standing by his side. "Right, Franklin," she agreed, and nodded. "So why don't we --" "Well, I can think of plenty of ways to have *fun*, " purred a tall raven- haired woman dressed as Catwoman. "But you're all wearing too many clothes for what I have in mind." "What the devil are you doing here?!" "Why, Mayor Greenburg, I'm just here to have a good time," Catwoman said, and shimmied her black vinyl-clad hips. "Aren't we all?" "I'll say," muttered Ralph, who had stopped his grazing among the dips and the chips to ogle the babe in black. Lois rolled her eyes in his direction, but something about the woman's shimmy bothered her. "Clark!" She pulled at the sleeve of his tux jacket. "Does she remind you of someone?" "Who, besides Cat Grant?" Clark shrugged. "Not that I can think of." He dropped his lips to Lois' ear. "Besides, I think you'd look a lot better in that cat suit." Lois shivered as Clark's breath tickled her ear. She draped her arm around Clark's neck and looked up at him, a slow grin spreading across her face. "How about out of it?" Clark growled in her ear as that mental picture hit his imagination with a whipcrack of desire. "Lois..." "Is the copy room busy?" The whisper of Lois' breath edged closer to his earlobe. Clark looked up briefly and nearly hit the roof with his eyebrows. "Dr. Klein?" Lois gave Clark a quizzical look. "Who's he with?" Clark blushed a little. "Never mind," Lois added abruptly as she insinuated her other hand beneath Clark's jacket. "I'm not all that concerned about him right now. I'm more interested in *us*. It seems like ages since we've had any time alone. How about the supply room?" The guests in the room barely noticed the swift breeze that snicked the door to the supply room shut. No one noticed at all that the same breeze managed to lock the door as well. Catwoman was swallowed into a crowd of...admirers. * * * "Jimmy, I tell you, those rotting shrimp are just oozing bad karma!" Nancy Drew whispered fiercely to her date. Jimmy winced as her 'whisper' reached everyone within a ten-foot radius. "It just goes to show you what happens when the teeming unwashed masses rape Mother Earth's seas and slaughter her children." She sniffed. "Besides, they didn't use enough horseradish in the cocktail sauce." "Look, Clar..." Jimmy's attempt at placation was cut off by another scream. The haunted house on the floor below was getting really popular, it seemed. At least, that's what he thought until Inspector Clouseau stumbled out of the broom closet and was messily sick in a wastebasket. The screams started again when the room saw behind him the body of Catwoman hanging from a noose, blood dripping like cocktail sauce from her head. Lois pulled her right strap back up. "It's always something," she said, hopping on one foot trying to put her shoe back on. "Clark, you haven't changed into Superman. You said somebody is dead." "She is," he moaned. "But Inspector Henderson is there, and Maggie just showed up." "But shouldn't Superman--" "Honey, you and I just got ... we just ... *started*. If I spun into the suit right now--" Lois patted his shoulder and blushed. "Um .. right. I'll go out there, find out what's going on, you stay here and ... relax." "Good plan," Clark sighed. Lois hurried out of the supply closet, back into the newsroom. She bounced up and down trying to see over the crowd near the broom closet. "Come on, Clark," she whispered. "I could really use x-ray vision right now. The crowd began to recede as Captain Maggie Sawyer pushed them back. "Back it up. Back it up," she chanted as Henderson examined the body. "Maggie," Lois said, still trying to see the body. "What happened?" "Nice dress, Lois -- silk?" Lois sighed loudly. "Maggie, please." "Okay. Someone moved Catwoman to the expired produce aisle." "Catwoman? Who is she?" "Darla Vesper Wood," Henderson observed dryly. "Hot dress, Lane." He rose from his kneeling position beside the body lying sprawled in front of the closet door. Lois folded her arms. "And *she* would be?" "A madam for all seasons, Lane. She's been to the precinct so often she has her own personalized coffee mug." "A madam came to a charity event?" Lois asked, her eyes wide now that she realized big news had literally dropped in her lap. "Who knows?" Henderson shrugged. "Maybe she was feeling charitable and can write broom closet romance off on her taxes." "How about a little respect for the dead, Henderson," Perry admonished. "Okay, Perry," Henderson nodded. "I'm going to have to call in a dead Catwoman to the station. I'll muster all the dignity I can out of that one." "Is there anything I can do to help?" Superman asked, finally putting in an appearance. "Boy scout," Maggie smiled and shook Superman's hand. "We don't have a print man here. Can your big brown eyes handle that?" Clark smiled. "Sure," he said, finally noticing that Maggie was dressed like the pregnant police officer from the movie 'Fargo.' "Expecting a baby, or is that just part of the costume?" Maggie shook her head. "Unless there's a star with a tail as big as kite in the sky, it's a costume." Clark grinned and then knelt to scan the corpse. "I don't see any readable prints on her neck, if that's what you're looking for, Maggie. Maybe if I examined the rope she was hanging from ..." Henderson nodded. "Sure, Superman, right this way," Maggie said, as she turned and led Clark into the broom closet. "Wait. How did you know she was strung up? You just got here." Superman hesitated for a second. "Clark told him," Lois interjected. "And just where is your better half, Lane?" Henderson asked. "That's right, darlin', where the heck is Clark?" Perry said."I've been looking all over for him." Now it was Lois' turn to hesitate. "Why he's.... he's..." Continued in part 3 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:12:06 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Eileen F. Ray" Subject: NEW FANFIC: "MURDER, THEY WROTE" Part 3 of 4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit MURDER, THEY WROTE Continued from part 2 ________________________________ Lois was shoved into the doorframe by a rather burly and decidedly pale Jessica Fletcher. The lady in question stumbled in her mad dash for the restrooms, and lurched into the men's room. "He was having a little trouble with his stomach," she finished smoothly. She saw Clark's shoulders relax minutely. Henderson again knelt by the body, dabbed at the blood at the victim's temple, and brought it up to his nose. He sniffed briefly, then tentatively tasted it. "Interesting." Lois' gorge rose, but she ignored the sensation. "What?" "Needs more horseradish." "What?" "It's cocktail sauce." "She's bleeding cocktail sauce?" Jimmy asked as he started snapping pictures. Henderson shielded his eyes from the flash. "No. She's not bleeding at all. As far as I can tell, she has no external injuries." "Nothing internal either, Inspector," Clark said from over his shoulder. Henderson's brow furrowed as he glanced up at Maggie and Superman. "What about the rope?" Clark shook his head. "Half a dozen sets of prints on the rope itself, but none on the beam it's tied to. I'd say it's the same as the rest of the props in the haunted house downstairs." Henderson sighed. "Well, she's got no marks on her neck, so she wasn't hung, and she wasn't hit on the head by anything more deadly than a half-dozen shrimp..." Another party-goer stumbled past them towards the restrooms. "You might want to reconsider that, Henderson," Maggie muttered. "Those shrimp are looking worse every minute." Jimmy's date peered over his shoulder, jostling the camera. "I told you. They were just leaking bad karma all over the place." Maggie's eyebrows went up. "Who's your friend, Olsen?" she said, but didn't wait for an answer. "Then I guess it's up to the Medical Examiner, Bill," Maggie sighed. Lois glanced at Clark longingly. He had been returning the compliment. Her silk dress 'whispered' when she walked, and what it whispered made his ears burn. "So," he said, putting on his Superman voice -- what was left of it. "Anything else I can do, Inspector?" Henderson shrugged. "Make sure the exits are secure. Nobody leaves." Clark nodded and began to leave, but Lois grabbed his arm. "Before you go, Superman. My husband disappeared to worship the porcelain facility. Could you see if he's still alive?" Clark half-smiled. "I'm sure he's fine, but I'll check." Klein looked up as Superman departed, the speed of his passing raising a breeze in the newsroom. "It's probably a beautiful night ... somewhere," he said wistfully. "Maybe Superman has a date." Friskin walked up behind him, her deerstalker cap perilously askew. "Yes," she sighed. "Superman was in love once, and I'm surprised he never --" Friskin blushed fiercely. "I don't know what's wrong with me - that's privileged doctor-client information." Klein smiled and straightened her cap. "That's okay, he's my patient too. Maybe it's the same girlfriend he told me about." Friskin's eyes grew large behind her glasses as she glanced at Lois Lane. "I hope we're talking two different love interests, Bernard." Klein noted where Friskin was staring. "Maybe, Ruth," he smiled. "Maybe not." At that moment, Clark, sans tuxedo jacket, exited the men's room. Lois smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck. "You look so sexy in suspenders." "Well, that's good," he said, but frowned. "Because I can't find the jacket anywhere." Lois patted his cheek. "It'll turn up." She retrieved a plate and handed it to him. "I put a little of everything on there ... well, besides the shrimp." "Thanks," he smiled. "Do you realize every time you bend over in that dress, the heart rate of every man in this room accelerates?" Lois smiled. "Including yours?" "*Especially* mine, though I think Maggie is running me a close second." Lois laughed and picked up her plate. "By the way, you just ate your mustache." Clark grinned and took Lois' hand to lead her over to his desk. After setting their plates on it, he sat down in his chair and pulled her into his lap. "I guess we're stuck here for a while. Wanna neck?" Lois giggled and glanced around. Thankfully the lights had been turned low for the party. "Sure. Why not?" She started to nibble on his ear, but Clark looked startled and raised his head. "What's wrong?" "I can't believe this. Dr. Klein and Dr. Friskin are talking about us...I mean about you and Superman." "What?" "Just what did you tell Dr. Friskin about Superman?" Lois blushed. "Well...I did tell her I was attracted to him, I mean you..and I loved you, I mean Clark...and then there was Dan...and..." Clark kissed her before she could launch into full babble mode. "Honey," he murmured against her lips, caressing her curves through the silk of her dress. "Did I tell you how much I like this dress? It's definitely a keeper." Lois smacked his chest. "Stop trying to distract me, Kent. What if they put two and two together and get the three of us? You, me, and Superman." Clark moved his lips from hers to the sensitive spot just below her ear. "Relax, honey," he murmured against her lips. "I trust Dr. Klein, and I think I trust Dr. Friskin too." He raised his head again. "Hmmm. I wonder what they were doing in the copy room. You distracted me after I saw them going in there, remember?" Lois' eyes lit up. "You don't think...nah. Dr Klein and Dr. Friskin? Oooh.. I want to know more. You tackle Klein. I'll take Friskin." Before Clark could react, Lois was out of his arms and making a beeline for Dr. Friskin. Perry intercepted Lois before she could make her way across the room. "Just a second, darlin'. I need to talk to you and Clark," he whispered as he deftly spun her around and headed her back to Clark's desk. "Perry, what the --!?" "What's up, Chief?" Clark asked with concern as the two approached. "Look, you two, we have had a *major* story drop into our laps and I don't want to miss the chance for an exclusive. Darla Vesper Wood knew the intimate secrets of most of the rich and famous from here to Gotham City." "Perry, that's not our kind of a story," Lois protested. "Now, while I generally leave that kind of stuff to the National Whisper, the fact that she happens to be murdered at the same time most of those people are here at the Planet is just too much to pass on. I want you and Clark to work a little of your special magic and find me a killer." Clark looked at Lois and shrugged. "Okay," she sighed and gave Perry a wry smile. "I guess we can solve the mystery and stop the bad guy one more time." Perry grinned. "That's my girl." Lois turned back to Clark as Perry moved off to join the crowd at the buffet. "Well," he said, "I guess the first thing we should do is run a computer check on Darla and see what turns up." Lois nodded in agreement. Sitting down at Clark's desk, she turned on the computer. The monitor flickered to life, then suddenly it and every other light in the room went dark. "So much for that idea," Lois said. Clark murmured his agreement as he used his supersenses to check on the crowd. Satisfied that everyone was present and accounted for, he focused on Lois. Leaning toward her, he whispered, "Everyone's all right." Perry's booming voice interrupted Clark. "Now, stay calm, folks! We'll have the power restored in just a few minutes. In the meantime, make sure you don't accidentally eat the shrimp." Nervous laughter filtered through the crowd. Lois smiled up at Clark, her hand reaching for his suspender. "What say we make the most of the dark?" Tugging, she pulled Clark toward her, their lips finding each other unerringly in the dark. "Mmm, good idea," Clark murmured. The kiss deepened, but just as Lois was undoing the top button of Clark's shirt, the lights flickered on. She sighed against Clark's lips, her hand sneaking between the edges of his shirt to lightly brush against his skin. "Curses. Foiled again," she moaned, wishing that they could have had this one evening without having to be interrupted by a cry for help or a murder. Continued in part 4 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:13:07 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Eileen F. Ray" Subject: NEW FANFIC: "MURDER, THEY WROTE" Part 4 of 4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit MURDER, THEY WROTE Continued from part 3 _______________________________ Clark sighed as well, his forehead touching hers. "Yeah. Let's say we bag the killer and have a private trick or treat of our own." "I couldn't have said it any better." The beeping of the computer alerted them and they turned their attention to the monitor, Clark leaning close to Lois, his breath warm and ticklish at her ear and neck. Lois quickly typed Darla's name into the search file connected to Metropolis Police HQ and sat back as the screen began to scroll. Her hand reached toward Clark and came in contact with his chest. Without thinking, she began to stroke him, feeling the play of his muscles against her hand. All the while, she kept her eyes focused on the monitor and the information that was being displayed. "Clark, look at this! Inspector Henderson wasn't kidding when he said Darla had a coffee mug with her name on it down at the police department." "Uh huh," Clark bit his lower lip in an effort to concentrate on the information on the monitor. Lois' touch had always undone him, driving him to distraction, just as she was doing right now, but they needed to solve this murder mystery. The pleasurable distraction of Lois would have to wait, though hopefully, not for very long. He placed his hand over hers, stilling its movements. "She was a ..." "... an informant, a spy, a snitch." Lois and Clark lifted their heads at Maggie Sawyer's voice. Maggie nodded. "Yeah. Darla was feeding us information on certain ... clients." "Politicians?" "Only the dirty ones. No, Darla had connections to some of the more, shall we say, unsavory members of society." Clark looked hard at Maggie. "And in return?" Maggie shrugged her shoulders. "We let her operate. Within reason." She turned her eyes to Clark and matched his hard gaze with a cold stare of her own. "There's a greater justice at work here, Clark. Yes, what Darla and her ladies did was against the law. But, when weighed against the information we were able to obtain and the criminals we were able to put behind bars ..." Maggie's words trailed off. Lois looked from Clark to Maggie, placing her hand once more against Clark's chest. He broke his gaze away from Maggie and looked down at Lois. "A greater truth," she whispered, her eyes sending him a silent message. Clark sighed, not completely comfortable with everything he had just heard. For the most part, the informants that he and Lois had used were "shady," but still on the right side of the law. But the police *knowingly* using a criminal as an informant? True, according to the police file, Darla had never been convicted, but that didn't make what she did any less illegal. Still, he had to agree with Lois, there was a greater truth, a greater good. He nodded once, letting Lois know he understood what she and Maggie were saying. Looking once more at Maggie, he asked, "So, any ideas who might have wanted Darla dead?" Maggie shrugged again. "Any of her clients who figured she showed up here for blackmail purposes, or who had realized she was feeding us information." She sighed. "It might be easier once we get the cause of death established." Clark nodded. "Have you gotten hold of the M.E.?" Maggie shook her head. "Not yet. The storm managed to hit the cell site for downtown, and the electricity in the air is interfering with our radios. Dr. Klein volunteered to do a preliminary examination." Lois glanced back at the list scrolling on her screen. It was getting longer, and showed little sign of stopping anytime soon. A half-hour later, Dr. Klein approached, stripping the latex gloves from his hands. Clark wrinkled his nose as he got closer. "Captain Sawyer?" "Do you have any answers for me, Doctor?" "Not one you'll like. She wasn't killed here. She's been dead for at least twelve hours, possibly as long as a week." "A week?" Lois was incredulous. "She was just prancing around here an hour ago!" Doctor Klein shook his head. "That must have been someone else, possibly attempting to throw off pursuit." "She ... whoever that was ... the costume did have gloves, honey." Maggie nodded. "That would explain the lack of fingerprints." "There's a faint smell of formaldehyde, too. I don't think the body was preserved in it, but it's there. I'd like to say she was poisoned, but I'm unfamiliar with that area of chemistry. Now, if she'd had contact with some interesting isotopes, I could help you, but..." Dr. Klein shrugged and let his sentence trail off. "Poison. Great." Maggie Sawyer was less than pleased. "We've already got half the party laid up with food-poisoning..." She glanced at Clark. "Say, Kent, you seem pretty chipper for someone who was doing the technicolor yawn not too long ago." Clark blinked at her for a moment. "Yeah, well, I guess I didn't eat that much of the shrimp after all." Dr.Friskin, who had hovered while Klein was performing his examination, tapped the magnifying glass against her chin. "Formaldehyde, Bernie?" "Yes, cupcake," he said, and smiled like an idiot. "Well, it's been many years since medical school, but if someone ingests methyl alcohol, as opposed to ethyl alcohol, which is the usual potable alcohol--" "Booze?" Ralph asked, and then threw up again in the wastebasket. "Yes, 'booze'," Friskin repeated. "Methyl alcohol turns to formaldehyde in the system. Literally pickling the person from the inside out." "You're wonderful!" Klein beamed. Henderson nodded appreciatively. "Thanks, Doc. So now we may have a possible agent causing her death, the other lab coat here gave us an estimated time of death, and that means--" "We need women who could fit into that Catwoman costume who weren't in the room when she put in an appearance," Maggie said, completing his thought. "I was taking photos when Catwoman showed up," Jimmy said, and then swallowed as Clarissa glared. "Um, just to have pictures of the party, you understand." "Uh huh," Henderson nodded. "Run those off in the darkroom, and in the meantime, I know that these three women," Henderson said flatly as he pointed to a waitress and two of the guests, "and Lane came running into the room *after* the body was discovered." "Now wait a minute!" Lois said, her voice strained. "You can't *possibly* suspect me?" "All's fair, Lane. I can't make exceptions." "Hold on a minute, Inspector," Clark interceded. "Lois was with me." "Where, exactly?" Clark blushed. "The ... supply closet." After the roar of hoots, whistles and laughter died down, the rather rotund Sergeant Zymak cleared his throat. "I've heard that before." "It's true, Henderson," Clark insisted. "I believe you," Ralph belched. "Who *wouldn't* want to be in a supply closet with her?" Maggie nodded. "He's got a point." "Look, Lane, you weren't in here, we don't have a polygraph, it's all preliminary, so into White's office with the other women, and spare me any Constitutional speeches. I'll read you the Miranda if you want." "Don't *bother*," she huffed, and stormed towards Perry's office. "Ouch," Clark whispered. Henderson shook his head. "Sorry, Kent. You'll probably wish you were Superman later when you get her home." Lois glared out of Perry's office as Henderson questioned the other women.. She pointedly ignored both Henderson and her fellow inmates as he patiently asked a waitress where she had been when the body had been found. Lois' gaze swept across the newsroom, touching briefly on the concerned slouch of her husband before moving on. She was mad, darnit, and he had no right to go directing those gorgeous chocolate eyes at her. She wanted to stay mad, so shifted her gaze to the man behind Clark. She recognized one of the candidates for local state representative, a slim man in Robin Hood tights who'd always come across in interviews as slightly slimy. She met his gaze, and he smirked and turned to leave. Lois' eyes narrowed as he sauntered off. That walk...Lois scrambled for the door. "Clark! Get him!" she shouted, as Zymak grabbed her arm. "He's the Catwoman!" Robin Hood jumped at her shout and ran for the elevators. Clark was right behind him, and felled him with a flying tackle before he even reached the ramp. Clark picked him up by the scruff of the neck, tearing the brown tunic. Zymak let go of Lois' arm as the costume shredded to reveal the gleam of black vinyl beneath. "Ha!" Lois ran up to Clark and excitedly drummed her hands in a victorious tattoo against his chest. The surrounding officers converged on the hapless Cat-'woman'. "Lois, how did you recognize him?" Clark asked her, as half of the Metropolis Police Department chimed in on reading the suspect his Miranda rights. Lois beamed up at him and blushed slightly. "He shimmied." "What?" "Well...it was those belly-dancing lessons." Her color rose. "Men's hips work differently than women's, and when he was pretending to be a woman, he shimmied funny. And then ... well, I guess he forgot to stop." "You are amazing." Clark rested his forehead against hers. "You think so?" Lois smiled up at him, finally willing to drown in his eyes. "I know so." They turned to look at Maggie Sawyer, smirking in triumph. "He's on our list of Intergang-funded politicians. He was one of Darla's special 'clients', and I guess he thought he could throw off suspicion by dumping her here. That was smart thinking there, Lane." Lois tossed a quick 'thanks' over her shoulder as Clark drew them away from the crowd of detectives, both literary and Metropolis PD. "So, tell me more about this 'shimmy' thing." "Well...I can't really describe it." Lois grinned up at him. "Would asking for a demonstration be out of the question?" Clark placed his hands on her sides and ran them down to rest on her hips. "I think..." Lois' voice grew husky and she rose up on her tiptoes. "I could be..." She inched closer to his lips. "...persuaded." THE END ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:56:56 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Charlotte Fisler Subject: Re: The People Who Knew Clark was Superman Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/9/98 3:32:50 PM !!!First Boot!!!, Phillip.Atcliffe@UWE.AC.UK writes: << Phillip.Atcliffe@UWE.AC.UK (Atcliffe, Phillip) >> wrote : Time for another Comics Retrospective (hi, Leanne!).... Just a very personal opinion here. Re comics. I have been a fan of Superman since childhood during the 1940s. My mom used to pick them up at the corner candy store (remember 1940s- egg creams, comics and you could go in and read the new issues to your hearts content) I remember several really good classic comics but the one that really blew my mind was "the Origin of Superman" a special reissue. I thought WOW this is SF. Unfortunately over the years DC screwed around royally with the story. John Byne is right in his assessment of the change in Lois Lane's character during the 50s. It was so bad I stopped reading thecomics for a long time. Zoomway@AOL.COM (The Zoomway) wote : <> (Aside to Zoom - once again thank you for the wonderful assessment of Lois and Clark's bond and the lives - I couldn't agree more) Other screw ups IMHO were the dream and imaginary stories when Clark and Lois got together - I didn't want it to be imaginary and found the whole thing appalling. Another shock to my interpretation of Superman was one in which a small-time criminal learns Clark's secret identity and tells Superman he will have to let him go unless he wants the secret to come out. Superman then flies him to an iceberg near the north and leaves him there - effectively killing him. As I told the listserv once my Superman would never kill anyone not even the bad guys. This one story had such a negative effect on me that I still remember this part to this day even though I remember nothing else about it. Frankly I have never been a fan of any of the other Superheros including Mr. guilt Spiderman. Neither did I ever truly enjoy the Superboy comics. I just can't relate to young Superman. Obviously the comics are geared to a young male audience but young girls do read them as well. And if the writers took that into consideration and wrote some good relationship tales for them, they might keep that audience as well. I love Lois and Clark because finally Clark is the caring, sensitive and emotionally vulnerable person I want him to be. I was so impressed with the show and the Wedding album which I picked up this year that I broke down, bought a comic book and sent in a subscription. These have just started coming and what do they do. They trash the Daily Planet letting Luthor win once again (OH God!). And now the Kryptonian Cybernet newsletter tells me in a couple of months Superman will give up his Clark identity entirely. Betrayed again - When will I learn. I am hoping this will turn out to be a dream sequence - (I can't believe I wrote that!). Or barring that DC will handle the whole thing with grace and dignity and eventually give my hero back HIS LIFE. They have one year to do it or they can forget about my renewal subscription which incidently I can afford. I can even afford to pay the prices for todays' comic books where you have to buy six or more issues to conclude a story. But I won't buy it if they mess around anymore. Charlotte - who is old enough to know what she wants and (while not rich) comfortable enough to afford it. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:26:01 PST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Peace Everett Subject: Re: (1) different type of rev In-Reply-To: <001c01be0a7b$d0683ce0$5c8f46cf@pavilion> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mandy wrote: > Where can I find this story? I looked at the archive, but to no avail! > Mandy > >In a message dated 98-11-06 21:47:56 EST, mfwillia@flash.net writes: > >FROM PEACE: > ><< I don't think I saw any replies to this, and I think it's an intere= sting question. > > > In my own experience, this happened once -- when I was writing > > >"..Shatters". Because of the content of the story (it's R-rated) it is not available = at the archive. You can find it at my site (URL below). The full title of the = story is "When My World Divides and Shatters" And thanks, everyone, for your comments on the story - it's a real ego = boost for me to have people still talking about a story I wrote over two years = ago :) Peace A FoLC Named Peace Lois & Clark fanfic and a personal love story http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/7137 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:47:51 PST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Peace Everett Subject: Re: The People Who Knew Clark was Superman In-Reply-To: <838b04b2.3641f506@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > In a message dated 11/5/98 12:23:43 PM Central Standard Time, > forum101@HOTMAIL.COM writes: > << FoLC's generally believe that Jack knows that CK=3DS. But Jack who?= Jack > Olsen, Jimmy's father, or Jack the guy that broke into Clark's > apartment? >> and Zoomway replied: > Jack, the kid who broke into Clark's apartment. I hated the very hint = that he > would know. Well, see, I knew Chris Demetral (who played Jack) from an episode he did= of Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Future Imperfect"), so I got a kick out = of seeing him on L&C. And I got a kick out of the idea that he knew the secret and= knew to keep quiet about it. My take on the relationship was that Clark somehow knew he could trust = Jack to keep the secret, that he didn't feel the need to lecture him about kee= ping quiet. Jack knew all about hiding things, after all. :) > The idea the kid Clark befriended knew the secret, started > sounding like Batman and Robin. Worse, it seemed to indicate that the = show > was seriously going to diminish Lois and Clark's relationship in favor = of > "zap-pow" action for 2nd season, and so the kid would learn the secret = instead > of Lois (an icky girl ;). Now I did see a bit of this, especially with Lois spending a good bit of = time in Lex's arms in BatP while Clark and Jack tried to get the group out of the= ir hostage situation. Peace ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:01:31 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Elizabeth Eve Davis Organization: Mississippi State University Subject: Re: The People Who Knew Clark was Superman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Peace wrote: > Well, see, I knew Chris Demetral (who played Jack) from an episode he did of > Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Future Imperfect"), I guess it had been so long I'd forgotten what that kid from that episode looked like. Cool! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:04:20 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kathy Brown Subject: Comics (was Re: The People Who Knew Clark was Superman) In-Reply-To: <4adb2ef.36485438@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 9:56 AM -0500 11/10/98, Charlotte Fisler wrote: > And now the Kryptonian Cybernet newsletter tells me in a >couple of months Superman will give up his Clark identity entirely. Betrayed >again - When will I learn. I am hoping this will turn out to be a dream >sequence - (I can't believe I wrote that!). Thank you, Charlotte, for reminding me why I gave up the comics last year. I faithfully read through the almost exclusive Superman action (not bad), the break up (almost as pointless as the Contact breakup in the show), the wedding (nice), the honeymoon (fun, even if they were apart, and I kept thinking Dean's Clark would have told off Sam Lane once and for all), and even the sexless early married life (yawn). I actually really enjoyed the new blue suit and the new powers -- they did a good job with Clark learning how they work and how to use them to his advantage. And of course, you gotta love Scorn. But a couple months before the Superman Red/Blue storyline, I just lost interest completely. I still have several unread issues from that time, packed in a box, waiting for me to read them ... but it's not going to happen. And from everything I've been hearing from people, I'm not missing much. Sigh. Kathy ______________________ Kathy Brown kathyb@fgi.net KathyB on IRC ______________________ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 07:38:01 +1100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jenny Stosser Subject: Re: The People Who Knew Clark was Superman In-Reply-To: <4adb2ef.36485438@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:56 AM 10/11/98 EST, Charlotte Fisler wrote: >In a message dated 11/9/98 3:32:50 PM !!!First Boot!!!, >Phillip.Atcliffe@UWE.AC.UK writes: > ><< Phillip.Atcliffe@UWE.AC.UK (Atcliffe, Phillip) >> wrote : > >Time for another Comics Retrospective (hi, Leanne!).... > > Just a very personal opinion here. Re comics. I have been a fan of >Superman since childhood during the 1940s. My mom used to pick them up at the >corner candy store (remember 1940s- egg creams, comics and you could go in and >read the new issues to your hearts content) I remember several really good >classic comics but the one that really blew my mind was "the Origin of >Superman" a special reissue. I thought WOW this is SF. > >Unfortunately over the years DC screwed around royally with the story. John >Byne is right in his assessment of the change in Lois Lane's character during >the 50s. It was so bad I stopped reading thecomics for a long time. > >Zoomway@AOL.COM (The Zoomway) wote : > > <reason the comics, after years of loving them, have all but lost me.>> > >(Aside to Zoom - once again thank you for the wonderful assessment of Lois and >Clark's bond and the lives - I couldn't agree more) > >Other screw ups IMHO were the dream and imaginary stories when Clark and Lois >got together - I didn't want it to be imaginary and found the whole thing >appalling. Another shock to my interpretation of Superman was one in which a >small-time criminal learns Clark's secret identity and tells Superman he will >have to let him go unless he wants the secret to come out. Superman then flies >him to an iceberg near the north and leaves him there - effectively killing >him. As I told the listserv once my Superman would never kill anyone not even >the bad guys. This one story had such a negative effect on me that I still >remember this part to this day even though I remember nothing else about it. Sounds to me like you'd be a perfect candidate to be reading the Silver Age Review mailing list. They've been talking about how Mort Weisinger (editor of the Superman books through much of the 50s I think) was a practical joker and this came through in the stories he edited, such that the way Lois was depicted then was a shrewish, mean-spirited woman, who was only interested in finding out if Clark was Superman; and worse, Superman was mean back to her, constantly teaching her lessons! Well, this is the jist of what I picked up from the long discussion anyway. At the moment we're all quoting theme songs from 1960s Saturday Morning Cartoons, and talking about the first 3 comics we recall reading . Email me if you want to subscribe and I'll try to find out how - I've lost my instructions right now. -- Jenny Stosser -*- jenerate@ozramp.net.au -*-This message is umop ap!sdn (Jenerator or Some1Else on IRC) -*- JenerEight on AIM & AOL -*- My ICQ# is 11477318 Photos of David (6) and Megan (3) on the Stosser Family HomePage: http://geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4583 Please sign our guestbook! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:37:27 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Carolyn Schnall Subject: Re: NEW FANFIC ALERT ;) Two for the price of one In-Reply-To: <41a095ee.364799d8@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I just wanted to thank all the Round Robin writers for these two stories. I had to go to a funeral today (elderly cousin) and took them with me to read on the train and they got me through a difficult day. Even though I have not finished the second story yet, they both made me LOL on the subway and brightened my day. The banter (Oh, Zoom!!) and plot twists and near-nfic-ness of them kept me in a much better mood than I otherwise would have been in. Keep up the great writing, you-all, Thanks from the bottom of a sad heart, Carolyn cschnall@mail.med.cornell.edu >Hi everyone, > >The IRC Round Robin fanfic writers have been *really* busy and as a result I >have the pleasure of posting two stories to the list. > >The first is "Happy Anniversary" which is a look at our favorite couple's >attempts to have a romantic and *private* celebration of their wedding >anniversary and the *little* things that keep getting in their way. > >The second is "Murder, They Wrote", a seasonal story which finds Lois and >Clark putting their investigative skills to use when someone decides that a >charity masquerade party at the Daily Planet is the perfect place to get away >with murder. > >We enjoyed writing these stories and we hope you will enjoy them too. As >always comments are welcome. > >Cheers, >Eileen ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:59:52 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Norman Mayes Subject: Re: The People Who Knew Clark was Superman Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 98-11-10 15:38:29 EST, you write: << Another shock to my interpretation of Superman was one in which a >small-time criminal learns Clark's secret identity and tells Superman he will >have to let him go unless he wants the secret to come out. Superman then flies him to an iceberg near the north and leaves him there - effectively killing >him. >> This sounds like an episode of "The Adv of Superman" with George Reeves. A crook learns his identity and tries to blackmail him. Superman takes the crook and his moll to the top of a mountain in the frozen north. He promises to return with food and to build a shelter for them. They will have to stay there until he can figure a way out of this dilemna. The crook doesn't believe Superman will return and tries to climb down the mountain. He falls to his death. I think that here the crook commited suicide because he wasn't able to trust anyone. Does any one else remember this? budmayes@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 01:35:17 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Gary Subject: Sighting [Teri] and Goodbye MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Since LOISCLA appears to be down... Did anyone watch Friday's Entertainment Tonight? Pierce Brosnan was on and they showed a clip from Tommorrow Never Dies with Teri. I had the sound off and didn't hear what was said. And I am signing off this list at 11/11/98 11:11a EST. I concur with all that Jeff said when he left. I'll still be on LOISCLA (when it's up.) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Gary A. Rudick grudick@ieee.org | | Love is space and time made directly perceptible to the heart. - Proust | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 04:38:53 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kate Kent Subject: Once Upon a Metropolis- Round Robin Fanfic in #loiscla Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Whats the story morning glory? is there a story? once upon a time... in a land far far away, called New Troy, there lived a princess, with her little sister.... did their last name start with the letter L perchance? do princesses have last names? Anyway, getting back to our story... Mmmm....did their first names start with L The princesses had been abandoned by their father (who wasn't a real king) and they were brought up by their mother from a very young age * Lois_Lane sits down for story hour Once Upon a Metropolis a roundrobin in #loiscla By: Jenerator, Lois_Lane (Kate) and Moth (Rachel) ...But it didn't matter, because the fact that their father expected too much from them (and from the older princess in particular) had been ingrained in them >from such a young age...that the older princess, Lady Loisette, expected too much from herself, from her acquaintances and from men in general too. The younger princess, Lady Lucille, thought privately that Lady Loisette would NEVER find herself a husband, but hoped for her sake that she'd find a Super Man one day. She hoped this because everyone knew the rule that older sisters had to marry before younger sisters could, and there was this really cute guy at the place where Lady Loisette earned her living, that Lady Lucille had her eye on Lady Loisette knew that deep down inside, she wanted to find love. But was afraid that if she fell in love with any prince, that he might turn out to be like the no good frog of a king father. So she locked her heart away. Of course, the man in her workplace, King Clark, had fallen in love with her from the moment he had laid eyes on her. Prince Clark was was afraid too, afraid that Lady Loisette wouldn't accept him because he came from a faraway kingdom that wasn't accepted by her Kingdom. So, Lady Loisette and Prince Clark secretly pined for one another. They tried to just be friends. Prince Clark secretly hoped that one day she would accept him, secret heritage and all. And Lady Loisette tried to ignore the growing feelings she felt for Prince Clark inside her heart of hearts. Everyone else knew of their feelings, Lord Perry and Squire Jimmy would talk about it when they weren't around. All the while, the evil prince Lex was plotting to destroy Prince Clark, steal Lord Perry's Kingdom and steal the fair Princess Loisette Lord Lex, ruler of Lexland was intent on conquoring PlanetLand and destroying all who lived there. Many times Lord Lex had challanged Prince Clark to a Duel. Yet every time he lost, for Prince Clark had a suit of armor that would not be broken One day Lord Lex stumbled across something that came from Prince Clarks home kingdom. It was a small stone that had a faint glow to it. He wasn't sure if it could do anything to Prince Clark, or even if it did anything at all. But Lord Lex decided to test it out.He rode into Lord Perry's kingdom one evening and aproached Clark. "I challange you to a duel!" he uttered slapping him across the face. Prince Clark readily agreed, not seeing how this could be any different from the numerous other times Lord Lex and he had fought. "For the Fair Princess Loisette's hand in marriage!" stated Lex. For you see, Lady Loisette was unaware that Lord Lex and Prince Clark had been fighting all these duels. In fact, he had asked her mo therfor her hand in marriage many a time. But the Queen knew that her daughter must chose her own husband, if she was to marry at all. For she was still sore over her own failed marriage (which had been arranged) Prince Clark could not agree to this, because he knew in his heart of hearts that it was wrong to make up Lady Loisettes mind for her. He respected her too much. He knew that he wanted her to chose him on his own merits, not because she would hear of his final victory with Lord Lex. So he denied Lord Lex's challenge. Sadly, Lady Loisette did not see this as the noble deed it was intended to be. Rather, she saw it as Prince Clark not having an intrest in her hand in marriage. Worried that she would never marry, she accepted Lord Lex's marriage proposal. Lord Clark wanted to reveal all his secrets to Lady Loisette, but didn't know how. As Lady Loisette planned her wedding, Prince Clark planned on how to show Lady Loisette the true nature of her evil fiancee. Meanwhile, Lord Lex set up his secret evil troops outside Perry's Kingdom of Planetland, intent on a secret strike. Meanwhile, Lord Lex set up his secret evil troops outside Perry's Kingdom of Planetland, intent on a secret strike. He planned to send in his secret troups, then send in his kingdom troups to massacre them. So it would appear as if he had saved the day. Meanwhile, he planned for someone to kill King Perry during the struggle. He knew that Lady Loisette, being King Perry's closest thing to a heir, would inherit his kingdom. Then with this final blow, and the marriage. He would rule all of NewTroyland. Then, with his secret troup massacred, he would leave their plans in Squire Jimmy's quarters, leaving him to the blame. Then his evil plan would be complete. But Prince Clark was on to his evil scheme, and with King Perry on his side he collect evidence to give to the magistrate. * * * Lady Loisette, being tended to by her ladies in waiting, sat staring at her reflection. "Lady Loisette, Queen of LexLand...Lady Loisette, Queen of Planetland...." She sobbed quietly. "Lady Loisette, Prince Clark's queen..." She thought of all who had gathered outside to witness her marriage to a man she did not love and wept for the man she did love but thought she had . lost. It was on the wedding day that Prince Clark and his minions burst into Lord Lex's castle with the evidence they needed to arrest him. I think my brain is tapped.... Lady Lois had just turned to Lord Lex. "I'm sorry, but I cannot marry you Lord Lex" she said. Lord Lex was stunned, not only had his plans for taking over all of NewTroyLand just been crushed, but Prince Clark was almost down the aisle to arrest him. Lord Lex looked around for a place to hide Seeing only a window, he made a desperate choice. He gave one last gaze at the woman he loved, decked out to marry him. Then Lord Lex turned and lept out the window to the ground far below. Lady Loisette, traumatized by Lord Lex's doom jump, ran into the arms of Prince Clark. Tears stained her face as Prince Clark held her, enveloping her in a tetter- totter hug of affection. "Fairest Loisette, I can't bare to see you cry. Please tell me how I can soothe your pain. I shall fly to the ends of the earth for your happiness" She looked up into his chocolate brown eyes and shook her head. "Just don't leave me, don't ever leave me." Prince Clark, still unsure of her feelings towards him, tested the waters. I will denounce my throne for you, if you wish. "No.." she paused, afraid of her own feelings " I love you, kingdom and all" "Oh you don't know how long I wished those words to fall from your sweet lips. But I must tell you of my past." So he told her of the far away kingdom he had come from and the secret suit of his family armor that made him invincible in duels. He told her everything, and when he was done he said "Will you marry me?" "Yes, Prince Clark, yes I will" and so they were married that very evening under a small tent in the garden. And they lived happily ever after for quite sometime. But evil never dies in the land of Troy. But that, as they say, is another story. THE END ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:15:27 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Atcliffe, Phillip" Subject: Re: Comics (OT?) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:04:20 -0600 Kathy Brown wrote: > At 9:56 AM -0500 11/10/98, Charlotte Fisler wrote: >> And now the Kryptonian Cybernet newsletter tells me in a couple of months Superman will give up his Clark identity entirely. Betrayed again - When will I learn? I am hoping this will turn out to be a dream sequence - (I can't believe I wrote that!). << > Thank you, Charlotte, for reminding me why I gave up the comics last year. > I faithfully read through the almost exclusive Superman action (not bad), the break-up (almost as pointless as the Contact break-up in the show), the wedding (nice), the honeymoon (fun, even if they were apart, and I kept thinking Dean's Clark would have told off Sam Lane once and for all), and even the sexless early married life (yawn). I actually really enjoyed the new blue suit and the new powers -- they did a good job with Clark learning how they work and how to use them to his advantage. And of course, you gotta love Scorn. > But a couple months before the Superman Red/Blue storyline, I just lost interest completely. I still have several unread issues from that time, packed in a box, waiting for me to read them ... but it's not going to happen. < > And from everything I've been hearing from people, I'm not missing much. Sigh. < True, but (Murphy's Law strikes again) you may have missed at least one half-decent storyline by giving up when you did. The "Superman Forever" arc, which ran from the eponymous special to Superman #139, was fun, if only to see simultaneous versions of Superman a la 1938, the 50s and 60s, the 1970s and the far future. The story became less interesting once the four separate "plots" were pulled together, but the whole yarn was worth a look if only to see the different versions of Supes, Clark and Lois. I hope that the end of the Daily Planet and giving up Clark as an identity (except, presumably, at home with Lois and/or in Kansas) is only temporary, as was the Bluperman idea. If not... well, I won't be reading the comics, either. Not that I do all that much now. But the biggest thing that the comics need, IMO, is for Luthor to be taken down several pegs; he is just too powerful at the moment. This seems to be a backlash from his downfall just prior to the "Fall of Metropolis", but it's gone too far. And now that DC seem determined to make the "Dead Earth" Annuals into canon, we're faced with the possibility of Luthor living on, gaining more and more power until he's some kind of mad genocidal emperor in the far future -- of course, he doesn't outlive Superman, according to the One Million timeline, but he's being given far too much prominence at the moment. Phil, thinking about founding SPLIT II (Society Proposing _Luthor's_ Immediate Termination -- the original SPLIT was for Lobo. Shame it failed) -------------------------------------------------------------- "If you let a smile be your umbrella... you'll get wet teeth!" -- a forgotten comedian, quoted by me: Phil Atcliffe (Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:55:03 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Georgia E. Walden" Subject: Re: Comics (OT?) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:15 PM 11/11/98 -0500, Phil wrote: >True, but (Murphy's Law strikes again) you may have missed at least one >half-decent storyline by giving up when you did. The "Superman Forever" >arc, which ran from the eponymous special to Superman #139, was fun, if >only to see simultaneous versions of Superman a la 1938, the 50s and >60s, the 1970s and the far future. The story became less interesting >once the four separate "plots" were pulled together, but the whole yarn >was worth a look if only to see the different versions of Supes, Clark >and Lois. I agree this was an interesting and entertaining concept, though perhaps it meant more to those of us who actually remember the *original* comics that each artist was trying to reproduce. ;) The really outstanding thing in that storyline was the blatant (and very welcome) introduction of the *bond* between Lois and Clark into the comics continuity. The one thing that transcends all the different versions of the characters is this connection between Lois and Clark/Superman and this special love is invoked by Kismet herself as the power that can overcome the time-warping villain that's causing all the bad stuff that happens in that arc. Alas, once the story ended (sort of ) things were back to the status quo and the Lois and Clark relationship returned to its usual place - that is, way in the background. Still, for that one issue, it was great to see a touch of what made our version of Lois and Clark so special. :) Georgia gwalde14@mindspring.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:35:15 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Raymond, Melody" Subject: Two Recent Round-Robin Stories Comments: To: listserv-Indiana posts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="---- =_NextPart_000_01BE0D80.7F93AEB4" This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BE0D80.7F93AEB4 Content-Type: text/plain Thanks all for the two most recent round-robin stories. I really enjoyed them. The stories brightened my day. It was really funny how Lois and Clark kept trying to get together and being interrupted. Just wanted to encourage you all to keep writing. I love to read L&C stories. Thanks again. 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In a message dated 11/9/98 9:32:50 AM Central Standard Time, Phillip.Atcliffe@UWE.AC.UK writes: << Take a look at "Man of Steel" #1 and #6, and when and how Clark told Lana about himself. He's only just found out that he's a) "adopted" and b) someone who was found in a spaceship(!). On top of that, Jonathan's none too happy about Clark showing off on the football field and quite possibly having the beginnings of a swelled head, so the young man has some heavy thinking to do. >> Believe me, I have all the comics from 1986 to the present Whether in the comics or on the series, though, Clark knew he was different when he was growing up, so what he ascribed that *difference* to before he learned he was >from Krypton is anyone's guess. In both mediums he seemed to be sharp enough to know he had to keep that difference a secret. As you said, Clark was about 18 when Jonathan told him the truth about how he and Martha found the spaceship and then Clark said, "You mean I'm adopted?" and it was unintentionally funny to me. It was like Steve Martin in 'The Jerk' raised by a black family and then one day as a grown man saying "You mean I'm white?" ;) What *exactly* did Clark think he was before he found out he came from another planet? An android? An experiment in eugenics? On the series, the difference seemed to be that Clark knew he was adopted before he was told he was found in a spaceship. I don't know why the Kents wouldn't have told him that part earlier, but that's how it seemed to go on the series. Even Clark's spaceship being stolen from where Jonathan had buried it was in the comics. The guy who took it was unnamed, but he was a *lot* like Trask in his attitude ;) He saw Superman as the vanguard of an invading horde of aliens. He wanted Superman dead to send a message that Earth wasn't an easy target. It's easy to see that the series in its first couple of seasons was fairly faithful to its comic book counterpart (bringing in the Kents, Cat Grant, having Clark the real guy, Superman the disguise, etc., is all from the comics of the John Byrne revamp). There were some incidental differences but nothing so different that a comic reader from the 80s and 90s would find it upsettingly different. With third season, though, and Lois pulling the glasses >from Clark's face, the show moved beyond how the comic book treated the relationship. Lois figured out the secret on the series as opposed to being told the secret *after* she accepted Clark's proposal as happened in the comics. You'll note Clark wanted to do just that in We Have a Lot to Talk About (tell her *after* he proposed), but Lois had other ideas. This might partly have to do with Lois being much more important to the story in the series than she ever was in the comics. With third season, we finally got to see things from Lois' point of view instead of almost exclusively Clark/Superman's POV. Lois on the series pondered questions that her twin in the comics never even dealt with, like was she only the hood ornament on James Bond's car? ;) Such ruminations were like a pointblank shot at the comics' depiction of Lois Lane who has remained more or less as unimportant to the overall story as what color swim trunks a champion surfer wears during a competition. DC Comics despised the series and probably with good reason, because I know I'm not the only one who started becoming more and more dissatisfied with the comics and realized the series had spoiled me. The first two seasons I didn't feel that way, in fact, the series debuted long after Lois knew the secret and she and Clark were engaged in the comics, so aside from giving more "panel" time to the relationship than the comics did and some incidental differences, the series hadn't really done anything drastically different. However, the final two seasons, there was a sense of epic destiny given to *both* Lois and Clark., something Superman has always had, but that destiny was very "solo" in its nature, even a bit Messianic, and it never included Lois as a vital part so much as "oh, this is Superman, that means we have to fit in Lois Lane some place..." If you ever want to see Superman at his Messianic best, plunk down sixteen bucks and get "Superman: Peace on Earth" where he tries to single-handedly solve world hunger and utters the godlike line, "I later became a reporter, able to walk among men..." Walk among men? Oh well, as Georgia said "what were the people of Smallville, chopped liver?" ;) It truly makes Superman sound like he deigned to pay Earth a visit from Mt. Olympus as a benevolent god who felt pity for us mere mortals. It is a well-intentioned comic designed to focus on world hunger, but when the person delivering the message is so far removed from us, it loses its hoped for impact, at least it did for me. In the end, I'm not sure what the comics could realistically do to win me back, not that they're screaming for my revenue anyway, but now I flip through the pages and if I don't see any Lois Lane, I toss it aside. Lately Clark's reply to Perry from Dead Lois Walking pops into my head when I avoid the comic book shops "Why don't you go home, son?" "There's nothing there for me, Perry." Exactly. Zoomway@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:19:53 -1000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jamee Jones Subject: New Supes stuff! Comments: To: DCFan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey everyone! =) I just got the Halmark catalog and they show a Superman lunchbox for $10.95. I called my Hallmark and they don't have it yet but hopefully this weekend. So you might want to call first before rushing down there. The woman also said that they will have a Superman ornament and a plaque (sp?). Not sure how much $'s though! jamee ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:11:43 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Donna Lehman <102262.2435@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: New Supes stuff! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi All, Yes, these are really great. I saw them 2 months ago at my Hallmark store= and bought them before they sold out. Thanks for keeping us informed about SM stuff. Donna ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:48:35 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: marycudmore Subject: Re: Superman takes crook to frozen north In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 05:59 PM 11/10/98 EST, Norman Mayes wrote: >In a message dated 98-11-10 15:38:29 EST, you write: > Superman then > flies him to an iceberg near the north and leaves him there - effectively >killing > >him. >> > >This sounds like an episode of "The Adv of Superman" with George Reeves. >A crook learns his identity and tries to blackmail him. Superman takes the >crook and his moll to the top of a mountain in the frozen north. He promises >to return with food and to build a shelter for them. They will have to stay >there until he can figure a way out of this dilemna. The crook doesn't believe >Superman will return and tries to climb down the mountain. He falls to his >death. I think that here the crook commited suicide because he wasn't able to >trust anyone. > >Does any one else remember this? Yes I remember it and it was with George Reeves. I remember the woman had very high heels. And yes, Superman was going to return and care for them, but they didn't wait and died. Mary C. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:07:40 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: LabRat Subject: Re: Superman takes crook to frozen north MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >At 05:59 PM 11/10/98 EST, Norman Mayes wrote: >>In a message dated 98-11-10 15:38:29 EST, you write: >> Superman then >> flies him to an iceberg near the north and leaves him there - effectively >>killing >> >him. >> >> >>This sounds like an episode of "The Adv of Superman" with George Reeves. >>A crook learns his identity and tries to blackmail him. Superman takes the >>crook and his moll to the top of a mountain in the frozen north. He promises >>to return with food and to build a shelter for them. They will have to stay >>there until he can figure a way out of this dilemna. The crook doesn't >believe >>Superman will return and tries to climb down the mountain. He falls to his >>death. I think that here the crook commited suicide because he wasn't able to >>trust anyone. >> >>Does any one else remember this? > >Yes I remember it and it was with George Reeves. I remember the woman had >very high heels. And yes, Superman was going to return and care for them, >but they didn't wait and died. > >Mary C. Can I ask why Superman kept them on temporary hold in the frozen north? Wasn't that just asking for trouble? Wouldn't a nice tropical island have been a better bet and less hazardous to the crook? Just a thought.... LabRat :-) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:28:39 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: The Zoomway Subject: Re: Superman takes crook to frozen north Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/11/98 6:13:31 PM Central Standard Time, labrat@DIRCON.CO.UK writes: << Can I ask why Superman kept them on temporary hold in the frozen north? Wasn't that just asking for trouble? Wouldn't a nice tropical island have been a better bet and less hazardous to the crook? Just a thought.... >> As I recall the episode, Superman was literally holding them prisoner because they knew his secret. He would build them a shelter, bring them food, etc., but he wouldn't let them go. They basically died trying to escape the imprisonment Superman imposed on them. A tropical island is a place someone might find them, but a mountain in the Arctic with sheer walls of ice at the summit made intervention from the outside a lot less likely. The episode is titled "The Stolen Costume". The synopsis: "Superman must maroon two criminals on an icy peak in the Arctic when they discover his secret identity." Doesn't sound like he ever intended to do anything but keep them captive and if something happened to Superman, they would pay the price by starving to death, or meet their death as actually happened in the episode when they tried to escape. It wasn't a very flattering depiction of Superman (was that tactful enough? ;) Zoomway@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:10:48 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Charlotte Fisler Subject: Re: How the show was like the comics ... and not Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/11/98 8:37:58 PM !!!First Boot!!!, Zoomway@AOL.COM writes: << but now I flip through the pages and if I don't see any Lois Lane, I toss it aside >> Yeah but you still look. ME TOO. Is this an addiction to Superman or What? Charlotte - who couldn't care less what anyone else thinks - she has to have her Superman fix. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:11:35 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Charlotte Fisler Subject: Re: Superman takes crook to frozen north Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Thank you all for your insight. I did watch the George Reeves Superman show which, frankly, I didn't really like. It had the Lois Lane of the 50s, miss nosy and out to get a scoop at all costs.. But I still think there was a comic book. Might be imaging it but 1) there was only ONE criminal left on the ice. 2) I can picture the cartoon Man of Steel flying off without a word to the criminal when he begged him not to leave him. And he was not the wimpy George Reeves who couldn't even fly right. (I said I didn't like the show - sorry all you Reeves fans out there and fans of early TV and movie special effects - Hollywood has come a long way since then) Anyhow if it was the TV show, I stand corrected. But that still doesn't change my opinion. I don't want anyone, TV, comics, literature messing around with my Superman without a really good reason. OT - the only "show" I miss from the early days of TV (And we got ours in the Late 1940s) was a 5 day a week theater program which was done live. I loved watching I loved watching live actors and seeing the differences in their portrayals from one day to the next - (ie even the bloopers - eat your heart out all you youngsters) That was wonderful TV. Then came videotaping and ratings and ruined it all for me. Charlotte - who once again reminds you that she was born only a year after her Superhero was created and is proud of it - what wonderful times I lived through. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 06:39:24 -1000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: maeve Subject: Re: use of first person MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings and Aloha, Thought that the group might like this, found it on alt.anagrams, read and enjoy:0) Hi y'all! Took a few days off to download a lot of stuff, and then took off to my fortress of solitude to clear my mind a bit (OK, I got locked in the bathroom). Anagramming Superman's choice of relaxation gives us: The Fortress of Solitude: Stress to rule? Off to hide! Hotel for rest, fuss to die. I used hotel for soft rest. SOS? Left for hideout, rest. Let off stress or hide out. I fled of rut- rest soothes. Later!, Mey K. -----Original Message----- From: The Zoomway To: LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Date: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 7:46 AM Subject: Re: use of first person >In a message dated 10/6/98 9:14:33 AM Central Daylight Time, >Phillip.Atcliffe@UWE.AC.UK writes: > ><< Wonder why that is? What is it about Clark that makes it > hard to write from his POV, either 1st or 3rd person > (if you look at fanfic, I'd reckon that more scenes are > written from other characters' POV than Clark's -- with > the possible exception of angst)? >> > >I think in most stories, the point of view is given to whichever character is >driving the events, or has to drive the events. That is, in Counter Clark- >wise, the story is almost entirely from Clark's point of view, it has to be >because he's the *only* character who can change the outcome. Other points of >view could have been used, but they would have been superfluous because they >could have no impact on the inevitable outcome. In the round robin story 'A >World Without Superman', it was almost entirely from Lois' point of view >because she was the only one from the 'present' sent back to the past, and so >anyone else's point of view would have been of little value. Again, they >couldn't impact the outcome. It was also fun to have Lois's 4th season >knowledge of her and Clark's relationship, going back to the pilot episode and >looking at Clark through new eyes ... so to speak. In most of the Lois and >Clark stories though, the point of view shifts often between Lois and Clark >(at least the ones I enjoy reading ;) As with the series, the outcome will be >impacted by both of them and so both their points of view are important. > >Sheila Harper wrote: > >>>>The other use of first person that I've seen in fanfic is usually a >teenaged >girl who pops into L&C's lives, becomes close friends with them, and helps >them with a case. Whether it actually is or not, it sounds like the writer >is fulfilling her fantasy of meeting L&C<<< > >Yes, this is called "Mary Sue" fanfic. It, like most elements to fanfic, goes >back to the original Star Trek series and the fanfic it generated. Mary Sue >refers to a type of fanfic wherein a writer puts himself/herself in the story >to help the main characters or to even have a romance with one of them. >Deathfic can also fall into this category if it involves one character left >behind to carry on (almost *always* Clark) and so Clark (who almost always has >an adorable toddler that is a miniature image of Lois) falls in love with >someone else, but Lois will always be in his heart ... somewhere ;) > >Lab Rat wrote: > >>>>I guess the circumstances have to be >right at the time. Curiously, none of them are LNC. But I have read some >beautiful X FILES fic recently which was written in first person. As always >though<<< > >The X-Files lends itself to first person POV because that is a facet of the >show itself, i.e., characters doing narration in first person. It would be >the same if someone wanted to write Kolchak The Night Stalker fanfic (the show >that inspired Chris Carter when creating The X-Files). Kolchak always did >first person narration, "The temperature had dropped several degrees by the >time I got off the phone with Tony Vincenzo, a man whose approach to dieting >meant one slice of cheese on his hamburger as opposed to two." Also, with The >X-Files, unlike Lois and Clark, the main characters seem to speak their most >serious and personal thoughts in first person narration rather than vocalizing >these feelings to each other (it kind of corresponds to 'thought balloons' in >comic books) Curiously, it's not first person narration that bothers me in X- >Files fanfic so much as actual dialog if it is of a romantic nature. That's >when the story seems to have them totally out of character, at least for me. > >Lastly, the place where first person intrudes the most, for me, is in nfic. >I'm afraid I much prefer being a voyeur to what Lois and Clark are doing >rather than being a participant, but first person in this case does force the >reader to participate > >Zoomway@aol.com (but it's 'present tense' writing that bugs me more than >anything ;) > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:58:49 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=EA=A7s?= Subject: Tracy Sloggins Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ok! This might have already have been a topic but Tray Sloggins (Cat Grant) is she also on Babylon 5? I saw a peview and I thought that I saw her! an someone tell me if that is her? P.S.~ To anyone who cares Jeff Conway Knickie in Grease is also on Babylon 5 PPS sorry about spelling! =20 ******** =A4~J=EA=A7s~=A4 ******** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 18:09:04 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Norman Mayes Subject: Re: Tracy Sloggins Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Yes that is her. She plays the new captain and commander of the space station. budmayes@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 07:39:54 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Debby Subject: Re: story fodder? In-Reply-To: <003501be0951$ddc308a0$725ffdcd@peabody> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:51 PM 11/5/1998 -0800, you wrote: >Lots of possibilities for funny scenes here--maybe one with Mad Dog >Lane in full rant mode on visiting day, taking out her frustrations on >Clark because he forgot to bring her a fresh supply of double fudge >crunch bars! > >Pat The list will get this way late... but here it is: Why worry about Lois's predictable reactions? Why not put Clark in jail and have him nervous about some emergency coming up and how can he get out and will his not being there be noticed... but then day after day... what if nothing Really Big happens? How will he react? Is he needed after all? And what if they don't have *his* favorite food or reading material or if everyone else wants to watch one TV show (and not some stereotypical mind numbing fare, either, hmm?) and he longs to see a different one (maybe it can be mind numbing because it takes his mind off of Superman's troubles)? ("Mr. Kent, we're watching Nova. You want to watch Friends. You're outnumbered. Sit down and shut up or go away...") How long will he last as a upstanding, polite man among hardened criminals--who may be any group, made up of people politicans or pick pockets. If they're crooked politicians, how will he react? If they're pickpockets and the like, would he react differently. Would he be more sympathetic to one group over the other? Would he try to reform one group or the other or both, and if so, how would he do so differently for either group? It's easy to guess that Lois will rant (unless you, author, go against the expected...), but Clark? Does he rant? Will he be ranting by the end of week two? Hmmm... Debby :) Debby@swcp.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:55:25 -1000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jamee Jones Subject: Re: Tracy Sloggins MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Ję§s wrote: > >>P.S.~ To anyone who cares Jeff Conway Knickie in Grease is also on > Babylon 5<< THANKYOU! That was driving me nuts! I watched B5 last night and could not figure out who that was! j-meS8-)] > > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 07:42:56 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kate Kent Subject: Re: thoughts on writing a "Utopia" fanfic :) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Utopia Fanfic- I accually have half of one sitting on my hd right now. Mmmmm..... - Kate ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:37:07 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Carolyn Schnall Subject: Combo post 11/12/98 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Hi FoLCs: 1. Leonardo DiCaprio's new film commercial bills his character as a mild-mannered reporter. Sound familiar? 2. Teri's name was used last night on Jeopardy. The category was something like "media" and the clue was something like which paper did the character played by Noelle Neille (sp?) and Teri Hatcher work for. The answer was the Daily Planet. I would have been more accurate about the wording if I hadn't been in the kitchen cooking when Jeopardy was playing in the living room. Perhaps someone else heard the clue and can correct me? 3. I enjoyed Zoom's recent posts about the bond and about the comics. Zoom's description of the bond moved me. Her explanation of why the story as presented in the comics does not measure up to the potential of L&C struck home as well. I admit that I am not a big fan of comic books. The medium is tedious to read and I really had to force myself to try it when I read Batman and ST:TNG comics a few years ago. I gave my brother a Superman retrospective coffee table book a few years ago. He read it and lent it to me. All this year it awaits my attention but I actually am not looking forward to it. Similarly, the animated series leaves me cold. As much as I loved the Reeves tv show and the Reeve movies (and the Batman movies), it wasn't until L&C that this story clicked with me, even though I have been a Superman fan all my life. And since the chief consumers of comics tend to be young boys, the women rarely resemble real people. My experience with DC comics over the ST:TNG title was an example of frustration. I ordered the title and was actually enjoying some of the stories when it was discontinued. DC kept offering me other titles and could not seem to grasp that I had no interest in any other series, including any of the Superhero titles. They finally had no choice but to return my money. It was an uphill battle. 4. Speaking of the Reeve movies, the first one was on this past weekend. I came across it while channel surfing. I did not intend to watch it again as it was on a few weeks ago and I had watched it then. However, after watching L&C so much, the movie appeared to me to be overly theatrical. I understand why it had that quality. It had everything to do with the fact that the producers were trying to bring a comic book character to life in a way that had not been done before and they were creating a new way to present the material. So Hackman as Lex was over the top, even in makeup and wardrobe. All the characters have a slightly artificial look to them, especially Clark with the wig of too much hair and the nerdier than nerdy glasses. He is not cool. At the time that the film came out, I was completely captivated by it. I even liked it a few months ago when I watched it again from the beginning. But the other day, all I could see was that it seemed silly and overwrought. I didn't want to watch it because it frankly depresses me to see Chris Reeve looking so fabulous as Superman, considering what's happened to him. He was the best thing in all four films and I felt a strong sense of grief over the twists of fate in the actor's life. I feel the same way when I watch George Reeves, who died mysteriously and in his prime. Don't get me wrong. I feel the same way very frequently when watching Judy Garland in any of her movies, especially in Wizard of Oz. She was two years younger than I when she committed suicide and it saddens me tremendously. Anyway, back to Superman. The producers were very concerned that Superman fly and at the time were quoted as saying that the flying effects had to work or the movie wouldn't work either. In addition, the biographical background footage was really the first attempt at filming that part of the story that I know of. I enjoyed that part of it when I saw it a few weeks ago. The scenes in Metropolis were absolutely meant to look like New York and most of the casting was pretty good. Of course, Brando and Hackman dominated as the stars but I didn't care much about that. The scenes towards the end, as I recall, when Lois dies and Superman chooses to ignore what he's been taught to save her were extremely compelling and well done. I've always felt that there should have been greater consequences to that action, considering the import with which it was set up. Perhaps the consequences don't shown up until the second movie at the end of which Superman gives Lois up (removes her knowledge of his secret from her memory) in order to protect her. Another moving scene, as I watched it with L&C on the brain. Chris Reeve was well known to me because he was on a soap opera I used to try to see when I was a kid. I thought he was terrific in the first two films. I have never seen the third one all the way through as I recall. Later, for the fourth movie, he had a lot to do with the plot involving Superman ridding the Earth of nuclear weapons. It was a very sweet sentiment and kind of pie-in-the sky. Without it I believe he would not have consented to make the movie. According to Leonard Maltin, Reeve got co-story credit as well as 2nd unit directing credit for #4. Maltin hated #3, disliked #4, and disagrees with some other critics as to whether #1 or #2 is better (he liked #1 better, describing a sense of awe and I liked that, to.) Okay, another long post coming to a conclusion now. Thanks, Carolyn cschnall@mail.med.cornell.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 07:10:15 +1100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jenny Stosser Subject: Re: l&c vs Reeve movies (was: Combo post 11/12/98) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have a couple of small comments to make about what Carolyn Schnall wrote At 10:37 AM 13/11/98 -0500 : First of all, about the comics, in the most recent issue of Action (#750) there are some very l&c-ish pages - and it helps that the art is nice. It's basically a scene with l&c getting ready for bed at the end of the day. Lois comments that Clark seems preoccupied because he still has his glasses on. The scene goes for a couple of pages. If anyone is interested in seeing it without paying $2.95 for the whole book, I could scan those couple of pages for you. Email me privately. The only thing that bugs me about those particular pages is that it's obvious they're leading up to the upcoming storyline which has been advertised where apparently Clark decides to give up being Clark so he can spend more time being Superman. I'm NOT looking forward to this, despite having stuck with the book for the past umpteen years. In reference to the Reeve movies: >4. Speaking of the Reeve movies, the first one was on this past weekend. >I came across it while channel surfing. I did not intend to watch it again >as it was on a few weeks ago and I had watched it then. However, after >watching L&C so much, the movie appeared to me to be overly theatrical. I >understand why it had that quality. It had everything to do with the fact >that the producers were trying to bring a comic book character to life in a >way that had not been done before and they were creating a new way to >present the material. So Hackman as Lex was over the top, even in makeup >and wardrobe. All the characters have a slightly artificial look to them, >especially Clark with the wig of too much hair and the nerdier than nerdy >glasses. He is not cool. At the time that the film came out, I was >completely captivated by it. I even liked it a few months ago when I >watched it again from the beginning. But the other day, all I could see >was that it seemed silly and overwrought. Don't forget that at the time, the movie depicted the relationship between the characters and the types of characters they were pretty closely to what was shown in the comics. It was only after John Byrne rewrote Superman that we were shown in the comics someone who was Clark Kent, but Superman was something he could do. Prior to that, Clark was the disguise, and he was intentionally nerdy. The only time I really recall Lois showing any interest in Clark was in a short story arc in the comics where Superman lost his powers, and thought it was permanent, and so Clark developed a personality. (These stories, btw, were written by Elliot Maggin, who most recently wrote the novelisation of Kingdom Come, and included the famous Boeuf Bourguinon scenes. Ask me for more info on that if you want ) >Anyway, back to Superman. The producers were very concerned that Superman >fly and at the time were quoted as saying that the flying effects had to >work or the movie wouldn't work either. In addition, the biographical >background footage was really the first attempt at filming that part of the >story that I know of. I enjoyed that part of it when I saw it a few weeks >ago. The scenes in Metropolis were absolutely meant to look like New York >and most of the casting was pretty good. Of course, Brando and Hackman >dominated as the stars but I didn't care much about that. The scenes >towards the end, as I recall, when Lois dies and Superman chooses to ignore >what he's been taught to save her were extremely compelling and well done. >I've always felt that there should have been greater consequences to that >action, considering the import with which it was set up. Perhaps the >consequences don't shown up until the second movie at the end of which >Superman gives Lois up (removes her knowledge of his secret from her >memory) in order to protect her. Another moving scene, as I watched it >with L&C on the brain. Just a funny aside about this one: some years ago, when I was still living at home, the first Superman movie was on TV and I was sitting watching it on my own, and getting really involved in the story (again); at the point where Lois dies in the car and earthquake, and when Superman discovers that he's too late, he rips the door of the car and stands there and yells over his grief. My dad walked into the room at that point, and looked at me and said "who stepped on HIS toe?" As a result, I can now never take that scene as seriously as it was intended! -- Jenny Stosser -*- jenerate@ozramp.net.au -*-This message is umop ap!sdn (Jenerator or Some1Else on IRC) -*- JenerEight on AIM & AOL -*- My ICQ# is 11477318 Photos of David (6) and Megan (3) on the Stosser Family HomePage: http://geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4583 Please sign our guestbook! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 20:12:21 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: LabRat Subject: Re: Tracy Sloggins MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >Ję§s wrote: > >> >>P.S.~ To anyone who cares Jeff Conway Knickie in Grease is also on >> Babylon 5<< > >THANKYOU! That was driving me nuts! I watched B5 last night and could >not figure out who that was! > >j-meS8-)] > >> Strange, isn't it? Never having watched much of B5, I always tend to remember Jeff Conway from his role in TAXI. Am I starting to get (gasp) old and out of touch with today's youth here? LabRat :-) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 18:25:11 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Sheila Harper Subject: OT Jeff Conway Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 08:12 PM 11/13/98 -0000, LabRat wrote: >Strange, isn't it? Never having watched much of B5, I always tend to >remember Jeff Conway from his role in TAXI. And I remember him as the hero of the short-lived "Wizards and Warriors." Sheila sharper@cncc.cc.co.us ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 20:47:02 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Eileen F. Ray" Subject: Re: L&C Fanfic Session November 14, 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi Everyone, Well, skip week is over and we hope you'll be able to join us Saturday, November 14, 1998, for our fanfic writing session. In this week's story it's Thanksgiving Day and Lois and Clark have invited their family and friends for dinner. But we all know nothing is ever simple for these two and between Lois's culinary skills and Clark's second job Thanksgiving will never be the same ;). We would still like to hear from you if you have any story premises of your own that you would like us to explore together. You can either email them to me at: eraygun@aol.com Or better still, just bring your ideas with you when you join us this Saturday or for our weekly "story bouncing" sessions on Wednesdays on #L&CFicOrg, starting around 9:00 PM EDT. We generally meet Saturdays starting at 3 PM EDT and try to start writing fairly soon thereafter. You can come and join the fun at any time, however. We are usually there for several hours since writing a story takes time. Since #L&CFanfic is on occasion "invite only" please message if you want to join us. If an official "inviter" is designated, we will let you know. Some of us should be hanging out on #Loiscla. A note on procedure here ;) : When people need to be caught up on the story in progress after being bounced off IRC or just joining the session late, please try and avoid pasting the story directly into the channel window. Please do that in a private message or dcc-chat window instead. Hope to see you all there! Cheers, Eileen Eraygun@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 22:13:19 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "K.M. de Castro" Subject: Anagrams Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Some anagrams for him: << The Fortress of Solitude: Stress to rule? Off to hide! Hotel for rest, fuss to die. I used hotel for soft rest. SOS? Left for hideout, rest. Let off stress or hide out. I fled of rut- rest soothes. Later!, Mey K. >> and one for Lois: Lois, U R off to the dessert! Marie ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 22:52:03 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "K.M. de Castro" Subject: Re: Combo post 11/12/98 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Carolyn wrote: I was in Wiesbaden, Germany at the time that Superman: The Movie premiered in the US. About 6 months later, it was shipped overseas for all of us military brats (and PROUD of it!) to see. I was 16. There were 3 military theaters in the area that it was shown at in succession. I saw it at all three. I still have the paper they were giving out at the time. Pictured on the front is a cloud scene with the words "You Will Believe a Man Can Fly" across the bottom of the photo. (Echoing Carolyn's remark of what the producers wanted.) Inside is a brief biography of each actor. As Carolyn wrote, Gene Hackman and Marlon Brando were given the most billing, but Chris Reeve got an entire column's worth in the write-up. Young, romantic and starry-eyed, I had a Chris Reeve poster on my wall for a few years afterwards. Also in my possession are two paperback books: Last Son of Krypton and The Making of Superman: The Movie. In addition, I have the original vinyl double album of John Williams' excellent score. Just before Superman, (or maybe just after?) Williams had completed the score for Star Wars, another huge success with American fans stationed in Germany. That soundtrack and the one he did for Close Encounters of the Third Kind are other vinyl albums I have the pleasure of owning. Superman: The Movie springboarded me into my love of orchestral soundtracks, and especially of John Williams' music. In retrospect, I still adore that film, regardless of my 20/20 hindsight, and infatuation with Dean Cain. Thanks for bringing up some very warm memories, Marie ChoirGirl2@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 05:14:52 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Debby Subject: Re: Superman Obsession (kinda long) In-Reply-To: <19981108170415.20549.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:04 AM 11/8/1998 -0800, Julie wrote: [snippola!] >16. Your favorite type or ice-cream is: > a. Rocky Road > b. Chocolate > c. Semi-Sweet Chocolate > d. Vanilla > >Here is how to score it: > >For every ‘a’ you wrote down, score yourself 3 points. >For every ‘b’, score yourself 2 points. >For every ‘c’, score yourself 1 point. >For every ‘d’, score yourself 0 points. However... Dean once said that his favorite ice cream is vanilla, so... Debby Debby@swcp.com back again :) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 10:34:26 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Layney D." Subject: Pictures in our minds Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello everyone, I have been re-reading Demi's "Heaven's Prisoners" (the third or fourth time, I think). While, of course, I picture all of the faces of the series as the characters, I have (and this tickled me) casted Mindy McCready as "Marie". In the past readings, I never really had a clear image of the character. She was blonde and pretty, but no real facial features to speak of. Now, since the breakup of Dean and Mindy, I can't help but see her face. And, I have to admit, it makes me smile to see Mindy in that scenario (Won't talk about it in depth-- don't want to ruin it for those who haven't * yet * read it). So, I was wondering what other well-known faces have been casted to characters of fic by the audience? Who do you see when you read different stories? -Layney