From: "L-Soft list server at Indiana University (1.8d)" To: "ARTF@MemoryAlpha.nil" File: "LOISCLA-GENERAL-L LOG0101D" ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 07:16:27 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Randi .." Subject: Re: Fanfic Question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: "Ann E. McBride" > > .when Clark was betting Lois > > she couldn't name all Santa's reindeer, does anyone know if this was >spurred > > on by the time of year? Was it just before or after Christmas? (Of >course, > > I can just *make* it the right time of year, but it would be nice if I >was > > backed up by the show. :)) > > > > > >I don't think it had anything to do with the time of year, because those >episodes were in the spring. I believe that it was a sort of game they >were >playing, because he also bet her she couldn't name all seven of Snow >White's >Dwarves. Thanks, Ann. :) I was just trying to imagine how the subject came up, and that was pretty much the only explanation I could come up with! Randi ------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm not a praying man. I don't even know if you're up there. But if you are and you can hear me, Save me Superman!" --Homer Simpson ------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 07:19:29 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Randi .." Subject: Re: Fanfic Question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: Judith Williams > >Sorry Randi, but neither Barbarians at the Planet nor House of Luthor takes >place at Christmas time-- at the time they were shown (final 2 eps of >Season >1), or apparently in the context of the story since the characters seem to >be comfortable the street without warm coats and Lois is seen driving a >convertible with the top down. :) Jude *blush* Thanks, Jude. Ack, this is what comes from not doing thorough research! I completely forgot about that darn convertible. . .:) Well, I feel silly but at least I won't mess *that* part of my story up! ;) Thanks again! Randi ------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm not a praying man. I don't even know if you're up there. But if you are and you can hear me, Save me Superman!" --Homer Simpson ------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:14:16 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Another fanfic question - getting married I need the help of some of you US FoLCs here, please. Is there anywhere in the States where it's possible to get married with no waiting period and an absolute minimum of documentation? (I know Vegas does quickie marriages, but what documentation is required?). To give it context, one of the parties to the marriage will have no identification whatsoever, but is very recognisable and would have no difficulty at all in proving who he is. So is it possible to get married with such a lack of documentation? And if not, what's the minimum required? Thanks in advance for your help! Wendy -------------- Wendy Richards wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 07:17:30 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Lesley Hilliard Subject: Re: The Exodus (parts 1-10 of unknown parts) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adam, This is a great start to a very different premise. I look forward to reading more of the story as it unfolds. Ladyhawke ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 07:43:01 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Marilyn Puett Subject: Re: Another fanfic question - getting married Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Here's a website that gives all the marriage license laws by state. Hope this helps. Ooooooooohhhhhhhhhh! Who's getting married? http://marriage.about.com/people/marriage/library/weekly/aa052098.htm >From: Wendy Richards >Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" > >To: LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU >Subject: Another fanfic question - getting married >Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:14:16 -0500 > >I need the help of some of you US FoLCs here, please. Is there anywhere in >the States where it's possible to get married with no waiting period and an >absolute minimum of documentation? (I know Vegas does quickie marriages, >but what documentation is required?). > >To give it context, one of the parties to the marriage will have no >identification whatsoever, but is very recognisable and would have no >difficulty at all in proving who he is. So is it possible to get >married with such a lack of documentation? And if not, what's the minimum >required? > >Thanks in advance for your help! > > >Wendy >-------------- >Wendy Richards >wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:10:44 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Re: Another fanfic question - getting married Marilyn, thank you! This is really helpful - and fascinating, too! If I decided on Nevada, they could get married in Clark County... ;) As for *who's* getting married... well, you'll have to wait a while to find out. This is a new story, and I have to finish a certain current one first. Give me a couple of months! Wendy ---------- Wendy Richards wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:23:21 -0000 Reply-To: LabRat Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: LabRat Organization: LabRat Subject: Re: The Exodus (parts 1-10 of unknown parts) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adam, delighted to see you posting this to the list. As has already been noted, it's nice to see some fanfic here again. And it certainly prompted me to read this one, where I might not have found the time to trawl through several posts on the mbs. I've sent you out some private fdk. I'll certainly be interested in seeing more of this one. :) LabRat :) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:37:22 +0200 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Hazel Subject: Answers and Scores for Quiz #6: NEW AUTHOR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Here are the answers and scores for the New Author quiz: Story 1: Drastic Measures, by Jessi Mounts Story 2: The Dawn of Discovery, by Cindy Leuch Story 3: Strangers, by Missy Gallant Story 4: Love Me Once More..., by Randi Warwick Story 5: Dear Lois, by Shayne Terry Story 6: The Circle Game, by Jude Story 7: Big Girls Do, by klair El Story 8: Night Terrors, by Amy Lauters Story 9: A Lie of the Mind, by Rose Story 10: 7 Days of Superman, by Mr. D8A Story 11: Forget It... Not!, by SuperMom Story 12: A Love Well Worth the Wait, by Tracey Story 13: Lois' Return, by Chiara Prato Story 14: A Triangle Built For Two, by Ann McBride Story 15: Presents, by SinginDrew Story 16: Naked Truth, by Helene (Kaethel) Bethy, with an incredibly perfect score, gets 32 points; Dia, whose score is almost as perfect, gets 31 points; Adam gets 27 points, Tim gets 25 points (plus extra credit for describing A Triangle Built for Two so well), Pam gets 24 points, Tasha gets 18 points, Helene gets 16 points, Cindy gets 15 points, Ann gets 14 points, Anne gets 12 points, Chiara gets 11 points, Tricia gets 10 points, Yvonne gallantly gets 3.5 points, and Marilyn gives us all a smile by getting one point for recognizing her own story... on the excerpt. :) Well done, Bethy! And thanks to all those that participated. Color *me* impressed! And nyeah nyeah to those that say we don't encourage our new authors. :) Some of these stories, you may have noticed, have been appearing in other quizzes. This new crop of authors is highly talented and deserves our warmest applause! (And LOL at Wendy's adjectives! I would have chosen "poignant" for #7, though. ) Don't forget that most of these authors have written other stories than the ones I selected for this quiz, and many of those might be worthy of nomination in other categories. Also, please remember that there are nearly thirty other authors eligible for new author this year! Some of those might be on your list, even if they weren't on the subjective list I put together. Next quiz coming up... shortly. :) Hazel ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:24:59 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Marilyn L. Puett" Subject: Re: Another fanfic question - getting married I found that site because I was looking for the requirements for South Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina and a lot of kids would go get married there. They have only a 24 hour waiting period with no blood tests required. TRUE STORY: When my favorite aunt died about 6 years ago, my sister and I were sitting and chatting with the minister who performed her funeral. He had entered the ministry late in life and brought with him a lot of other life experiences. He was telling us about a counseling session he had with his niece and her fiance prior to their wedding. They already had the license and the big church wedding was about 2 weeks away. The reverend had taken them to a Burger King just to talk with them. He asked his niece if she really loved this young man, and she answered, "I do." Then he asked the young man if he really loved his fiancee, and the young man answered, "I do." The reverend then joked and said, "You know, actually, I could now pronounce you husband and wife and it would all be quite legal." They said, "Why not?" So the good reverend pronounced them married and they all started giggling loudly. One of the Burger King staff was a few table over from them, cleaning up, and she asked them what was so funny. The reverend told her what had just happened and the BK employee looked at him and said, in all seriousness, "Gee, I wish we had known. If you get married in here, you get your drinks for free." MORAL: If you want a cheap after-the-wedding meal with free beverages, get married in a Burger King in South Carolina. But be sure to tell them BEFORE you order! I swear to God, this story is true. By the time the reverend had finished telling it, we were all in tears from hysterical laughter. And I'm sure my aunt was delighted that we were still enjoying life after she was gone. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:26:41 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Marilyn L. Puett" Subject: Re: Answers and Scores for Quiz #6: NEW AUTHOR "...and Marilyn gives us all a smile by getting one point for recognizing her own story... on the excerpt. :)" Is that pathetic or what? Maybe I need to go back and re-read my own stuff. Marilyn AKA SuperMom ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:23:03 +0200 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Hazel Subject: Kerth Quiz #7: BEST REVELATION Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Kerth Quiz #7: BEST REVELATION Before I begin, allow me to apologize to Wendy, Irene, and Carol, whose scores were somehow left out of the list for Best New Author. Wendy scored 25 points, Irene got 27 points, and Carol scored 19 points. Sorry about that, you three. :) Okay, on with the quiz! The revelation that CK=S is such an integral part of the LnC mythos that it's no surprise that it's a favorite subject matter. There are many, many other stories besides the ones in this quiz that include a revelation; don't let my subjective selections dictate your own choices! Spiffy Disclaimer Thingy: All the fics in this quiz qualify for Best Revelation: that is, these stories include the discovery that CK=S and were uploaded to the archive in the year 2000. HOWEVER, please note that any inclusion or exclusion of a story should not be construed as a recommendation or otherwise. Additional reminder: Inclusion of a story in this quiz does *not* exclude that story from any other category. Nominating a story in multiple categories is perfectly legal. Seven (!) of these stories could fit into Episode Rewrite; Story 9 would be a delightful addition to Most Innovative Idea... You get the idea. :) Quiz rules: Open hard drive and archive. When submitting your reply, please let us know if you got the fic from the quote (worth two points) or the excerpt (worth one point). If you don't give me any indication, I will automatically assume that you got it from the excerpt. And DON'T forget the spoiler space! One final request: When replying, please snip the quoted excerpts! Not only does it waste bandwidth (yes, there are still people out there who pay for time online), but it makes it very difficult for me to actually *find* your answers. Please note that one story in this quiz does not involve Lois... at least, not exactly. And don't blame *me* if two authors wrote three stories apiece in this quiz. Not that they solely account for six stories... and that's the only hint I'm giving you. ;) Quote 1: "Why have you got Superman's bandage on your shoulder?" Quote 2: "The first thing I thought of was what a story it would make. I'm sorry, Clark." Quote 3: "From the look on your face and the tone of your voice, I would guess that my niece let you know what we figured out." Quote 4: "You stopped a bullet for me, Lois." Quote 5: "I had to, Martha... I had to tell you and Jonathan - I was there, you know? When he got shot?" Quote 6: "Clark and I together, sharing a cabin, on a cruise ship, no way." Quote 7: "Clark, I told you. I won't share you. I want a relationship with someone who will always put me first. You just can't give me that." Quote 8: "Unless you plan on dropping me, Superman, you can't stop me! Once I'm ready to write it, this expose should win me a Pulitzer!" Quote 9: "I overheard a phone conversation and, well, you're not going to believe it, but it was between Superman and his mother!" Quote 10: "If he wasn't wearing glasses, he'd look a lot like you, Mr. Kent." Quote 11: "I never got to thank you for bringing him back to me. Superman, you have no idea what Clark means to me, and how awful I felt when he was gone. I missed him so much. And because of you, I got a second chance." S P O I L E R S P A C E Excerpt 1: On impulse, she caught him by the arm and pulled him in front of the mirror. "What do you see now?" He looked up and down at himself. "I see Clark Kent dressed in a funny suit his mother made for him...what do you see?" Her red, puffy eyes looked at his reflection for a long time before replying, her eyes meeting his in the mirror. "I see Clark Kent without his glasses on." He put an arm around her shoulder and pulled her close to him so that both of them were reflected in the mirror. "What do you see now?" "I see two people who just got to know each other a whole lot better than they deserve to. I see a guy from Krypton with extraordinary abilities who's more human than all the rest of us put together." "I see two people with a whole lifetime of getting to know each other stretching out in front of them. I see a beautiful, clever, funny woman from Metropolis who's in serious need of a comb and some new make-up." Excerpt 2: But upstairs, she reviewed what she had said and grimaced at her own wording. Trust her? When her intentions for the last two days had been so utterly despicable? What had she been thinking? She stared at herself in the mirror of Clark's old dresser as she was brushing her hair into its usual style and her eyes filled slowly with tears. Was this what she had become--someone no better than one of those tabloid reporters she so despised? She had been ready to ruin this man's life for something so transitory as a story! She had seen first hand what had happened simply because one madman thought Clark *might* know how to find Superman. If he had known the truth what would he have done? How many *more* Trasks were out there? There were little groups all over who feared Superman as some kind of invader, and criminals who feared him for other, far more concrete reasons. She had been ready to hand those people a potent weapon against a man who had just proved to her beyond the shadow of a doubt that he genuinely deserved to be called a hero--not for his incredible powers, but because of the incredible courage that had led him to attack an armed madman with his bare hands to save them all. Excerpt 3: "Thanks, Uncle Mike. I need this today." Lois picked up her fork and dove right in. Mike smiled at her fondly before picking up his own fork. "Why's that, sweetheart?" "Oh, I don't know. It's been a tense couple of days. The story was a lot of work, and I was really worried about you, and, well," Lois waved her fork around, "there's been a lot of other things happening that made me tense." Mike looked around his restaurant and grinned. "At least you don't have to worry about me anymore. That 'cop' took care of the last of my problems." Lois smiled happily. "Yes, and we both know who that cop really was, don't we?" Mike nodded. "Clark." "Superman." "Superman?" "Clark?" Excerpt 4: Clark was always worried that Lois would get hurt because of Superman. If anyone realized how close her relationship with Superman was, even Lois, then she would instantly become a target. Criminals would be standing in line, waiting to use her to get to him. So he'd kept it a secret, in order to protect her. But Lois had still gotten hurt. Lois had gotten hurt because of his secret, only not the way he had thought she would. She almost died, because she thought Clark was vulnerable. She tried to save him because she thought the bullet could kill him. If she had known he was Superman, she wouldn't have put herself at risk. She'd almost died because Clark was Superman, but not the way he had thought. She almost died because he wasn't honest with her. He may as well have pulled the trigger himself. Excerpt 5: Her bitter musings were interrupted by Martha's firm voice. "Lois, come on, get out of the car." She turned to glare at Clark's mother. "What?" "Come on, Lois, Clark was right about that at least. You can't go on a three-hour drive right now. Come back inside," Martha urged, her tone gentler. Lois grimaced; there was something about Martha Kent which made it impossible for anyone to be angry with her. Not for the first time, she found herself wishing that her own mother had been more like Clark's. But she wasn't going to accede that easily. "Not while *he's* in there." "Oh, I'm not going to force you to talk to him if you don't want to, honey!" Martha laughed. "I'm sure he'll find something else to do." Lois hesitated. She really didn't particularly feel like embarking on the long journey back to the airport; she knew she'd had a shock and that she needed time to get over it. Anyway, the drive out had been bad enough, choking back tears for most of the journey; she'd had a few near misses then and... well, the journey just wasn't an appealing prospect. Her mind made up, she threw the door open and followed Martha into the house. Excerpt 6: "Our agreement was no one was supposed to know about my reporters being on the ship undercover." "But, Mr. White, we thought that only meant until the cartel was destroyed," an embarrassed Willard responded. "You idiot, my reporters are investigators. If everyone knows them, they won't be able to do their jobs, not to mention being in danger from every crook and petty criminal in Metropolis." There was no way to explain to these outsiders that his concern was really about Lois's emotional vulnerability to gossip and innuendo, not his team's exposure to physical danger. "Mr. White, no one outside of the Daily Planet will learn the identity of Karl and Lucy Jensen. Interpol can keep secrets as well as you," Conners assured him. "Surely you can make certain the real story doesn't leak out of your newspaper building." Excerpt 7: "Clark, I told you that I wasn't about to share Superman with four billion other people, and I'm still not. The revelation that you are Superman doesn't change how I feel about him, or that situation. What it does do is destroy any chance we had at a life together as more than just friends." Lois shook her fists at her sides. "I'm sorry." She turned and headed for the door. Clark quickly jumped off the couch and followed. "Lois, wait! We can work this out, I can..." Lois pinned him to his spot with her hard stare, the tears still glistening in the light from the overhead lamp. "You can what? Give up being Superman? Even if I thought you could, I wouldn't let you. I don't want that on my conscious. You'd begin to resent me for forcing you into that choice." Lois sighed weakly. "Besides, the world needs Superman. Not only for the things he does, but for the hope he gives people everywhere. I told you that once, and I still believe it." "But, what...?" Lois came back and placed her hands on either side of his face. She pulled him down to her and kissed him as if her life depended on it. It was a kiss full of unfulfilled desire and love. It was goodbye. Excerpt 8: She broke away from him briefly to call to the newsroom at large, "Hey, everybody! Clark's alive! And if Clark's alive," she continued eagerly, turning back to stare at her new colleague, "that means Superman's alive!" On the surface, her tone was relieved, exultant; some of the Planet's other colleagues raised their eyebrows in a long-suffering way, already a little bit fed up with Lois's apparent crush on Superman. But, as she continued to stare at Clark, her expression was challenging, pointed. As he had held her, she had remembered again the way he had deceived her. Without uttering the words, she taunted him, Clark, who had inwardly groaned at the mention of his _alter ego_, caught Lois's expression and wondered at its significance. Was she trying to tell him something? No... no, she couldn't be! he convinced himself. How could she possibly have found out, after all? Only that morning, she had commented in extremely unflattering terms on the 'differences' between himself and Superman. And a short while earlier, when he had landed with her outside the Planet, she had reminded him to go back for Clark. No, she couldn't have discovered his secret, he reassured himself. He must have been imagining that glare. Excerpt 9: "I asked her about her day, nodded politely and acted like I had no clue what she was talking about. Then she asked me about mine and I recited a list of major and minor assorted good deeds from all over the world. By the time I got to the twentieth rescue of cats from trees - in glowing detail, I might add - her eyes were glazing over, and she was struggling not to yawn." Jonathan laughed. "So was that it for your date?" "Oh, no," Clark answered. "I asked her if she'd like to go for a walk. She jumped for her jacket pretty quickly. I think she'd have done anything to escape our conversation." Martha chuckled. "I recognise that glint in your eye. What did you do to the poor girl?" "I took her for a walk," Clark said innocently. "Of course, it really wouldn't have been a good idea for people to see us together - Lois had to agree after I pointed out all the problems inherent in it..." He paused, smiled and chuckled. "All the problems?" Martha asked, quick to pick up on the implications. "Well, maybe not all of them," Clark answered, his eyes twinkling. "I think she cut me off when I got to the twenty-third reason why it would really not be a good thing for people to know we were on a date." Excerpt 10: "Now, you find out something a little prematurely," he explained, dryly. "I couldn't do it in there with the camera on us." He slipped one arm under her knees, and the other around her back. "Ready?" She nodded jerkily, and turned her head to examine his face, only half visible in the gloom. Was it possible? "Good. Put your arms around my neck and just relax. We'll be out of here in a minute." Lori obeyed wordlessly, and felt them lift effortlessly into the air. She found herself holding her breath as Clark floated sideways several feet to clear the elevator, and began a slow, gentle descent. For a second, she closed her eyes, then opened them again to look at him. He hadn't changed. He was looking back at her, his expression a little concerned. "Lori, are you all right?" She took a deep breath and tried to banish the detachment that seemed to have gripped her as they drifted slowly downward. "Yeah." The word came out as a squeak. She cleared her throat. "Yeah. I'm fine." Excerpt 11: "Superman, Mitch Hanson from WHMT ... can you talk a bit about your tanker rescue in France yesterday? Any word on what caused the explosion?" Superman nodded. "The tanker suffered a massive rupture in its fuel tanks. As of last night, the French authorities hadn't yet determined what started the fire, but--" Superman cut off suddenly, blinking in surprise. Lois swallowed, going pale even as her heart began to pound. She was suddenly staring directly into his eyes. Superman tried to continue, his voice much less assured. "And uh ... I, uh ..." Lois could hear the crowd begin to murmur around her ... "What's wrong? Why'd he stop?" "What's he looking at?" ... and she averted her eyes quickly, trying to look disinterested. She had obviously distracted him so completely that he had lost his train of thought, and she didn't want anyone else to catch on as to who it was that had done so. The shock on Superman's face and the questioning in his eyes as he looked at her were all too clear. Superman looked away quickly as well. "I ... I'm sorry ... I have to leave," he said abruptly. And without even a good-bye, he lifted off into the sky. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:19:01 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #7: BEST REVELATION Another great quiz, Hazel! There were some in here I'd almost forgotten, so thanks for the reminder. And... yes, there were some authors cropping up more than once, weren't there? ;) Okay, here goes... s p o i l e r s p a c e Quote 1: Trust Me, I'm A Reporter, by Yvonne Connell Quote 2: A Matter of Ethics, by Nan Smith Extract 3: Tales out of Church, by Irene Dutchak (possibly 2000's most prolific author? ) Quote 4: That Lois Lane of Mine, by Rose Cookson Quote 5: Shattered Illusions, by... um, me. Quote 6: Revealing Cruise, by Charlotte Fisler Quote 7: Just Another Revelation Story, by Tank Wilson and me (it's his story; I just gave FoLCs the happy ending they wanted!) Quote 8: Strange Visitor Revisited, by Irene Dutchak (again) and me (again) Quote 9: The Spying Game, by Irene Dutchak (yet again ) Extract 10: Home II: Beginnings, by Nan Smith (another prolific multiple- entry author!) Extract 11: When Friends Become Lovers, by Kathy Brown and Demi (/me is kicking herself for not getting this from the quote!) How'd I do? Wendy (scurrying off to find another quote for one of her upcoming quizzes, 'cos Hazel used the one she'd found!) ------------- Wendy Richards wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:36:39 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Adam Labotka Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #7: BEST REVELATION MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: Trust Me I'm A Reporter by Yvonne Connell Quote 2: A Matter of Ethics by Nan Smith Quote 3: Tales Out of Church by Irene Dutchak Quote 4: That Lois Lane of Mine by Rose Quote 5: Shattered Illusions by Wendy Richards Quote 6: Revealing Cruise by Daydream80 Quote 7: Just Another Revelation Story by Tank Wilson and Wendy Richards Quote 8: Strange Visitor Revisited by Wendy Richards and Irene Dutchak Quote 9: The Spying Game by Irene Dutchak Excerpt 10: Home II: Beginnings by Nan Smith Excerpt 11; I know I know it but it won't come to me. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:38:58 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Adam Labotka Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #7: BEST REVELATION MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bah can't belive I didn't get that one at all, it was good. Oh well. (kicking himself as well) > Extract 11: When Friends Become Lovers, by Kathy Brown and Demi (/me is > kicking herself for not getting this from the quote!) > > > How'd I do? > > Wendy > (scurrying off to find another quote for one of her upcoming quizzes, 'cos > Hazel used the one she'd found!) > ------------- > Wendy Richards > wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:38:47 -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: Kerth Quiz #7: BEST REVELATION MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Woo-hoo, more quiz fun :D Of course, I should be writing but what the heck ;) s p o i l e r s p a c e > Quote 1: > > "Why have you got Superman's bandage on your shoulder?" This is one of Nan's sequels to A Night At the Office, lemme see... argh, I can't find the quote... it ought to be in Strange Relationships... of course, I'm getting distracted just *reading* it again > Quote 2: > > "The first thing I thought of was what a story it would make. I'm sorry, > Clark." Well, I was already on the Nan Smith section, so this was easy A Matter of Ethics > Quote 3: > > "From the look on your face and the tone of your voice, I would guess that > my niece let you know what we figured out." Temporarily clueless... wait, I think I have it... it's Irene's rewrite of Church of Metropolis -- Tales out of Church. (This quiz is going to take me forever if I keep re-reading all the stories! ) > Quote 4: > > "You stopped a bullet for me, Lois." I have a guess... and I was right! :) That Lois Lane of Mine, by Rose > Quote 5: > > "I had to, Martha... I had to tell you and Jonathan - I was there, you > know? When he got shot?" Hmm, might be one of Wendy's many TOGOM rewrites Shattered Illusions? yep... > Quote 6: > > "Clark and I together, sharing a cabin, on a cruise ship, no way." arrgh, I know this one ... Revealing Cruise, by Daydreamer80 :) > Quote 7: > > "Clark, I told you. I won't share you. I want a relationship with someone > who will always put me first. You just can't give me that." Hmm... I'd guess CPOV, by Hazel, but the search string isn't coming up... and I guess that's not a revelation story anyway :) In which case, I'm clueless > Quote 8: > > "Unless you plan on dropping me, Superman, you can't stop me! Once I'm > ready to write it, this expose should win me a Pulitzer!" Sounds like the sort of confrontational fic I tend to avoid... > Quote 9: > > "I overheard a phone conversation and, well, you're not going to believe > it, but it was between Superman and his mother!" Irene Dutchak's The Spying Game > Quote 10: > > "If he wasn't wearing glasses, he'd look a lot like you, Mr. Kent." Oh that sounds so familiar... > Quote 11: > > "I never got to thank you for bringing him back to me. Superman, you have > no idea what Clark means to me, and how awful I felt when he was gone. I > missed him so much. And because of you, I got a second chance." Hmm, sounds like a rewrite/takeoff on TOGOM (those are popular! ) And I guessed right on the first try -- When Friends Become Lovers by Kathy Brown & Demi. (And I will *not* get sucked into reading that again -- it's great but it'll eat up my day!) Let's see if the excerpts are any help :) > Excerpt 1: > > On impulse, she caught him by the arm and pulled him in front of the > mirror. "What do you see now?" Okay, maybe I haven't read this one... > Excerpt 7: > > "Clark, I told you that I wasn't about to share Superman with four billion > other people, and I'm still not. The revelation that you are Superman > doesn't change how I feel about him, or that situation. I have an idea... Yes! Just Another Revelation Story by Tank Wilson and Wendy Richards (in that order ) > Excerpt 8: > > She broke away from him briefly to call to the newsroom at large, "Hey, > everybody! Clark's alive! And if Clark's alive," she continued eagerly, > turning back to stare at her new colleague, "that means Superman's alive!" Ah, that pins it down -- Strange Visitor Revisited, by Wendy Richards and Irene Dutchak (I'm beginning to see what you mean about some authors contributing multiple times, Hazel ) > Excerpt 10: > > Lori obeyed wordlessly, and felt them lift effortlessly into the air. She > found herself holding her breath as Clark floated sideways several feet to > clear the elevator, and began a slow, gentle descent. Ah! Home II: Beginnings, by Nan Smith. No wonder the quote confused me Great stories, Hazel... a lovely way to spend my afternoon, immersed in fic... -- Pam Jernigan / ChiefPam / jernigan@bellsouth.net http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam http://personal.rdu.bellsouth.net/~jernigan/ "Hi, I'm Larry the Cucumber, and welcome to the very first VeggieTales success video! Are you ready to make millions of dollars in real estate with no money down? I know I am!" --Larry, misunderstanding a sing-along video ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:00:16 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Adam Labotka Subject: Re: The Exodus (parts 1-10 of unknown parts) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thank you to those who have already sent feedback. Part of why I decided to post here (I debated a bit) was to get some fanfic going on it again, in response to what has been said abnout the fanfic dying out on the list during the feedback stuff. In addition, I forgot to mention something when I first sent this story out. I'm thinking of it, but by no means am I gonna make it that EVERYONE has to think this way cause I know some don't like it, of Kal-El and Liera as previous incarnations of Lois and Clark. So I'm writing them sort of like them, but still different as even then they wouldn't be identical. Of course if you want to see Kal-El as an ancestor of Clark with similar taste in women it works too ;). ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:29:43 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Judith Williams Subject: Re: Fanfic Question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Randi wrote: "Ack, this is what comes from not doing thorough > research! I completely forgot about that darn convertible. . .:) Well, I > feel silly but at least I won't mess *that* part of my story up! ;) " -----Don't give it another thought. Randi. I could fill a book with examples of what I didn't remember correctly or forgot to check. We're all human (most of the time). Happy Writing! :) Jude ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:32:22 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: btinternetmail Subject: Re: The Exodus (parts 1-10 of unknown parts) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adam I too am pleased that you are posting this story to the list. I won't comment on it yet as I prefer to read a story in the whole, rather than in parts, so I will save it all and send feedback then. Regards Eileen B ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:02:29 -0800 Reply-To: supertlc Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: supertlc Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #7: BEST REVELATION MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Okay, guys, here goes...my first quiz on the fanfic list! S P O I L E R S P A C E 1. Uh-oh, not a good way to start off.... 2. A Matter of Ethics, by Nan Smith (quote) 3. Tales Out of Church, by Irene Dutchak (exerpt) 4. That Lois Lane of Mine, by Rose (excerpt) 5. Shattered Illusions, by Wendy Richards (quote) 6. Uh-oh....darn, this one got me.... 7. Just Another Revelation Story, by Tank Wilson and Wendy Richards (quote) 8. Oh, I know I know this one! Sheesh... (Hey, Helene, you were right...these quizzes can be frustrating!) 9. The Spying Game, by Irene Dutchak (quote) 10. One of the Home series, by Nan Smith...not sure which one...(excerpt) 11. Once again, probably one I should know :( Well, I think I butchered that one, lol...Anyway, good quiz, Hazel :) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:33:23 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kaethel Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #7: BEST REVELATION MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Woohoo! Another quiz :) S p o i l e r S p a c e > Quote 1: > "Why have you got Superman's bandage on your shoulder?" Okay, let's start with one I'm sure I've read, but can't remember. > Quote 2: > "The first thing I thought of was what a story it would make. I'm sorry, > Clark." Sigh... That one too... > Quote 3: > "From the look on your face and the tone of your voice, I would guess that > my niece let you know what we figured out." No idea. > Quote 4: > "You stopped a bullet for me, Lois." ?? > Quote 5: > "I had to, Martha... I had to tell you and Jonathan - I was there, you > know? When he got shot?" Shattered Illusions, by Wendy Richards. > Quote 6: > "Clark and I together, sharing a cabin, on a cruise ship, no way." Hmmm... > Quote 7: > "Clark, I told you. I won't share you. I want a relationship with someone > who will always put me first. You just can't give me that." Just Another Revelation Story, by Tank Wilson and Wendy Richards. > Quote 8: > "Unless you plan on dropping me, Superman, you can't stop me! Once I'm > ready to write it, this expose should win me a Pulitzer!" I've read that, too! > Quote 9: > "I overheard a phone conversation and, well, you're not going to believe > it, but it was between Superman and his mother!" The Spying Game, by Irene Dutchak. > Quote 10: > "If he wasn't wearing glasses, he'd look a lot like you, Mr. Kent." Uh... > Quote 11: > "I never got to thank you for bringing him back to me. Superman, you have > no idea what Clark means to me, and how awful I felt when he was gone. I > missed him so much. And because of you, I got a second chance." Okay, that's a TOGOM rewrite. But which one? > Excerpt 1: I'm *sure* I've read that. And I know I'm gonna tear my hair out as soon as I'll see the answer. Ah. LabRat gave me a little clue and that made me find Yvonne's Trust Me, I'm a Reporter. :) Thanks, Rat ;) Not sure I deserve the point for this one, though > Excerpt 2: Nope, still don't know. > Excerpt 3: And I've read that too! Arrghh! > Excerpt 4: Okay, not entirely sure, but I'm thinking of another one of the W&T challenges. Who Says It's Never Too Late? by Wendy Richards and Tank Wilson? > Excerpt 6: Revealing Cruise, by Daydreamer80? > Excerpt 8: It sounds Wendy-ish, I think... > Excerpt 10: The 'Lori' is kind of a dead giveaway ... That's Home by Nan Smith, but I don't know which one :/ > Excerpt 11: Still don't know. It sounds very familiar, though... Gotta get back to reading or re-reading these stories. ;) Helene :) Kaethel@club-internet.fr ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:40:42 -0000 Reply-To: Yvonne Connell Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Yvonne Connell Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #7: BEST REVELATION MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fulfilling my usual function of dunce... By the way, why do you two always put the spoiler space between the quote and exerpts? I'd have thought it would make more sense to put it before the first quote, so that when you're replying, you just requote the ready-made spoiler space. Just a thought... S P O I L E R S P A C E > Quote 1: Trust Me, I'm A Reporter, by Yvonne Connell Thank you for including this one, Hazel, so that I don't get a total zero . > Excerpt 5: When Lightning Strikes Twice, by Wendy Richards > Excerpt 8: I'm guessing this is Wendy and Irene's rewrite of the first few episodes. > Excerpt 10: Lori means it must be one of Nan's stories, I think. > Excerpt 11: A long shot, but since it mentions France, I'm guessing Helene's Near Wild Heaven. Yvonne (yvonne@yconnell.fsnet.co.uk) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:53:31 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jessi Mounts Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #7: BEST REVELATION Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Okay, I'll take my first shot at a quiz for the year. * * * S P O I L E R S P A C E * * * Quote 1: Yvonne Connel's Trust Me, I'm a Reporter Excerpt 2: Oh, I've read this! I know this. Is it Learning Curves by Chris Carr? Excerpt 3: Irene's Tales out of Church Excerpt 4: This is by Rose, and if I could just figure out her last name, I could look up the title. Ah! She doesn't tell us her last name. And it's That Lois Lane of Mine Quote 5: It's one of Wendy's TOGOM rewrites, I think. Shattered Illusions? Excerpt 6: Don't know. Excerpt 7: Wow. I have no idea. Excerpt 8: I've read this one too, and I don't know. Is *this* Learning Curves? You know, if I keep saying all rewrites set in first season are Learning Curves, I'll get right eventually Excerpt 9: Spying Games by Irene Excerpt 10: Oh, this is one of the stories in the Home series by Nan Smith. I'm going to take a wild guess and say it's the second one. Excerpt 11: Oh! Oh! I've read this! I don't know what it is, but I've read it. Wow, that was a lot harder than I thought'd be. Jessi jessi914@mail.com (New address) ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:34:02 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Krazman Subject: Re: Another fanfic question - getting married In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Probably not - Even in Vegas (and I know, because that is where I was married), you still require a license. And in order to get a license, you need your driver's license (standard photo ID), or a state ID w/ birth certificate. However, it only takes a couple of hours for that to be processed, and you have your marriage license. At that point, you can go pretty much to any chapel in Vegas and get married. So you could decide to get married in the morning, and be married by afternoon, should you want too. But you would still be required by law to have the ID. If it was known that you gave a license to someone without proper ID, you'd probably lose your job lickety-split. And when I was there, the people were ok enough, but they were still bureaucrats. -----Original Message----- From: Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic [mailto:LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU]On Behalf Of Wendy Richards Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 6:14 AM To: LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Another fanfic question - getting married I need the help of some of you US FoLCs here, please. Is there anywhere in the States where it's possible to get married with no waiting period and an absolute minimum of documentation? (I know Vegas does quickie marriages, but what documentation is required?). To give it context, one of the parties to the marriage will have no identification whatsoever, but is very recognisable and would have no difficulty at all in proving who he is. So is it possible to get married with such a lack of documentation? And if not, what's the minimum required? Thanks in advance for your help! Wendy -------------- Wendy Richards wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:34:04 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: IRC, The Undernet, and The Kerths ... Comments: To: lcnfanfic@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Question ... Are we going to find a different network for the Kerths? Tonight it seems that one of the only servers working for most people bit the bullet and not to mention I found at least *4* undernet servers have AOL K-Lined. Anymore it takes anywhere from 5 to 50 (and I am *not* exaggerating) tries to get on something and then there's the ongoing lag. The Undernet people say they are working on it and they will be releasing new software soon, but do we want to take the chance and not have a backup server should this resolution by the Undernet people fall through? I know some people have been testing out other networks, but maybe we can, I don't know, do some official testing so that we are prepared if the undernet is not back to normal? Does anyone who uses mIRC regularly have a suggestion for another network? Just some thought's to chew on ... BTW if you want to read the Undernet's official announcement concerning this issue, you can go here: http://servers.undernet.org/ Anne ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:48:37 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: IRC, The Undernet, and The Kerths ... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'd like to thank Merri for pointing this out ... It seems that Dalnet (another IRC Network) is experiencing the same problems= =20 ... This can be found at: http://www.dal.net/index.php3 DALnet works with FBI to arrest 'hackers'. =20 SAN DIEGO,January 12, 2001 - The DALnet IRC Network (http://www.dal.net) a=20 leader in InternetChat will continue to work with the U.S. Federal Bureau of= =20 Investigation as wellas international law enforcement agencies to fight off=20 Denial of Service Attacks. =20 The attacks,as described by Server Administrator Karthik Arumugham (a Networ= k=20 Engineer at GlobalNAPs) happen when =E2=80=9Cthousands of machines which hav= e been=20 broken into are used ina coordinated effort to attack a target site. This=20 combined attack can generateimmense volumes of Internet traffic and render=20 the target site unreachable, as wellas affect many other systems near the=20 target site.=E2=80=9D =20 In responseto ongoing attacks, =E2=80=9CMirclMax=E2=80=9D, the COO of DALnet= , posted an=20 e-mail to the network'spublic mailing list on 12/06/2000 stating, =E2=80=9CI= t is=20 DALnet's current policy that wewill not deal with any user who makes any=20 attacks, threats of attacks, or is complaisantwith attacks or threats of=20 attacks against DALnet's physical infrastructure, itsstaff, or its users.=20 Such users will be permanently removed from the network andnot allowed to us= e=20 its servers or its Services.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CAlong with removing them from= our network, all=20 attacks are being recorded, all threats and all other relevantinformation ar= e=20 being made available to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as wellas all=20 other related international enforcement agencies. These agencies are=20 directlyinvolved in these issues and we will support them in every way we ca= n=20 to facilitatethat all individuals involved with these international computer= =20 terrorist attacksbe brought to justice.=E2=80=9D =20 Accordingto DALnet's CEO David Kopstain (aka =E2=80=9CTaz=E2=80=9D), =E2=80= =9CUsing hundreds of=20 networks and thousandsof machines at once, an attacker can easily saturate=20 the network connection of asingle machine, rendering it useless until the=20 attack stops. Attackers have beenusing this method to remove servers from=20 DALnet's network. At points, enough servershave been removed at a time to=20 limit the amount of clients that could connect andchat on DALnet.=E2=80=9D =20 DALnet isa volunteer organization that offers free services to its users.=20 Denial of Serviceattacks on DALnet are really Denial of Service attacks=20 against the Service Providersthat generously provide the bandwidth to keep=20 the network alive. These attacks donot just knock out a chat server, they=20 hinder the operation of major ISPs throughoutthe world as well as the=20 companies that rely on them. =20 =E2=80=9CThey arecosting the rest of the Internet community millions of doll= ars in=20 time and lostrevenue=E2=80=9D, said DALnet Founder Sven Nielson (aka =E2=80= =9Cdalvenjah=E2=80=9D). =20 These attacksare not unique to DALnet. Another major IRC network has posted=20= a=20 message sayingthat their future =E2=80=9Cremains uncertain=E2=80=9D. With th= e support of its=20 hosting companies,DALnet continues to offer its services throughout continue= d=20 attacks, even afterlosing some of its servers. =20 =E2=80=9COver thepast year, DALnet has lost over a dozen servers due to atta= cks of=20 this sort. Ourresilience is in the fact that other ISPs are lined up for a=20 chance to be a partof the DALnet network. We truly appreciate their support=20 as well as the supportof the already existing servers that have hung in ther= e=20 and helped DALnet to getto where it is today=E2=80=9D, says Kopstain. =20 DALnet will continue to post reports on law enforcement activity as it=20 relates to our networkin our =E2=80=9CNews=E2=80=9D section. We thank you fo= r your continued=20 patronage and we will continue to bring you the best service that we can.=20 =C2=A0 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:45:08 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Diyan Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #7: BEST REVELATION MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 * * s p o i l e r s p a c e * * Quote 1: "Why have you got Superman's bandage on your shoulder?" * Yvonne=92s brilliant "Trust Me, I=92m a Reporter," and I didn=92t even hav= e to look up the title :) Quote 2: "The first thing I thought of was what a story it would make. I'm sorry, Clark." Excerpt 2: How many *more* Trasks were out there? * Okay, this is driving me crazy. I *know* this story, but I cannot remember who wrote it. So I=92m giving up and going to look at other people=92s answers Quote 3: "From the look on your face and the tone of your voice, I would guess that my niece let you know what we figured out." * Irene=92s "Tales Out of Church" Quote 4: "You stopped a bullet for me, Lois." * Rose=92s "That Lois Lane of Mine" Quote 5: "I had to, Martha... I had to tell you and Jonathan - I was there, you know? When he got shot?" * Wendy=92s "Shattered Illusions" Quote 6: "Clark and I together, sharing a cabin, on a cruise ship, no way." * Daydreamer80 (Charlotte Fisler)=92s "Revealing Cruise" Quote 7: "Clark, I told you. I won't share you. I want a relationship with someone who will always put me first. You just can't give me that." * Tank and Wendy=92s first collaboration, "Just Another Revelation Story" Quote 8: "Unless you plan on dropping me, Superman, you can't stop me! Once I'm ready to write it, this expose should win me a Pulitzer!" * Irene and Wendy=92s "Strange Visitor Revisited" Quote 9: "I overheard a phone conversation and, well, you're not going to believe it, but it was between Superman and his mother!" * Irene=92s "The Spying Game" Quote 10: "If he wasn't wearing glasses, he'd look a lot like you, Mr. Kent." * Nan=92s wonderful "Home II: Beginnings." It=92s one of my favorite storie= s, but I didn=92t remember the specific quote. However, in how many is Clark the one not wearing glasses? ;) Quote 11: "I never got to thank you for bringing him back to me. Superman, you have no idea what Clark means to me, and how awful I felt when he was gone. I missed him so much. And because of you, I got a second chance." * Kathy and Demi=92s "When Friends Become Lovers" ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:41:25 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Tim Porter Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #7: BEST REVELATION MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I love revelation stories... maybe I can do this S P O I L E R S P A C E Lets look at the quotes... > Quote 1: Trust Me, I'm a Reporter by Yvonne Connell > Quote 2: A Matter of Ethics by Nan Smith > Quote 3: Tales Out of Chuch by Irene Dutchak > Quote 4: That Lois Lane of Mine by Rose > Quote 5: Shattered Illusions by Wendy Richards > Quote 6: Revealing Cruise by Daydreamer80 > Quote 7: Just Another Revelation Story by Tank Wilson and Wendy Richards > Quote 8: Strange Visitor Revisited by Irene Dutchak and Wendy Richards > Quote 9: The Spying Game by Irene Dutchak Well, still two to go... > Excerpt 10: Home II: Beginnings by Nan Smith > Excerpt 11: When Friends Become Lovers by Kathy Brown and Demi (afer a LOT of searching :) So, how did I do? ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:59:53 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: New: Trading Places - Part 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This story was originally posted on Zoom's msg boards. There have only been minor changes made to it. Title: Trading Places by Irene Dutchak Part 1 Rating PG Feedback welcome, both public and private Many thanks to my wonderful beta-readers, Wendy and Laurie, and to the members of Zoom’s message boards, for their continuing support and encouragement. Thanks, also, to Tank for his very valuable suggestions. All standard disclaimers apply. Prologue *** Alt-Universe – The Congo – 1993 *** It was really too easy. As the stranger watched from his convenient vantage point, Lois Lane crept a little closer to the terrorists’ clandestine meeting in the rough clearing. He took his time adjusting the window controls, double-checked the hastily input coordinates, and then, content with his preparations, pushed a button. The time window opened, he entered, it snapped shut and reformed precisely three seconds later, directly in front of a very startled Lois Lane. To her credit, she tried to karate-kick him as soon as he appeared in front of her, but he had his aerosol can at the ready. A quick squeeze of the button, and Lois was out like the proverbial light. He grunted as he hoisted her to his shoulder. One of the terrorists heard the noise and rushed to push the foliage aside. But by the time he got there, the stranger and Lois Lane were long gone. Trading Places Irene Dutchak sirenegold@yahoo.com Rating PG All standard disclaimers apply. *** 1999 - Metropolis’ Women’s Prison *** Darla McElroy paced up and down in the narrow cell. Every few minutes she paused to glare at the occupant of the cell across from her. But her fellow prisoner took no notice, never looking up from the trashy romance that she was engrossed in. Darla didn’t let that worry her. Eventually, the other woman was going to see. Eventually she was going to worry when she saw exactly how angry her behaviour had made Darla. “Lights out in five minutes, ladies,” said one of the guards as she strolled down the cellblock. Half-hearted grumbles of protest arose in the various cells, but in truth, most of the prisoners were happy enough to go to sleep. For the most part, they were worked pretty hard in the Metropolis Prison for Women. Their warden was tough, and she insisted that they earn their keep. And then some. Darla threw herself down on her bunk only to roll on her side and continue to glare at the woman in the cell opposite. Suddenly, something really strange happened as Darla watched. It was almost as though the air had started to ... shimmer in one corner of the cell opposite. And then, a horizontal slash started to widen, then a vertical one, and an arm holding a spray can reached somehow through the rip in the air. As Darla watched, her fellow prisoner was sprayed with whatever was in the can, and she collapsed in a satisfying heap. The top half of a bearded man appeared, and he took hold of her arms. As Darla watched in stunned bemusement, he dragged the unfortunate woman through the rip and disappeared. A moment later, he threw her limp body back through the same rip, and she landed with a meaty thud. Then the man looked across at Darla, who was frozen in her disbelief. He grinned from ear to ear, tipped an imaginary hat, winked, and blew her a kiss before vanishing as the rip sealed itself, and the air stopped shimmering. *** Metropolis – Perry White’s Apartment *** Perry White carefully placed his hands on the edge of the sink, leaned his full weight on them and gazed searchingly at his mirror image. He saw a man who looked older than his years, whose thinning hair was grey and whose face was etched with worried lines. He saw an embittered man, emotionally damaged by the loss of his marriage, by the loss of the only woman he’d ever truly loved. He saw a man who had no friends outside of work, a man who rarely kept in contact with his own children. He saw a lonely man. How had it come to this? Perry sighed. What had happened? How had all the things he’d taken for granted turned to ash? How could he have let Alice slip out of his life? And his boys – periodically he’d try to reconnect with them, only to discover that they weren’t that interested in him, that they really didn’t feel that strong a connection to him and that his absence from their lives didn’t faze them in the slightest. What had happened to the two boys who had once begged him to play catch with them, who would snuggle up to him on the couch and ask him to read them stories? He hadn’t meant for this to happen. He hadn’t meant for them to be shunted aside by his work. Lord knows, he hadn’t meant to hurt them or to hurt Alice. But he had. He loved the Planet, but did he really love it to the exclusion of everything else of value in his life? Or had it been easier to let it take over his life and for him to give up the struggle of keeping everything in balance? Had he lost any vestige of a personal life because he’d been too lazy to fight for it? Perry shook his head, trying to clear his thoughts. What was the point? Why go over the same things again and again and again? He couldn’t get that life back. He didn’t know how. But Lord, what he wouldn’t give to see loving warmth in Alice’s eyes and know that he was the one to put it there! He sighed once more before opening the mirrored medicine cabinet to retrieve his shaving foam. Closing the cabinet, he squirted foam into his hand and vigorously applied it to his whiskers. He raised his eyes to the mirror, picked up his razor, and to his shock, caught sight of the reflection of a bearded man standing behind him. “What the Sam Hill...” The stranger raised a gun. Perry froze in his tracks. “No sudden moves, Your Honour.” Your Honour? “Yours is not to do or die, yours is but to question why.” The man smiled sardonically. “You know, I think I have that backwards, but it doesn’t really matter. Nothing I say is going to make the famous editor of the Daily Planet back off this story. The only problem is that this time, you are the story. How ironic! Don’t you just love it?” With the gun, he gestured at the door of the bathroom. Eyeing the deadly weapon in the stranger’s hand, Perry felt he had no choice but to slowly exit the small room. “Come on, Little Mary Sunshine. Move a little faster. After all, I’m about to make one of your dreams come true. You’re going to meet Elvis!” “What?” Perry started to turn to face the other man, when he heard the hissing spray of gas. ‘Elvis, here I come’ he thought as he fell towards darkness. ‘But if I had my druthers, I’d rather see Alice.’ *** Metropolis – Lois and Clark’s Home *** Lois looked in disbelief at the hole she had managed to poke through her last surviving pair of pantyhose. “Could this day get any worse?” she griped as she pulled her skirt off once more and ran to her closet to search for slacks. “Honey, relax. So we’re late for the story meeting. Perry won’t be that mad.” His wife turned to glare at him. “Want to bet?” “Well, no,” Clark admitted. “But driving ourselves crazy because we’re late isn’t going to help the situation any.” “Oh, now, there you go being reasonable again. You know how much I hate that, Clark!” “Lois,” Clark said, in long suffering tones. Before he could continue, Lois’s head popped back out of their walk-in closet. “Uh, honey,” she said in a deceptively mild voice. “Did you remember to pick up the dry-cleaning like you promised you would?” “Oh! Um, well, yes, I remembered. Unfortunately I remembered when I was in Nunavut.” At Lois’s puzzled look of inquiry, he quickly explained, “A Canadian territory. There was a really bad forest fire... The locals were completely overwhelmed... A town was threatened... I saved a whole bunch of deer!” Lois glared at him, one foot tapping agitatedly. It would have been more effective if Lois had been wearing clothes from the waist down other than her underwear. “I’m sure Bambi thanks you, but what am I going to wear?” “Uh, I’ll be right back, honey,” Clark said, hastily. He was gone in a flash to return less than two minutes later, plastic wrapped dry-cleaning held triumphantly in one hand. Lois’s expression softened. “My hero! Thanks, sweetheart. I appreciate it. I don’t mean to gripe but...” Clark held up his hand forestalling her apology. “Don’t apologise too quickly, honey. I’m sorry, Lois. The cleaners couldn’t do anything about the bomb stains. I told you that they probably couldn’t but...” Lois sighed. “I know. You did. I just don’t want to hear ‘I told you so’ right now, Clark.” “Sorry,” he muttered, guiltily. She sank down onto the bed and regarded him dejectedly. “Do I have one pair of half-decent, relatively intact slacks in the lot or will I have to go to work in my pj’s?” Clark laughed. “Hey, I wouldn’t mind if you wore that slinky black thing cut up to here and down to there and...” “Chill it, buddy!” He grinned, not apologetic at all. “Yeah, you have two pairs left.” She snatched the dry-cleaning from him and tore into the plastic. “You know this is all your fault!” she said as she shimmied into her slacks. “I know it is, honey, but I couldn’t leave those poor deer to roast...” “No, I mean us being late is all your fault. Every morning I keep hitting that snooze button on the alarm thinking ‘It’s okay. If we’re late, Clark will fly us to work. Clark only takes 3.5 seconds to get ready in the morning; we can sleep longer.’ If you weren’t Superman, I’d force myself to get up as soon as the alarm buzzed.” Lois did up her belt and surveyed her neat appearance in the mirror. “Oh ho, so you’re complaining about Superman now, are you?” Clark zoomed to his wife’s side and wrapped his arms around her from behind. “I don’t remember hearing you complain about Superman last night when he pinned you against the ceiling and...” He whispered into her ear. “And I don’t remember hearing you complain about Superman last week when he whisked you off to that completely deserted island and he...” He whispered in her other ear. “And what about when he does this?” Clark asked as he nuzzled her neck. “Or this?” He gently kissed along her jaw line. “Mmmm,” Lois purred. “Well, when you put it like that...” She twisted in his arms until she could look him in the eyes. Wrapping her arms around him, she lifted up on her toes to press her lips against his. “I love you, Clark.” “I love you, too, Lois.” Clark sighed in sheer rapture at the blissful feeling of having his wife in his arms. Her head was tucked under his chin; they fit so perfectly together. He could stay here all day quite happily. Unfortunately she had other ideas. Pulling back, Lois glanced down at her watch. “Is that the time?” she screeched. “We’ll never make it before Perry starts the meeting now!” She hastily pulled out of his embrace and headed for the stairs. “Come on, sweetheart. We have to go. Now!” she ordered. “I hate Mondays,” Clark muttered as he followed his wife. As they reached the downstairs hallway, there was a knock on the door. “What now?” Lois grumbled. “I have to pack my briefcase. You get that, honey, but get rid of whoever it is. We don’t have time for anything this morning.” She turned to head for the den. Clark ambled over to the door, scanning as he walked. “Uh, Lois?” She paused and faced him. “Yes?” “Remember when you asked if this day could get any worse?” “Yes,” Lois replied, her tone of voice extremely wary. Clark sighed heavily. “It just did.” He opened the door to reveal a very familiar bespectacled man. “Good morning, Mr. Wells,” he said, glumly. “Good morning, my dear boy,” Mr. Wells said brightly. “And Mrs. Kent! So nice to see you again, my dear.” “Cut to the chase!” she ordered firmly. “What is it this time?” *** Alt-Metropolis – Office of the Mayor *** Perry White stood up, walked over to the large window and pushed the drapes out of the way. His office was on the top floor of the five-storey building. Not really that high, but even so he had a good view of a small chunk of Metropolis. He loved this city. But, he thought as he turned back to his desk, he wasn’t sure he loved this job. It had seemed like such a good idea at the time. There had been a definite need to be met, a void to be filled, and James Olsen had pushed and prodded at him until he’d agreed to give politics a try. There was a big difference between agreeing to give it a try and actually doing it, however. It wasn’t that he was afraid of hard work. Perry White had never backed away from that in his life. It was just so hard to get a handle on things. City government had its own pace, its own rhythm, and it was sure hard getting used to it after the hectic, rapid-fire, addictive pace of the newsroom. He missed the Planet. But working at the Planet hadn’t been the same these last few years. The heart and soul of it had all but vanished when Lois Lane had tragically disappeared in the Congo. She had been a protégé – an up and comer that Perry had been incredibly proud of. Clark Kent had started to fill that emptiness in the newsroom, but that role of his had been forever changed by the traumatic events that had occurred during the televised debate between him and Tempus. Poor Clark. His life disrupted because some interdimensional time traveller got bored and wanted to stir things up. Didn’t seem fair, somehow. Oh, Clark Kent still tried to work. He wrote puff pieces from time to time. Or he’d write up Superman rescues, which was only to be expected. But the hard-hitting pieces... The in-depth investigations... Those were a thing of the past for Kent now. It was impossible for him to even try to conduct interviews. It was essential for a good reporter to fade into the background. That wasn’t possible for Clark any longer. The man had next to no private life. For a time, everywhere he went other reporters had chased after him. That hadn’t lasted too long as the journalists had quickly figured out that he was impossible to keep up with when he wanted to get away from them. But that didn’t stop the speculation or the gossip. Clark couldn’t go into a restaurant to eat without a sign going up in the window the next day saying ‘Superman ate here.’ Hordes of post-adolescent bundles of raging hormones would periodically invade the newsroom to sigh lugubriously at the sight of him, and to giggle if he happened to smile at them. Perry had seen that for himself during one of his first unofficial visits to the Planet. While he had been there, a couple of them had even fainted; Perry was pretty sure that they hadn’t been fainting over him! Clark had next to no friends either. James Olsen was pretty good with him in that overbearing manner of his. And Clark was always welcome to have dinner with Alice and Perry. But other than that, nada, zero, zip, zilch. He had told Perry how hard it was to meet new people – how awful it could be when they’d suddenly clue into who he was in his spare time, and how they’d abruptly start treating him differently. Perry had sympathised with him, having felt much the same way after he’d become Mayor. But at least, he’d had quite a number of friends before he’d been elected. Clark hadn’t. And it didn’t look like that would change anytime soon. Tempus had a lot to answer for. Enough of this woolgathering, he thought. Time to get back to work. He reached for a file from the pile on his desk and immersed himself in the details. His focus was so great that he didn’t even hear the man moving stealthily behind him. The first thing he heard was the hiss of an aerosol can quite close to his ear. Then he didn’t hear anything more at all. *** Metropolis – Lois and Clark’s home *** “How did he escape?” Lois sat beside her husband on the small loveseat, clutching his hand tightly in hers. “I don’t know, Mrs. Kent. I wish I did. If we knew how Tempus achieves his freedom, we could do something about it.” Sitting in the comfortable easy chair across from them, Mr. Wells fiddled with his bowler hat that he held loosely in his hands. “Mr. Wells, I keep asking you. Please call me Ms. Lane! Much as I love my husband, I haven’t taken his name.” Lois glared at the nervous writer, unfairly taking her frustration out on him. “I just don’t understand,” Mr. Wells said. “Of course I will try to follow your wishes, but I don’t understand why a woman would not choose to use her husband’s name – especially a woman who is married to someone as esteemed as your husband.” Lois opened her mouth to blast the science-fiction writer with feminist invective only to reluctantly fall silent when Clark pressed her hand gently with his. “Think of it this way, Mr. Wells. When Tempus came from the future – from the future that you’ve described as a veritable Utopia...” “Yes,” the older man replied, hanging on Clark’s every word. “Did he call her Ms. Lane or Mrs. Kent?” “Ms. Lane, of course. You hadn’t been married yet.” “But he didn’t know that right away. Remember? It seems to me that the history texts of his time must have referred to Lois as Lois Lane rather than Lois Kent,” Clark said, reasonably. “You may very well be right, my dear boy. I never thought of that. Of course, Ms. Lane, I will comply with your wishes. I would hate to do something that is contrary to what has been established in the future.” Mr. Wells beamed at her, fatuously. Lois grimaced, irritated by the fact that this pedantic little man had listened to her husband, but not to her. “Fine, thanks, whatever,” she replied, sourly. “As I was saying, we don’t know how Tempus escaped, but he did. We found this in the cell.” Mr. Wells proffered a folded piece of paper to Clark who gingerly took it and unfolded it. He and Lois read it together. ~Dear Herb! ~I just can’t bring myself to call you ‘Mr. Wells.’ It seems far too formal after all that we’ve shared. We do have a special relationship, don’t we? If it weren’t for you, I’d still be sitting in front of the TV, listening to my brain rot and twiddling my thumbs waiting for something exciting to happen. You were the one who broke me out of the mindless state that I was in when you took me back in time to the wonderfully chaotic past. In case I’ve ever forgotten to tell you this, thanks, Herb! I needed that! ~I had a major epiphany as I sat in this cell waiting for the rescue that I knew was coming. I realised that somewhere along the way, I’d stopped having fun! Can you imagine, Herb? I started taking myself far too seriously. How boring! Ironic, too, don’t you think? I’d escaped from one boring existence only to get sucked into making my life over in its image. I normally love irony, but not this time. ~So I made a decision, Herb. I’m sure that you want to know what that decision is, and I want you to know, too. I decided that this time, I’m not going to formulate any grand master plan. I’m not going to plot and plan and concentrate on all those tedious little details that suck all the joy and pleasure out of life. No, I’m just going to have fun! I’m going to forget all about disrupting Utopia. Instead, I’m going to party hearty! ~How, you might ask. I’m afraid you’ll have to wait to find out. One thing to remember, though, Herb – my idea of fun might not be the same as yours. ~See you around, Herb. Give my love to Good Old Boring in Blue and his galactically stupid strumpet. I’ll see them around, too. That’s a promise. ~Ta ta for now, ~Tempus Lois and Clark looked at each other silently after they had finished reading the note. “A truly odious letter, wouldn’t you agree?” Mr. Wells said briskly. “Galactically stupid? Ha! If I were galactically stupid, would Clark and I have been able to catch him before? If I were galactically stupid, would I have won four Kerths and ...” “Honey,” Clark said, reassuringly as he squeezed his wife’s hand. “You’re the smartest woman I know. You’re not galactically stupid.” “That’s very true, Ms. Lane. In the future, you are revered above all other women. Your life history is studied in the greatest detail. The name ‘Lois’ is one of the most popular for children... No, no one thinks of you as stupid.” “They’re studying my life? In school?” “Yes, of course.” “In detail?” “Of course.” “Why do I suddenly feel naked?” Lois muttered to Clark. He pulled her close, kissed her on the forehead and wrapped his arm securely around her shoulders. “You should try going out in public on a regular basis wearing a thin layer of spandex. That’s what feeling naked is all about!” “But it’s more aerodynamic if it’s tight.” “Think about it, Lois. I’m Superman. Do I care about aerodynamics?” “Well, at least no one looks at your face.” “Lois! I wish they would look at my face and not at my...” Mr. Wells briskly clapped his hands. “Excuse me, you two. I think we should get back to the business at hand.” “Oh, yeah, sorry,” Clark muttered, not really sorry at all. “What do you think Tempus is going to do?” Lois asked, angrily, still fuming. “I don’t know, Ms. Lane. I really don’t. I don’t think that he’s going to threaten you or your husband directly – he said that he’s not attempting to damage Utopia specifically – but that doesn’t mean that he won’t do other things.” Mr. Wells shook his head sadly. “No, I’m sorry. I just don’t know.” He slowly got to his feet, pulled out a small device and put his hat on his head. “I’m going to go to the future and try to track any anomalies that I find there. I’d suggest that you two keep your eyes and ears open for anything out of the ordinary. I’ll be back in a few days to check in with you.” “All right, Mr. Wells,” Clark said as he and Lois stood up. He wrapped one arm tightly around his wife’s waist. As they watched, Mr. Wells pushed a button on his device, a time window formed, and the older man matter-of-factly strolled into it. The window snapped shut. He was gone. “Oh, Clark.” Lois leaned her head against her husband’s broad shoulder. “Not again. I’m getting pretty tired of this.” “Me, too, Lois. Me, too.” Clark rested his cheek against her hair. The phone rang, and with a sigh, Clark disentangled himself from Lois’s embrace and went to answer it. “Yes, Inspector Henderson... What? You’re kidding... Yeah, Lois and I will look after it... I don’t know, but we’ll find out... Thanks for calling us and not looking after this officially. No, we’ll be there as soon as possible. Right.” Clark hung up the phone and turned to Lois, a shocked expression on his face. “Uh, honey? You know how Mr. Wells told us to be on the look-out for anything out of the ordinary?” “Uh huh,” Lois replied, visibly bracing herself for Clark’s news. “Henderson called to tell us that Perry White has installed himself in Mayor Samuel’s office and won’t leave. He says that he’s the mayor so why should he!” Lois grimaced. “Yeah, I’d say that qualifies. So who’s going? You and me or Superman?” “If you don’t mind, sweetheart, I will, but Superman will, uh, fly me there in a hurry. It sounded like Henderson and the police are running out of patience.” Lois nodded, resigned to being left behind. “You better bring him here so we can get to the bottom of this. You know who it is, don’t you?” she asked, as Clark spun into his Superman uniform. Clark’s expression was grim. “Yeah, I do. It’s the Perry White that you met in the alternate universe. I’d bet any money on it. That’s why you should stay home. In his universe, Lois Lane is dead.” “I agree.” She looked up at him suddenly, her eyes alarmed. “And if he’s from the alternate universe, then he knows...” “That Clark Kent is Superman!” “You better...” “Go!” Clark exclaimed as he disappeared in a blur. Lois sighed, sat down and rested her head in her hands. “What next?” she asked, rhetorically. ===== www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:30:04 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: New: Trading Places - Part 2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Title: Trading Places by Irene Dutchak Part 2 Rating PG Feedback welcome, both public and private *** Alt-Metropolis – The Daily Planet *** Clark Kent sat at his desk in the corner of the busy newsroom, diligently typing up the latest ‘Superman’ rescue story. He found it boring, but necessary if only to make him feel as though he were making a contribution as Clark Kent not Superman. But at the same time, he didn’t know how much longer he could keep this up. Practically everyone treated him differently now. He couldn’t walk down the street without his fellow pedestrians doing double takes. Hordes of teenagers hung around his apartment building making it necessary for him to always fly in and out. He had tried entering the building on foot once only to be bombarded by the attention of desperate lovesick girls and, even worse, a couple of lovesick boys. They had thrown flowers at him, or stuffed animals, whatever they could think of. The whole thing had been a huge waste of money. After the police had rousted them, he had quickly gone down to the street and rescued all the toys and flowers to distribute at the local hospital so at least some good had come from the whole sordid incident. The underwear, however, had been donated to charity – or at least the clean underwear had been. He had consigned the used clothing to the garbage. Why would anyone think that used underwear might be an appropriate gift to catch another person’s attention? Hence, his decision to only fly home from then on. He had no desire to be the recipient of that kind of attention any more. Things might have been different if Lana had elected to stick around. Even if she had decided to stay as a friend only, not a fiancée, she would have been a welcome buffer against the insanity that surrounded him. But she hadn’t stayed, electing to move to Los Angeles, hoping to start over. Clark’s thoughts touched briefly on Lois Lane from the other dimension. If she had stayed... No, that wasn’t fair. She wasn’t ‘his Lois’. She belonged with the other Clark. He hoped that the other Clark never, ever took her for granted and always knew how lucky he was. Now if he had Lois Lane in his life, the real Lois Lane, the one from this dimension, he’d cherish her like the most precious of treasures. Clark sighed. But he didn’t. He had never been able to locate her. After his visit to the other dimension, he had returned to search diligently for any clues to his Lois’s whereabouts. But it was as if she had vanished into thin air. Her trail led into the jungle of the Congo and then dissipated, leaving him no other avenues to explore. Heart in his mouth, he had searched for bones, hair, clothing remnants, anything that might be relevant. He didn’t know whether to be relieved or not that he hadn’t found anything. At least, if he had found a body, he’d know the truth, once and for all. Clark sent his finished story to James’ office and got up to get another mug of coffee. As always, as soon as he moved, all the people in the office turned to watch him walk across the room in an awkward silence. He didn’t know what the big attraction was. Perhaps they were hoping that he would change into Superman in front of them, but he tried to avoid doing that if at all possible. Now if he had to rush to the scene of an earthquake in Brazil, then maybe, but not to go get a cup of coffee! “Kent, come on in here and join me,” James Olsen called from the editor’s office. Clark nodded and prepared a cup of coffee for James also. Mr. Olsen was acting as the interim editor of the Planet once more, the last editor only having lasted two weeks. James just hadn’t been happy with any of the editors since Perry had left for higher office. Strangely enough, James actually did a pretty fair job as editor; he had a real talent for it. But he didn’t enjoy it very much, saying that it took too large a bite out of his extremely active social life. The two men casually conversed about local events and Clark’s story. They touched on world news a bit. This was an important part of Clark’s day. He relished this crumb of normal human interaction that seemed to be denied to him most of the time. One thing that could be said about James Olsen - he might verge on being an arrogant, condescending man - but he had never treated Clark any differently after his super abilities had been revealed, and, in his own overbearing way, he was a good friend. James and the Whites were really his only true friends. It was as if thinking about Perry had conjured him into the newsroom. Clark was about to go back to his desk when the door swung open to reveal the agitated face of his former boss. Perry looked like he was in rough shape. His shirt was rumpled, his hair mussed and his tie askew. His eyes were wild and his complexion grey. “Judas Priest! What’s going on around here?” “What do you mean, Perry?” James asked. The older man rounded on the younger one, a shocked expression on his face. “What did you call me?” “Oh, now, come on, Perry,” James exclaimed, hale and hearty. “You’re not going to insist that we call you ‘Your Honour,’ are you? You’ve never stood on formalities before.” “What? Why are you sitting behind my desk?” Perry asked, fiercely. “Your desk? May I remind you that I own the Planet?” “You what?” “What are you doing here anyway, Perry?” Clark asked. “Shouldn’t you be at City Hall?” “City Hall? Why?” “Because you work there,” James said, slowly and clearly. “You know – you’re the mayor.” Perry shook his head in agitation. “What?” “Perry, are you all right?” Clark asked, quite concerned. “Your heart’s going a mile a minute.” “How in the world would you know that?” Perry asked, confused. Clark tapped his ear significantly. “Huh?” Perry shook his head again. Anger spread over his face. “Great Shades of Elvis! Are you two playing some kind of practical joke on me? So help me, I’ll make your lives miserable!” James looked at Clark who looked blankly back at him. “Great Shades of Elvis?” James mouthed. Clark shrugged in response. “Uh, are you going to the concert or something, Perry?” James asked, diffidently, obviously trying to calm things down. “What concert?” “President Presley’s comeback concert. I’m not too sure that I approve of former Presidents being in show business even if that was the career they had before they were elected. What do you think?” James asked. “President Presley? Elvis?” Clark nodded. “He does have a fantastic voice, though, James,” Clark pointed out. “I’ll admit that the sequined outfits are a bit undignified for someone in his position in life, but he somehow manages to carry it off.” “Are you two speaking a foreign language?” Perry asked, clutching at the doorframe. “I haven’t a clue what you’re talking about.” “Perry, you’re really starting to worry me,” Clark said. “What’s wrong?” He moved to stand in front of his friend, clapping a hand gently on his shoulder. “I don’t know,” Perry answered, swaying on his feet. “Nothing’s right. Everything’s changed.” He turned to survey the newsroom. “Where’s Lois?” he asked. Clark’s jaw dropped. “Perry,” he said, striving to be calm. “Lois is dead. Don’t you remember? She died in the Congo in 1993.” Perry swung around to face Clark. “Lois is dead?” All the colour drained from his face as Clark watched. “What’s happening to me? This isn’t right. Nothing’s right!” His knees buckled. Clark grabbed Perry as his legs gave way and got him sitting on the couch. Focusing his hearing on Perry’s heartbeat, he could sense the blood thundering through the older man’s veins and arteries. Too fast. The heartbeat was far too rapid and uneven. He could tell, too, that Perry’s blood pressure was dangerously high. Had his friend had a stroke, Clark wondered. Could that be why he was so confused?” “Perry,” Clark said, having made a decision. “I’m taking you to the hospital. There’s something wrong, and I want to get you checked out.” “Good decision, Kent,” James piped up supportively. “Should I call an ambulance?” “No, I’ll take him. It’ll be faster.” “Now hold on here!” Perry exclaimed. “I’m not going to any hospital. I’m fine.” “Yes, you are, and no, you’re not,” James told him firmly as he crossed the office and opened his window. “No way am I going! Who’s going to make me?” “He is,” James said, pointing at Clark as he spun in place in a blur of colours. Perry gaped at Superman, resplendent in red, blue and yellow. “Never mind. The hospital sounds like a fine idea,” he muttered before his eyes rolled back into his head. Clark scooped his friend up into his arms before he could slump over sideways on the couch. “I’ll keep you informed,” he told James as he carried Perry’s limp body to the window.” “I’d appreciate that.” Clark launched himself into the air only to hover just outside the open window. “Oh, and James?” “Yes?” “Do me a favour. Don’t write about any of this just yet, okay? Let’s find out what’s going on first.” “He’s my friend, too, Clark. I’ll be careful.” “Thanks.” And the two of them were gone. *** Metropolis – The Mayor’s Office *** Inspector Henderson sadly regarded the highly respected editor of the Daily Planet who had ensconced himself behind the Mayor’s desk. Mayor Samuels was beside himself, having practically demanded that Henderson shoot White to get him out of the office, but the Inspector had managed to persuade His Honour to back off a bit. Perry White had done a lot for the city of Metropolis; trying to resolve this situation as peacefully as possible was small payment for that. White was quiet now, but it had been quite different earlier. Then, he had babbled on and on, making no sense. Henderson shook his head as he remembered what White had ranted and raved. “Just you wait,” the older man had shouted. “I have friends in high places, if you know what I mean. James Olsen and Clark Kent are both close friends of mine! Let’s see what they have to say about this little conspiracy of yours. Ha! Trying to force ME out of office. Well, your petty little plan won’t work on Perry White! Just you wait! I’ll bet President Presley will have something to say about all this, too. I’ll be seeing him at his comeback concert in a couple of days. Just wait until the Secret Service gets onboard with this.” White must have really lost it if he thought that a lowly photographer and a mild-mannered reporter would have any kind of influence over today’s events. The man was insane. All his talk about President Presley just went to show that Perry White, well-respected, hard-bitten editor of the Daily Planet, had completely and totally lost his marbles. It was with a deep sense of relief that Henderson greeted the appearance of Clark Kent. He was also relieved to see no sign of the man’s pit-bull of a wife. There was something about Lois Lane that made Inspector Henderson quake in his boots and want to run and hide whenever she was around. Perry White looked up and grinned as Kent came into the room. “See,” he hissed triumphantly. “I told you I knew Clark Kent! Now the crappola’s really going to hit the fan!” Henderson shook his head, bemused by White’s reaction to the sight of the younger man. “Mind if I talk to him, Inspector?” the reporter asked. He leaned in close. “I think I can calm him down,” Kent murmured in the police officer’s ear. “Be my guest,” Henderson replied sardonically, stepping back but keeping an eye on the situation. He didn’t think White was dangerous, but... Kent, looking uncharacteristically grim, advanced on his boss. “Clark!” the older man exclaimed. “I’m glad you’re here. I need your help! If anyone can help me, it’s you. You’re a defender of justice, a fighter for truth, a beacon of hope...” What was the man on, Henderson wondered. It was just Kent. Clark Kent held up his hand, forestalling more rhetoric from his boss. He bent down and said something to White, too quietly for Henderson to hear. White, who had sat up straight at the sight of his younger employee, fell back into the chair as if he were stunned. He gazed at Kent, a shocked look on his face for a long moment, before pushing himself up and slowly moving away from the desk. “Inspector, Perry’s coming home with me. I’ll look after him,” Kent said. “Just make sure there’s no repeat of this,” Henderson told the two of them. White looked like he was about to protest, but he quickly backed off at a glance from Kent. “Don’t worry. I’ll look after him,” Kent repeated as he led the older man to the door. “You better! I’m counting on you, Kent!” Henderson replied. Decidedly weird, Henderson thought. What would have made White lose it like that and then fixate on Clark Kent of all people to be his saviour? Lois Lane was the human dynamo, not Kent. If push came to shove, Henderson would pick her over Kent as backup in a sticky situation. Why hadn’t she come, too, he wondered. It wasn’t like her to leave anything important to her husband. Oh well, he just hoped that White’s situation would get straightened around pretty quickly. But if this happened again, someone would have to sit on White because Mayor Samuels wasn’t going to put up with these shenanigans any more. Speak of the devil. There was the slimy little weasel. He must have hightailed it in this general direction as soon as White had left the office. “This better not happen again, Inspector,” the Mayor snapped. “What do we pay the police for if not to keep the peace? You didn’t do a very notable job of that at all today!” On second thought, Henderson mused, White just might be preferable as mayor! For one thing, he wasn’t a professional politician. People made jokes all the time about lawyers; in Henderson’s opinion, politicians were worse! *** Alt-Metropolis – Metropolis General Hospital *** As Perry White put his shirt back on, he heard someone approach and politely clear his throat. Clark Kent tentatively pushed aside the curtain in the examining room. “Are you decent, Perry?” he asked. “Why’d you bother asking? You could have checked for yourself. You’re Superman. A measly curtain can’t keep you from spying on people,” came the gruff, querulous tones of his former boss. “Yeah, I’m decent.” “Perry, you know me better than that!” Clark protested. “I don’t spy on people – or at least I don’t without cause.” He entered to find Perry doing up the last of his shirt buttons. The Mayor looked a lot better than he had before. His colour was good, and his heartbeat was back to normal. The doctors had said that there was no obvious reason for his confusion although judging from the extremely painful headache that he’d had, it was possible he’d been exposed to something toxic. However, whatever it had been didn’t seem to have left behind any serious after-effects so they had no problem discharging him. “See. That’s the problem, Clark. I don’t know you better than that!” Perry glared at him before turning to the small mirror on the wall and focusing on retying his tie. “What did I do?” Clark asked, defensively. Had he done something to offend Perry, he wondered guiltily. Perry glanced at him out of the corner of his eye for a second before going back to concentrating on his tie. “Come on, Perry. Talk to me. You know that you, James and Alice are all I have. It really hurts that you’re mad at me. It would kind of be nice to at least know why you’re ticked off.” “Alice? Alice is your friend, too?” Clark couldn’t interpret the look on Perry’s face, a mixture of shock, anger and confusion. “Come on, Perry! You know this. You and Alice have me over for dinner all the time. I think it started out being your idea to befriend me, but then Alice felt sorry for me after all the fuss started being made about me – you know, after everyone found out - so she encouraged me to come over more often.” “After everyone found out?” “Yeah, after everyone found out that I’m Superman.” “See, that’s the problem, Clark. I just found out. I didn’t know.” Perry turned and looked Clark square in the eyes. “What?” Clark shook his head, not understanding this at all. “I don’t know what’s going on here, but all I know is that things aren’t the way they’re supposed to be. For one thing, you’re supposed to be married to Lois Lane, and I’m still the editor of the Daily Planet, and Jimmy is not called James and he most certainly doesn’t wear three-piece suits, and Elvis Presley is dead. Finally, my employee, Clark Kent, is a completely separate entity from Superman! Or at least I thought he was.” “Oh no!” Clark sank down onto a chair and gazed at Perry in shock. “You’re from the other Metropolis!” “The other Metropolis?” Clark nodded. “You better sit down. I have a lot of explaining to do.” Clark hurriedly sketched out the basic history of his Metropolis and of all the people that Perry knew. The older man listened patiently. He did wince when Clark explained that Lois Lane had never come back from the Congo and was presumed dead, and he did chuckle a bit when Clark told him the other Lois’s role in his assumption of his superhero duties, but other than that he didn’t reveal his emotions until the end. “Well, Clark, if anyone else had told me that load of malarkey, I’d have been tempted to hand them a shovel so they could spread it a little thicker. But I know you... or at least, I know the other you, and Clark Kent is usually a pretty straight-up guy.” Perry eyed him wryly as he put a shoe on. “Not as straight up as I thought, but straight-up all the same.” “So you never suspected that Clark, your Clark, is Superman?” Perry shook his head slowly from side to side. “No, I didn’t. Looking back, I should have. I can’t believe a pair of glasses was enough to fool me!” he blurted. “I told Lois – your Lois – that it was a ridiculous disguise!” Clark agreed. “I mean, how could anyone look at Superman and then look at me and fail to see that we look exactly alike?” “Except it worked,” Perry said, thoughtfully. “I don’t know of anyone that suspects that Clark is Superman. Well, okay, everything hit the fan when Diana Stride made her accusations, but he quickly disproved that theory. How did he do that, by the way? Did you help him out?” “No. Lois told me that his parents operated a hologram of Superman to make him appear above Clark. It must have been pretty effective. No, I came to town and helped him out when John Doe became President. That was really Tempus, by the way.” “I remember that! I remember Doe saying that you were from a different dimension and that we were all blind not seeing the truth! I guess he was right. But seeing two of you was very convincing.” Perry grinned. “That hologram was pretty effective, too. It did a great job. It even convinced me.” He finished lacing up his shoes and stood up. “I have a ton of questions about everything, but the first and most pressing one is – what do I do now?” “You mean, what do we do now? I don’t know,” Clark admitted. “If you’re here in my world, it stands to reason that my friend, this dimension’s Perry White, is in your world.” He looked at Perry, his eyes grim. “And he definitely knows that I’m Superman. It’s not a problem here, but there... Your Clark and your Lois – their lives will be a mess if he tells anyone. We’ve got to figure out how to get you home!” ===== www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:30:24 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: New: Trading Places - Part 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Title: Trading Places by Irene Dutchak Part 3 Rating PG Feedback welcome, both public and private *** Metropolis – Street Outside City Hall *** Perry White had never felt more confused in his life. Everything around him was the same, yet different. It didn’t help that his head hurt to beat the band. Whatever that spray had been, it sure left behind some nasty side effects. There was only one constant that Perry could see that he could rely on in this new and changed Metropolis. Clark. This Clark – this Clark that he had never met before based on his sparse words of explanations upstairs – this man seemed to be as solid and dependable as the Clark that he knew. Perry shook his head. Dimension hopping? Nefarious time travelling villain? If it weren’t happening to him, he wouldn’t believe it in a million years. Clark was very quiet. He was tense; Perry recognised the symptoms. His shoulders were slightly hunched, his face was tight, and he rubbed lightly at the bridge of his nose as they walked along the street. “So what now?” Perry asked, breaking the silence. Clark turned and regarded him solemnly. “I’m taking you home, and we’ll talk more. Okay?” He sounded a bit angry. “Fine by me.” Perry spread his hands wide in a placating gesture. “Sorry.” Clark smiled apologetically. “I’m not mad at you. This is just a really weird situation.” “Tell me about it,” Perry muttered. “I’m not used to other people knowing about me. I mean my parents do, and Lois...” “Lois?” Perry felt his knees go weak. “Lois Lane?” Clark stared at him, a stricken expression on his face. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to blurt it right out. Yeah. Lois Lane. Uh, she’s my wife.” “Your wife? Lois? Independent career woman of the nineties? Mad Dog Lane – runs from romance faster than you can shake a stick? Are we talking about the same Lois Lane?” “No. No, we’re not, and you know it. Your Lois died in the Congo. My Lois didn’t.” “Right. Is your Lois the Lois that I met a few years back, or is this a completely different Lois from yet another dimension?” “You remember her, then?” Clark smiled. “She said nice things about you. She’ll be happy to see you again. She always wanted to apologise for acting so weird.” Perry chuckled heartily. “Weird? Now that is one massive understatement. She acted... She acted completely Looney-tunes, like Bugs Bunny on steroids!” “She did?” Clark asked warily. Perry nodded. “Yep. That’s why I had no trouble believing she was Lois Lane despite how strangely she was behaving.” “You did?” Perry smiled slowly. “Yep. I did. As I said, she definitely acted like Lois Lane.” It took a second, but then Clark’s eyes began to twinkle, and a hearty grin spread over his face. The two men stared at each other for a long moment, and then they both cracked up. It took quite a few seconds for the two of them to catch their breath. “I, uh, don’t think that you should repeat that to my wife, Perry,” Clark finally said, his tone of voice very meek and mild. “At least, not unless you don’t want to survive long enough to get home.” “Yep, sounds just like my Lois, after all. It doesn’t sound like marriage has softened her beyond all recognition.” Clark smiled. “Well, I guess you’ll have to wait and see whether I’ve been a good influence on her or not. Either way, just don’t tell me within earshot of her, okay?” “Clark, I might be a bit confused, but do I look crazy? No, don’t answer that; I don’t think I want to know!” “I’ll ignore the question, Chief,” Clark assured Perry. “So, I guess we should catch a cab. It won’t take long until we have some privacy to deal with everything. There’s a lot we have to fill you in about.” He turned to peruse the street only to stop when Perry laid his hand on his arm. “Why in Sam Hill would we have to take a cab?” Perry asked. “I don’t know about your Perry, but I assure you – I’m not scared of heights.” “Oh, right. I guess I’m just not used to this.” Clark led him into a nearby alley, took a step back, did a quick scan of the area and, about to spin into his Superman suit, paused. “Uh, would you mind turning your back? This just feels too weird, having you know about me.” Perry chuckled as he complied. “Better get used to it, Kent. When your Perry returns to Metropolis, I’d bet he’ll have a lot to say to you!” Clark groaned, the noise vanishing into the whirlwind sound of him spinning into his suit. “Don’t remind me. I don’t even want to think about it right now.” A second later, he grasped Perry firmly around the waist and launched the two of them into the air. Even though he knew that the woman they were flying to meet was not ‘his’ Lois Lane, Perry couldn’t help but be excited at the prospect of seeing this Lois Lane once again. There wasn’t a lot that he regretted from his years at the Planet, but his Lois’s death was something that he knew he would never, ever recover from. He missed her – more than he could ever explain. *** Somewhere (Or nowhere) in Time *** The dark-haired woman in Metropolis prison garb slowly came back to consciousness. What the heck happened? She grabbed her head, the pain in it making her feel as though it were trying to separate from her shoulders. She opened her eyes, only to snap them shut with a groan, the garish unearthly swirl of lights that surrounded her sending another jolt of pain through her. “Hello, hello! We’re awake, are we?” a cheerful voice greeted her. “I don’t know who you are,” she drawled, “but if you’re responsible for how awful I feel, I’m going to kill you.” “Oh, darlin’,” he replied, a ripple of laughter in his voice. “I am responsible. But don’t worry. I know you’ll thank me when you feel better about life.” She opened her eyes and glared at the grinning, bearded man as he swam in and out of focus. Grimacing, she swung her legs over the side of the couch and forced herself to her feet. The irritating man stood in front of her, hands on his hips, grinning like an idiot, and watched her approach. Without any warning, she slammed her closed fist into his jaw knocking him flying. She just about passed out from the increased pain that the effort caused her, but with an effort, she managed to remain standing upright. >From his sprawled position on the floor, he gazed up at her, a rapt expression on his face. “Quick to violence! Aggressive! My, oh my! I love that in a woman!” “Can the flattery,” she snarled. “You better tell me what’s going on before I do it again.” He beamed at her rapturously. “Sure thing, sweetheart. We’ll just see if you’re still this hostile when I tell you how you can take revenge on Lois Lane and Clark Kent for ruining your life.” Her eyes narrowed in thought. “I’m listening.” The man got up and sat down on the couch, patting the seat beside him. She sat down gingerly and turned to face him. “Have you ever read any books by H.G. Wells? They’re pretentious, but they do have some redeeming qualities.” “No, can’t say that I have. I tried reading one once when I was in high school, but I just couldn’t get into it. Too boring.” “Mmmm, I knew that I liked you. Smart, beautiful, deadly and discriminating. My kind of woman.” His eyes traveled up and down her body. “Makes me want to do something about that.” “Get to the point,” she hissed. “We’ll have time for that later... if I like what you’ve told me.” “Really?” She shrugged. “Why not? I spent the last few years with the ugliest women you can imagine. You look pretty good in comparison.” “Gee, thanks,” he said, sarcastically. “Such a compliment. It fills my heart with joy.” “Just get on with it,” she told him impatiently. “You mentioned something about revenge? That’s always good to rev up my libido.” He patted her patronisingly on the thigh. “Oooh, yes, I do like you! Okay, here’s the deal. Once upon a time, H.G. Wells, a writer sadly lacking in talent but totally and blissfully unaware of that fact, wrote a book about time travel. Somehow he sucked all the truly interesting things out of his story, but we don’t need to concern ourselves with those details.” As he sketched out his plan for her, her eyes glowed with malice, a spiteful smile on her face. The longer he spoke, the more details he shared with her, the closer she shifted to him, and the more languorous her body language became. Eventually he fell silent. She immediately launched herself at him. They rolled to the floor, their arms and legs tangled together, their bodies writhing in a wild, heady, loveless passion. *** Alt-Metropolis – Metropolis General Hospital – Lobby *** As Clark led Perry across the thankfully deserted lobby of the hospital, he was happy to see that the press hadn’t got wind of Perry’s problem. James had sat on the information as he had promised. Or had he, Clark amended as he saw who was approaching the doors from outside. “Uh, Perry?” “Yeah.” “I think I better warn you that...” Clark might be a superhero, but he just wasn’t fast enough. Alice White bustled through the doors and immediately threw herself into Perry White’s arms. “Sweetheart, I was so worried... I didn’t know what to think when James called me. Are you all right? Do you feel okay? What did the doctors say?” She straightened his tie and patted him on the lapel all the time regarding him warmly and lovingly. Perry’s eyes met Clark’s, panic written clearly in their depths. “Is everything okay?” Alice asked in a puzzled voice. “No,” Perry choked out in a strangled voice. He cleared his throat roughly. “No, it’s not okay.” He gazed at Clark, a plea for help written naked on his face. Clark glanced around the lobby. The receptionist stared at the three of them curiously. “We can’t talk here,” Clark told Alice. “Come on. Let’s go.” The three of them left the hospital. Clark quickly spun into his Superman suit, Perry gasping in wonder as he watched. Alice looked at Perry quizzically, obviously surprised by his reaction. Clark grasped each of them firmly around their waists and launched them into the air. “I’ve barely ever worn a dress since we found out about you, Clark. I always have to be prepared to be scooped off my feet. I think Perry must be tired of never seeing my legs!” Alice laughed nervously, a worried look in her eyes as she glanced at Perry in Clark’s other arm. Clark smiled at her, but didn’t say anything, instead swooping down to land the three of them on his balcony. “Come on in,” he said as he spun quickly back into his street clothes. “I’ll make us some tea.” Much later, Alice White regarded the man who looked so completely like her husband, yet wasn’t, and shook her head. “It’s hard to believe... The way you look... You seem like him, but...” She shook her head, then regarded Perry thoughtfully. “But you don’t feel like him. You don’t feel like my Perry.” “No, and you don’t feel like my Alice, not completely. But you do feel enough like her to give me a jolt.” Perry leaned forward, his hands clasped on the table, and his eyes focused on her face. Clark had a feeling that the two other people in this room had totally forgotten that he even existed. That was fine with him. These two had a lot to deal with. He hadn’t even considered the possibility of keeping Alice in the dark. She was too close a friend and too intimately involved to do that. After all, appearances to the contrary, her husband was missing. She needed to know that. And, on a more practical level, Perry needed Alice to help him complete the illusion that he was this Metropolis’s mayor. Oh, Clark supposed that there was no reason to hide anything from anybody. It wasn’t like he had a secret to be protected anymore. But there was always the possibility that someone might take advantage of the real Perry’s absence to do something nefarious and underhanded. Clark didn’t want to take that chance. So, it was right that Alice knew. But, watching the play of expression on Perry White’s face made him wonder if this situation might end up having ramifications that they couldn’t directly see. He hoped not. And then his thoughts turned to the other Lois Lane and the other Clark Kent. Did they ever think of him? Did SHE ever think of him? He’d never met anyone before that he had connected with so strongly. But this Perry and Alice had both said that it didn’t feel the same as normal. If the connection he felt to Lois Lane – strong as it had been – was actually flawed, then what would a connection to this universe’s Lois Lane have felt like? How much better would it have been? Clark sighed. It didn’t look as if he’d ever have a chance to find out. *** Metropolis – Lois and Clark’s home *** “I’m divorced? I mean he’s divorced? From Alice?” “Separated,” Lois told him. The two of them were alone in the cozy living room – Perry not even blinking an eye when Clark had suddenly spun into his Superman uniform and disappeared in a whoosh. “Is the man crazy?” Perry spat out. “I thought you said we were pretty much alike. Well, I’ll tell you – we must be more different than you think. There is no way in God’s green earth that I could ever tolerate being separated from Alice!” “It was her decision not his, Perry. From what I understand, she got tired of always being in second place to the Planet. The problem had been brewing for years before it erupted. But they’ve had lots of time to get their divorce finalised, and it hasn’t happened yet so... I guess it’s possible that neither one really wants it that badly.” Lois regarded Perry sympathetically from her vantage point seated across from him. At her words, a curiously introspective look had descended upon him, and he stared off into space, barely breathing and not blinking his eyes. “What are you thinking?” she asked. Perry slowly came out of his reverie. “Actually I was thinking that becoming the Mayor was the best thing that could have ever happened to my marriage. Now that I see what happened here, I realise that it might have happened with my Alice and me, too. She was getting pretty frustrated when I worked the long hours and ignored her. But that all changed when I ran for Mayor. The job’s still demanding; I’m just less willing to put the extra time in.” Lois shook her head. “What?” he asked. “I can’t imagine the Planet without you. It makes no sense. You belong there. Just like me. I could never imagine working anywhere else.” “You do belong there,” Perry said, hoarsely, a suddenly stricken expression on his face. “Maybe that’s one of the reasons I agreed to run for Mayor.” “What?” “You weren’t there any more. Or rather – she wasn’t there any more. The Lois Lane from my dimension.” He roughly cleared his throat. “I know you’re not her, but you’re a lot like her, and well,” he shrugged his shoulders, “it feels good to talk to you. I’ve missed that.” Lois smiled wistfully, her eyes shining with emotion. “You really miss her, huh?” He nodded solemnly. “I’m glad to know that someone misses her...” Lois swallowed and took a deep breath, “that she’s not forgotten.” “No, she’ll never be forgotten as long as I’m still kicking. I, uh, don’t know how your Perry feels but, oh heck, I always thought of Lois as a daughter. She had spunk.” Lois placed a gentle hand on Perry’s arm. “If she really was like me then I know she felt the same way about you. I love Perry. He’s like a father to me. Always has been; always will be. To Clark, too.” “That’s good,” Perry said briskly, backing away from the rampant emotions. “Just hope your Perry feels the same way about the two of you after he comes back to this dimension,” he finished with a sly grin. “Hope that he gets over all the shocks to his system.” Lois grinned back. “Oh, I am really not looking forward to our first conversation with him. Think of all the things he’ll have had to deal with.” She started ticking things off on her fingers. “Acting like the Mayor, having Jimmy own the Planet, Clark being Superman, meeting Elvis...” “Hey!” Perry interrupted. “I just thought of something. He’s separated, I’m not!” Shock and outrage was written loud and clear all over his face. “He better watch his step or I’ll arrange to meet him in a dark alley somewhere. That Alice is my Alice, and he better remember that!” “Perry, I’m sure that you don’t have anything to worry about,” Lois assured him gravely. “I know your Clark will clue in as to what’s going on pretty quickly. He’ll keep an eye on things.” “He better,” Perry muttered. “Or I’ll have something to say to him when I get home!” The two of them started talking about other, more prosaic things – the cozy, intimate atmosphere destroyed by Perry’s righteous anger. *** Alt-Metropolis – The Whites’ Home *** “More coffee?” “Thanks.” Perry watched as Alice filled his mug for him. She really was beautiful, this Alice White, almost as beautiful as his own Alice. Except she wasn’t his own Alice any more, he remembered, the shock of it still raw even after so many bitter years. Why had they never moved to finalise their divorce, he wondered. They’d almost done it, Alice having served him with the papers, but it was as if they reached a certain point and then froze, unwilling to move forward and unable to move back. “Did you sleep well?” “Huh? Oh, yes,” Perry hastily assured her. “Thanks. The guest bed’s pretty comfortable.” He had been comfortable except for the fact that sleeping in the guest bed brought back too many bad memories. After Alice had left him, he had been left in sole control of the home they had shared for so many years. It had taken him quite some time to find a buyer. He had moved into the guest bedroom in the interim, not able to face the large queen-sized bed alone. Even so, even avoiding the master bedroom, he hadn’t been able to avoid the memories. He hadn’t been able to avoid the hurt and despair and anger and self-loathing. Being back in the guest bedroom that was almost a complete duplicate of his old home’s guest bedroom had been more than enough to bring back all those old feelings. Alice sat down across from him and smiled as she reached for a piece of toast. Only a day ago, he had yearned to see that expression on Alice’s face when she looked at him, and there it was, but instead of making him happy, it only served to torment him. A bitter wave of envy for this world’s Perry White rose up in him and threatened to choke him. Did the man know what he had? Did he cherish this woman the way she should be cherished? What had that Perry White done differently? What could he, himself, have done differently to prevent the separation from his own wife? Perry shook his head. There was no point in going over the same ground yet again. Alice had left him, they were separated, they were going to be divorced, and that was that. She wanted to move on. He had no choice but to follow her lead and do the same thing. But oh, if he could only have a second chance... Needing to use words to push away the familiar pain, Perry gazed at Alice as she neatly spread jam on her toast. “So, what can you tell me about Clark?” “What about Clark? He’s a nice boy.” A nice boy. What a way to describe Superman! “Yeah, okay, he’s nice, but he’s also the most powerful man in the world. That must have taken some getting used to when you found out.” Alice smiled demurely. “It took me about three minutes to realise that Clark was the same shy, lonely, Boy Scout of a man that I always knew he was. Yes, the powers are incredible and I suppose, intimidating, but not to me and not to my Perry.” “Shy and lonely? That doesn’t sound like the Clark Kent I know.” “Are they really that different?” Perry sat back and thought hard. What were the differences between the two Clark Kents? “Well, your Clark doesn’t seem as happy as the one I know. He’s not as self-confident.” Alice nodded. “Yes, he told us that there are quite a few things that he went through that your Clark didn’t. First of all, his parents were killed when he was ten...” And Alice continued, filling Perry in about Clark’s unsettled adolescent years and his tumultuous up and down relationship with Lana. “But what was hardest on him was something that didn’t happen to him.” “What do you mean – something that didn’t happen to him?” “He didn’t have Lois Lane in his life. Meeting your Lois had a profound effect on him. It showed him what type of feelings he was capable of, but then when she left to go back to your dimension, it just yanked the rug out from under his feet. He talked to me a lot about it, and about his visit to your world.” Perry shook his head. “You know, it’s pretty humbling. Your Clark was in my newsroom, working for my newspaper, and I had no idea that I was playing host to a visitor from another dimension. Heck, I’ve known my Clark for years, and I never once suspected that he was Superman. This is a lot to take in.” Alice dropped her eyes to intently study the dregs of her coffee. “I know,” she whispered. “It’s a lot for me to take in that my Perry’s in a different world.” She bit her lip. “I miss him,” she said, simply. Perry leaned forward and gingerly took her hand in his. “You’ll get him back.” Their eyes met. “I know,” Alice said, giving him a teary smile. “Thank you.” “You’re welcome, Alice,” he replied, giving her hand one final squeeze before releasing it. “So, any idea as to what I should do today? I don’t really want to try to pass myself off as the Mayor.” “I think you’re going to take a couple of unannounced days off. I checked Perry’s planner. There’s not a lot scheduled. His secretary can easily rearrange things.” “I guess I should phone her. Uh, what’s her name, and what’s her number?” Alice patted his arm. “Don’t worry. I’ll look after everything.” Perry nodded and took another sip of coffee. He guessed it was chauvinistic on his part, but it felt so good to have Alice look after him again. ===== www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:30:42 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: New: Trading Places - Part 4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Title: Trading Places by Irene Dutchak Part 4 Rating PG Feedback welcome, both public and private *** Metropolis – Perry White’s Apartment *** Perry White got up, had a shower, shaved and made breakfast, all on automatic pilot. This didn’t feel real to him. It almost felt as though he were staying in a hotel room, this apartment was so impersonal. If Clark and Lois hadn’t assured him that this was their boss’s home, he would have never believed it. The apartment was neat and clean and furnished with comfortable utilitarian furniture. Judging from the lack of supplies in the cupboards and the fridge, the other Perry didn’t eat too many meals at home, and those he did eat consisted of frozen foods heated in his microwave. This was no way to live! He quickly cleaned up the meagre breakfast dishes and settled down to wait for Clark and Lois. They had said that they would meet with him before he headed into the Planet. Perry was actually quite excited at going in to work, having missed his job more than he had expected upon election as Mayor. Lois and Clark had wanted him to call in sick, but he wasn’t willing. It had been too long since he’d been the editor. There was just no way that he’d give up this opportunity. He smiled wryly. Imagine! He was going to work with ‘Jimmy’ Olsen who was a photographer, research assistant and aspiring reporter. What a waste of talent. The James Olsen that he knew was so capable, so entrepreneurial, it was hard to imagine him settling for less than what he had. How had this Jimmy not done more? Lois had assured him that he was, in many ways, very similar to the James Olsen that Perry knew and was friends with. But somehow, she said, he seemed to be lacking an essential drive, a motivation to succeed against the odds. Hard to believe. Equally hard to believe was the difference between the Clark Kent that he’d known over the last few years and the Clark Kent of this dimension. This Clark was so much happier and more self-confident on a personal level, but at the same time, didn’t seem as comfortable using his super-powers in front of anyone except his wife. Not that he had to, Tempus having failed in his plot to expose Superman’s secret identity in this dimension. It was too bad Tempus had succeeded in Perry’s own dimension. It was easy to see that this Clark took a lot for granted that his friend, Clark, no longer could. Even something so simple as walking down the street was a privilege his friend could no longer enjoy. Lois made a huge difference to Clark; it was easy to see that. The two of them meshed, their connection almost visible to an outsider. Perry shook his head. Who would have thought that Mad Dog Lane could have ever been tamed? This Lois really was softer than the Lois he remembered so fondly. But his Lois might have had the potential to come out of her shell to the same extent if she had had the right person in her life, too. It would have been nice if she had still been around when Clark had entered his newsroom. No guarantees, however. They might have hated each other. People made different choices in each world, after all. Look at the other Perry. He and his Alice had certainly made a different choice from Perry and his wife. Perry understood a little better what had happened to the two of them after talking to Lois. It was possible that he and his Alice might have ended up at the same point if he hadn’t decided to run for Mayor. But he had. And now, no matter that he found the work less than fulfilling, he was grateful. He would have hated to have lost Alice. If only there were a way he could have both – his wife and his old job. That would be ideal. Perry glanced at his watch. He still had a few minutes to wait. He glanced around the room. How could the other Perry live like this? It was so bleak. The only personal item in the small living room was a picture of Alice. Hold on! A picture of Alice? Why would a man on the brink of divorce keep a photo of his soon-to-be ex-wife on display? Could it be that the other Perry really didn’t want to be divorced? That he wanted to be reconciled with her? It would make sense to Perry if that were so. He couldn’t imagine anything that Alice, his Alice, could ever do that would turn him against her. Ever. And, Lois had said that Alice had left Perry rather than the other way around. She hadn’t known everything about the situation, but Lois had speculated that it had been a lack of attention from the other Perry that had precipitated the situation. It didn’t sound like there was another man around or anything like that. Very interesting. Perry jumped, shocked out of his reverie by a hearty knock on the door. He opened it to see the smiling faces of the Planet’s two star reporters. Lois stepped forward and shyly planted a kiss on his cheek to his delight. “Did you sleep well?” “I did, thank you,” he assured her giving her a quick squeeze before stepping back away from her. “Ready to go?” Clark asked. “Raring to go!” Perry grinned at the two of them. “I’ve missed the Planet.” “It won’t be exactly the same...” “I know,” Perry said, interrupting Clark. “Olsen sounds like the big difference from everything you said.” He sighed heavily. “Ralph, however, sounds exactly the same!” Clark chuckled. “Two Ralphs! Now that’s a scary concept!” Lois didn’t say anything, only snorting in derision. “So, what story are you two working on, first of all?” Perry asked. The two of them exchanged looks that he couldn’t interpret before they turned back to him, carefully blank matching expressions on their faces. “Well,” Lois said, hesitantly, “I guess the first thing we have to do is come up with a story to explain what happened yesterday in Mayor Samuel’s office.” “Oh. Hell’s bells! I forgot about that. Right. Uh, any suggestions? I’d hate for your Perry to have problems when he comes back.” Lois and Clark looked at each other again. “We thought that maybe you could have been mugged, whacked on the head and suffering from a concussion,” Lois said. “Or a bad guy drugged you with something taking revenge for a story that the Planet ran,” Clark offered as an alternative. “Or you fell in the shower, hit your head and the blow caused delusions.” Perry grimaced. “Uh, let’s go with the last one,” he said, embarrassed. “I can’t believe I wasn’t quicker on the ball yesterday, but I have to tell you. Whatever that stuff was that knocked me out, it left me with the king of all hangovers! I’ve never felt so miserable in my life. It was totally impossible to think straight. I feel sorry for anyone who’s ever been exposed to that stuff! I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy!” *** Alt-Metropolis – The Daily Planet *** “Let me get this straight. In your world, my name is Jimmy, and I’m a research assistant and photographer.” “Uh huh.” Perry White grinned at the discomfited expression on James Olsen’s face. “I’m not wealthy.” “Nope.” “And I don’t own the Planet.” “Heck, son, you don’t even own your own TV; you leased one from a rent-to-own place.” James winced. “Oh, man,” he said, cradling his head in his hands. “I can’t believe this.” Perry’s grin widened. “Think about it from my point of view. All of a sudden, I have to deal with the fact that my gofer is really a business tycoon in another dimension, and my most mild-mannered employee is really a superhero in disguise!” Clark chuckled. “When you get back, I hope you’re not going to be too hard on Clark, Perry. He’s not a bad guy. A little holier-than-thou, sometimes, but not bad.” “Don’t you worry, son. I’ll be nice to him. Now, Lois, though, I think I’ll have to be a little tougher on her. I mean, after all, she calls herself a reporter, but what did she do when this great story landed in her lap? She let herself get personally involved and married the man. Now that’s totally contrary to everything I ever taught her!” James and Clark laughed heartily at the mock-indignation that they heard from Perry. “You old softy, you!” James exclaimed. “You might not be an exact duplicate of my old friend, but I can still read you like a book. You’re pleased for her, aren’t you? You’re pleased for both of them.” “Yes, I am,” Perry admitted sheepishly. “I love that girl like a daughter, and I think Clark is the best thing that ever happened to Lois. It does my heart good to see them so happy.” Clark’s smile slipped. It was a momentary lapse in expression but James and Perry still picked up on it. “Uh, I’m sorry, Clark,” Perry said. “I, uh, Alice told me that... I’m not sure I know how to say this, but... Oh, heck! Maybe you’ll be able to find this world’s Lois Lane! I can’t believe that she could just disappear without a trace.” “People do all the time, Perry. You know that.” “I guess they do, Clark. After all, no one’s ever found Jimmy Hoffa, have they?” Clark shook his head. “He’s not lost. He just retired from his position as Head of the UN security council.” “Huh?” “That’s right,” James assured Perry. “The most highly respected man at the UN.” “Okay, fine, if you say so,” Perry said, leaning back into the comfort of the easy chair. “Um, I don’t know if I’ve told you this yet, today, but I really want to go home. Nothing makes sense here.” “I know, Perry,” Clark said, softly. “Unfortunately, I don’t have any ideas. I think we’re going to have to wait for Mr. Wells to get in contact.” “Great,” Perry muttered. “Stuck in Wonderland waiting for a dead science-fiction writer to rescue me. That’s reassuring.” “Hey, if you’re in Wonderland, then that has to make Clark the ‘Cheshire Cat’. He gets around just as fast!” James smirked at his friend. Clark grinned back. “Fine by me, but then you’ve got to be the ‘Mad Hatter,’ James. Always rushing everywhere. Sounds like a busy executive to me!” The door slammed open, banging into the wall. “I guess that makes me the Queen of Hearts!” The three men turned as one to face the door. There, framed in it, was a woman who was all too familiar to two of the three men in the room. Her clothing was torn, and she was pale under the layer of filth covering her. They could see that she was shaking as she clutched desperately at the doorframe. “Lois!” Clark gasped, jumping to his feet and taking two steps closer to her. She glanced at him, her eyes dazed and confused. “Who are you? Never mind that. You look strong. Are you?” “Uh huh.” “Good. Catch!” And she pitched forward, out like the proverbial light. He caught her automatically and swung her carefully into his arms. As Clark gently laid her on the hastily vacated couch, James’ and Perry’s eyes met over the top of his head, the same stunned expression on both their faces. Clark slowly straightened up. He gazed down at the recumbent woman, then turned to face Perry and James. Perry found himself catching his breath at the incandescent joy that blazed out of Clark’s eyes. “Did you hear?” he hissed triumphantly. “She doesn’t have a clue who I am!” Perry nodded, struck dumb. James was quick to pick up on the implications. “That’s fantastic, buddy! Congratulations!” He firmly shook the jubilant superhero’s hand. *** Metropolis – The Daily Planet *** Perry happily surveyed his alternate’s private domain at the Planet. It looked much the same as his old office had. Well, with the notable exception of all the Elvis paraphernalia. That was completely over the top as far as this particular Perry White was concerned! He chuckled. If they didn’t get things straightened out today, then the other Perry White would get to meet Elvis at his comeback concert tomorrow night. Even though he missed Alice more than anything, a little part of him hoped that Mr. Wells wouldn’t return to Metropolis until the day after tomorrow. It would be great if his counterpart could see his idol in concert. Although, he thought darkly, if Elvis’s music did the same thing to that man’s libido that it did to his own, maybe it would be better to get things switched around as soon as possible. He didn’t want that Perry to take advantage of Alice in his absence! Forcing himself to relax, he tried to calm down. Clark wouldn’t let anything untoward happen. He would have told Alice about everything. And Perry trusted Alice. Plus, if this man were anything like him, there was no way that he could ever do anything like that with a married woman. Although... That Perry must miss his Alice something fierce to keep her picture in his apartment. But all the same, he had to trust him to be ethical, no matter how tempted he might be. Exerting a massive amount of willpower, Perry pushed his problems to the back of his mind. Brooding over them wasn’t going to do him any good. He switched on the computer and studied the sign-in screen. Hmmm. Now what would his counterpart have used as a password? He thought hard for a moment, typed in a few letters and then smiled. Yep. The other Perry had the same password that he used to have – the name of the restaurant where he and Alice had had their first date. More than anything, that told Perry exactly how the other Perry felt about his impending divorce. Okay, first order of business was to explore the files so that he could bring himself current. Opening the first document, he dove into the minutiae that made up the day-to-day business of a major metropolitan newspaper. Lois and Clark periodically checked on him, but he barely acknowledged their presence, focused on what he was studying. They told him that they had warned everyone off so that he would have some uninterrupted time to acclimate himself to their world. Many hours later, he leaned back into the comfortable chair and sighed heavily. He felt much more confident about his ability to fool those around him now. But some of what he had learned was more than upsetting. Leaning forward, he once again accessed the private journal that he had stumbled across. His face grim, he reread the anguished words. They resonated inside him. He knew these words. He knew that these were the words that would pour out of him if anything were to happen to his relationship with Alice. The poor man. Perry felt guilty for having seen those impassioned sentences. But when he had discovered the file, he had read it, rationalizing that he needed to know everything possible to maintain the deception. Snatches of sentences ran together in front of suddenly blurry eyes. ‘... love you more than life itself ... know you’re the only woman for me ... give anything to hold you once more ... I’m so lonely ... I miss you so much ... my life’s not worth anything without you ...’ He shook his head. How could his counterpart bear to live without her? Glancing up at the screen, the other Perry’s words answered the question. He couldn’t. His counterpart couldn’t bear it. Perry leaned forward on his elbows, his face grim above his steepled fingers. He thought hard. He shouldn’t do it; it wasn’t technically any of his business. But he knew he wouldn’t be able to live with himself if he didn’t. It was only the work of a moment to find her new phone number. Taking a deep breath, he quickly dialled. “Hello, Alice? It’s Perry. No, don’t say anything yet, please. Let me talk. I, uh, had some stuff I wanted to talk to you about. Do you think we could meet? Lunch? What time? Where? Okay, I’ll be there.” He hung up. That had gone well. He hoped it had, anyway. One thing – if he had just made one of the biggest mistakes of his life, he wouldn’t have to live with the consequences. *** Alt-Metropolis – Daily Planet *** “I think she’s coming around!” Clark exclaimed, excitedly to the two men standing away from the couch. Her eyes twitched and then opened. She gazed up into the concerned brown eyes that were staring back at her. “Are you okay? Do you know where you are? Do you want anything to drink?” “Got any painkillers?” She slowly shifted from lying on the couch to sitting on it. Groaning, she held her head in her hands, squinting against the bright light. With a whoosh, Clark disappeared only to reappear a second later, two small white tablets in his cupped palm and a mug of water in his other hand. She fell backwards with a startled cry only to groan again and clutch at her head as her body hit the back of the couch. “Sorry,” Clark murmured, crestfallen. “I forgot you don’t know about me.” She blinked up at him. “Doesn’t mean I don’t want to, though.” She took the pills from his hand and popped them into her mouth. “Don’t want to what?” She swallowed hastily, clearing her mouth of water. “Don’t want to know about you. That was pretty amazing!” Clark felt himself colour. “Glad you liked it.” He smiled at her warmly, feeling wonderful. He couldn’t believe it. Lois Lane. The Lois Lane. His world’s Lois Lane. Here. With him. In the newsroom. Which reminded him. James and Perry were waiting anxiously to see her. They hadn’t been happy with him when he’d autocratically shoved the two of them aside to minister to her himself, but he hadn’t cared. He beckoned them closer. “Lois, honey?” “Perry, do you have any idea what’s going on? The last thing I remember is being in the Congo and now, suddenly I’m here. What happened to me?” She looked around the room, her eyes locking on James and Clark. “And who are these guys? Did you know that one,” she pointed at Clark, “can do pretty amazing things?” Perry laughed. “Yeah, it’s been pointed out to me,” he said, acerbically. “First of all, this is James Olsen. He’s the, uh, new owner of the Daily Planet.” “Hello,” James said, awkwardly. “He is? You are?” Lois dubiously eyed the young man. “When did that happen, and how did you get the money? You look like you’re too young to even buy booze!” Clark hid a smile as James flushed brick red. “Uh, he’s some kind of computer whiz, honey. Made a ton of money in that line of work. And he’s older than he looks.” Perry glanced back at James. “Not by much, but he is,” he muttered under his breath. Clark’s grin was impossible to hide after that wry statement. “And this is Clark Kent.” Perry gestured at Clark who promptly came to attention. “He’s pretty special, and yes, he can do many, many amazing things. I’m sure he’ll be happy to, uh, give you a guided tour of his abilities, so to speak.” Perry winked surreptitiously at Clark. It was Clark’s turn to blush furiously. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Lane,” Clark said, quietly, extending his hand to her. She shook it gingerly, wincing at the slight movement. “Head still hurts?” Clark asked. “Uh huh,” she replied, grimacing in pain. “This might help,” he said as he moved to sit beside her. Twisting her body to face away from him, he laid his fingers on her neck and started rubbing it gently. “How’s that?” “Oh, that’s wonderful,” she purred, the tension in her face melting away. “That’s really fantastic. I don’t care what other ‘amazing things’ you can do, giving a good neck rub has to top the list!” “Uh, White,” interjected James, “let’s go talk about, uh, the latest story. I could really use your input.” Perry glanced at him. “Sure,” he hastily agreed. The two men left the room, but neither of the occupants really even noticed. She was enjoying the massage too much, and Clark’s heart was too busy soaring into the heavens for him to note something so down-to-earth. “So, Clark,” she said. “No one’s answered my question. What happened to me, and who hit me over the head?” ===== www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:31:02 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: New: Trading Places - Part 5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Title: Trading Places by Irene Dutchak Part 5 Rating PG Feedback welcome, both public and private *** Metropolis Women’s Prison – Warden’s Office *** Warden Bronson eyed Dr. Jenkins who sat opposite her desk. “In your opinion, is she fit to work or not?” The young doctor twisted her hands in her lap. “I don’t know. It’s hard to say. She’s very confused, but the severe headache is gone, and I can’t find any reason for her to have been in such pain.” “Could she have been faking it?” Ms. Bronson leaned forward to stare intently at Dr. Jenkins who, uncharacteristically, shook her head in a decisive motion. “No. She didn’t, and that I do know for sure. There’s no way that she could have raised her blood pressure to such a high level or made her heart work so quickly. I don’t know what she was exposed to, but it had a definite deleterious effect on her.” “Bad drugs?” the warden asked, grimly. “No.” Again the young doctor shook her head. “No trace of anything in her system. But she still is quite confused – even more so than normal.” “Still claims to be the real Lois Lane?” “Well, yes, of course, that hasn’t changed, but that’s not all. For some reason, she is totally confused as to what year it is, and claims to be acquainted with Charlton Heston. President Charlton Heston.” “President...” The warden’s voice trailed off. “She’s got to be trying to transfer to a psych ward. There’s no other explanation. Well, too bad. It’s not going to work. Transfer her back to her cell. She goes back to work tomorrow.” “I really don’t think that’s a good...” “Did you hear me, Dr. Jenkins?” The doctor shrank back from the intensity of Warden Bronson’s gaze. “Yes,” she said meekly. “Good. You have your instructions. Now follow them.” “Yes, ma’am.” The doctor left the office, her mind working away at the problem that prisoner no. 712935 had presented her with. She couldn’t help but be concerned. She sensed that there would be problems due to her huge amount of confusion. Quite a few minutes later, the doctor didn’t just sense that there would be problems with the prisoner; she knew it. She’d tried to remonstrate with the woman, tried to tell her that it was the better part of valour for her to at least pretend to follow the rules, but the woman refused to listen to her. “You’re holding me illegally. My name is Lois Lane. I’m a reporter. This is an illegal conspiracy, and I will get to the bottom of this. When I do, I wouldn’t want to be in your shoes.” The doctor knew that this woman had been brought to trial, that she was a legitimate prisoner, and that no one in the prison was part of any illegal conspiracy. Even so, Dr. Jenkins shuddered at the ring of truth and determination in the prisoner’s voice. Yes, she knew that this one was going to cause any number of problems after she’d been returned to her cell. *** Metropolis – Four Seasons Café *** “So what did you want to talk to me about, Perry?” Alice gazed at him warily. Perry glanced around the small restaurant as if to assure himself that they wouldn’t be interrupted. The waiter had taken their orders, there was no one around that he recognised, and he realised that the moment of truth that had seemed like such a good idea earlier, was now here. “It’s hard to know exactly how to say this, so...” He handed her a sheaf of papers. “I want you to read this.” Alice took the pages from him. “What are these?” “Read them and see. I, uh, I’ll just go for a little walk to give you some privacy.” He got up from the table. “I’ll be back in a couple of minutes.” He strode away, leaving her gazing helplessly at his back. Alice shook her head and turned her attention to the papers in her hand. It only took a second for the words on the page to capture her complete and undivided attention. “What the...” she muttered as her eyes raced to the end of each sentence. It didn’t take long before tears spilled over to roll down her cheeks. By the time Perry returned to the small table, Alice had finished. The papers had been folded carefully in half and tucked into her purse. She had managed to pull herself together after mopping her cheeks dry, and after taking many sips of water. But her eyes were tinged with red and her face was flushed. He sat down silently and waited. She stared at him, her expression dazed and incredulous. “You never told me... You should have told me... Oh, Perry!” He held his hand up, stopping her. “Before you say anything, I have to tell you something really important.” “More important than what you just did?” Perry smiled wryly. “No. But important in a different way.” “Okay,” she said, warily. “I’ll listen.” “All right then. What I’m going to tell you is going to sound too fantastic to be true, but I’m asking you to keep a completely open mind. Will you do that?” She nodded, her eyes intent on his face. Perry took a deep breath and blew it out heavily. “Okay then. Have you ever read much science fiction?” Quite a few minutes later, Perry fell silent. Alice regarded him solemnly but didn’t say a word. “So do you believe me?” “A little bit,” she answered. “I mean, it’s so completely fantastic and out of this world and bizarre, and I shouldn’t believe you, but at the same time, there’s just something about you that feels... wrong. No, not wrong, different. Wrong would mean that you’re not Perry White at all and I know that you are Perry, you’re just not my Perry.” She shook her head. “I guess what I’m saying is my heart believes you, but my head’s kind of conflicted about the whole thing.” “That’s fair enough,” Perry told her with a wry smile. “If it weren’t happening to me, I’m not so sure that I’d believe it either.” “So why tell me? You say that my Perry should be back whenever this Wells character returns to check on things. He could have gone and returned, and I’d have never been the wiser.” Perry sighed. “I found what he’d written, and then I just felt like I didn’t have a choice.” Leaning forward, he regarded her seriously and intently. “I am so completely and totally happily married, it’s not funny. I love my wife more than life itself – although I don’t tell her that enough – and I would be more lost than you can believe without her.” Alice glanced away from him, blinking back tears. “Yeah, well, that’s you. That’s not him and not me.” “It’s not? Are you sure? I read those words of his, and I knew he wasn’t just blowing smoke. He loves you, Alice. He’s lost without you. He wants you back. But it’s obvious to me that he doesn’t think you want him any longer, and he still has his pride. He’s not going to ask.” She was weeping again, silently and intensely. “I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t ask this on his behalf – do you still love him? Do you want to be with him?” “More than life itself!” The words burst from her throat as if under pressure. “I love him more than I can say. But he hurt me. He treated me as if I were an afterthought in his life. As if I weren’t important to him!” “So tell him! When he comes back, tell him how you feel. Unless he’s a lot stupider than I am, or a lot more pigheaded, he’ll be grateful for a second chance, and he won’t make the same mistake twice.” “I don’t know if I can! I have my pride, too.” Her face was twisted in a vain effort to hold back her tears. “Then you’ll be alone, and he’ll be alone, and from where I sit, it looks like an awful waste of two people’s lives.” Alice gazed at him, a stricken expression on her face. “I don’t know if I can,” she repeated. Perry leaned forward and regarded her earnestly. “Will you promise me that you’ll think about it?” “Yes.” She smiled wryly. “I think I can guarantee that I’m not going to think about anything else over the next few days. But how will I know? How will I know when my Perry’s back?” Perry regarded him sombrely. “I won’t be calling you again; there’s no point. So, the next time you hear from your husband, he really will be your husband.” She nodded. “Okay. That presupposes that I will hear from him again, but I guess I’ll have to live with that.” She nervously patted her hair into place. “So, you never did tell me why this Tempus targeted you and my Perry.” “Uh, I can’t really answer that. It has to do with Superman, but it’s his business not mine.” “I guess I’ll have to resign myself to not knowing.” Alice leaned back in her chair only to sit up straight. “Hey! My Perry’s with your Alice! I’m not sure I like the sound of that.” “Superman’s a close friend of mine. He’ll know what’s happened, and I’m sure he’ll keep an eye on them.” “You sound awfully calm.” Perry chuckled. “Well, the alternative is to go nuts, and with everything that’s been going on, I figure I’m halfway there already!” Alice laughed. “Well, whenever you get there, I’ll join you. My grasp on reality seems to have gotten a lot shakier recently!” The waiter approached to present them with their meals. By an unspoken agreement, Alice and Perry didn’t discuss this most interesting of situations anymore, instead talking about inconsequentialities while they ate their meal. *** Alt-Metropolis – The Whites’ Home *** Clark hesitated for a microsecond before firmly rapping on the door. He knew he was early for dinner, but he just couldn’t help it. He needed to be with Lois. He was afraid that if he weren’t, she’d only end up disappearing again. It had been harder than he would have thought possible to let her leave with Perry, but how could he have volunteered to have her stay with him? She didn’t know him. She didn’t trust him. And yet, she had seemed interested in him, Clark mused, still feeling a sense of wonder. The door opened, revealing Perry. “You’re early. She’s in the shower. You’re going to have to wait.” Clark smiled, sheepishly. “I’m sorry. I just couldn’t help it.” Perry took a step back and gestured for Clark to enter. “Nice flowers,” he said, sounding amused. Clark felt himself flush. He regarded the oversized bouquet that he clutched as if it were a lifeline. “I didn’t know which flowers were her favourite. I guess I went a bit overboard.” Perry smiled. “My Lois has always liked roses, but believe it or not, her favourite flower is the daisy. I’m not sure about this Lois, though.” The two men sat down and tried to make conversation, but it was pretty difficult. Clark just about jumped out of his skin at every faint sound coming from the upstairs of the house. “You know,” Perry said, “this Lois sure is a lot mellower than my Lois.” “You think so?” “Uh huh. She barely blinked an eye when we told her that so much time had passed.” “Shock.” “You think?” “I’m sure of it,” Clark assured Perry, confidently. “Once it wears off...” “Look out?” “Uh huh.” “Anyway, I really expected more of a reaction, especially when we told her that her apartment was long gone, and we didn’t have a clue where all her things were.” Perry shook his head. “But she seemed more interested in flirting with you.” Clark grinned happily. “So you thought so too!” “Thought what?” “That she seemed interested in me.” “Uh huh. She did. But that’s different from my Lois.” “Your Lois told me that she fell in love with Superman the first time she saw him,” Clark pointed out to Perry, feeling a bit defensive. “Well, this Lois knows that I’m Superman already.” “Yes,” Perry admitted. “But somehow this just seems, well, like I said, different. She’s reacting differently, that’s all.” He shrugged. “I don’t know exactly why I’m surprised; they are two separate people after all, but even James and Jimmy seem more alike than my Lois and this Lois.” “I’m looking forward to finding out more about this Lois,” Clark told Perry firmly. “Oh, of course, you are. I’m sorry. Yes. I’m not criticizing, Clark. I’m just commenting. In many ways, this Lois is a total stranger to me, too,” Perry hastily said. “Yes, exactly.” Clark leaned back trying to relax only to jump when Alice dropped something in the kitchen. “I think I’ll see if I can help,” Perry murmured before leaving the room. Clark couldn’t sit still. He had to get up and pace. His heart was beating a mile a minute. Looking up, he nearly activated his x-ray vision, but managed to tear his eyes away with a great deal of effort. Resolutely, he focused his attention on the knickknacks on the mantel over the fireplace. “What’s so interesting?” a sultry voice asked. He jumped, flowers flying everywhere. She laughed, a lovely musical sound. “Sorry!” she exclaimed although she didn’t sound too apologetic. Clark felt the hot colour flood into his cheeks. “My fault,” he muttered before switching on the super-speed and quickly gathering the flowers up in some semblance of order once again. “Here, these are for you,” he said, presenting her with the untidy bouquet. She regarded him warmly before burying her nose in the flowers. “Mmmm, thank you. These are lovely.” “Not as lovely as you,” he blurted out clumsily. She smiled silkily. “Thank you.” “I’m sorry. There aren’t any daisies,” he said. “That’s okay,” she assured him. “I’m not fond of daisies. They’re too boring and plain. I love roses. They’re so exotic and mysterious, don’t you think?” She gestured at a couple of the flowers in the diverse bouquet. “I’ll just go and find Alice, and we’ll put these in water, okay?” “Oh, sure,” he said, awkwardly standing in place and watching her leave the room. Dinner was somewhat tense and strained. Clark strived to talk with Lois, Perry and Alice, but couldn’t seem to relax and let the conversation flow. Perry was strangely silent, watching Lois as she prattled on and on about inconsequentialities. Funny. He had always enjoyed it when the other Lois had babbled, her words tripping over each other as they ended up in weird irrelevant tangents. But he had to force himself to concentrate to listen to this woman chatter on and on. Alice was wonderful as per usual, filling in the awkward pauses and silences with comments and questions. When the main course was done, as usual Clark helped Alice clear the table. If it had just been the three of them as per their normal dinners, he would have done it at super-speed, but for some reason, he just didn’t want to do that in front of Lois. And yet, he didn’t even know why he felt that way! He hadn’t hesitated earlier, but now... The first time Clark had been invited for dinner after his secret was out, Alice had told Clark to relax and enjoy being their guest. But Clark had demurred. It wasn’t the way his late mother had raised him, he had told Alice. He just wouldn’t be comfortable not helping, and seeing as the two of them now knew what he was capable of, he might as well make himself as useful as possible. He smiled as he remembered the look on both his friends’ faces when he had cleared everything up, done the dishes and put everything away in under a minute. Perry had chuckled, and Alice had ruffled his hair, telling him that he must have been champing at the bit to show off like that for a long time and now that he had that off his chest, he could relax around them again. She’d been right in a way. He hadn’t been overly thrilled to have the world know his secret, but it had been so liberating to have friends like Alice, Perry and James to talk to about his abilities. And now he had Lois, too, he reminded himself, guiltily aware that his attention had drifted away from her. Forcing himself to concentrate, he listened as she went on and on about changes in the latest fashions. Strange. The other Lois always looked, well, she always looked fantastic! But she hadn’t talked about it, and she hadn’t seemed as though she were a slave to the latest trends. Maybe if Clark had got to know her better, he would have discovered that she really was a trendsetter, but he hadn’t so he didn’t know for sure. It wasn’t that attractive a trait, he mused, but then he forced that thought out of his head. This was Lois! Okay, she wasn’t perfect, but she was the woman he had been waiting for. She was the woman of his dreams. It was only inevitable that he had romanticized her, and it was only inevitable that his dream of her would end up a little tattered around the edges when faced with the reality. Nothing to worry about. Really. He was drifting again, not paying any attention. Making a super-heroic effort of will, Clark focused on Lois once more, nodding his head in agreement as she droned on and on and on. And on. *** Metropolis Women’s Prison – 5 A.M. *** Prisoner no. 712935 gazed in disbelief at the mountain of food in front of her. “What did you say?” she asked the guard in shock. “I said ‘Get to work.’ You campaigned for this job, and now you’ve got it, so get to work.” “I campaigned for this? I wanted this? Are you crazy? Am I? No, don’t answer that. I don’t want to know.” “Look. It was between you and Darla, and she’s plenty ticked off that you got picked for an influential job like this one. She and her cronies could make a lot of trouble for us if they’re given any reason so I would suggest that you stop your playacting and get off your duff and make breakfast. There are going to be a couple of hundred hungry prisoners in the mess hall in a few hours so stop this nonsense and get moving.” “An influential job? Cooking? But...” The guard held up an admonitory forefinger. “Don’t start with me, Doe. I’m not in the mood.” “Doe?” “Hey, tell us your real name if you want that changed any time soon, Ms. Jane Doe.” The prisoner opened her mouth only to close it with a snap as the guard continued. “But you better not say ‘Lois Lane.’ That answer got old real fast over the last few years. You know, I’ve always had a teeny tiny soft spot for you. You’ve never given me any problems, you’re smart, you’re cooperative, but you’re still crazy. I’ve seen the real Lois Lane on the news. I read her stuff in the Planet. She and that husband of hers are total go-getters. They’ve done a lot of good for Metropolis. It’s just not right that you’re trying to take her identity.” “Husband?” she gasped. “Yeah. Clark Kent. As if you don’t know. You pitched a fit when she married him.” “I did?” “Listen, Doe. Tick tock, time’s a wasting. That soft spot I have for you doesn’t translate to spending any more time gabbing. For the last time, get moving.” “But...” The guard held up her forefinger again, and prisoner 712935 fell silent. She turned and surveyed the kitchen before sighing heavily and moving forward towards the food. As she moved around the work area, she muttered a steady litany of complaints. “Reconstituted eggs, yummy. I can’t even cook the real thing, and now I have to make this stuff taste half-decent. Great! Oh, and coffee for two hundred – that should be a snap! Hmmm, what do you think, Lane? Five pounds of coffee? Yeah, that should work. Oh, goody! Bacon AND sausage. And look! Ham, too. Haven’t these people ever heard of cholesterol? I’d rather have low-fat yoghurt and orange juice for breakfast. What is it with all these fatty foods? No wonder recidivism rates are so high. Lack of nutrition.” As she furiously toiled away in an enveloping cloud of egg powder, her mind worked at a furious pace trying to make sense of everything that she had learned. There was a conspiracy; there had to be. But somehow, these guards didn’t seem part of it. They were convinced that she was some kind of duplicate of the ‘real Lois Lane’, never mind that the ‘real Lois Lane’ was living a life that she had never dreamed of! Married? Yeah, right. Like that was ever going to happen in real life. That was about as likely as... as likely as a man that flies! But who would be behind something like this? Who would have the smarts or the cunning to do this? Who would have the money? Yes, she was a good reporter – no, a great reporter! But she wasn’t that well known yet. The situation with the terrorists in the Congo was supposed to be her breakout story. So now she was back at the beginning. Who had targeted her and why? The only thing she could do was to pretend to cooperate and at the same time, use her brain. If she tried hard enough, she’d figure this out. No one ever said that Lois Lane was dumb. Oh hell! The bacon was burning! And the sausages, too. Even the ham was curling around the edges and smoking. Maybe if she buried the meat under the scrambled eggs, no one would notice. Yeah. That would work. ===== www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:31:18 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: New: Trading Places - Part 6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Title: Trading Places by Irene Dutchak Part 6 Rating PG Feedback welcome, both public and private *** Alt-Metropolis – The Daily Planet *** “So what do you think of my operation here, Perry?” Perry surveyed the bustling newsroom. “It looks pretty darn good, James. I’m impressed. It’s running just about as smoothly as my newsroom back home.” “Yeah, well, most of the systems were put in place by Perry before he was elected Mayor. I’ve just been following his lead. But I’ll tell you. He must have been practically living here. If I had known how much work I was going to end up with, I would have never pushed him to run for office!” “You’re finding it a bit much, aren’t you?” “Oh, yeah. I barely have any semblance of a personal life.” James leaned back in the comfortable office chair and perused his visitor. Perry was finding sitting on the other side of his desk an unusual and somewhat uncomfortable experience, but he tried hard not to let it show. “Don’t make the same mistake that I did,” he told James, seriously. “I know you’re looking for a new editor, but in the meantime, hire yourself an assistant. The new person, whomever that may be, will need someone good to take up the slack.” “Hmmmm.” James pursed his lips as he thought about it. “I think I will. Thanks, Perry. Good advice.” Yeah, Perry thought. If only I had taken it for myself. “So how did last night go?” James asked, changing the subject. Perry frowned. “I’m not sure, Ji - James. It just didn’t feel right. I don’t know how to explain it. But Clark didn’t look happy, and Lois looked nervous, and Alice is worried about her husband, and well, it was a bit of a mess.” “That’s too bad! James exclaimed. “But I’m sure things will improve for Clark and Lois. I mean – this is all he’s lived for. She’s the pinnacle of his dreams. He’s clung to the hope that she was alive for so long. It just has to work.” “I hope it does,” Perry said, sadly. “I really do.” “Speak of the devil.” James gestured at the window. Perry turned around in time to see Clark emerging from the elevator. “What’s he doing here? I would have thought he’d still be hovering over Lois.” Clark caught sight of the two men sitting in James’s office and quickly strode towards them. Opening the door, he slipped inside and firmly shut the door once more. “Hi. I thought I’d head in here and see what’s going on, and whether there’s anything that you need me to do, and how you’re doing, Perry, and then I thought I’d fly a quick patrol and check out those trouble spots I told you about the other day, James, and...” “Stop!” Perry held up his hand. “Clark, what’s going on, son?” “Nothing.” James and Perry exchanged glances. “Uh huh,” James murmured. “Somehow we’re not sure we believe you. What’s going on, Clark?” Clark sighed and sat down heavily on the chair beside Perry. “I don’t like her.” “What?” “I know, I know. I’ve dreamed, I’ve hoped, I’ve prayed, and now that she’s here, I just don’t like her. She’s shallow and mindless and boring, and she prattles on and on about meaningless stuff, and I look at her and I feel nothing,” he finished, glumly. “I feel so guilty. This is awful. I felt more for the other Lois, but this is supposed to be my Lois. Well, not my Lois, but you know what I mean. I just figured that she’d be right for me the way the other Lois is right for him – the other Clark. But this woman – she’s most definitely not right for me. I don’t have a clue who she would be right for, but I don’t think I want to meet the man who falls for her!” Perry clapped his hand on Clark’s shoulder and squeezed firmly. “Clark, it’s okay. Just because something’s right for the other Clark doesn’t mean it’s right for you. You have to make your own way.” “I know, Perry. It’s just...” “It’s just that you were hoping.” “Yeah.” The three men sat in glum silence for a long time before James finally spoke up. “We’re here for you, buddy.” Clark nodded. “I know. That helps a lot. Thanks, James. Now I just have to figure out what to do about Lois. She’s going to want her job back, and there is no way that I could ever work with that woman!” “We’ll figure something out. Don’t worry.” Clark nodded again, but it was obvious from the look of him that he wasn’t going to be so easily comforted. Perry’s heart twisted at the desolate look of the poor man who sat slumped beside him. How horrible to want something so badly only to find that it wasn’t worth the effort when you finally achieved it. But was it worse to have something and then not value it until after it was gone? That was what he had done with Alice. At that moment, as he watched his new friend whose hopes and dreams were dashed into oblivion, Perry vowed that if the fates were kind to him, and he got a second chance, he’d leap at it without hesitation. He didn’t deserve her, but he wanted Alice back so badly. He had to try. He just hoped that he’d get the opportunity soon. The elevator dinged, and Lois Lane emerged from within. Her eyes brightened when she caught sight of Clark sitting in James’s office, and her high heels clicked merrily on the floor as she bustled over to join them. The three men stood to meet her as she entered the room. “I was really hoping to find you here,” she said as she tucked her arm into Clark’s. “You did offer to help me...” “I did?” Clark blurted out. “So I thought I’d take you up on it,” she continued as she squeezed his arm and gazed fatuously up at him. With gentle tugs, Lois led Clark out of James’s office. She smiled at the two remaining men, waved gaily and dragged Clark towards the elevator, prattling about a new apartment, and what furniture should she buy, and she really needed new clothes which he could help pick out, and his being able to fly was amazing – did he think he could take her some time? As the elevator doors closed, James and Perry could see Clark looking back at them, a dismal, glum, miserable expression on his face. He looked as though he were heading to his own execution. *** Metropolis – The Daily Planet *** Clark was feeling edgier and edgier. Other than the problem with the two Perry Whites, he had no idea what Tempus had done to disrupt things. He had a strong feeling that there must be more happening behind the scenes, but he had no idea what that might be, and until Mr. Wells returned, he wouldn’t know. As far as upsetting Lois and Clark’s life, having this Perry here was a bit of a dud, the threat presented by him having fizzled out quite quickly. Clark wasn’t surprised. Perry White was an honourable man, and that seemed to be something that remained unchanged between dimensions. His disappearance for an hour yesterday was very interesting as was his air of mystery when he returned to the newsroom. What had he done? Oh, Clark wasn’t worried that this Perry had done anything sly or underhanded, but he couldn’t help being curious all the same. It was heart wrenching watching this Perry interact with Lois. His face lit up when she entered the room, he deferred to her in conversation, his eyes never left her face, and the sheer happiness that he felt in her company couldn’t be hidden. Clark had always known that Perry was fond of her, but he hadn’t realised how deep the ties were that bound them together. Perry truly was the father that Sam Lane had never been. One thing about this situation – one thing about their Perry knowing about Superman – Lois and Clark would no longer have to hide anything from their boss. This secret that he and Lois shared must have been terribly divisive, separating her somewhat from her surrogate father. And the horrible thing was that Clark had never even noticed! It was also very interesting watching this Perry with Jimmy. The young photographer wasn’t questioning the new respect that Perry was showing him, but was instead lapping up the attention like a cat does milk. Oh, Perry had been kind to Jimmy and was fond of him, treating him like a son, but there had always been an adult-child nature to their relationship. This Perry treated him as a fully mature person, capable and inventive and responsible. Even in the space of a day, Jimmy was reacting differently to it. It was going to be a shame to have that end when Perry came home. Then there was going to be the changed relationship between their Perry and Lois and Clark. He wasn’t sure if he were looking forward to the next conversation with his newly knowledgeable boss. How had Perry reacted to the news that Clark Kent, one half of ‘the hottest team in town’ also doubled as Superman? Would he be really, really upset, or just a little bit ticked off? Clark sighed. He wasn’t sure that he wanted to know. His head snapped up as he heard alarms blaring on the other side of Metropolis. Looking around for Lois, he instead met the interested gaze of Perry White. Perry made a surreptitious gesture almost in the form of a question. Clark nodded, Perry smiled slightly and discreetly pointed to the stairs. As Clark dashed away, he couldn’t help but think how much easier it was to get away when he had a boss who knew what was going on. Less than thirty seconds later, Clark swooped down into a mob scene at the Metropolis Women’s Prison. Scraps of unidentifiable food were flying through the air at an alarming rate. The women were screaming invectives, some were fighting on the fringes, but most of them were intent on targeting one small huddled figure with their unlikely projectiles. The guards were completely outnumbered as they stood in a protective circle around her pushing everyone back. He flew quickly to hover in front of them, his arms open wide. It didn’t stop the women from continuing to throw food, however. In one great whoosh, he circled the room, gathering all the ‘ammunition’ into a couple of large serving bowls and flew back to land in front of the circle of food-spattered women. “What’s going on here?” he asked in his most authoritative ‘I am Superman’ type voice. A babble of voices greeted him, but it faded away to nothing when he held up his hands shushing them. “You,” he said, pointing at a guard. “You tell me what happened.” The egg-speckled guard stepped forward, her face set in anger. “She happened,” she said, pointing at the woman behind her. “In all my days, I’ve never seen anyone do a worse job of cooking! How in the world could anyone ever be expected to eat this, this slop?” The woman in question pushed her way forward through the guards surrounding her only to find herself face to face with Superman who still hovered in mid-air. “What the hell are you?” she gasped. Clark couldn’t believe his ears. That voice. It sounded like... He’d heard that exact question said in that exact way before. “Who are you?” She scraped a mass of something that vaguely resembled scrambled eggs from her face and stepped forward, hand outstretched. “Lois Lane. I’m a reporter for the Daily Planet. And you are?” she asked, pointedly. He stared at her in shock, his heart thumping and his breath quickening. She glanced down at her food-covered hand and let it drop. “Oops, sorry.” “What did I tell you, Doe?” one of the guards snarled. “Stop calling yourself ‘Lois Lane.’ You’re insulting Superman. He and Ms. Lane are friends.” “Superman?” She gazed up at him in awe. “Is that your name?” He nodded. Glancing around at the guards and the prisoners who stood watching them, he shook himself out of his reverie. “I’d like to talk to this young lady in private if I may, but first, how about I whip up something for everyone to eat? Sounds good?” Noise erupted once again, but this time it was cheers. Clark addressed the guards. “I’ll get started in the kitchen. Find me a couple of assistants, and we’ll have breakfast cooked in about five minutes. Okay?” “Okay. Hey, Darla!” one of the women bellowed, practically in his ear. “You wanted the job so now you got it! Pick a helper and come here.” She then turned to another guard. “Take Doe to one of the interview rooms. Wait there until Superman’s had a chance to talk to her. Okay?” One of the prisoners separated from the group, gestured to another to join her and reported to the guards. They were instructed to follow Superman and he led them to the kitchen to start cooking. The whole time, though, his thoughts were on the woman who looked so much like his wife. He knew that she was the double that Ariana Carlin had found, but... Something felt really strange. It only took a few minutes for Clark to whip together scrambled eggs, ham, bacon, sausage and hotcakes. The coffee would be a little delayed as it had taken a fair bit of time to clean all the grounds out of the large urns. Hadn’t that woman ever heard of a coffee filter before? Eventually, though, Clark was able to slip away, leaving Darla and her helper happily serving the line of prisoners. *** Lois Lane sat quietly at the table in the small interview room. It was an effort, however. She wanted to get up and pace the length of the room, but one look at the strained expression on the guard’s face had put an end to that idea. The guard looked as if she were just waiting for an excuse, any excuse no matter how flimsy, to use her gun on her. So, for once acting in a sensible manner, Lois Lane sat at the table, thinking hard and not moving a muscle. It wasn’t long before the rather impressive flying man entered the room. To her disappointment, he walked in – a rather ordinary method of transportation after having seen him float in the air. But that was the only thing ordinary about him. He was gorgeous, he could fly, he was eye-catching in his bright colours, his outfit left nothing to the imagination, and he was gorgeous, she repeated in an internal confused babble. Lois could feel the hot colour flooding through her cheeks as she gazed in awe at him – at Superman. What a perfect name. It was exactly what she would have picked to call him if she’d had a choice in the matter. He said a couple of soft words to the guard who promptly left the room. He turned to Lois then, his eyes meeting hers and sending a jolt of electricity zinging through her system. “Hi,” he said, softly. “Hi.” She didn’t know what to say to him. She didn’t know how she was going to talk to this gorgeous hunk of man. She wasn’t normally tongue-tied, but this... this man – he wasn’t just some Joe on the street; he was a Greek god! “You said your name’s Lois?” he prompted. “Oh! Yes! Sorry. I, uh, yes, my name’s Lois Lane, and I work for the Daily Planet, I’m their star reporter, okay, maybe not their star reporter, but I’m right up there, though, and I don’t know what’s going on, or why I’m here or anything, and I’m really hoping that you can help me, so please say that you can. Help me, that is.” Embarrassed at her out-of-control babbling, she fell silent. He studied her intently, his eyes widening as if he noticed something she wasn’t aware of. A wide, beautiful, devastating smile spread across his handsome face as he gazed at her with a lively twinkle in his eyes. “Yes, I think I might be able to help you. But first, would you mind telling me the last thing you remember before you ended up here?” “Well,” Lois said, indignantly. “There I was, minding my own business in the Congo – okay, I was spying on a bunch of terrorists – when some yahoo in a beard appeared out of thin air and sprayed this really foul smelling stuff in my face. I passed out and woke up here with a really bad headache. I just started feeling better only to end up being faced with a mountain of food and told that I had to cook breakfast. Tell me something. Do I look like a short-order cook to you?” He coughed, his hands flying up to hide his face. It took him a minute to catch his breath, his shoulders shaking with the effort. “No. No, I can’t imagine anything more ludicrous than Lois Lane making a meal for someone.” “Hey! Wait a minute. Those guards said that you’re a friend of Lois Lane. I’ve never met you before in my life. You’re in on it, aren’t you? You’re in on the conspiracy. What did I ever do to you?” She marched over to confront him, hands on her hips and foot tapping against the floor. He held up his hands in a deprecating gesture. “No. I’m not in on it, and I’m going to help you, and the first thing I’m going to do, is explain what’s happened to you.” “You’re not in on it? Really?” “Really,” he assured her, still smiling that killer smile of his. “How do you know that I’m really Lois Lane and not this double that I’ve heard about?” “No scars.” “Huh?” He gestured at his hairline. “No scars. The double had plastic surgery.” “You can see that?” He grinned. “I’ve got good eyes.” “Oh. So you’re really going to help me?” “Yes.” Lois’s relief was so great that she felt a little bit faint. Or was that due to something else, she wondered. Maybe. “Do you think you could do one thing first? Before you get me out of here?” “What?” “Would you mind fetching me some breakfast, too? I’m starving. I don’t listen well on an empty stomach, and I had to get up a couple of hours early to start cooking, and I kind of worked up an appetite and...” “Don’t say another word,” he said as he moved to tap lightly on the door. “I’ll be right back.” And he was gone as soon as the guard stepped out of the way, only to return less than ten seconds later with a heavily laden plate. Lois found herself blinking in surprise. In an attempt to appear blasé about the whole thing, she took a careful sip from her coffee. “Hey, you even got this right! How did you know that I take low fat milk and artificial sweetener?” He grinned. “Lucky guess.” “Oh.” “Actually, there is a reason that I know how you take your coffee, but how about I start at the beginning? It’s kind of a long story.” She eyed him warily. “I’m listening.” He took a deep breath and then blew it out slowly. “Have you ever heard of parallel universes?” *** Alt-Metropolis – The Daily Planet *** “Perry, I really appreciate your help looking through these applications.” “No problem, James. I’m glad to do it. You really need help so hiring an assistant is definitely a priority.” Perry picked up the next application and quickly reviewed the job experience. Not bad. Not bad at all. She’d never worked at a newspaper before, but she had magazine experience, and excellent references. Perry glanced at the name on the page only to stop and do a double take. “This one,” he said, emphatically. “This is the one. I know it.” He passed the application to James who studied it carefully. “Penny Barnes? You’re sure?” Perry smiled. “Yep. She’s the right assistant for you.” James shrugged. “Okay, I’ll give her a call and set up an interview.” “Good. That’s one problem solved.” The elevator opened, and two men in long overcoats stepped out of it to survey the busy newsroom. “Now what?” James asked Perry, gesturing at the men. “Secret Service,” Perry told him. “I’ve seen their type before. Why, one time when the President came to town...” He fell silent when he saw who had followed the two men out of the elevator. “Great Shades of...” he muttered, his heart in his mouth. The man looked around and then waved heartily as he strode quickly over to James’s office. “Perry! You old hound dog! How the heck are you? Alice told me to look for you here. What are you doing? Playing hooky?” Perry opened his mouth and tried to say something only to freeze as he realised that he had no clue what to say. It took him a second to try again. “I’m fine, Mr. President. Just fine. Never better, in fact! How are you?” “Just great, thanks.” Former President, Elvis Aaron Presley, shook Perry’s hand enthusiastically before turning to greet James. “And you must be James Olsen. I’ve heard good things about you!” James calmly shook his hand. “And I’ve heard – we’ve all heard – wonderful things about you, sir.” “Why thank you, James. I’m sure you’re lying, but it’s a kind thing to say anyway, eh, Perry?” President Presley chuckled heartily as he stuck an elbow into Perry’s ribs. The presidential elbow jolted Perry out of his shock-induced trance. “Oh, yes, of course, Mr. President.” “What’s with this Mr. President garbage? Next thing you’re going to ask me to call you Your Honour!” “No, of course not! I’m sorry... Elvis.” “That’s better. I can’t stay long, Perry, but I just wanted to give you these personally. Best seats in the house! And here’s a pair for you, too, James. Hope you can make it.” Elvis handed the two men tickets. “Of course,” James said. Perry took the tickets with a shaking hand. “I wouldn’t miss it,” he assured the former President. “I wouldn’t miss it for the world.” “Glad to hear it, Perry! Nice to meet you, James. I’ll see the two of you tonight!” As Perry watched, feeling as though he were dreaming, Elvis and his two bodyguards moved back to the elevator. As he entered, the former President gave Perry one last hearty wave before the doors closed. As soon as they were gone, Perry sank down onto a chair, his legs no longer able to support him. “Are you okay?” James asked, placing a hand on his shoulder. “I’m fine,” Perry said, shaking his head. “Or I will be once it sinks in. I just met... That was Elvis!” James laughed. “I know. So, how did it feel?” Perry looked up at him, a quizzical expression on his face. “Actually,” he said slowly. “It felt unreal. It was just like talking to an Elvis impersonator, and in my world, they’re a dime a dozen ...” His voice trailed off as a thought occurred to him. “An Elvis impersonator,” he repeated quietly to himself. “An impersonator! James! I need to talk to Clark! Right now!” “Clark? Why?” “No time to explain.” Perry jumped out of the chair, ran to the window and wrestled it open. “Superman!” he yelled as loudly as he could. “Clark! Superman!” Clark appeared in a great whoosh. “What is it, Perry? What’s wrong?” “I just thought of something! Plastic surgery leaves scars, doesn’t it?” ===== www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:31:42 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: New: Trading Places - Part 7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Title: Trading Places by Irene Dutchak Part 7 Rating PG Feedback welcome, both public and private *** Metropolis – Metropolis Women’s Prison *** Warden Bronson gazed down at the ink-covered pages in front of her. She was shocked, she was horrified, she was embarrassed. “They don’t match!” she exclaimed. “I know,” Superman said. “Completely different fingerprints.” “So where is she? Where’s the double? Do I need to send someone to pick up the Lois Lane who’s at the Daily Planet?” “No!” Superman said, hastily. “No. I know that Lois. Uh, I talked to her just today. She’s the real Lois. No, this woman’s not Lois Lane. I don’t know who she is, but she’s not Lois Lane.” He shifted from one foot to the other before casually examining a loose thread on his cape. The warden eyed Superman dubiously. She’d bet her last dollar that the superhero was hiding something. But what, she wondered. “I can’t just let her go. I’ll be a prisoner short.” That comment snapped him to attention. “But if you don’t let her go, you’ll be holding an innocent woman behind bars!” Superman gazed at her, steely determination in his eyes. The warden glared back defiantly. “I can’t just release her on your say-so. There’s procedure to be followed. Paperwork’s required. This could take weeks.” “Actually...” Superman produced a sheaf of papers. “Already done.” She eyed him sourly. “You move fast.” He smiled. “Thank you. I did it a few minutes ago – as soon as I realised what was going on.” She quickly glanced over the pages, only to look up incredulously when she reached the signature on the last page. “The President?” Superman smiled delicately. “He was only too happy to help me with this.” Warden Johnson sourly eyed him before scribbling her name in the appropriate spot and thrusting the papers back to him. “Fine. She’s all yours.” “Thank you, Ma’am.” Papers in hand, Superman inclined his head in farewell. The warden just grunted and glowered at his back as she watched him leave the room. What a can of worms! Now she was going to have to find out how this whole thing had happened. How in the world could a prisoner have escaped, and even more bizarre, how could this switch have been made? Worst of all, how was she going to explain this? Who was going to do the paperwork? *** Metropolis – Lois and Clark’s home *** “You live here.” “Uh huh.” “With me – the other me.” “Uh huh.” “And your name’s really Clark Kent, and no one knows you’re Superman.” “Well, not ‘no one,’ but not very many people do, that’s right.” “You’re kidding, right?” Clark beamed happily at the bemused young woman who sat across from him. “Nope. Not at all.” “And in this other dimension, this other you, he can fly too?” “Uh huh. We’re a lot alike.” “But he’s not married.” “No, because you’re not there.” She shook her head. “What if I don’t like him?” “If you don’t like him, you don’t have to have anything to do with him. He’s a pretty decent guy. He’d never make you do anything that you’re not comfortable with.” “Clark! You didn’t tell her everything, did you?” Lois Lane marched into the house to confront her spandex-clad husband. Clark grinned as he jumped up from the easy chair. “You made pretty good time, honey. How many red lights did you run?” “Don’t change the subject, Clark. Did you tell her everything or not?” Alt-Lois stared from the mirror image of herself to the colourful superhero and back again. Uncharacteristically speechless, she was too shell-shocked to do more than just watch and listen. “Of course I did. She has a right to know.” “But I know how I was when I came back from the Congo. I ran faster and farther than anyone when it came to emotional attachments. You know that! No offence intended,” Lois added in an aside to her twin. “None taken,” Alt-Lois murmured wryly. “Oh.” Clark hung his head. “I never thought. That’s true, honey. You made me work really hard to get close to you.” “I know you meant well, sweetheart, but you should have thought this through a little better.” Sweetheart? Alt-Lois shook her head. And he called her honey? Lois Lane was not any man’s honey. Never was, never would be. She turned a discerning eye on the two of them. Whatever had possessed her to cut her hair like that? And why was she so thin? She was too thin. Had she done that for him? What kind of man would ask that of a woman? Couldn’t he accept her the way that she was? Now him, he was gorgeous. But why would he have picked bright colours for his outfit, she wondered. Although that might actually have been a better choice than black as it did look friendly. Not intimidating. Nope. He definitely looked approachable. She’d like to approach him... She cut that thought off at its source. Anyway, his suit was definitely eye-catching. Bet he’d look good in black, though. She regarded him solemnly, imagining him in a tight black formfitting outfit. At the mental picture produced, she found herself getting rather warm. “Lois, you could have taken pity on a poor old man. You didn’t have to go racing off like that; you could have waited for me...” Alt-Lois couldn’t believe her eyes as her boss huffed and puffed his way into the house. “Perry,” she gasped. He turned to her and as she caught sight of the look in his eyes, suddenly nothing else mattered. He pulled her to her feet and enfolded her in the tightest warmest embrace she’d ever had. “Lois, honey, you’re alive! Sweet mother of God! What happened to you? No. Don’t answer that. I just want to hold you so I know you’re real. We all thought you were dead!” As Perry rocked her back and forth, Alt-Lois clung to him. He was an anchor in the midst of chaos. Her mentor, her teacher, her boss, her friend, her almost-father, in his arms, she suddenly felt more confident, less topsy-turvy. Many, many minutes later, the four adults sat in the small living room, sipping tea and talking. Lois and Clark held hands, and Alt-Lois sat next to Perry, his arm looped loosely about her shoulders. Her questions had been answered, although the answers had only led to more questions. Those questions, however, wouldn’t be answered until she got home and met the other Clark Kent. She wasn’t sure if she were looking forward to doing that or not. Her counterpart certainly made marriage look good, and Clark Kent seemed like a, well, like a super man, but marriage? Hard to believe. However, as she studied the couple in love, she couldn’t help but feel envious. But just because she was envious was no reason to rush into anything with this other Clark Kent, she reminded herself. He might turn out to be completely different from this Clark Kent, and if she did rush into a relationship, she might not find that out until it was too late. Keep him at a distance - that was her plan. Yep. No leaping before looking. No jumping from the frying pan to the fire. She wasn’t going to react without thinking long and hard first. Nope. Caution – that was going to be Lois Lane’s new watchword. Besides, she still had her career to establish. After such a long absence from reporting – inadvertent though it might have been - it would have lost most, if not all, of its momentum. That was going to be much more of a priority than any possible relationship with Clark Kent, even if Clark Kent happened to be the most powerful man in the world as well as, in her studied opinion, the best looking. No. No matter how intriguing that romantic possibility might be, it was just out of the question. No way. She wasn’t sure she liked the idea that a man she had never met was drooling over her, though. That smacked of obsessive-compulsive behaviour to her. Why in the world would the other Clark Kent want to meet her? Other than as a reporter, she was pretty ordinary. He was special. He could fly, for heaven’s sake. Why her? Just because Clark Kent and Lois Lane were married in this world didn’t mean that they had to get married in her world. It made her uncomfortable thinking that something outside of her was trying to control her life. This Clark Kent interrupted her thoughts by posing a question to Perry. “So, any new insights after spending time with us in this dimension, Perry?” Perry thought hard for a moment, before nodding. “Yes,” he said, brusquely, before clearing his throat. “I discovered how much I miss the Planet. But I also realised that I can’t have both the Planet and Alice, and I know now, more clearly than I’ve ever known, that Alice is the most important person in my world, and I’d never want to take a chance on losing her.” He sighed. “I’d been toying with the idea of asking James to hold my old job open for me. There’s not that long left to my term; I’d been hoping to go back to work for him. Now, I don’t know what I’m going to do.” “How about you, Lois?” the other Lois asked. “This must be really hard for you. You’re in a different world; you’ve been bombarded with information, and you’ve lost six years of your life.” Alt-Lois shrugged, deflecting the personal question, uncomfortable with the attention. “Hey! For the rest of my life, I’m going to be told that I look young for my age. How can I complain about that?” The three others were startled into laughter. Their laughter stopped dead, however, when a time window suddenly appeared in front of their eyes, and Mr. Wells strolled casually through it. He checked his pocket-watch. “Ah, right on time,” he said. “I see you have everything figured out. Are you two ready?” he asked a stunned Perry and Alt-Lois. Before anyone else could say anything, Lois leapt to her feet. “We’re going, too.” “I don’t know, Ms. Lane. I’m not so sure that’s a good idea...” “I don’t care! We’re going, too. We want to make sure that everything’s back the way it’s supposed to be. Tempus has done enough tampering with people’s lives,” Mr. Wells stated firmly. “We figured out where he is, by the way. He has no clue that we implanted a tracker in him the last time he was in custody. Took us a bit to trace him, but we finally did. Some of my colleagues from the future are on their way to catch him. They’ll meet me in the other dimension. I have a loose end to look after there after I return these two to their proper time and place.” “So let’s go,” Lois said, firmly. “I’m not so sure... Clark, my dear boy, can’t you talk to her?” Clark grinned. “No. I know better. If Lois says we’re going, too, we’re going, too!” Alt-Lois nodded in approval. Even though it remained to be seen how she felt about the other Clark Kent, she did like this one. He certainly wasn’t a stupid man. Pretty easy on the eyes, too, she thought, letting her gaze linger on him for a moment. It was obvious from the trapped, harried look on the mysterious Mr. Wells’ face that he was going to give in on this one. Of course. This was, after all, a Lois Lane he was dealing with, Alt-Lois mused with a smile. It was kind of fun to watch her twin steam-roll over someone. So that’s what it looked like! Absolutely effortless. A work of art, actually. Mr. Wells roughly cleared his throat. He threw Clark Kent an accusatory glance. Alt-Lois could tell that he was annoyed at losing the assumed support of the superhero. Too bad. That window-thingy looked like it was capable of handling the five of them without a problem, so what was the hang-up? Nothing. Just an autocratic man making decisions about their lives. That really bugged her. The other Clark Kent better not try that! She had to admit, though, that a little, teeny, tiny, miniscule, insignificant part of her was slightly excited at the prospect of meeting him. “All right,” Mr. Wells capitulated. “Let’s go. I’ve been told that everyone’s either at the Planet or shortly will be. Shall we go?” Everyone lined up, two by two, as Mr. Wells made adjustments to the small remote control he held in his hand. Lois and Clark were the first two through. Lois seemed quite fearless although Alt-Lois noticed her tighten her grip on Clark’s hand. Alt-Lois tucked her hand in the bowed circle of Perry’s arm. “Ready?” he asked her with a smile. “Ready!” she confirmed, grinning back. As one, they stepped through the rip in the air, Mr. Wells following close behind. *** Alt-Metropolis – The Daily Planet *** James, Perry and Alice White met at the Planet as they had prearranged, in anticipation of going to Elvis’s concert together. They were about to leave when the air in one corner of James’s office started to shimmer. As they watched in shock, a horizontal slash formed and widened and then a vertical one, and suddenly there was a doorway there. And then, in the blink of an eye, five people stood in front of them who hadn’t been there a minute ago. The bowler-clad stranger of the group held what looked like a remote control. He pressed a couple of buttons. “I have to go and find my friends. We’ll meet back here in a couple of minutes.” And he disappeared again. In his wake, they all stood staring at each other for a long moment of stasis until one of them moved, breaking the silence. “Perry!” Alice exclaimed as she threw herself into her husband’s arms. “Honey, I missed you!” he told her as he fiercely embraced her. “Are you all right? You’re okay?” As she bombarded him with questions, Alice ran her hands lightly over his arms and shoulders as if to confirm that her husband really was back. “I’m fine,” he assured her with a kiss. She snuggled into him, clutching at him as if she would never let him go. As Alt-Perry and his wife got reacquainted, Lois and Clark faced their own Perry White. Almost unconsciously, the three of them stepped away from the others, moving closer to the window. “Hi, Perry,” Lois said, tentatively. “Hey, honey, it’s good to see you.” Perry didn’t hesitate. He gave her a quick hug only to discover that she was stiff and awkward in his arms. “And Clark! It’s good to see you, son.” Perry extended his hand to Clark who shook it hurriedly and dropped it immediately. Clark didn’t meet his eyes, which was very unusual. ‘They feel guilty!’ Perry realised almost instantly. For a moment, he thought of milking the situation for everything it was worth, but he was just too happy to see the two of them, and he couldn’t do it. “You can wipe those sad-sack sorry expressions off both your faces,” he told them. “I’ve just about forgiven you for pulling the wool over my eyes!” “I’m sorry, Perry. We didn’t set out specifically to deceive you...” Clark said, a hangdog expression on his face. “I know, Clark. I understand. I watched how people react to this world’s Clark Kent, and I can certainly understand exactly why you felt it was important to keep your secret. But you,” he exclaimed, turning to a startled Lois Lane, “you call yourself a reporter. How long did it take you to find out about Clark? Tricked by a pair of glasses and some hair gel! What do you have to say for yourself?” Lois stared at him, her mouth hanging open for a long moment before she pulled herself together. Straightening up, she faced him defiantly. “And who is it that taught me everything I know? How long did it take HIM to find out? And did he figure it out for himself? That’s what I want to know!” Perry grinned. “I surrender. To tell you the truth, I just about had a heart attack when I saw Clark spin himself into Superman!” The three of them laughed heartily. James watched from the sidelines as his old friend greeted his wife, and his new friend greeted the other Lois and Clark. Standing near the door, the new Lois, the Lois that had come through the window with everyone, was watching the two groups. Her face was carefully blank, no emotion showing at all, but her eyes were sad and envious. James skirted around the edge of the room until he stood beside her. “Hi, I’m James Olsen. I own the Planet.” “Lois Lane,” she said, crisply. “I guess I have to talk to you about getting my old job back.” “You’re really Lois Lane?” He glanced at his old friend, Perry, who nodded in confirmation. “That’s wonderful! No need to ask. You start Monday.” A smile spread over her face. “Great! I can’t imagine working anywhere else. Uh, what day is it anyway? How long do I have to wait?” “It’s Wednesday.” At her grimace, James quickly amended, “If you want, you can start tomorrow.” “Better,” she said with a relieved smile. “I can’t wait to get back into the thick of things.” James had just opened his mouth to say something polite in response when the door to his office slammed open, nearly hitting Alt-Lois. In stalked an angry Clark Kent. The Clark Kent of his dimension. “There you are!” he exclaimed, addressing Alt-Lois. “I’ve been looking for you which is pretty crazy seeing as I have no desire to ever see you again! No one asked you to come here. I don’t know what possessed you to think that I could ever be interested in someone as shallow and inane and idiotic as you, but let me make this perfectly clear. I don’t like you. I’ve had enough! I want you to leave me alone.” “Clark!” James protested. “Just in case that was too hard for you to understand, let me add, I’m not attracted to you! I’m not interested in you!” “Clark!!” Perry yelled. “Stop!” “Just a second, Perry, I’m not done.” He continued, “You’re shallow, and you’re pathetic, and you’re...” “Stop!” all the people in the room shouted at once. He fell silent, his chest heaving as he caught his breath. His eyes widened as he looked around the small office. “Hi, Clark,” Lois said in a meek, mild voice. “Nice to see you again.” His jaw dropped open as he took in the still, frozen tableau in front of him. Everyone else was completely silent, not able to think of anything that could possibly be said to alleviate the awkward situation. Alt-Lois, however, didn’t suffer from their problem. “I am very sorry that you have such a poor opinion of me, Mr. Kent,” she said in an icy, deceptively calm voice. “Believe me when I say to you that in the future, I’ll have no problem leaving you alone! I only hope you’ll be able to do the same.” She marched over to Alt-Perry. “Can I stay with you and Alice?” “Wait a second,” Alt-Clark stuttered. “You’re not her; you’re her. I mean...” “Of course you can, honey,” Alt-Perry agreed, “But...” “Same address?” “Yes, but...” She held her hand out. “Keys, please?” “Wait! Wait a minute. You don’t have any scars! You’ve never had plastic surgery!” Alt-Clark moved to stand in front of her. “Sure, sweetheart, but...” Alt-Perry dug them out of his pants pocket and handed them over. Without even looking at him, Alt-Lois elbowed Alt-Clark out of her way and marched out of the room. He started to follow, only to have Clark pull him to a stop. “Better wait a bit,” Clark told his counterpart. “She needs to cool off.” Alt-Clark looked at him, a stunned, shocked expression on his face. “That’s her! That’s the real Lois!” Lois chuckled. “I could argue with that description. But yeah, that’s the Lois that belongs here. She was trapped in our world.” “But I just told her that I don’t like her.” “Kind of matches how she feels about you right now,” Lois told him acerbically. “But I didn’t mean it... I only said that because she was driving me crazy. Not her, but the other her...” His voice trailed off and Alt-Clark collapsed onto the couch. “Oh man!” he exclaimed, cradling his head in his hands. “What am I going to do?” James sat down beside his friend and patted him on the shoulder. “I’d recommend grovelling.” “Lots and lots of grovelling,” Lois told him, helpfully. “More grovelling than you ever thought yourself capable of,” Clark added. “Oh man!” “Hey, if I know Lois, and I think of everyone in this room, I can say that I really know Lois,” Lois said, “then I can say that she’ll forgive you. Eventually. Maybe. If you’re lucky.” “Oh man!” He rocked back and forth, his head still buried in his hands. ===== www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:31:55 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: New: Trading Places - Part 8 - Final MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Title: Trading Places by Irene Dutchak Part 8 Rating PG Feedback welcome, both public and private The time-window popped into existence once more, and Mr. Wells emerged with two people dressed in futuristic clothing that concealed them completely. It was impossible to see if they were men or women. They were escorting someone very familiar to most of the people in the room. “Oh, goody! Everyone’s here, just one big happy family!” Tempus drawled, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Alt-Clark looked up. “You!” he exclaimed. “Me!” Tempus mimicked. “Who else were you expecting, this world’s Lois Lane?” He snickered. Alt-Clark’s face flushed bright red. Too fast for anyone other than Clark to see, in one quick motion, he had Tempus by the throat, suspended in mid-air. “This is all your fault!” “No!” Clark caught his hand and finger by finger, pried it away. “This scum of the earth’s not worth it.” Tempus dropped to the floor, managing to remain standing. “Clark, I’m hurt. I’ve always had a good opinion of you!” His bravado notwithstanding, it was obvious from the quaver in his voice that Tempus had been shaken by Alt-Clark’s attack on him. The time-window snapped into existence yet again, and two more people from the future appeared, flanking Lois Lane’s double. Ignoring the guards, she marched to Tempus, hauled back and slapped him so hard that he took a step backwards. “What was that for?” His fingers explored where the blow had landed, a hiss escaping from his clenched teeth as he encountered a particularly sore spot. “You used that stuff on me again! When you sent me here. It was bad enough that I had to pretend to be some prissy, mealy-mouthed reporter but then you had to spray me with that gas again. I never agreed to that.” Her fist swung at him again, but she wasn’t fast enough. His hand snapped up to catch her wrist. “Darling, I’ve got nothing against foreplay, but now’s not the time or place,” Tempus murmured, silkily, his other hand moving to caress her hair. She shrieked, throwing herself at him. The two Clarks worked in tandem, one pulling her away from Tempus, the other protecting the time-traveller from the brunt of her attack. They both had ample reason to bless their invulnerability by the time they had managed to separate them. “So I suppose it’s off to prison with us.” Tempus sighed heavily. “I’ll just break out again, you know. I always have, and I always will.” Mr. Wells regarded him solemnly for a very long moment. “No. I think it’s time to come up with a different plan. Something unexpected, perhaps even... ironic.” Tempus warily looked at Wells. “Ironic?” The writer smiled at him, mischievously. “Yes, quite.” He addressed the guards. “Restrain them, please.” They jumped to action, producing strange devices that glowed and shimmered in an unearthly way. They seemed pretty prosaic, however, when the guards snapped them around the two prisoners’ wrists. “Ready?” Mr. Wells asked the guards. They nodded in unison. “Be back in a moment,” he assured the others in the room. He pressed some buttons, the time-window formed, and the guards dragged Tempus and the double into it, Mr. Wells strolling casually along behind them. Perry White cleared his throat, breaking the awkward silence they all found themselves in. “Here, these are for you,” he said, presenting two tickets to Alt-Perry. “They’re for the concert tonight.” His arm still around Alice, Alt-Perry took them from him. “I’m sorry. I know you wanted to meet the President.” Perry grinned. “I did. Earlier today. He came here to give me those tickets.” Alt-Perry grinned back. “Good. I’m glad.” His expression sobered, and he took a deep breath. “Uh, listen, there’s something I have to tell you. I, uh, had lunch with Alice...” “You had lunch with my wife?” Perry’s expression darkened. Alt-Perry spread his hands wide, trying to defuse his counterpart’s anger. “Hey, you had breakfast, lunch and dinner with MY wife!” “True, but it’s not the same.” “No, it’s not,” Alt-Perry agreed. “But I think it could be. If you tried again.” “How do you know?” “Hey, I didn’t become editor of the Daily Planet because I can yodel! I’m a reporter. You’re a reporter. You know that sometimes outsiders can see things more clearly than someone close to the situation. Well, with her, I was an outsider.” “Oh. Thanks for telling me. I had, uh, already decided to give it another shot, but it’s nice to know that you think it might work.” “Just don’t work so hard at the Planet,” Alt-Perry told him. “That was your big mistake, and thinking about it, I nearly made the same one. I loved the Planet – would give anything to go back to it - but not at the expense of my marriage.” He squeezed his wife a little tighter and gazed down at her, warmly. “I’m sorry, Alice. I never realised I was taking you for granted. I won’t be doing it again.” “Thank you, Perry.” She lifted her face up to his for a kiss. “Do you mean that?” James asked, interrupting them. “Would you really like to come back to work here?” Alt-Perry nodded. “Of course. I’d be back in a heartbeat. But I’m not willing to put in the same hours as before, and I honestly don’t know if I could restrict myself. This place is addictive.” James grinned. “No, you couldn’t restrict your hours on your own, but I could. How about this? When your term is up as Mayor, you come back, I’ll give you my new assistant who should be fully trained by then, and I’ll fire you if you work more than a forty-hour week. What do you think?” Alt-Perry grinned. “You’d do that for me?” James laughed. “Nope, but I would for Alice. I like her!” Alt-Perry gazed down at Alice. “What do you think?” She turned to James. “It’s a deal!” James heartily shook Alt-Perry’s free hand, his friend’s other arm still wrapped tightly around Alice. Lois and Clark looked up from their positions on each side of Alt-Clark. He hadn’t responded to any of their attempts to console him, instead continuing to rock back and forth, muttering “Oh man,” every once in a while. “Perry with an assistant? Hard to believe!” Lois exclaimed. “I just set up an interview today with a very promising candidate,” James told them. “Perry helped me sort through all the applications.” “Yes,” Perry said, winking at Lois and Clark. “There was one application that stood right out. Penny Barnes’s. Remember her?” Lois and Clark looked at each other, before turning carefully blank matching gazes back to Perry. “Yes, I remember her vividly, Perry,” Lois said. “She made quite an impression on Clark, here.” She glanced at her husband. “In fact,” she muttered under her breath, “she made such a big impression, I came across him trying to scrub that ‘impression’ out of his suit!” Clark grinned at her before turning to James. “She’ll be a good worker for you, James,” he assured the very puzzled Daily Planet owner. “And I think you’re going to have to ride herd on Perry to keep him from sleeping here, but if anyone can do it, I think it will be you – with Alice’s help, of course.” He smiled at Alice who was still happily snuggled up to her husband. “Now if only we could talk you into hiring someone, Perry,” Lois said, gesturing at her boss. “Actually, I’ve been thinking about it,” Perry said. “But I don’t think I have to hire anyone. I was thinking of his counterpart.” He pointed to James. “When I see what James, here, is capable of, it makes me a bit ashamed. I have a feeling I’ve been holding Jimmy back a bit, coddling the kid too much. He could do a lot more. What do you guys think?” Lois and Clark smiled warmly at him. “Perfect,” Clark assured him. “Good decision,” Alt-Perry added. “He’s a good kid.” The time-window appeared once more, and a smug H.G. Wells emerged, a broad smile on his face. “Ready to head home?” he asked Lois, Clark and Perry. “Wait! I need to know what happened to Tempus and to my double,” Lois said, springing to her feet and advancing on the writer. “No need to worry yourself, Ms. Lane. Tempus and your double are situated quite nicely.” “Yes, that’s great, but where?” Clark asked, patiently. Mr. Wells sighed heavily. “I see I’m not going to be able to transport you home until I tell you so...” The other adults fell silent. Even Alt-Clark lifted his head to focus on the slightly built writer. “First of all,” Mr. Wells said, “do you have any idea exactly why Tempus has always targeted you, Clark?” Clark shrugged. “He always said that the future was boring, and he wanted to disrupt it. I never thought any more of it than that. Did you?” he asked Alt-Clark. “No. I never questioned why he wanted to ruin my life. I guess I was too busy living a desolate lonely existence to worry about his possible motivation for wreaking havoc!” Alt-Clark spat out bitterly. “Uh, yes, quite,” Mr. Wells responded, taken aback by the uncharacteristic vitriol spewed by Alt-Clark. “Um, yes, Clark, you’re right, but that’s not the whole story. Tempus was very disillusioned by the future, and that is what started him on this sinister path, but have you noticed that his attacks were becoming more personal?” “Yes, I guess so,” Clark said softly. “He’s jealous,” Wells told them. “Jealous?” Lois asked. “Of what?” “Clark is an alien, but he’s not alone. He’s not lonely.” “Hah!” Alt-Clark interrupted. Ignoring him, Mr. Wells continued, “He has friends, he has a career, he has a wife.” “At least one of us has,” Alt-Clark muttered. “He’s not alienated. And then we have Tempus. He was more alienated than anyone could possibly be, but at the same time, he’s no alien. It devastated him that someone whom he thinks should be a misfit, actually isn’t, and that he, in his turn, is.” Mr. Wells blushed suddenly. “I, uh, also think that somewhere deep inside him, he has some feelings for Ms. Lane.” “Bite your tongue!” Lois exclaimed. “I sincerely hope not! Suddenly I feel dirty!” “So what did you do with him?” Perry asked. Mr. Wells smiled. “I thought about it for a long time before I decided what to do. Here was a man that had been missing companionship, direction, a sense of belonging. What could I do, I wondered, to provide him with all that? I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about it lately, and it finally came to me.” “What?” Alt-Perry asked. “Have you ever heard of the Hisatsenom mystery?” “The what?” James asked, scratching his head. “Yes,” Alt-Clark and Clark said in unison. “Are you telling me...” Clark asked. “Is that where...” Alt Clark said. “Yes, my dear boys. You understand part of it, but that’s not all,” Mr. Wells assured them. “What’s not all?” Lois asked. “Some of us don’t have any kind of clue what you’re talking about.” Mr. Wells sighed, exasperated and glanced at Alt-Clark who obediently started to explain. “The Hisatsenom is an ancient American aboriginal tribe that predated modern day aboriginal peoples. It was one of three prehistoric cultures that dominated the American Southwest. There were the Mogollon, the Hohokam and the Anasazi. The Anasazi themselves preferred to be called Hisatsenom, though. ‘Anasazi’ is actually a Navajo word that means ‘Enemy Ancestors’ so you can understand exactly why it might have been considered offensive...” “Clark!” Lois snarled. “Yes, Lois,” Alt-Clark replied, meekly. “This isn’t the Discovery Channel. Cut to the chase!” “Okay. All right. To make a long story short, the Hisatsenom suddenly started building these very sophisticated communities around 1150 A.D. They abandoned them about 90 years later. The ruins are still being studied, but so far, no one has ever figured out why the communities existed or why they disbanded.” “I don’t get it,” Alice said, tentatively. “Basically, Mrs. White, the communities were primarily built for one purpose. As a token of respect and adulation for one person.” Mr. Wells smiled knowingly. “For Tempus,” Alt-Clark said flatly. “It’s too good for him.” Mr. Wells chuckled. “Good guess, but no. I, uh, managed to convince the Hisatsenom that Ms. Lane’s double was a goddess. I suppose I should feel guilty at using modern day technology in such a way, but it was for a good cause.” “They think this woman who looks like me is a goddess!” Lois exclaimed, shocked. “Quite,” Mr. Wells replied. “Although ‘goddess’ may be too strong a word. A nature spirit might be closer to how they feel about her. They treasure her, but they don’t worship her per se. It’s a difficult concept to describe.” “So what did you do to Tempus?” she asked, warily. The writer roughly cleared his throat and nervously polished his glasses. “Well,” he said, hesitantly. “I told them that Tempus was her slave.” “What?” “I said he was her slave, her spoils of war, so to speak. Again, their concept of slavery was not the same as what we think of when we hear the word. He’ll occupy a special position with them. They’ll watch him to make sure that he always offers her the proper amount of respect. He’ll never be able to get away, but he will be treated well. They’ll make sure that their goddess’ slave doesn’t come to any harm. After all, they don’t want her angry with them.” James was the first one to laugh, Perry the second, and then, like dominoes falling down in a row, the others joined in. Alt-Clark was the last, but even he, too, succumbed. After everyone fell silent, Mr. Wells commenced speaking once again. “You know, the funny thing is that I don’t believe Tempus is at all disenchanted with his situation. He seemed quite fascinated by the civilisation. It’s quite chaotic, with lots of hostilities between the Hisatsenom and the Mogollon and the Hohokom. And of course, he and your double seemed to be getting along quite well, actually, Ms. Lane.” “He and my double?” “Yes, they were very cozy together. They’re well matched.” Mr. Wells suddenly blushed a fiery red. “In fact, just before I left, he was suggesting orders that she might give him for some very personal services that he was only too eager to provide for her.” “Ewww!” Lois exclaimed, shuddering. “That makes my skin crawl!” “Yes, well, sorry. Anyway,” Mr. Wells continued, briskly. “Are the three of you ready to head home now,” he asked Perry, Lois and Clark. “Almost,” Lois said. With Clark trailing behind, she moved to stand in front of Alt-Perry. “I’m so glad that I got the chance to see you again and to apologise for what I put you through the last time I was here.” “Think nothing of it,” Alt-Perry told her. “I’ll just look at it as practice for dealing with my Lois! It’ll help. I have to get to know her all over again.” She laughed. “Say goodbye to her for me, will you?” Lois asked as she gave him a quick hug. Alt-Perry and Alice nodded. Clark solemnly shook their hands. “It was really nice to meet you. I’m glad that Clark has such good friends.” He gestured at Alt-Clark who had managed to make it off the couch and was now slumped against a wall. “I learned a lot from you,” Perry told James. “I want to thank you for making me feel at home here.” “Thanks for all your help, Perry. I appreciate it.” James shook Perry’s hand, a serious look on his face. “Clark, don’t worry,” Lois said to Alt-Clark, softly. “She’ll get over it. Perry will help. He and James can explain what happened.” “Yeah, but will she listen?” Alt-Clark asked, glumly. Lois laughed. “She will eventually. It might take time, but she will.” “And when she does, it will be worth it,” Clark assured Alt-Clark. “You’ve waited for her this long. What’s a week or two more?” Alt-Clark smiled, looking a little happier. His smile faded, however, when he overheard Lois’s whispered comment to her husband. “Uh, honey, I think you’re being a little over-optimistic. She was REALLY mad. I think it might be more like a month or two!” Lois waited a heartbeat before winking at Alt-Clark. “Gotcha!” she exclaimed. He chuckled and kissed her lightly on the forehead. “Thanks for giving me the dream of something more. Now, I guess it’s up to me to share that dream with her – with this world’s Lois.” “You will, Clark. You will.” Lois laid the palm of her hand gently on Alt-Clark’s cheek before pulling away and wrapping her arm around her husband’s waist. She turned to Mr. Wells. “We’re ready.” Perry kissed Alice on the cheek, shook Alt-Clark and Alt-Perry’s hands and moved to their side. “So am I.” Mr. Wells nodded, punched some buttons on his remote control, and a moment later, the four of them were gone. Alt-Perry, Alice, James and Alt-Clark were left alone in James’s office, staring at each other. James broke the silence. “I guess we can still make it to Elvis’s concert,” he said, checking his watch. “Clark, you want to go? I have an extra ticket.” Alt-Clark shook his head. “No. I think I want to get a head start on grovelling. I can see that there’s going to be a lot of that in my future, and I want to get a jump on it!” Alt-Perry looked at Alice, his eyes asking a question that her eyes silently answered. “Go ahead without us, James. We have a few days of catching up to do.” Alice, Alt-Perry and Alt-Clark said their goodbyes and went on their way, leaving James behind. He stared at the two tickets in his hand. What good was it to have money and stature in the community if you had no one to share it with? It didn’t take much for him to decide that he wouldn’t go to the concert either. For a moment, he was envious of his friends. Perry and Alice had been happy together before all this started, but now they were even more in tune with each other. And James had no doubt that Clark would eventually be able to talk Lois around to giving him a second chance. But who was out there for him? He had no one to share his life with. Would he ever, he wondered. *** Metropolis – Alice White’s Apartment *** Perry stood outside the door of Alice’s apartment wondering if he should knock on it or not. He wanted to – more than anything – but he was scared. Finally, he took a deep breath and lifted his fist to tentatively rap at it. He could hear her footsteps as she hurried to the door. He tried his darndest to look trustworthy when the peephole darkened as she looked through it. For a second, he had the horrible feeling that she wasn’t going to open her door, but then she did and there she stood. “Perry!” Alice exclaimed. He nodded in greeting. He didn’t know what to say. All the carefully rehearsed words flew out of his head leaving him standing in front of her, tongue-tied and awkward and silent. “I suppose you wonder what I’m doing here,” he stammered. She interrupted him, taking a step forward and laying her hand gently on his chest. “I’m hoping that you’re here to tell me what I want to hear.” “What’s that?” “That you miss me as much as I miss you. That you love me as much as I love you. That you want me back.” Perry choked up, his throat constricting and his eyes welling with tears. He could only manage to nod in response. Without another word, Alice was in his arms, her head buried in his chest. “I love you,” he heard her say, her voice hoarse, rough with tears. She tugged him to follow her and stepped back, leading him into her apartment. The door closed. He was home. *** Alt-Metropolis – 6 weeks later – Metropolis Cathedral *** Lois Lane stood near the back of the church. From where she waited, she could see Clark standing near the front. She had to admit, he looked very handsome in his black tuxedo. He put all the other men to shame. He looked nervous. James and Perry looked pretty calm, though, standing up there with him. The minister nodded, cuing the organist who started playing the Wedding March. Lois took a deep breath, waited for her turn and started slowly moving up the long aisle. When she reached the front, she stepped to the side to allow Penny to move up to stand beside James. Penny looked wonderful, her ivory coloured veil framing her face. She gazed over at James, her face so expressive in her happiness that Lois felt a lump rise in her throat. Lois watched and listened as Penny and James pledged their devotion to each other. Who would have guessed that the two of them would have fallen so completely head-over-heels in love in such a short period of time? It was kind of sweet, though. To be so completely crazy about someone. To be totally aware of a person’s every move, of every breath that he took. She could sense Clark trying to catch her attention from his position beside and slightly behind James. She stared at the bride and groom, not wanting to give him the satisfaction of catching her sneaking peeks at him. She knew, without looking at him, that he had those sad puppy-dog pleading eyes fastened to her face, silently begging for her attention. She couldn’t help it. Her eyes flashed to him to confirm what she expected to see. Her breath caught in her throat at the naked longing on his face as he gazed across at her. Suddenly this wasn’t so funny anymore. She’d been keeping him hanging the last few weeks, ostensibly having forgiven him for his blunder upon meeting her. But she’d been cool with him and business-like, totally professional. There had been a lot for her to deal with, and she’d been holding him at arm’s length, needing some space. Needing time to think. Suddenly, though, having that space to herself didn’t seem so important. She glanced back at him, unable to keep her eyes away, and smiled, shyly, tentatively. He returned it, a slow, warm, devastating smile spreading in turn across his face. Lois looked away, feeling a sudden happiness rise up and well through her, as if a decision had been made that she was unaware of. Throughout the rest of the ceremony, Lois and Clark exchanged shy, secret glances and tentative smiles, their eyes flirting with each other. As the bridesmaids and ushers escorted the bride and groom from the stately old church, he walked beside her, their shoulders brushing, her hand tucked into the curve of his arm. She gazed up at him, only to catch him looking down at her. A bubble of laughter rose up in her throat to be echoed by a deep rumbling laugh coming from him. Nothing was settled between them. That was okay. But for the moment, she realised they felt right together. This felt right. *** The End *** ===== www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:13:08 -0700 Reply-To: erink@ida.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Erin Klingler Subject: Re: IRC, The Undernet, and The Kerths ... In-Reply-To: <88.1628433.279e2b7c@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anne wrote: >Are we going to find a different network for the Kerths? Tonight it seems >that one of the only servers working for most people bit the bullet and not >to mention I found at least *4* undernet servers have AOL K-Lined. Anymore it >takes anywhere from 5 to 50 (and I am *not* exaggerating) tries to get on >something and then there's the ongoing lag. [snip] >I know some people have been testing out other networks, but maybe we can, I >don't know, do some official testing so that we are prepared if the undernet >is not back to normal? Does anyone who uses mIRC regularly have a suggestion >for another network? Yes, this could be a problem. I know that when I've tried to get on IRC lately, it's been a nightmare. Kathy and Pam and I (the Kerth coordinators, for any of you who don't know that ;) have talked briefly about this, but we haven't made any concrete decisions. I surfed on over to mIRC's homepage, and noted a "Networks" link on their homepage. I was surprised to see many variations of IRC networks: DALnet, EFnet (although this option had a warning saying it was lagging badly, too), ChatNet, Starlink, Galaxy Net, and at the bottom of the page, it says: "More Networks: The list above is far from complete. There are lots and lots of IRC Networks and most of them have servers on all continents. Most networks have Web pages providing more information and up-to-date server lists. Have fun browsing around! " Okay. Does anybody know anything about any of these options?? Maybe Pam and Kathy have already talked about these, but I thought it might be a good idea to throw these options out there to you all and get some feedback from any of you IRC users. Have any of you had any experience with any of these optional IRC networks, or heard anything about them? Might any of these options work? Anyone? Erin __________________ erink@ida.net Visit my LNC/Kerth Website: www.ida.net/users/davek ***** "It's not the years that count, it's the moments...right now, as they happen." __________________ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:21:47 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: No Name Available Subject: Re: New: Trading Places - Part 1--comment/no spoiler MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 01/22/2001 10:00:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, sirenegold@YAHOO.COM writes: << This story was originally posted on Zoom's msg boards. >> and if you haven't read it, you'd better demand that Irene get the rest sent to this list IMMEDIATELY!!! It IS all written--she's just trying to torture you all . --Laurie Irene's #1 fan ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:36:26 -0500 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: Question for a fic On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:16:40 EST, Ann E. McBride wrote: >In a message dated 1/21/01 4:30:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, >kathybrown91@HOME.COM writes: >As a teacher, I find this to be an interesting goal. I have read of a number >of studies that indicate that most children aren't developmentally ready to >read this young, and that pushing them to do so actually slows them down in >the long run. Are all the children in the class already six years old? Since it's not my daughter's class, I can't say for sure. But since the cut- off here is five by Sept 1, most of the kids do in fact turn six during the year. What the age break-down is in her room, though, I couldn't say. Apparently she's been successful, though -- when I met her last May, she told me that all but two of the kids in her class were reading, and this year the class has 22-24 kids in it, so I'd say she was right on target. But again, as someone pointed out in this thread, "reading" might mean different things to different people. To me, I consider my daughter to be reading because she knows a lot of basic sight words, and can sound out many 3 and 4 letter words. But that's a far cry from being able to pick up any book in the kids' section of the library and read it perfectly. :) Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:03:11 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Marilyn L. Puett" Subject: Re: IRC, The Undernet, and The Kerths ... I found this site though I haven't had time to look over it. But maybe it will help the Kerth folks. http://www.liszt.com/chat/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:22:59 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Becky Bain Subject: Re: New: Trading Places - comment In-Reply-To: <20010123025953.4781.qmail@web902.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed My usual rule is, if a story posted here has more than two parts, I wait for it to be posted to the archive to read it. Time constraints, you understand. But I made the mistake of skimming the first couple of paragraphs of this story - and how could I just delete it after that? So I have spent far too much time and stayed up far too late, and nothing else got done... and I've had a marvelous time. This was a fun story, Irene, and I generally had no trouble telling which Perry was who, and what Lois was which, so I could keep up! One thing I did notice that you'll probably want to fix before it goes to the archive - in part 7, about halfway through, Wells says, "I don't know, Ms. Lane. I'm not so sure that's a good idea..." And someone I presumed to be Lois answers in a very Lois-like fit of passion - and then it says 'Mr. Wells stated firmly'. Either this is a typo, or a bit of text has gone missing, or something, I'm thinking. Because I'm still sure it's Lois answering Wells. At any rate, it's something that should be easy to fix. I'm still smiling... Becky rbain@uswest.net There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:20:33 +1100 Reply-To: Patricia Walpole Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Patricia Walpole Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #7 Best Revelation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable S P O I L E R S P A C E Quotes: 1. Trust Me I'm A Reporter Yvonne Connell 5. Shattered Illusions Wendy Richards 7. Just Another Revelation Story Wendy Richards & Tank Wilson 8. Strange Visitor Revisited Wendy Richards & Irene Dutchak 10. Home 11 Nan Smith 11. When Friends Become Lovers Kathy Brown & Demi Tricia ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 03:41:51 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Alexis W." Subject: Re: Another fanfic question - getting married Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit LOL! I was in Clark County when I met Roger Cain and the rest of Catch 22. Alexis ;-.) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:28:37 +1100 Reply-To: "jenerator@ozemail.com.au" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jen Stosser Subject: Smallville news MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Actor announced to play young Superman in WB's 'Smallville' Posted by Jonah Weiland - 01:31 PST The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Warner Bros. has chosen an actor to play a young Clark Kent/Superman(boy?) in the WB's new fall series, "Smallville." Newcomer Tom Welling will play the Man of Steel at the age of 15 in the drama which has received a 13 episode order from the WB. - Jonah Weiland Jen jenerator@ozemail.com.au -*-This message is umop ap!sdn (Jenerator or Some1Else on IRC) -*- JenerEight on AIM -*- ICQ 11477318 Photos of David (8) and Megan (5) on the Stosser Family HomePage http//www.geocities.com/j_stosser Please sign our guestbook! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 05:10:52 -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: Smallville news In-Reply-To: <01C08586.016CE700.jenerator@ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" see: http://www.louisa-models.com/sed_cards_men/tom_welling.htm At 06:28 PM 01/23/2001 +1100, you wrote: >Actor announced to play young Superman in WB's 'Smallville' >Posted by Jonah Weiland - 01:31 PST >The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Warner Bros. has chosen an actor to >play a young Clark Kent/Superman(boy?) in the WB's new fall series, >"Smallville." >Newcomer Tom Welling will play the Man of Steel at the age of 15 in the >drama which has received a 13 episode order from the WB. - Jonah Weiland >Jen > >jenerator@ozemail.com.au -*-This message is umop ap!sdn (Jenerator or >Some1Else on IRC) -*- JenerEight on AIM -*- ICQ 11477318 Photos of David >(8) and Megan (5) on the Stosser Family HomePage >http//www.geocities.com/j_stosser Please sign our guestbook! > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 05:30:23 -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: IRC, The Undernet, and The Kerths ... In-Reply-To: <88.1628433.279e2b7c@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:34 PM 01/22/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Question ... > >Are we going to find a different network for the Kerths? [megasnip] >Anne Turns out my new provider doesn't provide IRC service (heck, they had no clue what "IRC" was when I asked about this). When people asked about undernet, I used to think "Ha, that's so easy!" but now I know better. If a new mode of chatting is decided upon (perhaps a website-based realtime chat room?), I hope complete instructions on how to get there (including providers who give access to the servers) are included. Debby huitziln@cais.net live chat-free for 6 months... ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:38:54 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: IRC, The Undernet, and The Kerths ... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/23/01 8:28:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, huitziln@CAIS.NET writes: << Turns out my new provider doesn't provide IRC service (heck, they had no clue what "IRC" was when I asked about this). >> It's not up to your ISP to provide you access to IRC. That's done by downloading a 3rd party IRC client like mIRC or Ircle for MACs. When you fill out your nick and emial information there's a drop down list of all the different networks and servers under those networks. Anne ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:01:41 -0600 Reply-To: truitt22@flash.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: timothy truitt Organization: tnt technical services Subject: Re: IRC, The Undernet, and The Kerths ... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been reading your comments about irc and the Kerths. keep in mind - some irc clients cost $$ - mine did. merry ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:26:15 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Nicole Wolke Subject: Re: New: Trading Places MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E Hi Irene, what a delighful story! I can't get enough of Alt-Clark stories anyway and this on had an intersting premise and was really funny. My favorite scene was at the end, when Alt-Clark came into the room and totally messed up with Alt-Lois. I think that was a very clever way from you to avoid turning the story too sappy. It just wouldn't have been very believable if they'd fallen for each other instantly. Now you know though, that this story is screaming sequel, don't you? I was sorry I didn't get to read it on the MBs due to a busy life and always was too lazy to download it afterwards. I decided to just wait until it showed up on the archive. Even more happy I was now when I had it in my mail-box! Thanks for a nice reading afternoon while waiting for my brother's call that I'm a brand new aunt :-) Nicole P.S. And speaking of the devil, he just called this second! My new little nephew is called Yannick and is 8.5 lbs!! -- AKA CKgroupie on IRC/AIM NKWolke@t-online.de Are you always searching for news about Dean Cain? And you don't have enough time to search? Here's your solution: Go to "The Dean Cain News Page" http://members.tripod.de/CKgroupie/index.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:33:33 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Rachel Subject: Re: Question for a fic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:16:40 EST, Ann E. McBride wrote: > > > >As a teacher, I find this to be an interesting goal. I have read of a number > >of studies that indicate that most children aren't developmentally ready to > >read this young, and that pushing them to do so actually slows them down in > >the long run. Are all the children in the class already six years old? Now, I'm curious! Who exactly says that pushing them to read is slowing them down in the long run? I'm just interested in this b/c I was an early reader (not that I can really remember that far back, of course :). I don't feel like it hurt me developmentally, though, and it could be argued that it was an advantage scholastically. I'll admit to feeling somewhat 'different' when I was reading advanced books while the rest were in early readers, but that's not what they meant I'm sure. Maybe I'm just lucky? Rachel ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:17:24 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: James Tull Subject: Re: IRC, The Undernet, and The Kerths ... You could also try E-Groups. They offer a Chat with Java Script. I have never tried it but it could be another option. James ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:21:31 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Bethy Em Subject: Re: Question for a fic Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Rachel wrote: >>>>Now, I'm curious! Who exactly says that pushing them to read is slowing >>>>them down in the long run? I'm just interested in this b/c I was an >>>>early reader (not that I can really remember that far back, of course >>>>:). I don't feel like it hurt me developmentally, though, and it could >>>>be argued that it was an advantage scholastically. I'll admit to feeling >>>>somewhat 'different' when I was reading advanced books while the rest >>>>were in early readers, but that's not what they meant I'm sure. Maybe >>>>I'm just lucky? <<<< Ooh, something I actually know something about! I had a class last year on literacy (we spent an entire sememster trying to define what it means to be literate, and at the end still had no concrete answer!) and we discussed this subject. What the studies show is that *pushing* a child to read too early can cause developmental problems. I don't remember all the details that came up in class, but I do have some RL experience with this -- I, too, was an early reader. I pestered and annoyed my mother to teach me to read, and when she refused ("Later. You're too young" I was 3 1/2, what's she talking about, 'young'? :-þ), I got my older brother to start teaching me. My younger sister, on the other hand, didn't start reading until mid-second grade. Before that, she just wasn't ready. I don't know if my mom had seen similar studies, or if it was just intuition, but she didn't push my sister to read. (Oh, btw, we were homeschooled at this point, so these were all my parents' decisions). As soon as she was ready, she learned *very* quickly. And she caught up to where she 'ought to be' quickly and is almost ready to graduate high school -- near the top of her class. So I think (and this is my opinion, so you can quote me so long as you realize I'm not an expert or anything ) that the biggest thing when it comes to reading is gauge if the *child* is *ready,* and not base judgments on age. However, if a child still isn't reading by third grade (or thereabouts), there might be other factors, such as dyslexia, involved. Bethy (who is glad she was ready early, or else think of how many less books she would have read by now ) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:29:00 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kristin Olsen-Molnar Subject: Question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey everyone! I have to dump aol which means changing all my e-mail to yahoo. how do i change which email address gets this list? thanx for ur time :) -Teri44isme@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:33:06 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Ann E. McBride" Subject: Re: Question for a fic Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <> The researchers who don't believe in pushing kids to read before they are ready. Note that I said "before they are ready." Every child is an individual and progresses in his or her intellectual development at different rates. Most children who are early readers are ready -- that's why they learn to read. It's the kids who aren't ready to learn but are pushed anyway that may then not learn to read well at all. Since they aren't developmentally ready to learn to read, trying to teach them is an exercise in futility. They get frustrated and discouraged and decide that they can't learn to read. It starts a vicious cycle. Ann ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:58:46 +1100 Reply-To: "jenerator@ozemail.com.au" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jen Stosser Subject: Re: Question for a fic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm very interested in this discussion, because of what my 5 year old daughter Megan is going through at the moment. She starts proper school next week, called Prep grade, but this is NOT kindergarten, it IS proper school. (ie uniforms, lessons, lunch/play times etc etc). Megan revealed to me last September that she could read, and is currently working her way through the Dr Suess books. I made no major effort to teach her to read (other than just reading her bedtime stories) but what she is doing is NOT parroting words in familiar stories. And she understands the concept of sounding out words and is also able to try to spell words on her own. In fact at one point last year, her kindergarten teacher complained to me that when she read out to the kids, she had to cover up the words when she was asking questions about what she had read, because Megan was always able to read the answers and got there first! The school was pushing for Megan to skip Prep grade this year, and go straight to Grade One, but we didn't want her to miss out on the important first year of school, so they've given in, and she'll do Prep like everyone else her age. Apparently one of their reasons for their suggestion was that she's already reading better than some of the kids who have already completed their Prep grade! I'll be very interested to watch her and see how she fits in Jen jenerator@ozemail.com.au -*-This message is umop ap!sdn (Jenerator or Some1Else on IRC) -*- JenerEight on AIM -*- ICQ 11477318 Photos of David (8) and Megan (5) on the Stosser Family HomePage http//www.geocities.com/j_stosser Please sign our guestbook! -----Original Message----- From: Rachel [SMTP:rae@USXCHANGE.NET] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:34 AM To: LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Re: [LOISCLA-GENERAL-L] Question for a fic > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:16:40 EST, Ann E. McBride wrote: > > > >As a teacher, I find this to be an interesting goal. I have read of a number > >of studies that indicate that most children aren't developmentally ready to > >read this young, and that pushing them to do so actually slows them down in > >the long run. Are all the children in the class already six years old? Now, I'm curious! Who exactly says that pushing them to read is slowing them down in the long run? I'm just interested in this b/c I was an early reader (not that I can really remember that far back, of course :). I don't feel like it hurt me developmentally, though, and it could be argued that it was an advantage scholastically. I'll admit to feeling somewhat 'different' when I was reading advanced books while the rest were in early readers, but that's not what they meant I'm sure. Maybe I'm just lucky? Rachel ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:56:59 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: No Name Available Subject: Re: Smallville news MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit That website doesn't say how old he is, but he doesn't look anywhere near 15. :p He's cute though. :) Mols ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:03:28 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: Re: New: Trading Places - Part 1--comment/no spoiler MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Laurie, thank you for cheerleading again! :D You're very good at that! Yes, sorry about the delay posting this to the list. I managed to send out part one only to have my YAHOO account act up before I could post more. It took me a few minutes to sort that out. Irene --- No Name Available wrote: > In a message dated 01/22/2001 10:00:22 PM Eastern > Standard Time, > sirenegold@YAHOO.COM writes: > > << This story was originally posted on Zoom's msg > boards. >> > > and if you haven't read it, you'd better demand that > Irene get the rest sent > to this list IMMEDIATELY!!! It IS all written--she's > just trying to torture > you all . > > --Laurie > Irene's #1 fan ===== www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:05:30 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: Re: New: Trading Places - comment MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Becky! :)> My usual rule is, if a story posted here has more> than two parts, I wait> for it to be posted to the archive to read it. Time> constraints, you> understand.> > But I made the mistake of skimming the first> couple of paragraphs of> this story - and how could I just delete it after> that? So I have spent> far too much time and stayed up far too late, and> nothing else got done...> and I've had a marvelous time.I'm so glad that you enjoyed this. It was fun to write.> > This was a fun story, Irene, and I generally had no> trouble telling which> Perry was who, and what Lois was which, so I could> keep up!> > One thing I did notice that you'll probably want to> fix before it goes to> the archive - in part 7, about halfway through,> Wells says, "I don't know,> Ms. Lane. I'm not so sure that's a good idea..." > And someone I presumed> to be Lois answers in a very Lois-like fit of> passion - and then it says> 'Mr. Wells stated firmly'. Either this is a typo,> or a bit of text has> gone missing, or something, I'm thinking. Because> I'm still sure it's Lois> answering Wells. At any rate, it's something that> should be easy to fix.I'm not sure what happened there, but that will definitely be fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.> > I'm still smiling...And now, so am I!Thanks for commenting,Irene www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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Thanks for the smile, Amy ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:09:53 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: Re: New: Trading Places MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Nicole Wolke wrote: > S > P > O > I > L > E > R > > S > P > A > C > E > > > > Hi Nicole! > what a delighful story! I can't get enough of > Alt-Clark stories anyway > and this on had an intersting premise and was really > funny. My favorite > scene was at the end, when Alt-Clark came into the > room and totally > messed up with Alt-Lois. I think that was a very > clever way from you to > avoid turning the story too sappy. It just wouldn't > have been very > believable if they'd fallen for each other > instantly. Now you know > though, that this story is screaming sequel, don't > you? Sequel? Really? I'll keep that at the back of my mind, but I'm pretty happy just letting this part stand by itself. I'm glad that you enjoyed this story and doubly glad that you took the time to let me know. It's very much appreciated. > > I was sorry I didn't get to read it on the MBs due > to a busy life and > always was too lazy to download it afterwards. I > decided to just wait > until it showed up on the archive. Even more happy I > was now when I had > it in my mail-box! > > Thanks for a nice reading afternoon while waiting > for my brother's call > that I'm a brand new aunt :-) > > Nicole > > P.S. And speaking of the devil, he just called this > second! My new > little nephew is called Yannick and is 8.5 lbs!! > Congratulations, Aunt Nicole!! That's wonderful. Yannick's a pretty good size, too. I'm wincing in sympathy with your sister-in-law! Thanks again for writing. Take care, Irene ===== www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:43:43 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wanda McCants Subject: Re: Smallville news MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/23/01 5:03:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, MPSL27@AOL.COM writes: > That website doesn't say how old he is, but he doesn't look anywhere near 15. > :p He's cute though. :) I have to agree that Tom looks a lot older than 15, in fact I would put his age around 23-25. He is easy on the eyes, and the "teen" audience should be very happy. Wanda "What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" ......Langston Hughes Wanda ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:14:26 -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: Smallville news In-Reply-To: <8c.16a11d8.279f582b@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:56 PM 01/23/2001 -0500, you wrote: >That website doesn't say how old he is, but he doesn't look anywhere near 15. >:p He's cute though. :) > >Mols Someone in the Superman newsgroup pointed out that it may be difficult for a 21 year old fellow to play a 15 year old boy... but, hey, that's Hollywood... Debby huitziln@cais.net who wonders if he'll balk at dyeing his hair black... ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:33:48 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kate Crane Subject: Re: New: Trading Places MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Irene, Enjoyed this story very much. I was impressed by your ability to keep everyone straight! s p o i l e r s p a c e Several segments made me giggle.....Supeman flying to the besieged Alt-Lois as the inmates were ready to murder over her cooking....Alt-Clark telling his supposed Lois how much he disliked her, Perry picking out the "perfect" assistant for James, and Alt-Lois' reactions the first time she sees Superman. Oh, and the way you had me believing it was Alt-Lois marching down the aisle to get married. You gave everyone a happy ending, including the villains! Thanks for posting here in addition to the mbs.... Kate ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:44:40 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Samantha Kegan Subject: Re: Smallville news Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html

Most definately not hard on the eyes. Hair needs to go black, though. What can I say? Members of the Purdue "All-American" Marching band are sticklers for tradition. I would say that is one, no?

Sami Kegan

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From: Debby
Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic"
To: LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
Subject: Re: Smallville news
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:14:26 -0700
At 04:56 PM 01/23/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>That website doesn't say how old he is, but he doesn't look anywhere near 15.
>:p He's cute though. :)
>
>Mols
Someone in the Superman newsgroup pointed out that it may be difficult for
a 21
year old fellow to play a 15 year old boy... but, hey, that's Hollywood...
Debby
huitziln@cais.net
who wonders if he'll balk at
dyeing his hair black...

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========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:54:29 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: Re: New: Trading Places MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Kate!--- Kate Crane wrote:> Irene,> Enjoyed this story very much. I was impressed by> your ability to keep> everyone straight!Thank you very much. I have to admit that it was difficult at times to juggle people around!> s> p> o> i> l> e> r> s> p> a> c> e> > Several segments made me giggle.....Supeman flying> to the besieged Alt-Lois> as the inmates were ready to murder over her> cooking....Alt-Clark telling his> supposed Lois how much he disliked her, Perry> picking out the "perfect"> assistant for James, and Alt-Lois' reactions the> first time she sees> Superman. Oh, and the way you had me believing it> was Alt-Lois marching down> the aisle to get married. You gave everyone a happy> ending, including the> villains!Hey, the villians had to have a happy ending so that they'd stop bugging Lois and Clark, right? (g)I'm really glad that you enjoyed the story, and very pleased that you took the time to let me know.> > Thanks for posting here in addition to the mbs....You're welcome,Irene www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:45:16 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: Re: New: Trading Places - Part 1--comment/no spoiler MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Amy!> > This was a great story, and it gave me smile at the> end of a very> looooonnnggg day. Thank you!You're welcome. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.> S> P> O> I> L> E> R> > S> P> A> C> E> > I really liked the idea of Perry switching places to> give both he and his> alter ego a life lesson, and I appreciated the> triple switch of Loises and> doubles. It was artfully handled, and I had no> problem following it at all.Thanks for the compliments. It was a lot of fun writing this story. Again, I'm glad that you enjoyed it.> > Thanks for the smile,And thank you for the smile on MY face!Irene www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:03:37 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Judith Williams Subject: Re: Question for a fic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Jen: I found your experience with your little girl very interesting for 2 reasons. 1. When I was 4 I went to a private combination Kindergarten/1st grade (there were no public school Kindergartens back then). The teacher taught reading to both groups. Since I could already read, I usually ended up with the 1st graders and at the end of the year, the teacher recommended that I go on to 2nd grade. My parents said okay, and I've never regretted it. I was a little more naive than my classmates in jr. and sr. high, but nowadays television pretty much does away with naiveté before kids get that old. I'm not saying your child should go on. You know her better than anybody and have made what is, I'm sure, a wise decision based on that. Ann's point is well taken. Every child learns at a different rate and in a different way. Learning is a continuum, not a linear point to point progression ie...grade 1 to grade 2 to grade 3. Which brings me to reason 2. When I was on the local School Board, I supported individual learning progression and ungraded classrooms as an alternative for some children. If a child was ready to learn long division, why did s/he have to wait until 4th grade. If s/he was not ready by 4th grade, why did s/he have become a pariah and be held back. I constantly ran into teachers, especially at the secondary level, who opposed accelerated learning because they kept getting kids in Algebra who already knew Algebra and they didn't know what to do with them. Many times these kids were just given extra Algebra problems to solve rather than allowing them to progress in math. This is a danger for all kids who are bright because some teachers ( emphasis on some) want to teach what the scope and sequence calls for and don't want to be responsible for students learning anything beyond that. When I was a kid, I always had a book with me, so that when I finished those math problems, I just sat quietly and learned on my own. This worked for me because I was rather shy and introspective. Unfortunately I ended up disliking math and never advancing beyond Algebra. My husband, on the other hand, was very outgoing and curious, so when he finished his math problems, he was all over the room and into everything, but was such a charmer at even a very early age that teachers put up with him. Others who are just as bright but not as charming as he come to be regarded as nuisances. Bottom line: that child is yours and you know him/her better than anyone. Keep tuned in to what's happening in the classroom and be sure she gets a lot enrichment in and out of school. :) Jude ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jen Stosser" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: Re: Question for a fic > I'm very interested in this discussion, because of what my 5 year old > daughter Megan is going through at the moment. She starts proper school > next week, called Prep grade, but this is NOT kindergarten, it IS proper > school. (ie uniforms, lessons, lunch/play times etc etc). > Megan revealed to me last September that she could read, and is currently > working her way through the Dr Suess books. I made no major effort to > teach her to read (other than just reading her bedtime stories) but what > she is doing is NOT parroting words in familiar stories. And she > understands the concept of sounding out words and is also able to try to > spell words on her own. > In fact at one point last year, her kindergarten teacher complained to > me that when she read out to the kids, she had to cover up the words when > she was asking questions about what she had read, because Megan was always > able to read the answers and got there first! > The school was pushing for Megan to skip Prep grade this year, and go > straight to Grade One, but we didn't want her to miss out on the important > first year of school, so they've given in, and she'll do Prep like everyone > else her age. Apparently one of their reasons for their suggestion was > that she's already reading better than some of the kids who have already > completed their Prep grade! > I'll be very interested to watch her and see how she fits in > > Jen > jenerator@ozemail.com.au -*-This message is umop ap!sdn (Jenerator or > Some1Else on IRC) -*- JenerEight on AIM -*- ICQ 11477318 Photos of David > (8) and Megan (5) on the Stosser Family HomePage > http//www.geocities.com/j_stosser Please sign our guestbook! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rachel [SMTP:rae@USXCHANGE.NET] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:34 AM > To: LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU > Subject: Re: [LOISCLA-GENERAL-L] Question for a fic > > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:16:40 EST, Ann E. McBride wrote: > > > > > > >As a teacher, I find this to be an interesting goal. I have read of a > number > > >of studies that indicate that most children aren't developmentally ready > to > > >read this young, and that pushing them to do so actually slows them down > in > > >the long run. Are all the children in the class already six years old? > > Now, I'm curious! Who exactly says that pushing them to read is slowing > them > down in the long run? I'm just interested in this b/c I was an early reader > (not > that I can really remember that far back, of course :). I don't feel like > it > hurt me developmentally, though, and it could be argued that it was an > advantage > scholastically. I'll admit to feeling somewhat 'different' when I was > reading > advanced books while the rest were in early readers, but that's not what > they > meant I'm sure. Maybe I'm just lucky? > > Rachel ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:29:24 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: No Name Available Subject: Re: Smallville news MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>That website doesn't say how old he is, but he doesn't look anywhere near 15. >>:p He's cute though. :) >> > Someone in the Superman newsgroup pointed out that it may be difficult for a 21 > year old fellow to play a 15 year old boy... but, hey, that's Hollywood... It sure is Hollywood! I remember when Beverly Hills 90210 first started airing. I was a few years younger than the characters on the show, but at least a decade younger than the actors' real ages! For some reason, television executives rarely cast teenagers in teenaged parts, preferring to use twenty-somethings. I have to say it's a personal pet peeve of mine; I partially blame the fact that many older adults think I am much younger than I am on this. After all, if you don't know any teenagers and your only exposure to them is TV/movies, of course you'll think a 22 year old is fifteen! Christy attalanta@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:08:16 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Adam Labotka Subject: The Exodus, the Tank Ending MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Enjoy ;) Warning it gets kinda gory ;) A giant fireball streaked through the reddish sky. It smashed into the ground scattering dirt and debris into the formerly clear sky. The flaming craft skidded, digging a deep rut into the soil. Eventually the ship came to a halt after skidding for many miles. The hull was bent and twisted, resembling a cracked egg. Kal-EL regained concousness in the control room. Pain wracked his body as he struggled to get up. He looked around the control room and saw the flight crews bodies. they're blood painted the room crimson. Intestines pooled beneath the ones strewn onto the consoles. Kal-El felt his gorge rise at the sight. He vomited all over himself. The carnage was too much for him to take. He passed out. ****** The first thing Kal-El noticed when he regained conciousness again was the smell. The control room reeked. Kal-El begain dry heaving, not having anything left to throw up. Eventually Kal-El was able to recover. He stood up, refusing to look at the bodies he knew to be surrounding him. He carefully and slowly made his way to the control room door and left. Inside the ship, thousands of bodies littered the tattered metal. Crimson color painted the walls of the inner ship. Intestines were strung across corridors and rooms. Kal-El felt himself getting sick again. He hurried along trying to ignore the carnage around him. Eventually Kal-El found his way to his quarters. He was very worried about what he would find as he entered them. Inside lay Liera, her body cushed almost beyond recognition. Her bones poked out through most of her skin. Her face was nearly torn off by the way the bed fell across her. Kal-El droped to his knees next to her and let out an agonized wail. What had he done? Because of him, everyone was dead. He curled up next to Liera and cried for all that had happened. He never got up again. ****** Many milennia later On a small planet, in a far arm of it's galaxy, an asteroid struck its surface. The resulting explosion destroyed the fledgling civilization that existed on the planet. Nothing was left on the once fertile world. All because the man who could have saved the world never came into being. The End ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:02:59 -0500 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: Question for a fic On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:58:46 +1100, Jen Stosser wrote: >I'm very interested in this discussion, because of what my 5 year old >daughter Megan is going through at the moment. She starts proper school >next week, called Prep grade, but this is NOT kindergarten, it IS proper >school. (ie uniforms, lessons, lunch/play times etc etc). What sorts of things do the kids do/learn in Kindergarden, compared to Prep grade, compared to 1st grade? Do they attended every day in K, all day? I'm wondering if the systems are different between the US and Oz, or if the structure is similiar and we just have different names for the levels. In the US, kids will often go to "Preschool" at age 4 (some start at age 3 and do two years). Preschools are sometimes offered through a public school system, but often they are private -- you pay tuition to the school or organization, schedules vary based on what that school offers, etc. Preschools are often run by churches or community centers or private daycare companies. Most common is for kids to go 3 mornings a week. There are different types of Preschools, some more academic than others, but traditionally this is considered a year for kids to start getting some structure in their day, learn how to play well with a large group of kids, sit quietly during story time, go to the bathroom in groups , etc. At 5, kids start Kindergarden, which is considered the first year of "real" school, and is held in the same buildings are the older grades. Kids will go 5 days/week, either for a half or a full day (it always used to be half days, but now full day programs are getting common). As you said, it's "proper school", in that the day is structured around lessons (though there is still play time built in), kids eat lunch, have recess, wear uniforms (if that school has them), attend assembly with the rest of the school, etc. At 6, students start 1st grade, which is always full day (e.g. 9 am to 3 pm), five days/week. It's basically just the next step from Kindergarten, though obviously the lessons start getting more advanced. So is the system different in Australia, or are we just calling the different levels by different names? Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:10:02 -0500 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: Smallville news On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:44:40 -0500, Samantha Kegan wrote: >Hair needs to go black, though. What can I say? Members of the Purdue "All- >American" Marching band are sticklers for tradition. I would say that is >one, no? Well, considering that many "traditionalists" strongly criticized the casting of Dean Cain because he had brown eyes instead of blue, I'd say 'why stick to tradition now?" Imagine if something like eye color kept Dean from playing Clark! Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:12:41 -0500 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: Question On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:29:00 EST, Kristin Olsen-Molnar wrote: >Hey everyone! I have to dump aol which means changing all my e-mail to yahoo. >how do i change which email address gets this list? thanx for ur time :) > -Teri44isme@aol.com Kristin, You have to unsubscribe from your old address, and resubscribe from your new address. You can either do it by sending mail to the listserv address with the proper commands, or you can go to the website-based archive for this listserv and do it there. (Under the "join or leave the list" link.) Kathy List Mom ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 04:19:16 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Alexis W." Subject: Re: Smallville news MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/24/01 1:10:33 AM EST, kathybrown91@HOME.COM writes: << Imagine if something like eye color kept Dean from playing Clark! >> I would have strangled the casting people at that show! LOL! Alexis ;-.) "A possible visitor from another planet arrives on earth and all you can think of his hauling him off to your lair and trying him out?" (Lois) "Test drive, Lois. A couple of hours behind the wheel, I'd know for sure if we're talking import or domestic." (Cat) {LnC, Neverending Battle} ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 04:21:45 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Alexis W." Subject: Re: Smallville news MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hmm..Tom's okay...but he's definately no Dean Cain! LOL! Actually I think that guy will look better with black hair. Also he looks like he might be between the ages of 19-21. Alexis ;-.) "A possible visitor from another planet arrives on earth and all you can think of his hauling him off to your lair and trying him out?" (Lois) "Test drive, Lois. A couple of hours behind the wheel, I'd know for sure if we're talking import or domestic." (Cat) {LnC, Neverending Battle} ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:01:54 +1100 Reply-To: Patricia Walpole Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Patricia Walpole Subject: Re: Question for a fic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kathy Here in Australia the school system is different in each state. In NSW pre-school is not compulsory. Parents can choose to send their = child at 3 to 4yrs old. These centres are mainly run privately or by church = groups. Fees can be very expensive and there is often long waiting lists. = Parents choose how often they wish their child to attend - Can be 1 day to 5 days( this = is often the=20 case for single parents or when both parents are working). At pre-school some of the activities include playing, being read to and = generally learning to mix with other children. To start proper school or formal education children have to turn 5yrs = old by 31st July that year. In NSW it is not compulsory to send your = child to school until they are 6yrs old. A lot of parents whose children have June and July = birthdays elect to send them the following year. This first year of school is called Kindergarten. The children attend = 9.00am to 3.00pm. The same hours as Years 1 to 6. ( We have three = Education Systems here- Public, Catholic and Private. The hours can be = longer at Catholic and Private Schools.) Kindergarten to Yr 2 is called Infants School, Yrs 3 to 6 = Primary School and Yrs 7 to 12 High School. In the Public School System every child is assessed formally when = commencing=20 Kindergarten and then again at the end of Kindergarten. The assessment = is to=20 determine their readiness to learn. Some of the things assessed are = positional language, colours, shapes, numbers, awareness of print and = pictures. It is supposed to give the teacher a starting point for each = child. Reading skills are taught in Kindergarten but quite often it is not = until Yr 1 or sometimes Yr 2 that some students begin to grasp these. = >From my experience Pre- school can make a big difference to a child's readiness to learn. = Of course every child is different. I work in the area of behavioural and learning difficulties with = students from Kindergarten to Yr 6. Quite often students referred as = behavioural promblems are are very bright and simply bored. Many of them = have come to schol reading and teachers have not been able to cater for = them. In NSW a major problem with teacher trainning exists. Over the = years the entrance level for teaching has been dropped. The idea was to encourage more people to do teaching. All these things vary greatly from state to state. It makes it very = difficult for anyone=20 moving. Hope this helps, Tricia. =20 =20 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:40:51 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: No Name Available Subject: Re: The Exodus, the Tank Ending MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adam, you are mean!!! :P Now get to work on the REAL ending! --Laurie ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 04:22:35 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jo March Subject: New: From Me to You - Complete Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >From Me to You Part 1 of 1 by JoMarch I'd like to thank Shayne, Wendy, and Ann, and the readers of Zoomway's Message Boards for their wonderful comments. Special thanks go to LabRat for all her help. :) Feedback, both public and private, is very welcome. Enjoy! ******************** Dear Lois, There are no words. Every time I reach for that feeling inside, I feel overwhelmed. It chokes me up, and brings tears to my eyes. I feel warm and cold, safe and terrified, content and confused... They tell me it's called Love. I never knew what Love is. I know I love my parents: deeply, tenderly, truly. But I never experienced anything like what I feel for you, Lois. And I feel afraid. Then I look into your eyes, and my world is right again. You smile at me, and I am what I never thought I'd be. I am complete. I wish I could tell you what you gave me, what you give every moment of my life. I wish I could describe how I feel... I can't. Yet you know. Somehow, you know, and I know you know. You live in my soul, Lois, a part of my life, a part of *me*. The best part. You promised me once that I'm 'not alone anymore'. Dearest Lois, you were right. I'm not alone. I have you. Love, Clark ********************************************************* Dear Clark, I have the world. Once, a long time ago, my heart broke. I was twelve years old. I barely knew I had a heart, until it made its presence known, painfully. I coped the best way I knew how. I hid it away and pretended it wasn't even there, but the pain never really went away. When I ventured into the world again and let it out into the light, fragile and timid, it was thrown to the ground. Trampled on and smashed to pieces. I blamed myself. 'You should have kept your heart to yourself', my head scolded, mercilessly. So I gathered the poor, bleeding pieces and locked them up in the dark. And from that moment on, my head took control. I never really knew what it was like to feel. And then came you. Somehow, you managed to find that small, quivering, shrinking creature that was my heart. You reached in and touched it, and for once, it didn't hurt. It healed. Oh, my head protested violently every step of the way, but something was different. My heart was reviving. With every word you spoke, it grew stronger, until one day, it didn't hurt anymore. It felt wonderful. It felt alive. For the first time in my life, I could feel. Not with my head, not with my senses, but with my heart. The world became a different place. And you gave me the best feeling of all. You gave me Love. You are my world, Clark, and there's nothing more I want. I love you. Lois ********************************************************* __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:55:20 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Lesley Hilliard Subject: Re: New: From Me to You - Complete Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit That was just beautiful Jo, Lesley AKA Ladyhawke ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:05:16 -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: IRC, The Undernet, and The Kerths ... In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 08:38 AM 01/23/2001 -0500, you wrote: >In a message dated 1/23/01 8:28:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, >huitziln@CAIS.NET writes: > ><< Turns out my new provider doesn't provide IRC service (heck, they had no >clue > what "IRC" was when I asked about this). >> > >It's not up to your ISP to provide you access to IRC. That's done by >downloading a 3rd party IRC client like mIRC or Ircle for MACs. When you fill >out your nick and emial information there's a drop down list of all the >different networks and servers under those networks. > >Anne Ah! I guess I was confused when I called my old ISP one time and asked about something and they said that they were having no trouble with (I can't remember) undernet.saltlakecity.ut.usa (or some such), making me think *they* provided the outlet. I'll give it a try with my (at one time-maybe still) trusty mIRC. Debby huitziln@cais.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:45:24 -0000 Reply-To: LabRat Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: LabRat Organization: LabRat Subject: Re: New: From Me to You - Complete Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Delighted to see you posting this vignette here, Jo. You know that I think it's beautifully waffy, very poetic...and that it's taken pride of place as the very first entry in my brand new Kerth 2002 folder. Yeah, I know it's early, but, hey, a girl has to be super-organised and do some forward planning once in her life! LabRat :) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:35 +0200 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Hazel Subject: Answers and Scores for #7: BEST REVELATION Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Here are the answers to Kerth Quiz #7, Best Revelation: Story 1: Trust Me, I'm a Reporter, by Yvonne Connell Story 2: A Matter of Ethics, by Nan Smith Story 3: Tales Out of Church, by Irene Dutchak Story 4: That Lois Lane of Mine, by Rose Story 5: Shattered Illusions, by Wendy Richards Story 6: Revealing Cruise, by Daydreamer80 Story 7: Just Another Revelation Story, by Tank Wilson and Wendy Richards Story 8: Strange Visitor Revisited, by Irene Dutchak and Wendy Richards Story 9: The Spying Game, by Irene Dutchak Story 10: Home II: Beginnings, by Nan Smith Story 11: When Friends Become Lovers, by Kathy Brown and Demi Wendy complained that I stole something she planned for another quiz. Well, she's done it to me enough times, so there. ;p Pam complained: (This quiz is going to take me forever if I keep re-reading all the stories! ) I'll assume I'm supposed to take that as a compliment that I chose well? At the very least, the authors should take it as a compliment! :) (Especially Irene, Nan, and Wendy... ) Scores: Adam, Dia, Tim, and Wendy get 20 points, Pam gets 17 points, Patricia (who I assume meant II instead of 11) gets 12 points, Supertlc (welcome to the quizzes!) gets 10.75 points, Helene gets 8.75 points, Jessi (welcome to you too!) gets 8 points, and Yvonne gets 3 points. We all love ya, Yvonne! ;) Wow, a four way tie for first place! Cyber-cookies to *all* of you! I have noted that less people participated in this one... Are these quizzes coming too fast for some of you? Wendy and I are trying to squeeze in as many categories as we can, because we've only done seven; there are eight more quizzes to go and nominations start in nine days! No, we're not going to post a quiz daily! ;) We'll continue throughout nominations. But we *do* want to give all of you some time to consider which fics you'd like to nominate and which authors you'd like to acknowledge for all the enjoyment they've given us. Don't forget that *my* subjective list isn't *yours* -- in fact, I don't nec'ly promise that it's mine, either. Okay, Wendy, you're up next! Hazel, ducking and running as she remembers Wendy hates sports metaphors ;) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:03:34 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: Answers and Scores for #7: BEST REVELATION MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thought I'd pop in now and say how thrilled I was to have one of my stories included in the quiz. And yes I recognized it! From the short excerpt too. (BG). Just so you know. I did not/do not generally post my answers although I really enjoy the quizzes for two reasons: !) Because everyone else is so much better then me - a minor reason and 2) Mostly because I do my e-mail once a day usually in the early morning and by that time most everyone has already posted their responses - the real reason. But that doesn't mean I don't play along at home and have a great deal of fun with them. I also check the answers faithfully - so many are from stories that I haven't yet read and sound so interesting, that I go to find them afterwards. So thank you for posting the quizzes. They are especially useful at Kerth time to remind us all of so many excellent pieces of fanfiction we've read or should hurry up and read before the Kerths. Charlotte AKA Daydreamer80. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:19:26 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Nancy Smith Subject: Re: New: From Me to You - Complete Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm glad to see stories are being posted to the list once again. This was a lovely little vignette that I remember seeing on the mbs a while back. Very sweet and WAFFy. Nan ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:18:05 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Well, Hazel said I'm up next... that's a sports metaphor?! Alternate Universe stories are another FoLC favourite. They centre around either the Clark we met in Tempus, Anyone? or Lois and Clarks, or other universes to which our Clark may travel. (And Irene's Trading Places, just posted here this week, is another great example of an alternate universe story, with multiple manifestations of familiar characters!) So, here we go... a few formalities first: RULES: Identify each story and its author accurately to be awarded a correct answer. This is an open-hard-drive and archive quiz, so feel free to check your answers if you wish. These stories, as usual, are identifiable by either a QUOTE or an EXTRACT. Please indicate whether you guessed the answer from the quote or the extract. Two points for a full correct answer from the quote, and one point from the extract. DISCLAIMER: Two =91disclaimers=92 here. First, just because, in my subjective decision- making process, I have singled these stories out for the Alternate Universe quiz, that should not be taken in any way to suggest that other stories are not deserving of nomination in this category. Your choice is every bit as good as mine! Second, just because, let=92s say, Story 2 and Story 10 are included here as= Alt stories, that does not preclude anyone nominating them in other categories, such as Tearjerker, Drama or Series, and the same goes for the other stories in this quiz. Multiple nominations of one story ARE permitted!= Oh, and PLEASE do not quote the entire quiz in your response! As Hazel says, not only does it take up unnecessary bandwidth, but it makes it a lot harder for us to find your answers! And don=92t forget the SPOILER SPACE. := ) s p a c e Quote 1: "I'd like to have an audience with the Queen. Is Her Highness available?" Quote 2: "Heck, it's so dark no-one will see us, Clark. But...just in case they do - just make sure it's, ah, an appropriate position they see us in, all right?" Quote 3: "Clark," I said forcefully, "you *promised*!" Quote 4: Luthor smiled. "I have a friend on the Metropolis Bomb Squad who owes me a favour. Consider it done." Quote 5: "Clark, I really love the way we end up in the most gorgeous places when we kiss. You are *amazing*." Quote 6: "No, I *wouldn't* rather be dead!! Couldn't you have saved my life without smashing my property? You aliens may not need to worry about making a living, but we humans have to feed and clothe ourselves!" Quote 7: "So what d'you say, Clark? Maybe we should go to bed, get the hormone thing out of our systems, and then calm down and be friends." Quote 8: "Oh my God, Clark, you have to work with *that*?" Quote 9: "Lex Luthor??? He was the one who kidnapped you???" Quote 10: "Clark," Alt-Superman interrupted. "Their leader is called Lord Kal-El." s p a c e Extract 1: Clark strode into the sitting room to find the alternate Clark lying on the sofa watching television. "Hi," he said, seating himself in a chair next to the sofa. "Hey, bro," said the alternate Clark disinterestedly. Clark rubbed his hand tiredly across his face. "I thought you were dead," he said without further preamble. "Well," said the alternate Clark, taking a languid sip of his drink, "I'm not." Clark set his jaw. I did think you were dead. I thought you *must* be dead; I believed that if you were anything like me, no power on earth could keep you away from Lois for two years. "Would you like to tell me where you've been for the last two years?" asked Clark shortly, his anger rising at the worry the alternate Clark had caused everyone. "Or why you haven't at least let your friends know that you're alive and well? "Not really." Extract 2: Wanting to earn some goodwill, Lois picked out a strangely-shaped rock-like object and sank her teeth into it. Too late, she saw Clark's hand below desk level, shaking urgently from side to side. With a sinking heart, she bit down harder and eventually managed to prise a chunk off. A gritty, floury, burnt-tasting substance filled her mouth, and, forcing a smile onto her face, she reported, "Very...unusual." "Tell me if you start hearing things twice," said Jeff sardonically. Effectively silenced by the cookie, Lois resorted to a mild glare while Clark picked up where he'd left off. "We understand why you can't print the full story yet, Jeff, and we respect that. We wouldn't want to put the Planet in jeopardy by publishing something which wasn't fully backed up with rock-solid evidence." Clark paused. "There are other ways of making this public, though," he said carefully. "Such as?" Jeff picked up the cookie tin and offered it to Clark as he spoke. Clark smiled and shook his head to decline the offer. Lois was indignant that she had to suffer in silence whereas he airily managed to avoid the noxious cookies. While she was transferring her glare to him, he continued, "We had a phone call earlier from Metropolis Today. They want us to-" "Hold on!" interrupted Jeff. "Now I know there's something funny in those cookies, otherwise I wouldn't have heard you say you want to scoop your own newspaper on live TV. You didn't say that, did you?" "Well, that's one way of putting it." Extract 3: I clambered over the seats and squatted next to the strange green rock that had brought Clark so close to death. It *had* killed him, I reminded myself grimly. The person that still walked and breathed wasn't Clark Kent any longer, but a strange entity named Superman -- a man with no privacy, no life, and no future. His body might still exist, but my Clark Kent was gone.= The man I loved. My fiance. My future. I touched the rock with a shaking finger, wondering if it was as deadly to humans as it had been to Clark. But no -- Tempus had shown no effects, and neither had Lois Lane. How strange that Clark should be impervious to fire, to bullets, even to the effects of swallowing a bomb -- but this sickly, slick stone should be fatal to him. I couldn't leave it here. It made me feel ill just to look at it, let alone touch it, but I couldn't allow it to remain where it might fall into the hands of someone like Tempus who would want to harm Clark. Part of me wanted to kill him almost as much as I wanted to kill Lois Lane, but not this way. I couldn't leave it behind. That harridan hadn't thought of that, of course. Or perhaps she had, and she just didn't care... Extract 4: "Dr. Klein!" He yelled in a hoarse, tired voice, like one who had been previously yelling for hours. "Dr. Klein, get me out of here, please!" Lois's heart constricted at the pain in Clark's voice. How long had he been kept here? Five days? It must have been longer, to have that kind of desperation . . . "Lois?" The tone in his voice had changed, now one of amazement and curiosity. Lois heart skipped a beat. "What?" Dr. Klein looked from one to the other inquisitively. "Do you two know each other?" "No," Lois began, looking deeply into the stranger's eyes through the glass partition between them. "At least, I've never met him . . ." Clark looked down. "I know you from stories Perry has told me." He glanced up quickly. "That's all." "Oh," Dr. Klein responded with some relief. The strange moment passed. "So," Lois asked. "He can hear everything that goes on?" "Yes." Clark responded grimly. "I can hear everything. Well," he continued with an angry look at the doctor, "Everything you can hear." Lois questioned Klein with a look. Once again, Clark jumped in to answer. "There is a green rock that a friend found at my home, which was eventually seized by a government agent. It takes away all my powers, makes me sick." He gestured around, and Lois noticed for the first time a fine film of sweat coating his face. "That's how they're keeping me in here. It's lined with a diluted solution containing that rock." He looked like he wanted to spit at someone, but was too polite. There was no desperation in his eyes now - only anger, a burning rage that would ache in him until he finally escaped, Lois knew. Extract 5: President Jackson continued, "Superman will be flying into space to divert this asteroid before it can harm us." The lead reporter from a rival paper waved her hand and as the President acknowledged her presence said, "Linda King, Metropolitan Star. Can we be sure that Superman has the strength to do that?" "My advisers have every confidence in Mr. Kent. If you like, you can ask him yourself, he's right behind you." Linda King whirled around and glared at Clark. "Well?!!" Clark felt exposed. This person was interviewing Superman. He was Clark! Should he change into the Suit? Then he saw other reporters bearing down on him, all of them demanding answers. They wanted Superman to tell them the answer. They wanted Superman. He should be Superman. Clark felt afraid. The noise made by the mass of reporters sounded so much like the crowd clamouring for the Beast in the play he had seen the day he found the globe. Cameras were aimed in his direction. Larry Kidsign was smirking from behind the mass of people who were pressing forward and straining to hear his response. This was his worst nightmare come true! He was Clark! Didn't anyone understand? Clark! He began to feel panicky inside and then he heard a calm voice say, "Clark?" He focussed on the source of the voice. It was Lois, standing at the far side of the room-- away from the crowd who had knocked over chairs in the surge to surround him. Lois, who knew he was Clark. Lois, who would always know he was Clark.= In that split second he realized that he didn't have to be dressed as Superman to answer the questions. Clark could give the answers. Clark could be the mouthpiece for Superman. Clark could handle this! Extract 6: "I'm not *trying* to *help*!" said Lois. "I'm *showing* you how to act like *Superman*." "I don't want to act like *that* Superman, Lois," said Clark, nettled that she was comparing him to the Other Clark again. "I've seen tapes of him. He wraps up the suspects in parking meters, then stands around looking pompous while he pronounces a few lines of comic book dialog. I don't want to look--= or act-- like him." Lois swelled up like a porcupine fish at this criticism of her hero. "He does *not* look pompous! He looks *noble*! You should be *glad* to emulate him--you couldn't ask for a better role model, Clark!" Clark shrugged, annoyed. "If you say so, Lois ..." "Superman can't show any emotions, Clark, he just can't!" argued Lois, pressing her point spiritedly. "Don't you see?? He's not a brooding vigilante--he's an impartial enforcer of justice ... he can't act out of anger, or malice, or spite. He can't look sinister or threatening. He's an immovable force for good!" Clark rolled his eyes. "Really, Lois," he said in disgust. "How do you expect me to be this paragon? How could *anyone* be--" "You don't have to *be* him," she rejoined, "you just have to*look* like him." Clark scowled. "I don't see the point," he muttered. "Just *try*," said Lois. She looked at his sulky face in exasperation. How could she get through to him? The poor innocent didn't know yet what he meant to Metropolis--to the whole world. "People want to see a hero," she began, then, inspiration striking, "besides, you don't want to look like 'Clark Kent,' do you? The angrier you look, the more 'human' expressions you get on your face, the more likely it is that people will recognize you." Seeing that her remark had hit home, she pressed forward. "When people look at Superman, you don't want them to see an impassioned, very human, vigilante; you want them to see an alien, someone sent from outer space to help keep the peace on this planet--" "Okay, okay," Clark held up his hand. "You've made your point. I'll do it." I'll do my best to look and sound like that pompous windbag. Extract 7: At the sound of her movement, he raised his head. "Who's there?" Lois emerged out of the shadows, walking over to where he was sitting, embarrassed that she had been found out, yet needing for some reason she didn't understand to comfort him. "Lois Lane," her voice faltered as she became aware of the totally stunned look on his face as he gazed up at her. So she repeated more firmly, "My name is Lois Lane and I, uh, just happened to be, I mean I just wanted to say, to say... that you're not alone," she finally blurted out. Where had that come from? she wondered. And why wasn't he saying anything? Why was he staring at her, slack jawed like she was a ghost? Shouldn't he be mad at her or something for invading his privacy? He was making her nervous. "Lois," his voice was soft as he said her name. "Lois Lane," he repeated, this time with wonder in his voice. He still hadn't moved from his seated position and she wasn't sure what to do next. Why didn't he stand up? Well, she would have to take the next step. "You're Clark Kent. Superman." So now they were introduced. "Lois," he repeated her name again, his dark eyes searching her face. It looked like he wasn't going to stand up, or say anything for that matter. Well, this was her opportunity to talk to him, to try to get to figure him out. So she sank crosslegged to the cold stone floor in front of him and began the conversation. It was getting dark now and she would have liked more light but she didn't want to risk suggesting they go somewhere else in case he might suddenly remember that she was an intruder. So many questions flooded through her mind but all of them seemed either too distancing or too personal. "You must've spent a lot of time here when you were a kid." That seemed safe. He didn't reply to that but instead asked, his voice still holding that odd tone of wonder, "Are you real?" Extract 8: Clark's shoulders slumped just a bit more as he turned to leave, and Lois realized in horror that he was about to walk back out of her life. Unbearable to think she would miss the chance to get to know him ... impetuously she reached out to grab his hand. "Wait a minute, Clark." She turned to her boss. "Perry, you know we need someone else around here --= and I have a story coming up that I need help with." Perry arched one eyebrow at that admission. "Hey, it's a big story. And speaking of big stories..." she entered Perry's office as she spoke, holding out her printout with one hand and dragging Clark behind her with the other, "here's your latest juicy scoop -- the sales figures will jump for *days* because of this one, and you can use just a little bit of that money to hire Clark here, on a temporary basis to help me out." Abruptly, she turned to Clark. "You do have experience, right? And you were here for a reporting job, right? I mean if you wanted to work in marketing you wouldn't have been talking to Perry, so I guess that clears that up, and he wasn't giving his polite 'you just don't have the right background' speech that he gives to people who are completely impossible, so that's alright." Satisfied by her own logic, she turned back to Perry, giving Clark no chance to respond. Perry was regarding her with thinly veiled impatience. "Lois, we do have other reporters you can work with, if you should deign to give them a chance. How about Myerson?" She dismissed him with a toss of her head. "He's out sick." "Burns?" "In Budapest." "Well ... there's always Ralph?" he offered weakly. She rolled her eyes. "I wouldn't work with that lecher if he were my only hope of a Pulitzer. It's Kent or nobody." Extract 9: The next morning Lois found herself in her bed. She sat up and looked around. It couldn't be a dream, it had to be true. She wasn't dreaming, Clark really existed, he really had brought her back to Metropolis. She had really come back to Metropolis. She started to really believe it. She got up and walked toward the kitchen. Her heart raced crazily and that alerted Clark to her presence. "Good morning ... " Clark looked at her and was astonished. Lois' eyes shone in a way he had never seen before. He was beside her in a moment. "Lois?" She stretched her hand to his face, then slipped it down to his shoulder and then on to his arm. It slipped back to his shoulder and started to touch him with more strength, over and over, until it hit him, she was testing to make sure he was real. A smile shone on her disbelieving face. She was safe, finally she was safe. Lois started to laugh, keeping her hand lightly on his shoulder. She laughed so much that she became breathless. Clark held her in his embrace and she lost herself in those arms. The laughter became a cry and then she started to sob, for the relief she felt at finally being found, that the hell she had suffered had really ended, for the happiness she felt to feel herself free again and to find that she was mentally sane. There really was a man who could fly, who had made her fly, he wasn't just a joke perpetrated on her by her insane mind. He was there and he was holding her tightly to him. Extract 10: >Better luck next time, Kal-El, < The woman's soft mental voice practically purred. >You can find the body at the Metropolis parade grounds in the park. < Clark was standing next to the body before the echoes of his passage faded, his blood turning to ice by the sight that greeted him. "My...God." She lay on the dais, her dark blue dress neatly arranged around her, arms crossed on her midriff, looking for all the world as if she were merely sleeping. "Lois." Her name escaped his lips, no louder than an exhaled breath. Carefully, he approached her still form and extended a shaking hand, smoothing back an errant strand of hair from her cold forehead. He felt as though a deep, dark pit in his soul had opened and swallowed him. His vision clouded over with a white haze as he fell to his knees, sobbing. He wanted to scream, to rage at the world, to find the woman responsible for this and to throttle the life from her! Anything, just as long as the pain stopped. It wasn't until long moments later that Clark was finally able to bring himself under enough control to think coherently. >This can't be Lois, < he told himself. >She's in Chicago, covering the S.T.A.R. Labs symposium with Professor Hamilton and isn't due back until tomorrow. < Quickly, his mind began working on the possible explanations: clones, cosmetically-disguised imposter, time divergent doppelganger. All the situations they had encountered before. A quick scan with his x-ray vision, however, revealed the scarring on the anklebone Lois had broken. This left only the possibility of an alternate Earth Lois. And if it was a doppelganger from another dimension, it still meant THAT Superman had just lost his Lois. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:19:31 +0200 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Hazel Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >Well, Hazel said I'm up next... that's a sports metaphor?! For baseball, yes. Sorry to disillusion you. :) Of course, it may not have originated with baseball... Better go check that Word Detective site that Pam told us about! S P O I L E R S P A C E >Quote 1: >"I'd like to have an audience with the Queen. Is Her Highness available?" Since I'm the one who suggested this quote for this story, I'd better get it. :) Queen Lois, by Mobile Richard >Quote 2: >"Heck, it's so dark no-one will see us, Clark. But...just in case they do - >just make sure it's, ah, an appropriate position they see us in, all >right?" Pam Jernigan's In Any Universe, I think... no, #8 is. Umm... Yvonne's FoD3! This is going to be one tough category, huh? >Quote 3: >"Clark," I said forcefully, "you *promised*!" A Certain Point of View. By me. :) (and good choice of a quote!) >Quote 4: >Luthor smiled. "I have a friend on the Metropolis Bomb Squad who owes me a >favour. Consider it done." Argh, I know this story, but I need to look up the author and title... Love Me Once More, by Randi >Quote 5: >"Clark, I really love the way we end up in the most gorgeous places when we >kiss. You are *amazing*." Ah! Margaret's Only You 5: Fantasy >Quote 6: >"No, I *wouldn't* rather be dead!! Couldn't you have saved my life without >smashing my property? You aliens may not need to worry about making a >living, but we humans have to feed and clothe ourselves!" The *superb* LiaDW: Pygmalion, also by Ms. Moby! >Quote 7: >"So what d'you say, Clark? Maybe we should go to bed, get the hormone >thing out of our systems, and then calm down and be friends." Um... I thought this might be FoD3, but it's not. Better check the extract. >Quote 8: >"Oh my God, Clark, you have to work with *that*?" Er. *This* one is Pam's In Any Universe, so I'd better go back and work on that previous one... >Quote 9: >"Lex Luthor??? He was the one who kidnapped you???" Chiara's Lois' Return >Quote 10: >"Clark," Alt-Superman interrupted. "Their leader is called Lord Kal-El." This is one that sliders series. I'll guess the first, which would make it Endings and Beginnings, by Joel Schuldt. >Extract 7: > >He didn't reply to that but instead asked, his voice still holding that odd >tone of wonder, "Are you real?" ARGH!! I can't *believe* I didn't get this! Carol's Connections, one of my favorites of the year... And yes, Wendy, you've stolen another quote of mine for another quiz! ;p GREAT quiz, Wendy! And some really, really great stories. Um... Erin, exactly how many stories are we allowed to nominate...? Hazel, who knows she'll have to vote for only one... ~sigh~ PS to Charlotte: Charlotte, unless you get the digest version, it doesn't matter very much if other people have submitted their answers before you. With most quizzes, the answers come in over a 24-30 hour period. Plenty of time for you to take part, if you want to! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:40:28 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Amy Lauters Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I haven't had time to play before now, but here goes! (Oh, and it gave me a big grin all day when I saw my story on the new authors' quiz. I felt like I'd made it! :) ) s p a c e Quote 1: I thought this was Trial by Empress, but now I'm not so sure. Quote 2: Not sure. Quote 3: Not sure again. Quote 4: Randi Warwick's wonderful "Love me once more ..." Quote 5: Familiar, but I'm drawing a blank on the title. Quote 6: Sounds like a classic Lois tirade of late ... Quote 7: Dunno, but sounds ...spicy! Quote 8: Pam Jernigan, "In Any Universe" Quote 9: Not sure Quote 10: This was one earlier this year ... s p a c e Extract 1: I was really wrong. I don't think I've read this one. Extract 2: FOD III, by Yvonne Connell (_Great_ story.) Extract 3: Nan Smith, "A Certain Point of View. Extract 4: Definitely "Love Me Once More" by Randi Extract 5: I know I've read it, but I can't think of it. Extract 6: This is the first in a series I can't remember the name of. Extract 7: Pam Jernigan's "Tryst", I think Extract 8: Don't know. Extract 9: Don't know. Extract 10: I remember it, but can't find it. Well, so much for that ... :) Amy ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:39:42 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: No Name Available Subject: Re: IRC, The Undernet, and The Kerths ... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 01/24/2001 8:42:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, huitziln@CAIS.NET writes: << and they said that they were having no trouble with (I can't remember) undernet.saltlakecity.ut.usa >> That's because the undernet (and some other IRC networks) are under attack and they are ALL having trouble. I hope we don't see the whole IRC go down the drain as a result. :( --Laurie ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:54:47 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Diyan Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 * * s p o i l e r s p a c e * * Quote 1: Mobile Richard=92s "Queen Lois" Quote 2: Yvonne=92s wonderful "Fear of Discovery 3" (which isn=92t finished.= When are we going to see the next part?) Quote 3: Hazel=92s "A Certain Point of View" Extract 4: I=92ve not read this one, but I think I want to. Quote 5: Margaret Brignell=92s "Only You: Fantasy" Extract 6: I looked at this story before I moved on from the quotes and ruled it out. Oops. It was obvious as soon as I looked at the extract. Mobile Richard=92s "Life in a Different World 3" Quote 7: Carol Malo=92s "Connections - An Alternate Story" Quote 8: MaryLynn=92s "The Other Woman" One of my favorites :) This is from= part one. Quote 9: Chiara=92s "Lois=92 Return" Quote 10: This is from that saga by Joel Shuldt that I didn't read - now, if I can find which part it is... Ah, that was easy: it=92s the first one, "Endings and Beginnings" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:08:30 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: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey! These are one of my favorite types ... let see how I can do ... I think I am getting the hang of tihs quiz stuff! s p o i l e r s p a c e Q1 - Don't know ... Q2 - FoD 3 - by Yvonne Connell Q3 - A Certain Point of View - Hazel Q4 - Don't know ... Q5 - Only You: Fantasy - Margaret Brignell Q6 - Don't know ... Q7 - I don't know, but think I wanna read it Q8 - not a clue Q9 - Easiest one of all - Lois' Return - Chaira :) Having just read it recently it's still freash in my imnd Q10 - Don't know ... E1 - Still don't know E4 - Sounds familar, but I still can't place it E6 - Life in a Different World P3 - By Mobile Richard E7 - Still don't know E8 - Still don't know :( E10 - Nope Well at least I'm improving in that I can name more that one ... Anne ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:21:46 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Yael Kfir Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S p o i l e r S p a c e My two answers (I'm getting better!): Quote 1: Mobile Richards' 'Queen Lois' (Well, the answer is in the question..) Extract 8: Pam Jernigan's 'In any universe'. Yael. ----------------------- - Oh, god... - Zod. (Superman II) ----------------------- ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:51:08 -0700 Reply-To: erink@ida.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Erin Klingler Subject: How many to nominate... (Was: RE: Kerth Quiz No. 8: ) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010124195554.00aad650@actcom.co.il> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >GREAT quiz, Wendy! And some really, really great stories. Um... Erin, >exactly how many stories are we allowed to nominate...? > >Hazel, who knows she'll have to vote for only one... ~sigh~ LOL. See how many truly wonderful stories are out there this Kerths year, guys? I think it's simply fabulous. :) As for nominating: Please keep in mind, everyone, that I not only don't mind multiple nominations in each of the categories, but I actually ENCOURAGE them! Last year we got a lot of noms, but if those ppl only nominated one story in each category, we may not have gotten as good a representation of stories in each of the categories come time to determine who makes the final cut to move on to the ballot. So, please! Plan to nominate more than one story in each category, if you'd like to do so. As you can see from these quizzes, there are definitely *more* than one deserving story to do so with. Worry about narrowing it down to one later. Erin :) __________________ erink@ida.net Visit my LNC/Kerth Website: www.ida.net/users/davek ***** "It's not the years that count, it's the moments...right now, as they happen." __________________ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:02:09 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Cindy Leuch Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories I would just like to preface this by saying that if I KNOW I'm gonna stink it up, I don't usually respod (and that's why I didn't do the last one - I keep how pathetic I am at answering some of these quizzes to myself). BUT I'm pretty confident on this one, so here we go.... (spoiler space) 1) Queen Lois by Mobile Richard (quote) 2) Never read it.... 3) A Certain Point of View by Hazel (quote) 4) I've read this... 5) I've read this, too... 6) Life In A Different World 3 by Mobile Richard (quote) 7) Connections: An Alternate Story by Carol Malo (extract) 8) In Any Universe by Pam Jernigan (extract) 9) Fear of Discover 3 by Yvonne Cornell (extract) 10) never Read it... Well...how's that? -Cindy ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:24:21 -0000 Reply-To: LabRat Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: LabRat Organization: LabRat Subject: Re Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ooookaaaaay. Let's try this one. /me rolls up her sleeves. Q1. Queen Lois by Moby. Q2 Fear of Discovery III by Yvonne Q3 Certain POV by Hazel Q4 No idea. Q5 No idea. Q6 Life In A Different World III by Moby Seems to help if you've read most of the entries in just the past few = days. Or if they're by favourite authors. Q7 Connections by Carol Malo E8 In Any Universe by Pam Q9 Lois' Return by Chiara (easiest one this one! ) Q10 Definitely haven't read this one, but I sure want to! After I post = this I need to look at the other answers so far, see who got it. ;) LabRat :) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:38:06 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Adam Labotka Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: Queen Lois by Mobile Richard Quote 2: Fear of Discovery III: Coming Home by Yvonne Connell Quote 3: Certain Point of View by Hazel Quote 4: Love Me Once More... by Randi Warwick Quote 5: Only You Fantasy by Margarett Brignell Quote 6: Life in a Different World Part 3 by Mobile Richards Quote 8: In Any Universe by Pam Jernigan Quote 9: Lois' Return by Chiara Prato Quote 10: Endings and Beginnings by Joel Schuldt Excerpt 7: Connections: An Alternat Story by Carol Malo ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:26:55 -0000 Reply-To: Yvonne Connell Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Yvonne Connell Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You see, I make sure I always come last so that no-one else has to... Oh, and thanks for taking up my suggestion re. spoiler space, Wendy! s p o i l e r s p a c e Quote 2: Phew, at least I don't get zero ;) Fear of Discovery III by me. Quote 3: Hazel's A Certain Point of View Extract 4: Oh, I know this one! Don't ask me who wrote it, or what the title is, though Extract 8: Rings an awfully loud bell, but... Extract 9: Erm - Pam's ghost story? /me wonders which one of those was Carol's Connections, because I'm sure it must have been in there somewhere. Ah well, I always knew I had a hopeless memory! Yvonne (yvonne@yconnell.fsnet.co.uk) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:51:22 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Rachel Subject: Kerth question-Tearjerker? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit While we're on the Kerth topic, I have a question. Is a 'tearjerker' story supposed to be a sad story or can it be a happy one that makes you cry? The only reason I'm asking is b/c I finally got to read Margaret Brignell's 'Only You: Fantasy', and, while it's not sad, it was such a wonderful story I wanted to cry at the end. Would that make it qualify or should I keep hunting for something else? Rachel ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:14:34 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Chiara P Subject: R: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: "I'd like to have an audience with the Queen. Is Her Highness available?" Mobile RIchard "Queen Lois" (by the way... Where is her!!!!!! We want her new Works soon!!!!!!!![please notice the *s* at the end ]) Quote 9: "Lex Luthor??? He was the one who kidnapped you???" This is mine! Lois' return! :( I have really to read a lot before to vote!!!!!!!!!! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:55:10 -0700 Reply-To: erink@ida.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Erin Klingler Subject: Re: Kerth question-Tearjerker? In-Reply-To: <015501c08647$69ff1a60$6993fea9@calvin.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rachel asked: >While we're on the Kerth topic, I have a question. > >Is a 'tearjerker' story supposed to be a sad story or can it be a >happy one that >makes you cry? > >The only reason I'm asking is b/c I finally got to read Margaret Brignell's >'Only You: Fantasy', and, while it's not sad, it was such a wonderful story I >wanted to cry at the end. > >Would that make it qualify or should I keep hunting for something else? Rachel, I thought about emailing you a private answer, but then decided some others of you might be wondering something like this, as well, so I'm emailing this to the list instead. :) I haven't yet read this installment of Margaret's incredible "Only You" series (though I'm sure it's as fabulous as the rest of her amazingly wonderful stories ;), so I don't know the exact plot line, etc. But if it only made you want to cry at the end, it's probably not what we refer to as "a tearjerker." (Or am I wrong, and *is* Margaret's story a tearjerker? Like I said, I haven't read it yet.) A typical tearjerker would more likely be a story that had you in tears for much of it, and not necessarily just happy or sad tears, but some of both. It's a story you'd go through almost an entire box of tissues by story's end. Demi's "Heaven's Prisoners" is a good example, since it won in the first year of Kerths. And I know Wendy has many tearjerkers out there...she seems to love to torment us that way. Anyone else want to help me out, here? :) Erin :) __________________ erink@ida.net Visit my LNC/Kerth Website: www.ida.net/users/davek ***** "It's not the years that count, it's the moments...right now, as they happen." __________________ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:41:01 -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: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Coming in late ... I'd have tried earlier, but my keyboard was malfunctioning, and then my son came home and commandeered the computer for a few hours But all is fixed and he's in bed, so... s p o i l e r s p a c e > Quote 1: > "I'd like to have an audience with the Queen. Is Her Highness available?" Queen Lois, by Mobile Richard > Quote 2: > "Heck, it's so dark no-one will see us, Clark. But...just in case they do - > just make sure it's, ah, an appropriate position they see us in, all > right?" I peeked at Hazel's answers so I know this is FOD III. And Yvonne has nothing to fear from me in this category! > Quote 3: > "Clark," I said forcefully, "you *promised*!" Gotta be Hazel's Certain Point of View > Quote 4: > Luthor smiled. "I have a friend on the Metropolis Bomb Squad who owes me a > favour. Consider it done." Dunno. I'm thinking maybe it's Love me Once More but I'm too lazy to check ;) > Quote 5: > "Clark, I really love the way we end up in the most gorgeous places when we > kiss. You are *amazing*." Don't know > Quote 6: > "No, I *wouldn't* rather be dead!! Couldn't you have saved my life without > smashing my property? You aliens may not need to worry about making a > living, but we humans have to feed and clothe ourselves!" Life in a Different World, part 3, by Mobile Richard > Quote 7: > "So what d'you say, Clark? Maybe we should go to bed, get the hormone > thing out of our systems, and then calm down and be friends." But i don't recognize it. > Quote 8: > "Oh my God, Clark, you have to work with *that*?" Ah, that would be me... In Any Universe > Quote 9: > "Lex Luthor??? He was the one who kidnapped you???" Totally guessing ... Lois' Return, by Chiara > Quote 10: > "Clark," Alt-Superman interrupted. "Their leader is called Lord Kal-El." Haven't read it but it seems familiar > Extract 2: > "Hold on!" interrupted Jeff. "Now I know there's something funny in those > cookies, otherwise I wouldn't have heard you say you want to scoop your own > newspaper on live TV. You didn't say that, did you?" If I hadn't cheated, I would have recognized FOD III from this excerpt -- does that count? > Extract 4: > "Dr. Klein!" He yelled in a hoarse, tired voice, like one who had been > previously yelling for hours. "Dr. Klein, get me out of here, please!" Definitely Love Me Once More ... by Randi Warwick?? > Extract 5: > Larry Kidsign was smirking from behind the mass of people > who were pressing forward and straining to hear his response. This was his > worst nightmare come true! Ah, definitely Margaret Brignell's conclusion to Only You (Fantasy, I think it was called) > Extract 7: > At the sound of her movement, he raised his head. "Who's there?" > > Lois emerged out of the shadows, walking over to where he was sitting, > embarrassed that she had been found out, yet needing for some reason she > didn't understand to comfort him. "Lois Lane," Oh, yes! This is Connections, by Carol Malo! This is one of my very favorite scenes from it, too As always, great quiz, Wendy! :) -- Pam Jernigan / ChiefPam / jernigan@bellsouth.net http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam http://personal.rdu.bellsouth.net/~jernigan/ "Hi, I'm Larry the Cucumber, and welcome to the very first VeggieTales success video! Are you ready to make millions of dollars in real estate with no money down? I know I am!" --Larry, misunderstanding a sing-along video ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:33:02 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Bethy Em Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: "Queen Lois" by Mobile Richard Quote 2: Sounds relatively familiar... Quote 3: "A Certain Point of View" by Hazel Quote 4: Probably read it. Can't think now, though. Quote 5: Okay, I *know* I've read this, but I have no idea the story! Quote 6: Ditto number 5 Quote 7: Hmm..not sure. Quote 8: Pretty sure I've read this, too. Quote 9: "Lois' Return" by Chiara Prato Quote 10: Hmm...again, sounds familiar. Extract 2: Oooh, ooh, I remember! Yvonne's absitively posolutely fantabulous FoD III! Subtitled "Coming Home. Extract 4: Yippee! Another one! The wonderful "Love Me Once More..." by Randy Warwick Extract 5: Is this the one where Tempus put a thing in Lois's tooth to make her have pain whenever Daily Planet, Clark Kent, and especially, Superman, were mentioned? It seems like it...Oh, well, I give up. Extract 6: Life in a Different World -- Part 3 (Pygmalion) by Mobile Richard. Can't believe I didn't get that from the quote. Extract 7: Sorry, still don't know. I'd love to read (or possible re-read) it, though. Looks great. Extract 8: Pam Jernigan's "In any Universe" I *knew* I knew this one! Extract 10: Well, I'm almost certain I've read this -- or at least parts. But I don't know which it is. Okay, not as well as I've done before -- and I thought I liked alt-universe stories! Oh, and my reason for not participating in the last quiz was that the university's computers had a hissy fit and refused access to hotmail. So I wasn't able to get on to do it. :-( Bethy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:10:22 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Tim Porter Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E Lets see how I do for the big points Quote 1: Queen Lois by Mobile Richard Quote 4: Love Me Once More... by Randi Warwick Quote 6: Life in a Different World - Part 3 by Mobile Richard Quote 7: Connections: An Alternate Story by Carol Malo Quote 8: In Any Universe by Pam Jernigan Quote 9: Lois' Return by Chiara Prato Quote 10: Endings and Beginnings by Joel Schuldt With the wonderful help from the extracts... Extract 2: Fear of Discovery III: Coming Home by Yvonne Connell Extract 3: A Certain Point of View by Hazel Extract 5: Only You: Fantasy by Margaret Brignell ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:39:53 +1100 Reply-To: Patricia Walpole Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Patricia Walpole Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable S P O I L E R S P A C E Quotes: 2. Fear Of Discovery 3 Yvonne Connell 7. Connections: An Alternate Story Carol Malo ( The only reason I = know this is=20 because I just finished reading it. A great story! I would highly = recommend it.) That's it. Tricia ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:40:37 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Diyan Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Ba'a'a'a'a No, those are not apostrophes standing in for missing letters, they are marks indicating glottal stops. This is my imitation of a sheep. 'Cause I feel a bit sheepish... s p o i l e r s p a c e >Quote 8: "Oh my God, Clark, you have to work with *that*?" >MaryLynn=92s "The Other Woman" One of my favorites :) This is from >part one. Yes, this quote is in fact from Pam's "In Any Universe," which I would have realized if I'd checked my answers as I ususally do. If I'd even stopped to think about it I'd have realized it. It happens that two of my very favorite authors wrote kind of similar stories this year. The even both have stakeout kissage though in MaryLynn's story they're in Lois's new Jeep and in Pam's they're in Perry's old Chevy. If you liked one of these stories and haven't read the other, I highly recommend it. In fact, if you've not read either of them, I recommend them both. Believe it or not, even though I put too much time into searching for the answers, I actually don't see winning as the main goal of these quizzes The main goal (for me) is remember and/or discover some of the good stories that are elegible in each category. So now that I've reminded you of "The Other Woman," I'd like to point out two more of my favorite alt-world stories that weren't in the quiz: Tank's Future series, "A Future Revised" and "A Future Restored" and Wendy's "So Strong a Foundation" Neither of these two are set in alternate worlds, but they both feature characters from alternate worlds. I think that qualifies them for this category, doesn't it? Sorry for the mix-up, Pam (and MaryLynn, if you're on the list). -Dia ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 04:55:09 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: John Debbage <106532.433@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Feedback on stories posted to the list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, As some of you will know my private life is pretty hectic at the moment s= o I hope you don't mind if I give some feedback on the stories that have be= en posted this past week in one email. =46rom Me To You: This vignette was a lovely waffy little story and so beautifully written.= = It made me smile and at the same time brought a lump to my throat. You captured both their fears and dreams in two short letters. If you have anymore of the same please keep on posting them Joe = Trading Places: I thought this was another great piece and just what we've come to expect= from Irene. This story had humour, suspence and angst -- all the ingredients of a good tale. And I was amazed, Irene, at how you managed = to keep the alter egos and 'double' straight in your mind and made them similar but subtly different. I enjoyed it very much. Exodus: Adam, I'm cheating on this a bit because I haven't managed to read the whole story yet but I'm glad to see that you posted it on this list and hopefully restarted the trend of posting stories. This seems to be a ver= y involved plot and I'm interested to see where and how it ends up. I'll send you fdk privately when I finish your story. Yours as always, Jenni = ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 03:31:37 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jo March Subject: Re: New: From Me to You - Complete Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Coming to you from the land of DIGEST mail... Lesley, thank you! I'm glad you liked it. LabRat - well, I did post it because you told me to. ;) >and that it's taken pride of place as >the very first entry in my brand new Kerth 2002 folder. Thank you! I'm honoured. :) Nan, thank you too. I really appreciate your comments! JoMarch :) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:15:08 -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: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey Dia, > It happens that two of my very > favorite authors wrote kind of similar stories this year. Oh, it's worse than that ... we did it twice! I've been wondering whether I'm stealing her ideas, or vice versa... but we did "In Any Universe"/"The Other Woman" at about the same time last spring, and then this fall "Tryst" and "Out of Time" came out a week apart -- we chose opposite ghosts, but there were definite similarities with those, too :) ML's one of my favorite authors, too :) So don't worry about the mixup, it amused me PJ -- Pam Jernigan / ChiefPam / jernigan@bellsouth.net http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam http://personal.rdu.bellsouth.net/~jernigan/ "Hi, I'm Larry the Cucumber, and welcome to the very first VeggieTales success video! Are you ready to make millions of dollars in real estate with no money down? I know I am!" --Larry, misunderstanding a sing-along video ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:29:30 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories Hi Dia! For the benefit of those who still want to attempt the quiz... s p o i l e r s p a c e >>>So now that I've reminded you of "The Other Woman," I'd like to point out two more of my favorite alt-world stories that weren't in the quiz: Tank's Future series, "A Future Revised" and "A Future Restored" and Wendy's "So Strong a Foundation" Neither of these two are set in alternate worlds, but they both feature characters from alternate worlds. I think that qualifies them for this category, doesn't it?<<< Very much so. All three stories you've mentioned are eligible; the main reason they weren't in the quiz was because we can't pick every possible story in the category. BUT, as Hazel and I keep repeating, that doesn't mean that people can't nominate other stories; all we're doing is highlighting a few, which we hope will stimulate people to think about the category as a whole. As you've clearly done, Dia... :) (The other reason, at least applying to SSAF, is that I'm *trying* not to use too many of my own stories - and that one did appear in SuperFutures). Wendy :) ---------- Wendy Richards wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:01:32 -0000 Reply-To: LabRat Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: LabRat Organization: LabRat Subject: Re: New: From Me to You - Complete Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jo wrote: > LabRat - well, I did post it because you told me to. > ;) LOL. I'd completely forgotten about that! And see? I was right. LabRat :) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:36:40 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kaethel Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 8: Alternate Universe Stories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Great, another quiz! :) Btw, Hazel and Wendy, the quizzes are a lot of fun, and I don't think they come too close to one another. I'd rather be of the opposite opinion, and I'm always eagerly waiting for the next one. :) Thanks for the work you two are putting into this. :) Anyway, on with my answers (or rather my vain attempts at getting a few points ) S p o i l e r S p a c e > Quote 1: > "I'd like to have an audience with the Queen. Is Her Highness available?" Taking a wild guess... Queen Lois, by Mobile Richard? > Quote 2: > "Heck, it's so dark no-one will see us, Clark. But...just in case they do - > just make sure it's, ah, an appropriate position they see us in, all > right?" Uh... darn, it sounds so familiar... > Quote 3: > "Clark," I said forcefully, "you *promised*!" No idea. > Quote 4: > Luthor smiled. "I have a friend on the Metropolis Bomb Squad who owes me a > favour. Consider it done." That one sounds familiar, too. > Quote 5: > "Clark, I really love the way we end up in the most gorgeous places when we > kiss. You are *amazing*." And I'm sure I've read that too!! > Quote 6: > "No, I *wouldn't* rather be dead!! Couldn't you have saved my life without > smashing my property? You aliens may not need to worry about making a > living, but we humans have to feed and clothe ourselves!" Nope... > Quote 7: > "So what d'you say, Clark? Maybe we should go to bed, get the hormone > thing out of our systems, and then calm down and be friends." Connections, by Carol Malo. That scene was just awesome. :) > Quote 8: > "Oh my God, Clark, you have to work with *that*?" Sigh... > Quote 9: > "Lex Luthor??? He was the one who kidnapped you???" Lois' Return, by Chiara Prato. :) > Quote 10: > "Clark," Alt-Superman interrupted. "Their leader is called Lord Kal-El." Okay, maybe I can do better with the excerpts... maybe... > Extract 2: Fear of Discovery III: Coming Home, by Yvonne Connell. > Extract 3: Nope, still don't know. > Extract 4: Love Me Once More, by Randi Warwick > Extract 5: Sigh... > Extract 6: Arrgh, I know I've read that!! Mind blank. :/ > Extract 8: Darn my stupid memory! > Extract 10: Not that one either... Well, I did even worse than with the other quizzes, even though I love alt-stories. Helene :) Kaethel@club-internet.fr ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:50:15 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: btinternetmail Subject: Re: New: From Me to You - Complete Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joe This was wonderfully moving - I really liked it a lot. Thank you. Regards Eileen B ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:30:12 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Chris P Subject: LAFF 2001 date change is official MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everyone, The dates are now officially July 31st to August 4th, so you can start making plans. The hotel will take reservations at 1-800-Beverly or 818-980-8000. The LAFF rooom rate is $119 per room per day. (not per person) It is extremely important that you register with the hotel at this rate and mention that you will be attending LAFF 2001. The cost of the meeting rooms depends on this. If you aren't already on the LAFF list and would like to be added, please email me at cp13607@aol.com. You don't have to commit to going yet, but this way we will keep you informed. We will have more info on LAFF itself shortly. Thanks to everyone who has volunteered to help. :) Chris PS Again, I'm sorry if some of you receive this more than once. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 06:12:01 -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: IRC, The Undernet, and The Kerths ... In-Reply-To: <5a.102c96ce.27a07b6e@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:39 PM 01/24/2001 -0500, you wrote: >In a message dated 01/24/2001 8:42:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, >huitziln@CAIS.NET writes: > ><< and they said that they were having no trouble with (I can't > remember) undernet.saltlakecity.ut.usa >> > >That's because the undernet (and some other IRC networks) are under attack >and they are ALL having trouble. I hope we don't see the whole IRC go down >the drain as a result. :( > >--Laurie Yikes! Help, Superman! (but not that 21-year-old guy they got to play the 14-year-old Clark Kent). Maybe a web-based java something faster-than-a-speeding bullet can be found... Debby huitziln@cais.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:45:12 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Kerth Alt-Universe Quiz: Answers and Scores MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Another great crop of entries to this quiz, and several entrants who identified every story. Well done, everyone! Before giving the answers and the scores, I'd like again to reiterate that these are only a sample of the stories which are eligible in the Alt category. There are others, and Dia has mentioned a few which suit the category. Please, if your particular favourite has not been included, don't assume that you can't nominate it! :) We're only making subjective choices here, and these choices represent nothing more than the ten or so stories which came to mind when we went through the list. (We're also making a positive attempt to include stories by newer or lesser-known writers, to give them more exposure). Now, here are the answers: 1 - Queen Lois, by Mobile Richard 2 - Fear of Discovery 3: Coming Home, by Yvonne Connell 3 - Certain Point of View, by Hazel 4 - Love Me Once More, by Randi Warwick 5 - Only You: Fantasy, by Margaret Brignell 6 - Life In A Different World 3, by Mobile Richard 7 - Connections, by Carol Malo 8 - In Any Universe, by Pam Jernigan 9 - Lois=92 Return, by Chiara Prato 10 - Endings and Beginnings, by Joel Schuldt And the scores: Hazel gets an almost-perfect 19 Amy scores a valiant 5.5 points Dia gets a very competent 15 points Anne does pretty well at 9 points Yael bravely gets off the starting-point with 3 points Cindy gets 8 points Adam also scores an almost-perfect 19 points Yvonne, just to show that persistence pays off, gets 4.5 and does *not* come last LabRat gets a better-than-average 13 points Chiara gets a brave 4 points Pam does very well with 14.5 points (and I was magnanimous and gave you one point for FoD3) Bethy Em get 10 points, plus a bonus grin for that description of part of the plot of Margaret Brignell=92s Only You series (though I *think* the toot= h thing was sorted out by Part 5, which this is). Tim gets a near-excellent 17 points (guessed every story too, which is very well done). Tricia joins Chiara on 4 points. Well done and thanks, everyone! Best Vignette quiz coming up soon. :) Wendy ----------- Wendy Richards wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk Helene - 8 points ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:01:21 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Re: How many to nominate... (Was: RE: Kerth Quiz No. 8: ) Erin wrote: >>>So, please! Plan to nominate more than one story in each category, if you'd like to do so.<<< Um... yeah. Are you prepared for the six or seven per category you're going to get from me? :goofy There are several categories where I'll be pushed to narrow it down to that! What a fantastic year for fic! Wendy ----------- Wendy Richards wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:11:38 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 This time, we bring you the Vignette quiz. The KB-limit for Vignettes has been increased this year, from 30KB to 50KB, in recognition of the fact that stories are getting longer as a whole. However, the essential elements of a vignette are more than just length (or lack of length); they have no A-= plot and they=92re usually two or three scenes at most. Thus, although there= are plenty of stories which are shorter than 50KB, not all of those will necessarily be considered vignettes. RULES: Identify each story and its author accurately to be awarded a correct answer. This is an open-hard-drive and archive quiz, so feel free to check your answers if you wish. These stories, as usual, are identifiable by either a QUOTE or an EXTRACT. Please indicate whether you guessed the answer from the quote or the extract. Two points for a full correct answer from the quote, and one point from the extract. DISCLAIMER: Two =91disclaimers=92 here. First, just because, in my subjective decision- making process, I have singled these stories out for the Vignette quiz, that should not be taken in any way to suggest that other stories are not deserving of nomination in this category. Your choice is every bit as good as mine! Second, just because, let=92s say, Story 2 and Story y are included here as Vignettes, that does not preclude anyone nominating them in other categories, such as Comedy or Episode Adaptation, and the same goes for the other stories in this quiz. Multiple nominations of one story ARE permitted!= Oh, and PLEASE do not quote the entire quiz in your response! It makes it *very* difficult to find your answers! And don=92t forget the SPOILER SPACE. :) S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: "Lois," his voice was barely a whisper, "I'm okay, play along." Quote 2: "Didn't your mom ever tell you you should always hang your clothes up?" Quote 3: "Clark, don't go run to Perry for protection! He won't save you. We're getting this work done. Now!" Quote 4: I told you before and I'm telling you again, Clark. Forget it! Quote 5: "Why do you think? It's Valentine's Day, Lois - isn't that what people do on Valentine's Day?" Quote 6: =93And if our first date wasn't enough to convince you ..." he hesitated, softening his voice to a husky whisper, "... just think about our first kiss." Quote 7: "As awful as today has been ... it did teach me how much I love you. And I'm so glad you're not really dead ... but I'm still going to miss you terribly, at work." Quote 8: "It's a problem I have. They keep shredding." Quote 9: "Clark, I have a choice here: kissing you or eating chocolate. I know that you're not going to believe this, but I think the chocolate can wait." Quote 10: "So, Lois, if I could fly, you'd fly with me? It doesn't have to be Superman, I mean, does it?" Quote11: =93I want to be able to sit here and talk about it. But we can't, because you've chosen to tell me something so deeply personal *right in the middle of Metropolis's most popular restaurant!*" s p a c e Extract 1: Clark took a deep breath. Well, here goes, he thought. "It was just dumb luck, Lois." He reached into the breast pocket of his jacket and pulled out an ornate silver cigarette case. He showed Lois the deep indentation in the face of the case. "I was lucky; the bullet must've hit this case." Clark grinned at Lois. "I tell you, it hurt like the dickens. It was like someone took a hammer and hit me in the chest. It nearly knocked the wind out of me and I'm sure it will be sore for a while." Lois didn't stop to dwell on Clark's good fortune. She was just so glad that her partner, her best friend, and maybe something more was still around for her. The story could wait. Lois found she couldn't do anything but focus on Clark's beautiful face and thank whoever for the fact that she wouldn't have to see it staring out at her from the inside of a coffin. Clark and Lois spent the next several minutes just exploring each other's features with their fingers and their lips until finally Clark pulled away. "Lois, it's late, and we've both been through a terrible shock and ordeal. I think it would be best if I go and we both get what rest we can before we have to go into the Planet tomorrow." Clark placed his finger under her chin. "After all, we still have a story to work on - partner." Extract 2: Lois pulled the phone jack out of the wall and then returned to Clark's closet, looking for something to wear. Too bad there's not likely to be anything in here conducive to romance, she thought as she reached for the closet door. As she pulled it open, a stack of clothes fell out around her feet. Clark Kent, Lois laughed to herself. Surely your mother taught you to hang your clothes up. She grinned again. Clark kept such a neat house for a guy it was nice to discover he had some normal vices. Just like a man, stuff everything in the closet to clean up for company. I wonder if he leaves the lid off the toothpaste or the toilet seat up, she mused as she bent over and began picking up the clothes. Now, should I be nice and put these away, or just... Lois frowned. She'd nearly reached the bottom of the pile when she saw it --= a glimmer of bright red and blue, colors she was very familiar with. Dropping everything else, she snatched at those colors. Superman's suit and cape -- but what were they doing in Clark's closet? Extract 3: "Don't you good morning me! Why didn't you move that?" Clark stared, justifiably confused. "The coffee?" "No! That- that thing!" she roared, motioning in the general direction of the dented trash can. "You knew I was coming. I always do, same time, same place, every day. And *someone* put that thing in my way. So why didn't you move it?" "I-" "And why aren't you working? Do you have any idea how many deadlines we have to meet today? Oh, I know. Good old Lois, always there to pick up your slack." As Lois paused for a breath, Clark pounced at his chance of escape. "Lois, I've gotta go ask Perry about a deadline. Be right back." And with that, he followed Jimmy's example of retreat and made a beeline for Perry's office. Extract 4: Clark, you were going to tell me something important -- and I have an idea that it's something that will affect our relationship. But whatever it was, it obviously wasn't as important as keeping your appointment with Waldo. And maybe that means that I'm not important to you either. I love you, Clark. And I thought that you loved me. But even after you promised you would stop, you are still pushing me away. Why won't you let me get close? Why won't YOU get close? I know why my relationships with men have never worked out before. I seem to be drawn to the wrong kind of man. Before Claude, I was too trusting. And until I met you, I NEVER trusted ANY man. With Lex, I was swept away by his power and influence. And when Superman told me that there was no chance for us -- well you know the rest. But something about you started breaking down those walls I had built around me. Something about you began to touch my heart. You became my partner and my best friend. And when I thought you had died that night at Georgie Hairdo's club, I wanted to die too. I knew then, though I wouldn't admit it, that I was in love with you. It hurt to think about not having you in my life. And now that's how I feel again -- hurt and angry and disappointed and abandoned and deceived. You pushed me away for the millionth time. And I don't think I can take being pushed away any more. If we can't resolve whatever it is that keeps you from staying around and actually talking about us, then maybe I just need to call this whole relationship with you off. Maybe I just need to cut my losses here and now before I get in any deeper than I already am. Maybe I need to ask Perry for a new partner. Some time apart right now would probably do us both some good. We could both put things -- our relationship, our feelings for each other -- in perspective. Extract 5: One-sided love was such a painful thing, she mused, trying not to look at all the cards and heart-shaped chocolate boxes on the displays. But on the other hand, had she ever tried to tell Superman how she felt? How did she know he felt nothing for her in return? That kiss... that pheromone, she remembered suddenly. She and Clark had concluded in the end that it only worked where there was some underlying attraction there to begin with. that annoying little voice interjected again, but she brushed it aside. Superman had swallowed the full-strength version of the spray that day at the airport. He had then declared that he loved her, and kissed her like she had never been kissed, before or since - if he hadn't been holding her at the time, her legs would simply not have held her up. She knew it had been the pheromone, because he would never had made such overt advances to her without it. But... if it was the pheromone, then he *had* to be attracted to her! And if he was attracted to her... why didn't he do anything about it? Why didn't he...? Suddenly she remembered something Clark had said to her, the evening of the charity auction when she'd failed to buy the date with Superman. 'Have you ever thought that Superman might be afraid to show his true feelings?' Clark had asked. At the time, she had been vaguely comforted by those words, but she hadn't given the idea much thought since. But... could it be true? And if it was... what could she do about it? Extract 6: "Lois, I'm sorry it seems like I've been ignoring you lately," he began. "It's just that with Mayson's death and everything, this week has been really hard for me." She had a right to know why he'd been distant this week, not just to her, but to everyone. "I know, Clark, and I understand that. I know you and she were ... friends." Lois chose each word carefully. Was this the time when Clark was going to tell her that he and Mayson had been more than friends? She bit her lip, hoping the tears that were threatening to form behind her eyes weren't visible. Clark wasn't looking at her, though. His eyes were lowered to his lap, which made Lois think that he didn't want to face her when he told her the truth. "Lois--" he started, but she cut him off. If he was going to tell her this was the end of their relationship, she wasn't going make it easy for him. Clark meant too much to her. Lois Lane wasn't going down without a fight. "Clark, you and I had a really good time on our date, didn't we?" she pressed, keeping her eyes trained on his. Clark faltered, momentarily stunned by the intense expression in her gaze. Then he heard her words again, and realized that she was still unsure of his feelings for her. "Of course we had a good time," he assured her. Then he reheard his own words and stopped. He needed to sound more convincing than that. It was time she really knew how he felt about her. Extract 7: In the darkness of Lois' apartment, Clark sat quietly, his chin resting on his folded hands. As soon as the gangsters had dumped him out of the car, he'd flown to Kansas, to let his parents know he was fine, despite what they might hear later. Then he'd returned to Metropolis -- he'd spent some time searching for Capone and the others, but to no avail. So now he sat, waiting for Lois. He was still wearing the Superman suit. He would rather have changed out of it, but that hardly seemed worthwhile -- he no longer had another identity. All the things he'd wanted, the normal life he'd worked so hard for ... all ripped away in a moment. He hoped to salvage some of it, with Lois, but even so ... if he could no longer be Clark, he had no idea what to do. Lois couldn't want a real life with Superman -- Superman didn't *have* a real life to offer, no matter how she felt about him. His head hurt from thinking about it, until only one thing was clear. He needed Lois. He looked up as he heard the locks on her door start to rattle, and a quick check revealed that it was her. She looked tired, her shoulders drooping, and she'd been crying. He cursed the circumstances which had caused that. Extract 8: Indeed, she demanded, "Where is it? You got rid of it, didn't you?" Clark's eyebrows crawled up his forehead. "Got rid of what, Lois?" Her questions gave him no clue as to what it was she wanted, though he shouldn't have been surprised by that. Lois in full-rant was prone to babbling, even more so than usual, and that babbling sometimes degenerated into riddles. All he could hope was that at some point in the conversation, her random thought processes would gel into some sort of sense. As she continued, however, Clark realised that that wasn't going to happen anytime soon. "You started going gooey-eyed over Mayson - and what you see in her, I can't even begin to imagine - and you haven't worn it since. You've cast it aside like a discarded rag. Yesterday's news." "Lois? What are you talking about?" "I bet you don't even still have it! I bet you gave it to some thrift shop or, worse, threw it out with the garbage." "Thrift shop? Garbage? What-" Extract 9: "Aren't you going to open it?" she asked. Clark realized that this gift was important to her. He also realized that she was anxious for him to open the gift and to react. "It's wrapped so beautifully, Lois. I hate to ruin it, but here goes..." He carefully removed the bow, took off the paper, and opened the box. He removed the top layer of tissue and found an old, thumbed through copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. He flipped through the pages, seeing notes in Lois's handwriting. Clark felt a tightness in his throat. Lois had given him something that was deeply meaningful and personal about herself. He opened the fly-leaf and read: 'Clark, How do I love you? Let's count the ways... Lois.' He looked at Lois, but didn't know what to say. She was looking at him with what appeared to be a pleased, yet smug smile. Speechless, Clark slowly leaned toward Lois, staring straight into her eyes. He put his hand on her cheek and, with his fingers, pushed back her hair. He whispered, "I don't know what to say, Lois. This is incredible." On the last word, their lips touched lightly. But neither of them were satisfied with the gentle kiss and they pressed harder against each other and began exploring. Clark's hand left Lois's face and he wrapped her in his arms as he continued to hungrily deepen the kiss. At this moment he knew that he had found his way home. "Oh, Clark, I love you so much." Extract 10: She glared at him. "Clark! You can't fly, so what's the point of this? Come on, let's go." "In a minute," he insisted, wrapping his arm about her shoulder again. "Lois, I want to show you something." "What?" she asked again, impatiently. "And, Clark, why do you keep touching me? I don't need your arm.... What are you doing?" He was leading her towards the edge of the balcony. "It's okay, Lois, trust me," he told her with a reassuring smile. She eyed him warily. Gripping her hand then, he stepped lightly up onto the balcony rail. "Come on, stand beside me," he told her. "Clark, what are you *doing*?" she demanded. "Get down from there - you'll fall, and then.... Come *on,*" she insisted, tugging on his hand. He didn't move. "Clark, you're crazy!" she yelled at him. He smiled at her. "Maybe I am. Do you want to find out?" As she glared at him, he grinned. "Come on, Lois, where's your sense of adventure?" "Where's your sanity?" she threw back at him. "But, Lois, what if I'm right? What if I *can* fly?" he asked her. "Don't you want to find out?" Extract 11: "Calculating?" asked Clark. He couldn't deny the charge of secrecy, though he'd hoped that she would have been more sympathetic about that; after all, it hadn't been easy for him to lower his barriers enough for her to tell her his secret. "Yes! Calculating! If you'd wanted talk properly about this, you'd have found a nice quiet spot. Somewhere private. You wouldn't have told me in the middle of a crowded restaurant! How can we discuss this with all the seriousness it warrants, when anyone might overhear us? I mean, this is big! Really big!" "Lois..." protested Clark weakly. "It wasn't a calculated choice. I mean, it was, but not in the way you're implying. I just wanted to create a nice atmosphere... I wanted-" "You wanted to soften me up, you mean. You wanted-" "Okay. I admit that I wanted you in a good mood. I mean, it wasn't going to be easy to tell you... Well, you know. And I knew this wasn't going to be an easy discussion-" "That's the point, Clark! We're not having *that* discussion here. We can't, because if I tell you what I really think about your... your... revelation, the whole restaurant would hear, and your secret would be out. I think you didn't know how I'd react, and you thought that I would be less likely to be... difficult... if we were somewhere public. You knew I wouldn't want to make a scene. And I bet you thought, if you told me here, that by the time we got somewhere more... intimate... I would have calmed down. Of course, you're quite right. But that doesn't make it fair!" Have fun! :) Wendy -------- Wendy Richards wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:19:15 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Marilyn Puett Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed S P O I L E R YEAH!!!!! I know Quote #4. It's from "Clark.doc" by ME! At least I got it from the quote this time. I didn't have to go down to the exerpt! >From: Wendy Richards >Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" > >To: LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU >Subject: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette >Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:11:38 -0500 > >This time, we bring you the Vignette quiz. The KB-limit for Vignettes has >been increased this year, from 30KB to 50KB, in recognition of the fact >that stories are getting longer as a whole. However, the essential elements >of a vignette are more than just length (or lack of length); they have no >A- >plot and they’re usually two or three scenes at most. Thus, although there >are plenty of stories which are shorter than 50KB, not all of those will >necessarily be considered vignettes. > > >RULES: >Identify each story and its author accurately to be awarded a correct >answer. This is an open-hard-drive and archive quiz, so feel free to check >your answers if you wish. These stories, as usual, are identifiable by >either a QUOTE or an EXTRACT. Please indicate whether you guessed the >answer from the quote or the extract. Two points for a full correct answer >from the quote, and one point from the extract. > >DISCLAIMER: >Two ‘disclaimers’ here. First, just because, in my subjective decision- >making process, I have singled these stories out for the Vignette quiz, >that should not be taken in any way to suggest that other stories are not >deserving of nomination in this category. Your choice is every bit as good >as mine! > >Second, just because, let’s say, Story 2 and Story y are included here as >Vignettes, that does not preclude anyone nominating them in other >categories, such as Comedy or Episode Adaptation, and the same goes for the >other stories in this quiz. Multiple nominations of one story ARE >permitted! > >Oh, and PLEASE do not quote the entire quiz in your response! It makes it >*very* difficult to find your answers! And don’t forget the SPOILER >SPACE. :) > >S >P >O >I >L >E >R > >S >P >A >C >E > >Quote 1: >"Lois," his voice was barely a whisper, "I'm okay, play along." > >Quote 2: >"Didn't your mom ever tell you you should always hang your clothes up?" > >Quote 3: >"Clark, don't go run to Perry for protection! He won't save you. We're >getting this work done. Now!" > >Quote 4: >I told you before and I'm telling you again, Clark. Forget it! > >Quote 5: >"Why do you think? It's Valentine's Day, Lois - isn't that what people do >on Valentine's Day?" > >Quote 6: >“And if our first date wasn't enough to convince you ..." he hesitated, >softening his voice to a husky whisper, "... just think about our first >kiss." > >Quote 7: >"As awful as today has been ... it did teach me how much I love you. And >I'm so glad you're not really dead ... but I'm still going to miss you >terribly, at work." > >Quote 8: >"It's a problem I have. They keep shredding." > >Quote 9: >"Clark, I have a choice here: kissing you or eating chocolate. I know that >you're not going to believe this, but I think the chocolate can wait." > >Quote 10: >"So, Lois, if I could fly, you'd fly with me? It doesn't have to be >Superman, >I mean, does it?" > >Quote11: >“I want to be able to sit here and talk about it. But we can't, because >you've chosen to tell me something so deeply personal *right in the middle >of Metropolis's most popular restaurant!*" > >s >p >a >c >e > > >Extract 1: >Clark took a deep breath. Well, here goes, he thought. "It was just dumb >luck, Lois." He reached into the breast pocket of his jacket and pulled >out an ornate silver cigarette case. He showed Lois the deep indentation >in the face of the case. "I was lucky; the bullet must've hit this case." >Clark grinned at Lois. "I tell you, it hurt like the dickens. It was like >someone took a hammer and hit me in the chest. It nearly knocked the wind >out of me and I'm sure it will be sore for a while." > >Lois didn't stop to dwell on Clark's good fortune. She was just so glad >that her partner, her best friend, and maybe something more was still >around for her. The story could wait. Lois found she couldn't do anything >but focus on Clark's beautiful face and thank whoever for the fact that she >wouldn't have to see it staring out at her from the inside of a coffin. > >Clark and Lois spent the next several minutes just exploring each other's >features with their fingers and their lips until finally Clark pulled >away. "Lois, it's late, and we've both been through a terrible shock and >ordeal. I think it would be best if I go and we both get what rest we can >before we have to go into the Planet tomorrow." Clark placed his finger >under her chin. "After all, we still have a story to work on - partner." > > > >Extract 2: >Lois pulled the phone jack out of the wall and then returned to Clark's >closet, looking for something to wear. > >Too bad there's not likely to be anything in here conducive to romance, she >thought as she reached for the closet door. As she pulled it open, a stack >of clothes fell out around her feet. > >Clark Kent, Lois laughed to herself. Surely your mother taught you to hang >your clothes up. She grinned again. Clark kept such a neat house for a guy >it was nice to discover he had some normal vices. Just like a man, stuff >everything in the closet to clean up for company. I wonder if he leaves the >lid off the toothpaste or the toilet seat up, she mused as she bent over >and began picking up the clothes. Now, should I be nice and put these away, >or just... > >Lois frowned. She'd nearly reached the bottom of the pile when she saw it >-- > a glimmer of bright red and blue, colors she was very familiar with. >Dropping everything else, she snatched at those colors. Superman's suit and >cape -- but what were they doing in Clark's closet? > > > >Extract 3: >"Don't you good morning me! Why didn't you move that?" > >Clark stared, justifiably confused. "The coffee?" > >"No! That- that thing!" she roared, motioning in the general direction of >the dented trash can. "You knew I was coming. I always do, same time, same >place, every day. And *someone* put that thing in my way. So why didn't you >move it?" > >"I-" > >"And why aren't you working? Do you have any idea how many deadlines we >have to meet today? Oh, I know. Good old Lois, always there to pick up your >slack." > >As Lois paused for a breath, Clark pounced at his chance of escape. > >"Lois, I've gotta go ask Perry about a deadline. Be right back." > >And with that, he followed Jimmy's example of retreat and made a beeline >for Perry's office. > > > >Extract 4: >Clark, you were going to tell me something important -- and I have an idea >that it's something that will affect our relationship. But whatever it was, >it obviously wasn't as important as keeping your appointment with Waldo. >And maybe that means that I'm not important to you either. > >I love you, Clark. And I thought that you loved me. But even after you >promised you would stop, you are still pushing me away. Why won't you let >me get close? Why won't YOU get close? I know why my relationships with >men have never worked out before. I seem to be drawn to the wrong kind of >man. Before Claude, I was too trusting. And until I met you, I NEVER >trusted ANY man. With Lex, I was swept away by his power and influence. >And when Superman told me that there was no chance for us -- well you know >the rest. But something about you started breaking down those walls I had >built around me. Something about you began to touch my heart. You became >my partner and my best friend. And when I thought you had died that night >at Georgie Hairdo's club, I wanted to die too. I knew then, though I >wouldn't admit it, that I was in love with you. It hurt to think about not >having you in my life. > >And now that's how I feel again -- hurt and angry and disappointed and >abandoned and deceived. You pushed me away for the millionth time. And I >don't think I can take being pushed away any more. If we can't resolve >whatever it is that keeps you from staying around and actually talking >about us, then maybe I just need to call this whole relationship with you >off. Maybe I just need to cut my losses here and now before I get in any >deeper than I already am. Maybe I need to ask Perry for a new partner. >Some time apart right now would probably do us both some good. We could >both put things -- our relationship, our feelings for each other -- in >perspective. > > >Extract 5: >One-sided love was such a painful thing, she mused, trying not to look at >all the cards and heart-shaped chocolate boxes on the displays. > >But on the other hand, had she ever tried to tell Superman how she felt? >How did she know he felt nothing for her in return? That kiss... that >pheromone, she remembered suddenly. She and Clark had concluded in the end >that it only worked where there was some underlying attraction there to >begin with. that annoying little voice interjected again, but she brushed >it aside. Superman had swallowed the full-strength version of the spray >that day at the airport. He had then declared that he loved her, and kissed >her like she had never been kissed, before or since - if he hadn't been >holding her at the time, her legs would simply not have held her up. > >She knew it had been the pheromone, because he would never had made such >overt advances to her without it. But... if it was the pheromone, then he >*had* to be attracted to her! And if he was attracted to her... why didn't >he do anything about it? > >Why didn't he...? Suddenly she remembered something Clark had said to her, >the evening of the charity auction when she'd failed to buy the date with >Superman. 'Have you ever thought that Superman might be afraid to show his >true feelings?' Clark had asked. At the time, she had been vaguely >comforted by those words, but she hadn't given the idea much thought since. > >But... could it be true? > >And if it was... what could she do about it? > > > >Extract 6: >"Lois, I'm sorry it seems like I've been ignoring you lately," he >began. "It's just that with Mayson's death and everything, this week has >been really hard for me." She had a right to know why he'd been distant >this week, not just to her, but to everyone. > >"I know, Clark, and I understand that. I know you and she were ... >friends." Lois chose each word carefully. Was this the time when Clark >was going to tell her that he and Mayson had been more than friends? She >bit her lip, hoping the tears that were threatening to form behind her eyes >weren't visible. Clark wasn't looking at her, though. His eyes were >lowered to his lap, which made Lois think that he didn't want to face her >when he told her the truth. > >"Lois--" he started, but she cut him off. > >If he was going to tell her this was the end of their relationship, she >wasn't going make it easy for him. Clark meant too much to her. Lois Lane >wasn't going down without a fight. "Clark, you and I had a really good time >on our date, didn't we?" she pressed, keeping her eyes trained on his. > >Clark faltered, momentarily stunned by the intense expression in her gaze. >Then he heard her words again, and realized that she was still unsure of >his feelings for her. "Of course we had a good time," he assured her. >Then he reheard his own words and stopped. He needed to sound more >convincing than that. It was time she really knew how he felt about her. > > > >Extract 7: >In the darkness of Lois' apartment, Clark sat quietly, his chin resting on >his folded hands. As soon as the gangsters had dumped him out of the car, >he'd flown to Kansas, to let his parents know he was fine, despite what >they might hear later. Then he'd returned to Metropolis -- he'd spent some >time searching for Capone and the others, but to no avail. So now he sat, >waiting for Lois. > >He was still wearing the Superman suit. He would rather have changed out >of it, but that hardly seemed worthwhile -- he no longer had another >identity. All the things he'd wanted, the normal life he'd worked so hard >for ... all ripped away in a moment. He hoped to salvage some of it, with >Lois, but even so ... if he could no longer be Clark, he had no idea what >to do. Lois couldn't want a real life with Superman -- Superman didn't >*have* a real life to offer, no matter how she felt about him. > >His head hurt from thinking about it, until only one thing was clear. He >needed Lois. > >He looked up as he heard the locks on her door start to rattle, and a quick >check revealed that it was her. She looked tired, her shoulders drooping, >and she'd been crying. He cursed the circumstances which had caused that. > > > >Extract 8: >Indeed, she demanded, "Where is it? You got rid of it, didn't you?" > >Clark's eyebrows crawled up his forehead. "Got rid of what, Lois?" Her >questions gave him no clue as to what it was she wanted, though he >shouldn't have been surprised by that. Lois in full-rant was prone to >babbling, even more so than usual, and that babbling sometimes degenerated >into riddles. All he could hope was that at some point in the >conversation, her random thought processes would gel into some sort of >sense. As she continued, however, Clark realised that that wasn't going to >happen anytime soon. > >"You started going gooey-eyed over Mayson - and what you see in her, I >can't even begin to imagine - and you haven't worn it since. You've cast >it aside like a discarded rag. Yesterday's news." > >"Lois? What are you talking about?" > >"I bet you don't even still have it! I bet you gave it to some thrift shop >or, worse, threw it out with the garbage." > >"Thrift shop? Garbage? What-" > > >Extract 9: >"Aren't you going to open it?" she asked. Clark realized that this gift was >important to her. He also realized that she was anxious for him to open the >gift and to react. > >"It's wrapped so beautifully, Lois. I hate to ruin it, but here goes..." He >carefully removed the bow, took off the paper, and opened the box. He >removed the top layer of tissue and found an old, thumbed through copy of >Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. He flipped >through the pages, seeing notes in Lois's handwriting. Clark felt a >tightness in his throat. Lois had given him something that was deeply >meaningful and personal about herself. He opened the fly-leaf and >read: 'Clark, How do I love you? Let's count the ways... Lois.' > >He looked at Lois, but didn't know what to say. She was looking at him with >what appeared to be a pleased, yet smug smile. Speechless, Clark slowly >leaned toward Lois, staring straight into her eyes. He put his hand on her >cheek and, with his fingers, pushed back her hair. He whispered, "I don't >know what to say, Lois. This is incredible." On the last word, their lips >touched lightly. But neither of them were satisfied with the gentle kiss >and they pressed harder against each other and began exploring. Clark's >hand left Lois's face and he wrapped her in his arms as he continued to >hungrily deepen the kiss. At this moment he knew that he had found his way >home. > >"Oh, Clark, I love you so much." > > > >Extract 10: >She glared at him. "Clark! You can't fly, so what's the point of this? Come >on, let's go." > >"In a minute," he insisted, wrapping his arm about her shoulder >again. "Lois, I want to show you something." > >"What?" she asked again, impatiently. "And, Clark, why do you keep touching >me? I don't need your arm.... What are you doing?" > >He was leading her towards the edge of the balcony. "It's okay, Lois, trust >me," he told her with a reassuring smile. She eyed him warily. > >Gripping her hand then, he stepped lightly up onto the balcony rail. "Come >on, stand beside me," he told her. > >"Clark, what are you *doing*?" she demanded. "Get down from there - you'll >fall, and then.... Come *on,*" she insisted, tugging on his hand. He didn't >move. > >"Clark, you're crazy!" she yelled at him. > >He smiled at her. "Maybe I am. Do you want to find out?" As she glared at >him, he grinned. "Come on, Lois, where's your sense of adventure?" > >"Where's your sanity?" she threw back at him. > >"But, Lois, what if I'm right? What if I *can* fly?" he asked her. "Don't >you want to find out?" > > > >Extract 11: >"Calculating?" asked Clark. He couldn't deny the charge of secrecy, though >he'd hoped that she would have been more sympathetic about that; after all, >it hadn't been easy for him to lower his barriers enough for her to tell >her his secret. > >"Yes! Calculating! If you'd wanted talk properly about this, you'd have >found a nice quiet spot. Somewhere private. You wouldn't have told me in >the middle of a crowded restaurant! How can we discuss this with all the >seriousness it warrants, when anyone might overhear us? I mean, this is >big! Really big!" > >"Lois..." protested Clark weakly. "It wasn't a calculated choice. I mean, >it was, but not in the way you're implying. I just wanted to create a nice >atmosphere... I wanted-" > >"You wanted to soften me up, you mean. You wanted-" > >"Okay. I admit that I wanted you in a good mood. I mean, it wasn't going >to be easy to tell you... Well, you know. And I knew this wasn't going to >be an easy discussion-" > >"That's the point, Clark! We're not having *that* discussion here. We >can't, because if I tell you what I really think about your... your... >revelation, the whole restaurant would hear, and your secret would be out. >I think you didn't know how I'd react, and you thought that I would be less >likely to be... difficult... if we were somewhere public. You knew I >wouldn't want to make a scene. And I bet you thought, if you told me here, >that by the time we got somewhere more... intimate... I would have calmed >down. Of course, you're quite right. But that doesn't make it fair!" > > >Have fun! :) > > >Wendy >-------- >Wendy Richards >wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:31:30 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Adam Labotka Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: A TOGOM Vignette - Yet another versionby Tank Wilson Quote 2:Always Hang Up Your Clothes by Becky Kuesters Quote 5: A Valentines Rendevous by Wendy Richards Quote 7: Private Grief by Pam Jernigan Quote 8: A Tie Story by Chris Carr Quote 11: Revelation Reaction by Chris Carr Excerpt 3: Atom Bomb Lane by Alicia U Excerpt 4: Clark.doc by Marilyn Excerpt 10: Invisible or Fly by Wendy Richards ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:09:32 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Randi .." Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Wow -- these quizzes are so fun, even though I'm absolutely terrible at them. :( But I actually knew a couple on this one. :) And it was so exciting to be an actual part of the previous quizzes! I, too, had felt like I'd 'made it'! :) Well, anyway, here goes: > >S >P >O >I >L >E >R > >S >P >A >C >E >Quote 10: >"So, Lois, if I could fly, you'd fly with me? It doesn't have to be >Superman, >I mean, does it?" > Ok, I think this one is Invisible or Fly? , though I'm not sure of the author's name. . . >Extract 1: Ooh, ooh, Tank's "A TOGOM Vignette - Yet another version"! (I adore it. :)) >Extract 7: Oh, this seems so familiar, but I just can't place it. Grr. > > >Extract 8: "Tie Story" by Chris Carr -- another really good vignette. :) >Extract 10: *Definitely* "Invisible or Fly". . .by Wendy! :) Eek, I have a >bad memory. :) I love that story, too. . . Ah, well, didn't do very well, but at least I tried. Thanks for all these great quizzes, guys! Very fun -- and intriguing! I can't wait to read some of the stories that have been included on them! :) Randi ================================== "I'm not a praying man. I don't even know if you're up there. But if you are and you can hear me, Save me Superman!" -Homer Simpson =================================== _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:37:08 -0500 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: Question for a fic On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:01:54 +1100, Patricia Walpole wrote: >Kindergarten to Yr 2 is called Infants School, Yrs 3 to 6 Primary School and >Yrs 7 to 12 High School. Thanks, Tricia, that was interesting -- from your description, NSW has almost identical school structure to the US. The only difference I saw at all was in the names above; we would call Grades 1-5 "Elementary", and grades 9-12 High School. In between, different cities structure things a bit differently, but the basic format is the same -- some cites have "Middle Schools" made up of grades 6-8 (or 7-8), while others have "Junior High Schools" made up of grades 7-8 (or 7-9). Often it depends on space issues -- depending on which buildings a district has more room in, it might keep 6th graders in the Elementary, or move 9th graders to the middle school. I'll be interested to see how other Aussie states differ. Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:48:56 -0500 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: How many to nominate... (Was: RE: Kerth Quiz No. 8: ) On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:01:21 -0500, Wendy Richards < wendy@KINGSMEADOWCR.FREESERVE.CO.UK> wrote: >Um... yeah. Are you prepared for the six or seven per category you're going >to get from me? :goofy There are several categories where I'll be pushed >to narrow it down to that! Actually, having several stories nominated at once can really help us when we put together the ballot. A lot of stories get a few nominations, but not every story gets a *lot* of nominations. When you are talking about such a competitive field, we can easily have many stories all with, say, 10 nominations each. But with a larger number of total nominations, we're more likely to see more obvious gaps in the number of noms for each story. Believe me, we're always biting our nails early in the nomination period, wondering how we're going to deal with 12 stories all with the exact same number of nominations. So feel free to nominate all the stories you think are worthy of being on the ballot. :) Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:48:32 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Tim Porter Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: A TOGOM Vignette - Yet another version by Tank Wilson =20 Quote 2: Always Hang Up Your Clothes by Becky Kuesters=20 Quote 5: Valentine's Rendezvous by Wendy Richards Quote 8: Tie Story by Chris Carr=20 Quote 10: Invisible or Fly? by Wendy Richards=20 Quote11: Revelation Reaction by Chris Carr=20 lets see if I can find some more with the extracts! Extract 3: Atom Bomb Lane by Jessi Mounts=20 Extract 4: I KNOW I've read this! Oh, well... Extract 6: Yesterday's News by Tracey=20 Extract 7: Private Grief by Pam Jernigan Extract 9: Valentine Expectations by Gerry Anklewicz=20 how did I do? >Have fun! :) Had lots of fun... Many thanks to both Wendy and Hazel for the quizzes = =20 =20 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:01:02 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: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit s p o i l e r s p a c e Whoo, hoo!! I *know* these!! A few of them I recently read Q1 - A TOGOM Vignette - Tank Q2 - Don't Know Q3 - Don't know Q4 - Clark.doc - SuperMom Q5 - A Valentine's Rendezvous - the most awsome Miss Wendy Q6 - Yesterday's News - Tracey Q7 - (I loved that she knew ) Private Grief - Pam Jernigan Q8 - Tie Story - Chris Carr Q9 - Valentine Expectations - Gerry Anklewicz Q10 - Invisible or Fly? - Wendy Richards Q11 - Revelation Reaction - Chris Carr Just couldn't get them off the quote, but I know I read'em!!! E2 - Always Hang Up Your Clothes - Becky Kuesters E3 - Atom Bomb Lane - Jessi Mounts Anne :) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:06:30 -0500 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: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:11:38 -0500, Wendy Richards < wendy@KINGSMEADOWCR.FREESERVE.CO.UK> wrote: >This time, we bring you the Vignette quiz. The KB-limit for Vignettes has >been increased this year, from 30KB to 50KB, in recognition of the fact >that stories are getting longer as a whole. However, the essential elements= >of a vignette are more than just length (or lack of length); they have no A= - >plot and they=92re usually two or three scenes at most. Thus, although ther= e >are plenty of stories which are shorter than 50KB, not all of those will >necessarily be considered vignettes. Just to clarify -- the category title this year is called "Best Vignette/ Short Story". So just because a story doesn't fit the definition of a vignette, don't feel you can't nominate a story as long as it fits within th= e size limit. :) Keep up the great work with these quizzes, Wendy and Hazel! I'm enjoying them, even if they keep adding titles to my "read this!" list. :D Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:31:27 -0600 Reply-To: truitt22@flash.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: timothy truitt Organization: tnt technical services Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wendy and Hazel I really enjoy your quizzes, even though I don't participate in them. Thank you for your time and effort that you put into making them. merry ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:03:22 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Diyan Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 * * s p o i l e r s p a c e * * Quote 1: "Lois," his voice was barely a whisper, "I'm okay, play along." * Tank=92s? yup, this one is Tank=92s. "A TOGOM Vignette - Yet another version" Quote 2: "Didn't your mom ever tell you you should always hang your clothes up?" * "Always Hang Up Your Clothes" by Becky Kuesters (heh - the answer is right there in the quote) Quote 3: "Clark, don't go run to Perry for protection! He won't save you. We're getting this work done. Now!" Extract 3: "You knew I was coming. I always do, same time, same place, every day. And *someone* put that thing in my way. So why didn't you move it?" * Jessi=92s "Atom Bomb Lane" Quote 4: I told you before and I'm telling you again, Clark. Forget it! Extract 4: If we can't resolve whatever it is that keeps you from staying around and actually talking about us, then maybe I just need to call this whole relationship with you off. * Marilyn=92s "Clark.doc" I should have gotten this one from the quote. Quote 5: "Why do you think? It's Valentine's Day, Lois - isn't that what people do on Valentine's Day?" * Wendy's "A Valentine=92s Rendezvous" Quote 6: "And if our first date wasn't enough to convince you ..." he hesitated, softening his voice to a husky whisper, "... just think about our first kiss." Extract 6: "It's just that with Mayson's death and everything, this week has been really hard for me." * drat it! because I=92ve read this--I remember reading it and liking it--bu= t I can=92t remember what it is :P Quote 7: "As awful as today has been ... it did teach me how much I love you. And I'm so glad you're not really dead ... but I'm still going to miss you terribly, at work." * Pam=92s "Private Grief" Quote 8: "It's a problem I have. They keep shredding." * Chris Carr=92s lovely "Tie Story" Quote 9: "Clark, I have a choice here: kissing you or eating chocolate. I know that you're not going to believe this, but I think the chocolate can wait." Extracy 9: He removed the top layer of tissue and found an old, thumbed through copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. * I don=92t know.... Quote 10: "So, Lois, if I could fly, you'd fly with me? It doesn't have to be Superman, I mean, does it?" * Wendy=92s "Invisible or Fly?" Quote 11: "I want to be able to sit here and talk about it. But we can't, because you've chosen to tell me something so deeply personal *right in the middle of Metropolis's most popular restaurant!*" * "Revelation Reaction" by Chris Carr again 16/22 - Not too bad, considering vignette isn't my favorite category (do you know that more than half the stories from this year are under 50K?) I hope I'm not including too much of the quiz itself in my reply? *** As Wendy and Hazel are careful to remind us, these quizzes do *not* represent the full scope of stories eligible in each category, and since it occurred to me after the last quiz that I can remind the other quiz participants of my favorites that weren=92t in the quiz, here are two of my picks for vignette: Hazel=92s "The Ultimate Drug" and ML Thompson=92s "Morning Chores" (yes, well, I told you she was one of m= y favorite authors) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:04:35 +1100 Reply-To: "jenerator@ozemail.com.au" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jen Stosser Subject: Re: Question for a fic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Whoops! Forgot to reply to the earlier email! I'm in Victoria (VI Jen jenerator@ozemail.com.au -*-This message is umop ap!sdn (Jenerator or Some1Else on IRC) -*- JenerEight on AIM -*- ICQ 11477318 Photos of David (8) and Megan (5) on the Stosser Family HomePage http//www.geocities.com/j_stosser Please sign our guestbook! -----Original Message----- From: Kathy Brown [SMTP:kathybrown91@HOME.COM] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:37 PM To: LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Re: [LOISCLA-GENERAL-L] Question for a fic On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:01:54 +1100, Patricia Walpole wrote: >Kindergarten to Yr 2 is called Infants School, Yrs 3 to 6 Primary School and >Yrs 7 to 12 High School. Thanks, Tricia, that was interesting -- from your description, NSW has almost identical school structure to the US. The only difference I saw at all was in the names above; we would call Grades 1-5 "Elementary", and grades 9-12 High School. In between, different cities structure things a bit differently, but the basic format is the same -- some cites have "Middle Schools" made up of grades 6-8 (or 7-8), while others have "Junior High Schools" made up of grades 7-8 (or 7-9). Often it depends on space issues -- depending on which buildings a district has more room in, it might keep 6th graders in the Elementary, or move 9th graders to the middle school. I'll be interested to see how other Aussie states differ. Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:58:22 +1100 Reply-To: "jenerator@ozemail.com.au" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jen Stosser Subject: Re: Question for a fic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Whoops, I forgot to reply this earlier... and I thought I had replied just before, but it's not in my sent mail so I have no idea what happened to the reply I started writing... I live in Victoria (VIC), but grew up in Western Australia (WA), so I've got some experience with two states' schooling rules. Across Australia, the school year commences in late January or early February, and finishes in mid to late December. Some states have 3 terms, others have 4, but there's usually holidays of about two weeks around Easter and September at least. (Places with 4 terms will also have hols in July or thereabouts) When I went to school myself (it may have changed since then), Kindergarten was optional for 3-4 year olds, and seemed to consist of lots of game playing, and song singing etc. I went to a private kindergarten, and I have vague memories of having lunch with my mother some days, so I suspect it was only half-days perhaps when I was 3. (Kindergarten is usually referred to as Kindy in the West.) Primary School consisted of grades 1-7, with children who turned 5 in any one calendar year (ie Jan to Dec) being put in the same grade. High School could be divided into Junior High (years 8-10) and Senior High (years 11-12). Legally you're allowed to leave school after completing year 10. Some students who do this go on to study at College, usually something industrial. Students who go on to year 12 and complete the end of year exams successfully can try to get into University or College to obtain a degree, based on their year 12 results. In Melbourne, there are kindergartens available for 3-4 year old kids can go for half a day, once a week. These are usually run by local councils. The other alternative is to go to a private kindergarten (referred to here as Kinda, or Kinder) where most kids attend every day from at least 9am to 4pm, although I think you can take your kids out before nap-time at 1pm. (Because I have worked to pay for the kids' education, this was never an option for me.) Also, the place my kids were at is also a daycare centre, which means that they're open from 7.30am to 6pm, and you have the option of your kids being in there that long. (It's available from 6 months.) Most kids in the private system attend kindergarten for two years. I think the cutoff date for going up a year in Melbourne is sometime in April or June. Anyway, Megan wasn't ready to start school at the beginning of last year, but is more than ready this year (as I'm sure I've mentioned earlier here.) She's already 5 and a half, and I think she'll be amongst the oldest in her class. Primary School in Melbourne starts with Grade Prep, and then goes from Grade 1 to 6. High School starts with Grade 7 and goes to year 12. I'm not totally sure of whether there's any major differences beyond that from the West Australian model (hey, 10 years ago, I had to study the Beazley Report on Education in WA, and it's entirely possible that the guy who "wrote" it may be our next Prime Minister!), but I'm sure that as my kids go through it, I'll find out more. Oh one other thing that Tricia didn't cover was class sizes... The local government run primary school has class sizes around the 25 mark. In 1999 when David was at a larger Jewish Day School, there were two streams of Grade Ones, with around 26 kids in each class. A friend who teaches in a bit poorer area has 35 kids in most of her classes (and NONE of them speak English! She has a real struggle on her hands every year!). David and Megan, because they're in a brand spanking new school have around a dozen kids in their classes. David's class is special too, because they opened up the then grade one class to allow him to join them, and it became a combined grade one/two class then. This year he's in the combined grade two/three class, with him as the only grade three student. I've noticed quite a few posts from Americans referring to home-schooling... as far as I'm aware this is not very common at all in Australia, other than in remote outback areas, where they used to do School of the Air (ie by pedal radio) and have now upgraded to learning on the internet. I don't know of anyone in all my experience as a true citydweller, who has not been *to* a school. Hope this was interesting to at least someone out there Jen jenerator@ozemail.com.au -*-This message is umop ap!sdn (Jenerator or Some1Else on IRC) -*- JenerEight on AIM -*- ICQ 11477318 Photos of David (8) and Megan (5) on the Stosser Family HomePage http//www.geocities.com/j_stosser Please sign our guestbook! -----Original Message----- From: Kathy Brown [SMTP:kathybrown91@HOME.COM] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:37 PM To: LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Re: [LOISCLA-GENERAL-L] Question for a fic On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:01:54 +1100, Patricia Walpole wrote: >Kindergarten to Yr 2 is called Infants School, Yrs 3 to 6 Primary School and >Yrs 7 to 12 High School. Thanks, Tricia, that was interesting -- from your description, NSW has almost identical school structure to the US. The only difference I saw at all was in the names above; we would call Grades 1-5 "Elementary", and grades 9-12 High School. In between, different cities structure things a bit differently, but the basic format is the same -- some cites have "Middle Schools" made up of grades 6-8 (or 7-8), while others have "Junior High Schools" made up of grades 7-8 (or 7-9). Often it depends on space issues -- depending on which buildings a district has more room in, it might keep 6th graders in the Elementary, or move 9th graders to the middle school. I'll be interested to see how other Aussie states differ. Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:08:40 +0900 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Liz O Subject: Re: Question for a fic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathy In South Australia, our system is slightly different again. Children don't start school until they are five years old, although some schools are now offering preschool from age 3 or 4. At age 3 or 4 most kids go to Kindergarten which has no formal reading or writing, its structured informative play. School is divided into 12 grades with Grades 1-7 being Primary School and Years 8-12 being High School or Secondary School. Often Grades 1-2 are separated from the rest of the Primary School and are called Junior Primary. The Primary School and High School are separate schools on separate campuses. Children who turn 5 in the first half of the year do six months of Prep school (which is part of the Junior Primary before going into Grade One, those who turn 5 in the second half of the year do a full 12 months of prep. Junior Primary hours are 9am - 2.30 or 3pm. Normal school hours are 8.45am to 3.30pm. There are 4 school terms with the long break over our summer (January). Year 12 is called Matriculation in South Australia, other States call it the HSC (High School Certificate), it is this year that qualifies you for tertiary studies. Some students now choose to do Year 13 and take their best scores over the two years for University entrance. Most students finish school at age 17. We do not have the College system as such. We go straight to University to do a specialized degree such as Medicine, Law or Journalism and many people will have their qualifications by age 21 or 22. Children learn their reading in Prep, Grade 1 and 2 and it is not unusual for them to repeat an early year if they are slow in developing. Many kids are literate before starting school now though. There is a trend in private schools to separate High School into Years 7-10 and Years 11 -12 but that is not the norm. Liz O Kathy Brown wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:01:54 +1100, Patricia Walpole > wrote: > > >Kindergarten to Yr 2 is called Infants School, Yrs 3 to 6 Primary School and >Yrs 7 to 12 High School. > > Thanks, Tricia, that was interesting -- from your description, NSW has almost > identical school structure to the US. The only difference I saw at all was in > the names above; we would call Grades 1-5 "Elementary", and grades 9-12 High > School. In between, different cities structure things a bit differently, but > the basic format is the same -- some cites have "Middle Schools" made up of > grades 6-8 (or 7-8), while others have "Junior High Schools" made up of > grades 7-8 (or 7-9). Often it depends on space issues -- depending on which > buildings a district has more room in, it might keep 6th graders in the > Elementary, or move 9th graders to the middle school. > > I'll be interested to see how other Aussie states differ. > > Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:42:52 -0000 Reply-To: LabRat Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: LabRat Organization: LabRat Subject: Re: How many to nominate... (Was: RE: Kerth Quiz No. 8: ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathy wrote: So feel free to nominate all the stories you > think are worthy of being on the ballot. :) > So...*no* upper limit then? Hmmmmmmm. So...technically...we could just nominate everything and save the heartbreak? Just kidding. For some reason I'd thought there was an upper limit of five stories per category. No idea where that came from. So, thanks for the clarification. Makes things a whle lot easier! LabRat :) (now off, guilt-free, to retrieve those stories she had to cut because she already had five in the category...) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:58:25 +1100 Reply-To: Patricia Walpole Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Patricia Walpole Subject: Re: Question for a fic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jen Here in NSW, government schools are allocated teachers according to the=20 total student enrollment not by the number of students per grade. = Sometimes class sizes can be large, as a lot of schools try to avoid composite = classes. Where I work, last year the class sizes ranged from 24 ( a Kindergarten = class) to 34 ( a Yr 4 class). We also have a large number of children who start = school not speaking English. 89% of our students come from non-English speaking backgrounds. We have many problems to deal with and quite often teachers = don't stay here any length of time. The staff is constantly changing. I know class numbers vary greatly across the state. Catholic schools = tend to have smaller class sizes and private schools even smaller. NSW has 4 school terms. We have 2 weeks at Easter, 2 weeks in July, 2 = weeks in Sept/Oct and 5 to 6 weeks in Dec/Jan. Most private schools have a = week or so extra each holiday period. Students can leave school at 14yrs 9mths. However, nearly everyone does = Yr 10 (School Certificate) and now most students do Yr 12 ( Higher School = Certificate). With your Yr 12 results you receive a TER (Tertiary Entrance Ranking). = All=20 universities have a TER level requirement for each of their courses. Regards, Tricia. =20 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:25:24 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Ann E. McBride" Subject: Re: Question for a fic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/25/01 8:37:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, kathybrown91@HOME.COM writes: > The only difference I saw at all was in > the names above; we would call Grades 1-5 "Elementary", and grades 9-12 High > School. In between, different cities structure things a bit differently, > but > the basic format is the same -- some cites have "Middle Schools" made up of > grades 6-8 (or 7-8), while others have "Junior High Schools" made up of > grades 7-8 (or 7-9). Often it depends on space issues -- depending on which > buildings a district has more room in, it might keep 6th graders in the > Elementary, or move 9th graders to the middle school. > > As Kathy said, space is often the determining factor in how schools are divided. My niece and nephew live outside Pittsburgh and they have grades K-3 in one school, 4-6 in another and 7-8 in yet another. Apparently the divisions ebb and flow with enrollment numbers. In many private schools, there are grades K -12 in one school. And in most Catholic systems in the US grades K-8 are in one building and 9-12 in separate high schools. Ann ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:27:56 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:06:30 -0500, Kathy Brown wrote: >>>Just to clarify -- the category title this year is called "Best Vignette/ Short Story". So just because a story doesn't fit the definition of a vignette, don't feel you can't nominate a story as long as it fits within the size limit. :)<<< Oops! Thanks for the clarification, Kathy; my fault entirely for not reading the category *title* as well as the description before preparing this! Well, in that case, I'll present an extra quiz with short stories I considered including in this quiz, but didn't because they weren't vignettes. :) Wendy ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:50:46 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In recognition of my omission of Short Stories from the Vignette/Short Story quiz, here is a bonus mini-quiz featuring seven short stories, all under 50KB. There are, as Dia pointed out, LOTS more short stories out there; I hope you have as much fun finding them as I did finding these. :) RULES: Identify each story and its author accurately to be awarded a correct answer. This is an open-hard-drive and archive quiz, so feel free to check your answers if you wish. These stories, as usual, are identifiable by either a QUOTE or an EXTRACT. Please indicate whether you guessed the answer from the quote or the extract. Two points for a full correct answer from the quote, and one point from the extract. DISCLAIMER: Two =91disclaimers=92 here. First, just because, in my subjective decision- making process, I have singled these stories out for the Short Story quiz, that should not be taken in any way to suggest that other stories are not deserving of nomination in this category. Your choice is every bit as good as mine! Second, just because, let=92s say, Story 4 and Story 5 are included here as Short Stories, that does not preclude anyone nominating them in other categories, such as Tearjerker or WAFFy, and the same goes for the other stories in this quiz. Multiple nominations of one story ARE permitted! Oh, and PLEASE do not quote the entire quiz in your response! It makes it *very* difficult to find your answers! (Dia, your solution is fine, and gives me no problems at all!) And don=92t forget the SPOILER SPACE. :) S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: "I was the one who never got to use the bedroom!" Quote 2: "Lois, don't worry. Superman is there to look out for me. I won't take any undue risks." Quote 3: "Even though I want to play you man-to-man." Quote 4: "I felt you really needed to understand what happened to you--why you weren't willing to be in love with Clark, in this life." Quote 5: "I never said she was my girl." Quote 6: "An anti-perspirant?" Quote 7: "I guess I should say from Krypton by way of California." S P A C E Extract 1: With a renewed sense of determination, she turned on the light, threw back the covers, and jumped out of bed. It was perfect! Why hadn't she thought of it before? She hurried over to the TV and ejected the tape from the VCR, then dropped the cassette into her overnight bag so she wouldn't forget it. The first thing she'd do tomorrow morning when she got back to her apartment would be to make a copy of the tape and gift-wrap it for Clark. And of course she'd have to come up with the perfect note to go along with it. *But that shouldn't be too difficult,* she thought with a smile. *After all, I *am* a writer.* Before she could change her mind, she hurried to the desk in the front room of the suite and grabbed a sheet of hotel stationary and a pen from the top drawer. Several crumpled and discarded sheets of stationary later, she sat back in the desk chair and reread her final version. *Perfect,* she thought, smiling happily. Even though it was only one line, the wording was exactly what she wanted. It was light, yet not too casual, and suggested that their time together at the Lexor had meant enough to her to go to the trouble she'd gone to. Satisfied, she folded the note into one of the matching hotel envelopes and tucked it into her bag alongside the video tape. Now she'd just have to wait until Monday. Extract 2: "Come on! Open it, what are you waiting for?" Clark had a strange feeling. He carefully lowered his glasses to allow him to use his x-ray vision to check out the package. What he saw did not please him very much, but he couldn't prevent Lois from seeing. He checked again to make sure that it couldn't explode. Perry saw the package on Clark's desk and rushed out of his office yelling at Clark not to open it. Clark was already splitting open the box cover. The box contained a teddy bear, but not just any bear. This one was tortured and broken to pieces. Its head was cut, its eyes were torn out and the arms were too, and a big knife was plunged into the bear at about heart height. The teddy bear was resting on a piece of marble. Clark put the bear aside to have a better look at the marble base. It was shaped like a tombstone, on it was inscribed something. CLARK KENT And the date of that day. Extract 3: Clark must have been worried about me and forgotten himself because he pulled his glasses down his nose and looked at my ankle. Even through my pain-induced haze I wondered what he was doing looking at my ankle. It wasn't as if he could see anything but skin. Boy was I wrong. I looked up into his face. His eyes were clouded with worry and his mouth was almost twisted with sympathy. But the thing that alerted me the most was that he had his glasses down at the bridge of his nose. I had never seen his eyes without his glasses before, and for some reason he looked so different without them, almost like someone else. I couldn't place who that someone else was until Clark muttered, "Not broken, thank God." What? How could he have known that it wasn't broken just by looking at it? It wasn't like he could x-ray it with his eyes. Boy was I wrong! It hit me then. Why was he able to wear a tank top and shorts in the cold and his skin still be warm? Why does he always have to leave me whenever we are having a meaningful discussion and always seems so sorry and gives such lame excuses? How could he look at my ankle and say it's not broken? Who does he look like without his glasses? It hit me then. It made so much sense. I guess it took a brain clouded with pain to realize that Clark Kent, the mild-mannered reporter I had, I admit it, fallen in love with, was also Superman, the other man I still had some feelings for. This was not the time to confront him about it, though, because Jimmy was running back towards us. Extract 4: Although he would not allow it to show, Clark was struggling with his fear of losing Lois. He'd said to her once, "Lois, if I lost you, I'd be losing myself." Somehow, losing her was always the most painful thing he could imagine, whether it was for a moment, as when Tempus whisked her off to the alternate dimension, or for the rest of his life, like now. His body had aged, probably the result of giving some years to save Jimmy's life, but he was under no illusions that Superman was in immanent danger of death. When they had both been young and new at the togetherness of marriage, he had bravely said it wasn't the years but the moments that counted. He was painfully aware of just how precious these last moments were, but he was also dreading the effect of the years. Without Lois, how could he stand this house and its memories? Out of the corner of his eye, Clark saw a flash of red, blue, and yellow. A quick x-ray revealed the newest, and youngest, wearer of the cape retreating quickly from the window to enter another way. Continuing his scan, Clark found that the entire family was now waiting around in the house, ready to be called. As much as he loved each one of them, he was grateful to them for this time alone with Lois. Extract 5: "Special," Lois echoed wistfully. "That's what he said ..." Jimmy concurred. Perry exhaled. "Well, no wonder the boy looked so upset. Probably needed to go home and clear his head. It's hard when anyone you're close to dies, but when it's someone so young ... well, that's just a darn shame." "You said she was married, though, Jimmy?" Lois followed up. She wasn't sure why it was so important to her, but it was. The young man nodded. "That's what Clark said, that he felt bad for her husband. Sounded like he had some mixed feelings about the guy." Perry looked speculative. "Hmm, maybe they competed for this girl and Clark lost." Lois stood up a little taller. "You don't know that," she defended. "Maybe ... they were just friends. Maybe ... he just didn't like her choice of husbands." Perry shrugged. "You're right, I don't know that ... I don't know anything about it. Just supposing. But if what Jimmy said is true ... that Clark called this girl special ... maybe she was the one that got away." Extract 6: Clark sheepishly shrugged. "I don't know. I guess I was just trying to figure out why you are suddenly obsessing about that phantom newspaper headline." "I'm not obsessing, not really. It's just that... I was just curious if you had noticed what they thought it was, that's all." "Curiosity, that was all?" "Well..." "Lo-is?" "Well, all right. I'm not feeling too well right now, and since it is happening right after we've made love, my mind just seemed to focus on that silly headline." She stood and began to make her way back to the couch. "Lois, are you all right? What's wrong? Can you describe it? Is it flu like, or are you... Lois!" Lois had abruptly turned very pale and collapsed onto the floor in the living room. Extract 7: She was dressed casually, in slightly scruffy jeans and a T-shirt which proclaimed in bold red letters "Superman Rules!" on the front and the S- shield on the back. With a tattered backpack hanging from one shoulder, she was indistinguishable from any other teenager. Except, of course, for where she was walking. Maggie glanced down at the street--a mere twenty stories down. It was busy, even this early in the morning, but she knew there wasn't much chance of anyone spotting her from down there--not even Superman, who she had heard was helping with the aftermath of a typhoon in India. She'd noticed when she'd arrived in the city the night before that even here in the great city of Metropolis, home to Superman, people seldom--if ever--looked up. Nor was there much chance of a sighting from inside the building, since the building had not yet opened its doors to employees. Finally she reached her goal, a place near the corner of the building with a great view of the Daily Planet, where the early morning sun wouldn't reach her for a while, and settled in. She laid her backpack on the ledge beside her and, pulling a paper bag and soda from her backpack, dangled her feet off the side, staring out over the city while she ate her breakfast-- an assortment of snack crackers and snack cakes. It was really a fascinating place, this city. She could understand why Superman chose to make it his home. Enjoy! Wendy ---------- Wendy Richards wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:06:42 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kaethel Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > S > P > O > I > L > E > R > > S > P > A > C > E > Quote 1: > "Lois," his voice was barely a whisper, "I'm okay, play along." mind draws blank... > Quote 2: > "Didn't your mom ever tell you you should always hang your clothes up?" Always Hang Up Your Clothes, by Bethy Kuesters? > Quote 3: > "Clark, don't go run to Perry for protection! He won't save you. We're > getting this work done. Now!" LOL! But mind still drawing a big blank. > Quote 4: > I told you before and I'm telling you again, Clark. Forget it! /me seems to have forgotten it, too. :/ > Quote 5: > "Why do you think? It's Valentine's Day, Lois - isn't that what people do > on Valentine's Day?" Ummm... Ummmmm... > Quote 6: > "And if our first date wasn't enough to convince you ..." he hesitated, > softening his voice to a husky whisper, "... just think about our first > kiss." Aha! That one I know. It's by Tracey and I can't remember the title... sigh... Yesterday's News! > Quote 7: > "As awful as today has been ... it did teach me how much I love you. And > I'm so glad you're not really dead ... but I'm still going to miss you > terribly, at work." Sigh... > Quote 8: > "It's a problem I have. They keep shredding." Re-sigh... > Quote 9: > "Clark, I have a choice here: kissing you or eating chocolate. I know that > you're not going to believe this, but I think the chocolate can wait." LOL! But I don't know either. > Quote 10: > "So, Lois, if I could fly, you'd fly with me? It doesn't have to be > Superman, > I mean, does it?" Oh! I think it's ... Invisible or Fly?, by Wendy Richards. > Quote11: > "I want to be able to sit here and talk about it. But we can't, because > you've chosen to tell me something so deeply personal *right in the middle > of Metropolis's most popular restaurant!*" Oooh, that's the excellent Revelation, Reaction, by Chris Carr. :) > Extract 1: A TOGOM Vignette - Yet Another Version, by Tank Wilson. > Extract 3: It sounds hysterically funny, but I don't think I've read it yet. I want to know what it is, though. :) > Extract 4: Okay... I'm pretty sure I've read this. It sounds very familiar... > Extract 5: Not sure, but could that be A Valentine's Rendez-Vous, by Wendy Richards? > Extract 7: Okay, it's a TOGOM rewrite and it's by Pam Jernigan. Private Grief? > Extract 8: Aaaagghh!! I know, I know! Lois is mad because Clark hasn't been wearing the tie she's offered him for his birthday, and she finally discovers it in his closet. The tie's completely destroyed by a super feat, but Clark kept it because it means a lot to him and... Oh! Tie Story, by Chris Carr? > Extract 9: Awwww and I know I've read that one, too. Great quiz again. :) Helene :) Kaethel@club-internet.fr ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:26:52 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: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Taking advantage of some free time at work and trying to read a lot of fics I haven't through the year ... but I didn't do as well with this one, I'm afraid ... s p o i l e r s p a c e Q1 - Well, it has to be a HIM rewrite ... Q2 - Don't know ... Q3 - Basketball, the Clark one - Alicia Q4 - Don't know ... Q5 - Ooh, ooh, ohh ... I have an Autograohed Copty of this one!!! The One Who Got Away - KathyB Q6 - Don't know Q7 - Don't know E1 - Erin's from the Fanzine ... The Video E2 - Still don't know it :/ E4 - I don't think I've read this one ... E6 - I think it's a Wendy one (I'm sorry, Wendy, forgive me? ) E7 - Well this has to be Maggie - Tara Smith Anne ;) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:28:58 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jo March Subject: Re: New: From Me to You - Complete Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Jenni and Eileen, thank you for your wonderful comments. I'm flattered! LabRat, you *were* right. :) I'm also noticing an interesting relationship between feedback and writing. ;) I think I'll give vignettes another try. I really appreciate your encouragement. Thanks again, everyone! JoMarch __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:16:49 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kaethel Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > S > P > O > I > L > E > R > > S > P > A > C > E > Quote 1: > "I was the one who never got to use the bedroom!" Not very sure, but could that be HIM: the video, by Erin Klingler? > Quote 2: > "Lois, don't worry. Superman is there to look out for me. I won't take > any undue risks." Threats for Clark, by Chiara Prato? > Quote 3: > "Even though I want to play you man-to-man." Uh... > Quote 4: > "I felt you really needed to understand what happened to you--why you > weren't willing to be in love with Clark, in this life." Sigh... > Quote 5: > "I never said she was my girl." Big sigh... > Quote 6: > "An anti-perspirant?" Oh! Mori a Amor, by Tank Wilson and Wendy Richards. > Quote 7: > "I guess I should say from Krypton by way of California." Huge sigh... > Extract 3: Basketball, by Alicia U. > Extract 4: Immense sigh... > Extract 5: Easy! The One that Got Away, by Kathy Brown. > Extract 7: Taking a guess: Maggie, by Tara Smith? Helene :) Kaethel@club-internet.fr ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:42:49 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Adam Labotka Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: HiM: The Video by Erin Klinger Quote 2: Threats for Clark by Chiara Prato Quote 3: Basketball: A Lois and Clark Valentine by Alicia U Quote 5: The One That Got Away by Kathy Brown Quote 6: Mori a Amor by Tank Wildon and Wendy Richards Excerpt 7: Maggie by Tara Smith ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:41:37 +1100 Reply-To: "jenerator@ozemail.com.au" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jen Stosser Subject: Foxtel's offerings for February MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Those of you in Australia who have access to Foxtel might be interested to learn that we've got a Teri movie and a Dean one next month. Soapdish airs on Encore on Feb 23, 24 & 28, and The Stone Boy airs on Encore on Feb 11, 27 & 28. Jen jenerator@ozemail.com.au -*-This message is umop ap!sdn (Jenerator or Some1Else on IRC) -*- JenerEight on AIM -*- ICQ 11477318 Photos of David (8) and Megan (5) on the Stosser Family HomePage http//www.geocities.com/j_stosser Please sign our guestbook! -----Original Message----- From: Liz O [SMTP:lizo@OZEMAIL.COM.AU] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 9:09 PM To: LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Re: [LOISCLA-GENERAL-L] Question for a fic Kathy In South Australia, our system is slightly different again. Children don't start school until they are five years old, although some schools are now offering preschool from age 3 or 4. At age 3 or 4 most kids go to Kindergarten which has no formal reading or writing, its structured informative play. School is divided into 12 grades with Grades 1-7 being Primary School and Years 8-12 being High School or Secondary School. Often Grades 1-2 are separated from the rest of the Primary School and are called Junior Primary. The Primary School and High School are separate schools on separate campuses. Children who turn 5 in the first half of the year do six months of Prep school (which is part of the Junior Primary before going into Grade One, those who turn 5 in the second half of the year do a full 12 months of prep. Junior Primary hours are 9am - 2.30 or 3pm. Normal school hours are 8.45am to 3.30pm. There are 4 school terms with the long break over our summer (January). Year 12 is called Matriculation in South Australia, other States call it the HSC (High School Certificate), it is this year that qualifies you for tertiary studies. Some students now choose to do Year 13 and take their best scores over the two years for University entrance. Most students finish school at age 17. We do not have the College system as such. We go straight to University to do a specialized degree such as Medicine, Law or Journalism and many people will have their qualifications by age 21 or 22. Children learn their reading in Prep, Grade 1 and 2 and it is not unusual for them to repeat an early year if they are slow in developing. Many kids are literate before starting school now though. There is a trend in private schools to separate High School into Years 7-10 and Years 11 -12 but that is not the norm. Liz O Kathy Brown wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:01:54 +1100, Patricia Walpole > wrote: > > >Kindergarten to Yr 2 is called Infants School, Yrs 3 to 6 Primary School and >Yrs 7 to 12 High School. > > Thanks, Tricia, that was interesting -- from your description, NSW has almost > identical school structure to the US. The only difference I saw at all was in > the names above; we would call Grades 1-5 "Elementary", and grades 9-12 High > School. In between, different cities structure things a bit differently, but > the basic format is the same -- some cites have "Middle Schools" made up of > grades 6-8 (or 7-8), while others have "Junior High Schools" made up of > grades 7-8 (or 7-9). Often it depends on space issues -- depending on which > buildings a district has more room in, it might keep 6th graders in the > Elementary, or move 9th graders to the middle school. > > I'll be interested to see how other Aussie states differ. > > Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:21:16 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kylie Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette Here is my little entry, as promised :) Quote 4- Clark.doc, by Supermom Quote 10- Invisible or Fly?, by Wendy Richards Extract 1- A TOGOM Vignette- Yet Another Version, by Tank Wilson Extarct 6- Yesterday's News, Tracey. Please don't laugh too much! :) Kylie :) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:43:10 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Krazman Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm lucky on this one - I've had a ton of free time at work this week, so I've been catching up on the archive reading... S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: "Lois," his voice was barely a whisper, "I'm okay, play along." Tank Wilson's "A TOGOM Vignette - Yet Another Version" Quote 2: "Didn't your mom ever tell you you should always hang your clothes up?" Becky Kuester's "Always Hang Up Your Clothes" Quote 3: "Clark, don't go run to Perry for protection! He won't save you. We're getting this work done. Now!" Jessi Mounts' "Atom Bomb Lane" Quote 4: I told you before and I'm telling you again, Clark. Forget it! Supermom's "Clark.doc" Quote 5: "Why do you think? It's Valentine's Day, Lois - isn't that what people do on Valentine's Day?" Wendy Richards' "A Valentine's Rendezvous" Quote 6: "And if our first date wasn't enough to convince you ..." he hesitated, softening his voice to a husky whisper, "... just think about our first kiss." Tracey's "Yesterday's News" Quote 7: "As awful as today has been ... it did teach me how much I love you. And I'm so glad you're not really dead ... but I'm still going to miss you terribly, at work." Pam Jernigan's "Private Grief" Quote 8: "It's a problem I have. They keep shredding." Chris Carr's "Tie Story" Quote 9: "Clark, I have a choice here: kissing you or eating chocolate. I know that you're not going to believe this, but I think the chocolate can wait." At first - I was thinking of Zoomway's "Like Superman for Chocolate" - but that didn't seem right, so I had to think again, and came up with Gerry Anklewicz' "Valentine Expectations" Quote 10: "So, Lois, if I could fly, you'd fly with me? It doesn't have to be Superman, I mean, does it?" Wendy Richards' "Invisible of Fly" - which really wasn't fair, because I wasn't expecting the same author to appear twice... Quote11: "I want to be able to sit here and talk about it. But we can't, because you've chosen to tell me something so deeply personal *right in the middle of Metropolis's most popular restaurant!*" Chris Carr's "Revelation Reaction" ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:09:48 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Adam Labotka Subject: The Exodus (Part 11/?) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ok I couldn't resist so it's shorter then I intended, but it's been = almost a week so I wanted to get more out ;). ****** A giant fireball streaked through the reddish sky. The flaming craft = crashed into the ground, digging a deep rut into the soil as it = scattered dirt and debris into the formerly clear sky. Eventually the ship came to a halt after sliding many miles. The hull = was bent and twisted, but amazingly it was still intact. After the ship = came to a shuddering halt, the air was suddenly silent. Inside the ship, Kal-El slowly regained consciousness. As he slowly = tried to get up, he viewed the carnage around him. The entire room was = smashed almost beyond recognition. The view port was no longer visible, = because the floor had buckled and a large projection was blocking it. = The flight crew could be seen strewn about the room. As Kal-El got to his feet he cringed as pain wracked his body. His ankle = nearly gave out when he tried to put weight on it. Having never = experienced a twisted ankle before, Kal-El was baffled as to what was = happening. Upon inspection he could find nothing wrong with his ankle. He gritted his teeth and hobbled toward the nearest body. The man was = lying across a console. As Kal-El neared the man shifted and started = getting up. All over the room, the other men were doing the same thing. = Gasps of pains and groans of protest could be heard from just about = everyone as they experienced pain for the first time. But the peoples = iron will which allowed them to give up so much, to prevent what might = happen, allowed them to move through the pain. For the most part, everyone in the control room was amazingly whole. = Aside from bruises and some scrapes, they were largely uninjured. "Is everyone able to move?" Kal-El asked. Everyone acknowledged Kal-El grunted affirmatively. Struggling to keep his voice confident, Kal-El stated "We should explore = the ship, look to see who else survived and help those who need it. = Remember, we're all vulnerable now so be careful." Despite his outward calmness, Kal-El was a mess inside. Not only did he = have to deal with the new sensations of pain from his ankle and bruised = chest; he was fraught with worry over the rest of his people - = especially Liera. She had been his support through everything that had = led to this point. How could he go on without her, especially after what = had just happened. It would be his fault if she was hurt. He had to find = out if she was ok or not. Kal-El barked a few more orders at the men and sent them on their way. = Then, after the last man had left, he hobbled his way out of the room to = begin his own search of the ship. He prayed to whatever gods there might = be that Liera was safe. ****** Kal-El limped into the corridor. Outside the control room, the = devastation was even more apparent. The floor was bent in many places, = and bulkheads littered the corridor. He carefully moved through the = debris, trying to make his way to his quarters. Progress was very slow. Some areas of the ship were so close together, = it was all he could do to slip through them. The metal creaked and = groaned in protest at the weight passing over it. Kal-El reached a turn in the corridor that was almost fully blocked by a = torn sheet of metal. He tried to push it out of the way and jerked back = his hand as pain lanced through his palm. He looked and saw some red = dripping from the jagged edge of the metal, then noticed a long gash in = his palm. This not being invulnerable is gonna take some getting used = to, he mused. He carefully bandaged his hand, tearing off some of his = clothing to wrap his wound, as he had learned when they helped rescue = people from the flood. Being much more careful this time, Kal-El pushed back the piece of metal = so he could make his way past the blockage. Now he could see the door to = his cabin. He hurried along to make it, filled with trepidation at what = might greet him. The door had been wrenched inwards, which was probably a good thing = since the frame was bent out of shape and would have held the door fast. = The room was a mess. The mattress had been flung off the bed and the = furniture was strewn around the room. An arm stuck out from under the = table. Kal-El moved to the table as quickly as he could, and with a feat = of strength reminiscent of what he used to be capable of, flung the = table off of the body. Underneath lay the crumpled form of his wife, = Liera. ****** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:51:39 -0800 Reply-To: supertlc Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: supertlc Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chiming in late here, guys, sorry about that....just got back to my computer today :) s p o i l e r s p a c e 1. A TOGoM Vignette, Yet Another Version, by Tank Wilson (quote) 2. Always Hang Up Your Clothes, by Becky Kuesters (quote) 3. Atom Bomb Lane, by Jessi Mounts (extract) 4. Clark.doc, by Supermom (extract) 5. A Valentine's Rendezvous, by Wendy Richards (quote) 6. Oh, gosh! Wow, that's mine--Yesterday's News (quote) 7. Private Grief, by Pam Jernigan (extract) 8. I remember reading this one, but it's just not coming to me... 9. Same with this one I love that line, though! 10. Invisible or Fly? by Wendy Richards (quote) There, I think that was better than my last try at the quizzes But we'll see :) Thanks, Wendy :) Tracey ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:34:48 -0500 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: How many to nominate... (Was: RE: Kerth Quiz No. 8: ) On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:42:52 -0000, LabRat wrote: >Just kidding. For some reason I'd thought there was an upper limit of five >stories per category. No idea where that came from. Well, we do limit the ballot to five or six stories per category. Maybe that's what you were thinking of? Now, realize I don't mean for people to nominate every story that they think has the smallest amount of redeeming value -- then we'd have every story on the Archive nominated. :) So let's rephrase it to say there is no upper limit *within reason*. Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:57:04 -0700 Reply-To: erink@ida.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Erin Klingler Subject: Re: How many to nominate... (Was: RE: Kerth Quiz No. 8: ) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathy wrote: >Now, realize I don't mean for people to nominate every story that they think >has the smallest amount of redeeming value -- then we'd have every story on >the Archive nominated. :) So let's rephrase it to say there is no upper >limit *within reason*. Whew! Thank you for clarifying that, Kathy. :) I could just see ppl saying, "Woohoo! No limit!" and start sending me 7, 10, 12 or 15 per category, and the thought made my head spin. While it's true that we purposefully haven't set a limit for number of stories one could nominate, please try to keep it within reason, as Kathy says. One, two or three for most of the categories, and then 5 or so in a couple of the other categories would please me just fine. If someone sends me a nomination email with 8+ per category, I might get a little grumpy. And remember, nominations start THURSDAY! :) Erin __________________ erink@ida.net Visit my LNC/Kerth Website: www.ida.net/users/davek ***** "It's not the years that count, it's the moments...right now, as they happen." __________________ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:11:28 -0500 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: Question for a fic Thanks, Jen, Liz and Tricia, that was very interesting. I'm especially fascinated to see that the Australian states structure things differently. There are some differences among the US states, but they aren't as marked as seems to be the case in Australia. Jen, it sound like the structure in Melbourne isn't all that different from the US, it's just the names that differ. What you call "Kindergarten", we call "Pre-School", and what you call a "Prep Year", we call "Kindgarten". One difference I did see, though, was in the school calandar. In the US, school starts in September (or late August) and goes through May/June. It works out to 180 days in the classroom a year (about 9 months). There are occasional short breaks (long weekends, with say a Thurs/Fri or a Fri/Mon off) throughout the academic year, but the only major breaks come at Christmas (about 2 weeks off) and in the spring (1 week off). Then school closes completely for our summer months, approximately 10 weeks off. There are definitely some districts/individual schools exploring year-round classrooms in the US. It's a subject that generates a lot of strong opinions, both positive and negative. I would say it is still in the "pilot" phase in the US -- schools that do it are watched with curiosity to see if there are tangible advantages. My understanding is that these schools loosely follow a 10 weeks on, 3 weeks off calendar, 12 months a year. Interestingly, in my mom's schooling days (in the 1930's and 40's), children could enter in either September *or* January, depending on when they turned five. There were thus two sets of classes run concurrently, and high school students could graduate in either June or December. I don't think this exists anywhere in the US anymore though. Educational (ha!) discussion! :) Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:00:40 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Bethy Em Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz No. 9: Vignette Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: "A TOGOM Vignette: Yet Another Version" by Tank Wilson Quote 2: "Always Hang Up Your Clothes" Becky Kuesters Quote 3: Looks fun, but...no. No recognition. Quote 4: Oh, I knew I'd read this one! "Clark.doc" by Supermom, aka Marilyn. Quote 5: "A Valentine's Rendezvous" by Wendy Richards Quote 6: "Yesterday's News" by Tracey Quote 7: "Private Grief" by Pam Jernigan Quote 8: "Tie Story" by Chris Carr Quote 9: Not sure Quote 10: "Invisible or Fly?" by Wendy Richards Quote 11: "Revelation Reaction" by Chris Carr Extract 3: Still no idea. Extract 9: Hmm...sounds familiar, but I still don't know. That was fun! More? Bethy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:38:09 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Bethy Em Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: Ooh, I know this. Or not. Quote 2: Hmmm...nope. Quote 3: Sorry. Quote 4: "Dances with Wells" by Klair El Quote 5: Uh-uh. Quote 6: "Mori a Amor" by Wendy and Tank Quote 7: I'm not doing so hot. Extract 1: "HiM: The Video" by Erin Klinger Extract 2: "Threats for Clark" by Chiara Prato Extract 3: "Basketball: A Lois and Clark Valentine" by Alicia U. Extract 5: "The One That Got Away" by Kathy Brown Extract 7: "Maggie" by Tara Smith Well, at least I got all of them! Even though it took the extracts for most... :-) Bethy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:21:45 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jacalyn Sue Newman Subject: Looking for a fanfic In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Can I take the next month off so I can read everything eligible and cast an informed ballot? (No chads, please!) I am looking for a fanfic that has Lois trapped in a snowstorm and taken to a cave where Clark is living in secret. The author wrote a second continuation of the story when we all yelled that more needed to be written. I know there was a school bus accident early in the story. I can't find it .... and I want to nominate it (assuming it's eligible. No way to be sure what the initial date was since my mind has been swiss-cheesed.) Thanks! Jackie -- Jacalyn S. Newman jacalynsue@earthlink.net ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:49:11 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Becky Bain Subject: Re: Question for a fic In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed All this discussion of school is fascinating! Kathy said: >One difference I did see, though, was in the school calandar. In the US, >school starts in September (or late August) and goes through May/June. It >works out to 180 days in the classroom a year (about 9 months). There are >occasional short breaks (long weekends, with say a Thurs/Fri or a Fri/Mon >off) throughout the academic year, but the only major breaks come at >Christmas (about 2 weeks off) and in the spring (1 week off). Then school >closes completely for our summer months, approximately 10 weeks off. That's true in most school districts, but in my daughter's district (in Colorado), it's a little different. They start the first week in August. Nine weeks later, in mid-October, they have a two week break. Nine more weeks of school, then the semester ends and they have two weeks off for Christmas/winter break. Nine more weeks of school takes us to the last week or so of March, and they get another two weeks for spring break. School ends nine weeks after that, at the end of May, and they get only two months off for summer, instead of the usual three. I admit that when we first moved here, I hated it! But now I love it! We're the only district in the Colorado Springs area with this schedule, which means ours are the only kids out of school for those two weeks in October - dentist and doctor appointments are a breeze! And we get that second week off in the spring, too. All convenient for planning vacations, etc. I also read the discussion on starting school with interest. My older daughter has a Sept. 30 birthday, and the school district where we lived at the time said you had to be five on or before Sept. 15 in order to start kindergarten that year. Two weeks seemed like such a small amount of time, especially when she was =so= ready to start school! She'd done two years of pre-school, knew her alphabet, colors, shapes, etc. I must have made a dozen or more phone calls but no dice. No exceptions. Fine. I found an academically oriented preschool and she started kindergarten the next year, just before she turned six. Julie's nineteen now and graduated from high school this past spring. She's pursuing higher education nine states away, in New York (Manhattan, no less!), and I'm here to tell you that if she'd graduated a year earlier, there's no way she would have had the maturity to cope with being so far from home. I was =amazed= at how much difference that one year made in her maturity level, her willingness to =use= her common sense, etc. You can bet I'm blessing that extra year now! Okay, I've rambled on far longer than I meant to! Becky >There are definitely some districts/individual schools exploring year-round >classrooms in the US. It's a subject that generates a lot of strong >opinions, both positive and negative. I would say it is still in the "pilot" >phase in the US -- schools that do it are watched with curiosity to see if >there are tangible advantages. My understanding is that these schools >loosely follow a 10 weeks on, 3 weeks off calendar, 12 months a year. > >Interestingly, in my mom's schooling days (in the 1930's and 40's), children >could enter in either September *or* January, depending on when they turned >five. There were thus two sets of classes run concurrently, and high school >students could graduate in either June or December. I don't think this >exists anywhere in the US anymore though. > >Educational (ha!) discussion! :) > >Kathy rbain@uswest.net There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:51:59 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Becky Bain Subject: Re: Looking for a fanfic In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Jackie said: >I am looking for a fanfic that has Lois trapped in a snowstorm and >taken to a cave... That's one of Tank's, for sure. No idea what the title is, though. Becky rbain@uswest.net There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:44:18 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Tim Porter Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 6: Mori a Amor by Wendy and Tank how 'bout the extracts? Extract 2: Threats For Clark by Chiara Prato Extract 3: Basketball- A Lois and Clark Valentine by Alicia U. Extract 5: The One That Got Away by Kathy Extract 7: Maggie by Tara how was that? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:47:21 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Tim Porter Subject: Re: Looking for a fanfic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Actually, isn't this 'The Fugitive' by Mobile Richard tim ----- Original Message ----- From: Becky Bain To: Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 7:51 PM Subject: Re: Looking for a fanfic > Jackie said: > >I am looking for a fanfic that has Lois trapped in a snowstorm and > >taken to a cave... > > That's one of Tank's, for sure. No idea what the title is, though. > > Becky > > rbain@uswest.net > > There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that > reflects it. > - Edith Wharton > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:46:55 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Adam Labotka Subject: Re: Looking for a fanfic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sounds like The Fugitive by Richard Mobile ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:59:51 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Becky Bain Subject: Re: Looking for a fanfic In-Reply-To: <000d01c0880b$79780360$987e0641@sandia1.nm.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Tim said: >Actually, isn't this 'The Fugitive' by Mobile Richard Augh! You're right! This is what I get for not paying attention. Thanks for setting me straight! Becky rbain@uswest.net There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:01:58 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Tim Porter Subject: Re: Looking for a fanfic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Becky, no problem... I'm was just happy I recognized a story ----- Original Message ----- From: Becky Bain To: Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 7:59 PM Subject: Re: Looking for a fanfic > Tim said: > >Actually, isn't this 'The Fugitive' by Mobile Richard > > Augh! You're right! This is what I get for not paying attention. > > Thanks for setting me straight! > > Becky > > rbain@uswest.net > > There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that > reflects it. > - Edith Wharton > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:30:57 +1100 Reply-To: Patricia Walpole Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Patricia Walpole Subject: Re: Foxtel's offerings for February MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jen Thanks for the information. I thought I'd let you and other Aussies know that Season 2 episodes of Lois & Clark commence on Optus Vision on 2nd February. They will air every Friday 9.30pm on Channel 8. Tricia ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:02:52 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Diyan Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I was rather proud of myself that I got more than half of these on the first try without having to look up titles or authors :) * * s p o i l e r s p a c e * * Quote 1: "I was the one who never got to use the bedroom!" * Erin's fanzine story, "HiM: the Video" Quote 2: "Lois, don't worry. Superman is there to look out for me. I won't take any undue risks." * Chiara's "Threats for Clark" Quote 3: "Even though I want to play you man-to-man." * Alicia's "Basketball - A Lois and Clark Valentine" Quote 4: "I felt you really needed to understand what happened to you--why you weren't willing to be in love with Clark, in this life." * klair El's "Dances With Wells" Quote 5: "I never said she was my girl." * Kathy=92s fanzine story "The One That Got Away" I love this story :) Quote 6: "An anti-perspirant?" * a Tank and Wendy challenge fic, "Mori a Amor" Quote 7: "I guess I should say from Krypton by way of California." * Tara's "Maggie" Took me a while to think of this one. Was it only this past year that it was published? And since I had this neat idea a quiz and a half ago to remind my co- participants in this quiz game of my favorite stories that didn=92t fit in the quiz... Nan=92s "Home," a fascinating story that tugged at many of our imaginations,= and which was the genesis of the wonderful Home series, is eligible in this category this year. -Dia (yay! I finally got a perfect score. I think.) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:31:44 +0900 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Liz O Subject: A Question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Could you help please? In the TV series is it known that Clark was adopted by the Kents or is he presumed to be their natural child by the general populace? I know in the comics the Kents were snowed in after he was found and so they said Martha had given birth during the storm although in the old version he was adopted and known to be so. I don't know what Kansas weather is like but given he was found in May 1966 and there was no snow in Schuster's field at the time, I doubt that the snowstorm story would work. Thanks. Liz O ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:58:32 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jo March Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii * * S P O I L E R S P A C E * * Quotes: 1 Umm. 2 Nope. 3 Aha! Basketball- A Lois and Clark Valentine, by Alicia U. (peeked at the archives) 4 Haven't read this one. 5 Uh… 6 Hurrah! One I DO know: Mori a Amor, by Tank and Wendy. Phew! ;) 7 Well, at least I knew some... Extracts 1 HiM: the Video - Erin Kingler. Fanzine story 2 I *know* I've read this! 4 Sounds very nice, but... 5 The One Who Got Away, by Kathy Brown. Lovely story! Recognized it from the first line, too. ;) 7 Tara Smith's Maggie (and I haven't even read the story yet ;)). Well, there you go, Wendy. :D And I did a lot better than I thought I would, too. (Is zero a score?) Thanks Wendy and Hazel, for the great quizzes, and for reminding us of some of the wonderful stories out there. JoMarch (off to catch up on her reading) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 05:56:21 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Alexis W." Subject: Re: A Question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/27/01 2:32:31 AM EST, lizo@OZEMAIL.COM.AU writes: << Could you help please? In the TV series is it known that Clark was adopted by the Kents or is he presumed to be their natural child by the general populace? >> I'm not sure about the general populace, but I know Lois found out Clark was adopted in the 2nd ep of the LNC series, which i think was called, "Strange Vistor, from Another Planet." Anyway, I think the rest of the people in the Daily Planet thought the Kents were his natural parents but I could be wrong. Alexis ;-.) "What we've got here is an example of human evolution: 'before and after.' Clark is the 'before' and Superman is the 'after.' [Lois looks at Clark walking over.] Make that: way, way after." (Lois) {LnC, Neverending Battle} ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:34:00 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Ren Carr Subject: Re: A Question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I do know that their neighbor the Farmer who helped the Kent's hide the spaceship knew that Clark was adopted. And in the comic creation of Superman, the Kent's told everyone that Clark was her a deceased family relative's son, and there were no surviving family member's to take Clark except her and Jonathan. So, most of the people in Smallville, knew that Clark was adopted. Ren ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:18:56 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: lcfic Subject: Message Board Index Update through January 26 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi FoLCs! Lots of new story parts and a couple of new stories this week on Zoom's message board! Links at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Meteor/7378/lnc.html New part(s) posted: THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN: WENDY RICHARDS THE EXODUS:TANK ENDING THANATOS FLIGHT: BUMPKIN (AKA MARNIE ROWE) FUGUE: SHAYNE TERRY HOME IV: HONEYMOON: NAN SMITH THE LONG WAY HOME: CHRISH A NEW BEGINNING:PROLOGUE PINTOFOLC PURITY: YVONNE CONNELL STRANGERS II: RAGGIEMOM (AKA MISSY) Completed stories this week: none New stories this week: DOOMSDAY: WELTY69 (AKA NATHAN) LUCKY, LUCKY LADY: BRENDA Added to the Archive this week: Time Elapsed by Amy Lauters Enjoy! Dawn & the Index Crew __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:01:12 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Kerth Quiz 9 (Vignette): Answers and Scores MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Another good crop of entries for the Vignette quiz: well done to everyone who entered! As before, can I remind you that the eleven stories selected for this quiz are not by any means the only stories eligible in this category (and more especially so since, as Kathy pointed out, I missed out Short Story! The answers to that quiz will be posted later, to give anyone else who wants a chance to pariticipate). If your favourite Vignette/Short Story wasn't represented in either quiz, PLEASE feel free to nominate it! Okay, and the answers are: 1 - A TOGOM Vignette - Yet Another Version, by Tank Wilson 2 - Always Hang Up Your Clothes, by Becky Kuesters 3 - Atom Bomb Lane, by Jessi Mounts 4 - Clark.doc, by Supermom 5 - A Valentine=92s Rendezvous, by Wendy Richards 6 - Yesterday=92s News, by Tracey 7 - Private Grief, by Pam Jernigan 8 - Tie Story, by Chris Carr 9 - Valentine Expectations, by Gerry Anklewicz 10 - Invisible or Fly? by Wendy Richards 11 - Revelation Reaction, by Chris Carr And the scores are as follows: Marilyn: a valiant 2 points for recognising her own fic from the *quote* this time! Adam: a very competent 15 points Randi: a brave 3.5 points Tim: a very good 16 points Anne: a near-excellent 20 points, and second place. Anne identified every single story. Well done! Dia: doing very well on 17 points Helene: a competent 12 points Kylie: 6 points, not at all a bad score for your first attempt. And welcome to the list! Tracey: just beats Helene with 13 points Bethy: a very good 18 points, and third place And the winner is Kraz, with a perfect 22 points! Well done! :) Hazel, you're next, once I put up the Short Story answers. Looking forward to seeing what you have in store for us next! Wendy ----------- Wendy Richards wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:23:26 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Marilyn L. Puett" Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY OK.....this just might knock me out of my position as "Low Scorer" on these quizzes, but here goes: S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: HIM: The Video by Erin Klingler Quote 6: Oops, Did I Forget to Mention by Tank and Wendy ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:27:53 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kylie Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY Here is my entry to this quiz. See, I didn't forget the spolier space this time! S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: Is this HiM- The Video by Erin Klinger? Quote 2: Threats for Clark, Chiara Prato. Definately the easiest one of the lot! Quote 6: Erm, I know this one. Oh yes, it is Mori a Amor, by Wendy Richards and Tank Wilson. Extract 7: I think it is Maggie, by Tara Smith. So how did I do? Kylie :) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:29:12 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Chiara P Subject: R: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 2: "Lois, don't worry. Superman is there to look out for me. I won't take any undue risks." Ok.. I know this is cheat.. but this is mine Threats for Clark ... but Honestly I didn't guessed someone remebered this one! ^_^ Chiara ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:00:50 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kylie Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY I just remembered another one! Labby said that it would be okay for me to add a little note saying I knew it. S P O I L E R S P A C E. Quote 4: Dances With Wells, by Klair El. Kylie :) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:08:06 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Natascha Kortum Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Ok, I had to try... :) >S >P >O >I >L >E >R > >S >P >A >C >E > > > >Quote 1: HiM-The video by Erin Klingner >Quote 2: Chiara's Threats for Clark >Quote 3: Basketball- A Lois and Clark Valentine by Alicia >Quote 5: The One That Got Away by Kathy >Quote 6: Wendy and Tank's story... Mori a amor >Extract 4: Klair El's Dances with Wells >Extract 7: Tara's Maggie Natascha (a detective after all?) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:02:58 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: StarKitty Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: SHORT STORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, I'll chop out the unessential parts Wendy S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 7: "I guess I should say from Krypton by way of California." This is the only one I recognized. I wrote this one. It's called Maggie. Pathetic, isn't it? I guess I'll have a lot of catching up to do after I finish Cat's Paw (which I've been working on today and have gotten a whole bunch done on I'm not going to resume posting 'til I finish it, though, which shouldn't take too long). Tara ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:58:23 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Kerth Quiz 9.5: Short Story - Answers and Scores Well done to everyone who participated in this mini-quiz! As usual, can I remind everyone that the stories here are merely a sample of what's available for nomination in this category. As Dia reminded us, around HALF of this year's eligible stories are under 50KB! So if your personal favourites were not included in this quizlet, that doesn't stop you nominating them! :) Hope this quiz helped to remind you of one or two stories you may have forgotten, or prompted you into remembering other stories which weren't selected here. The ANSWERS to this quiz are: 1 - HiM: The Video, by Erin Klingler 2 - Threats for Clark, by Chiara Prato 3 - Basketball, by AliciaU 4 - Dances with Wells, by Klair El 5 - The One That Got Away, by Kathy Brown 6 - Mori A Amor, by Tank Wilson and Wendy Richards 7 - Maggie, by Tara Smith And the scores: Anne gets 6 points Helene gets 9 points Adam comes third with 11 points Bethy joins Helene on 9 points Tim gets 6 points Jo gets 7 points Marilyn gets 3 points - hey, an improvement on the last one! ;) Kylie joins Helene and Bethy on 9 points Tasha comes second with 12 points (So all that Archive hunting paid off? You found every story!) Tara brings up the rear with a valiant 2 points. And Dia wins with a perfect 14 points! Congratulations! Over to you, Hazel! :) Wendy ---------- Wendy Richards wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:05:39 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: Short Story - Answers and Scores Chiara, I'm sorry; I missed your post! I read from the web archive, and your responses don't come in under the main thread. Instead, they appear under (in this case) 'R: Kerth Quiz 9.5: Short Stories'. Anyway, you join Tara on 2 points, and I'm delighted that you both recognised your own stories. :) It's not unheard of for writers to FAIL to recognise their own work... is it, LabRat, Marilyn, Pam and one or two others? Wendy ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:25:51 +0200 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Hazel Subject: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Well. After Wendy went and posted not one, but two quizzes over the weekend -- *and* posted the answers before I even got a chance to see them... Kerth Quiz #10: BEST DRAMA Yet another highly subjective category. At least with the revelation category, it's obvious. :) Drama includes angst, powerful emotions, desperate situations... Edge-of-your-seat, don't-stop-to-breathe until you get to the end of the story. I think that the stories included in this quiz qualify for that description; you may agree, or may not. Don't let me stop you from making your own choices! I applaud and encourage Dia's new habit of adding recommendations of her own -- oh, and thanks for the plug. :) Spiffy Disclaimer Thingy: All the fics in this quiz qualify for Best Drama: that is, these stories include dramatic situations and were uploaded to the archive in the year 2000. HOWEVER, please note that any inclusion or exclusion of a story should not be construed as a recommendation or otherwise. Additional reminder: Inclusion of a story in this quiz does *not* exclude that story from any other category. Nominating a story in multiple categories is perfectly legal. Story 3 and 10 can be included in Best Alt Universe, Story 7 could go in Best Episode Rewrite, Story 9 in SuperFutures... You get the idea. :) Quiz rules: Open hard drive and archive. When submitting your reply, please let us know if you got the fic from the quote (worth two points) or the excerpt (worth one point). If you don't give me any indication, I will automatically assume that you got it from the excerpt. And DON'T forget the spoiler space! (I've included it in both places this time to make everyone happy... And for the record, it's included between the quotes and excerpts so that a person can concentrate on the quotes without being "spoiled" by the excerpts.) When replying, please snip the quoted excerpts! Quote 1: "Did you get the virus into the Daily Planet computers or not?" Quote 2: "You see before you SuperLex." Quote 3: "You worked for the Planet and you disappeared; that interests me. Just as I'm interested in, why, after four years, you show up in my dad's barn." Quote 4: "So, you are the infamous Jane Doe? And you can guarantee to kill Superman?" Quote 5: "So, yeah, they need Superman to make 'the ultimate sacrifice,' as they put it - to give his life for the lives of the whole world." Quote 6: "Oh, and you think I'm in love with you because you can see?" Quote 7: "Maybe you're the lucky one in all of this. With what's coming...if you can't remember how it was...how will you miss it?" Quote 8: "Luthor, Lex, whatever. He's your husband, Lois, and I... I couldn't do this." Quote 9: "Lois Lane doesn't turn tail and run from any mountain even if it happens to have its very own resident fire god." Quote 10: "Clark, I was just telling your friend how much she looks like Lois L-" S P O I L E R S P A C E Excerpt 1: He knew that a fever could mean an infection, and, judging from how haphazardly the nasty gash on her thigh had been attended to, he suspected it could be the cause. And if it was, he knew that she was going to need some antibiotics and immediate medical attention. Or maybe the fever was a reaction to medication she'd been given while she was unconscious, and she was starting to show a severe reaction toward it.... Quickly he shook his head, trying to push the thought out of his head. That was definitely a possibility he didn't want to consider. Leaning his head back against the wall, he closed his own eyes wearily. It had been a long day, and Lois wasn't the only one who was starting to feel the effects of Trask's treatment. His own ribs ached and his cheek and jaw were sore from where he'd been punched during his interrogation sessions. His stomach rumbled from the unfamiliar pang of hunger, and he still felt the slow, dull ache from the effects of the Kryptonite in his system. He was definitely going to have to see Dr. Klein as soon after their escape as possible to see if he could counteract the effects of the injection. Surely Dr. Klein could figure out something that would help his system return to normal. Excerpt 2: Luthor was upright and floating in front of him again within seconds, breathing heavily. But something caught Clark's eye... a flash of deep red. The back of Luthor's left hand was bleeding, from several gouges. Clark glanced swiftly down at his own hand, and immediately noticed the traces of blood and skin under his fingernails. But... if Luthor was invulnerable, no matter how strong he himself was, he shouldn't be able to gouge lumps out of Luthor's flesh.... Unless.... Clark caught his breath in wonder. Unless the power transfer wasn't permanent... unless Luthor's powers were fading! Even as he watched, he saw Luthor follow his gaze and see the injury to his hand and wrist, the blood flowing fast and freely from what must have been an artery. The former head of LexCorp stared in disbelief. "What the...? How is this possible...?" "If my guess is right, you're losing your powers," Clark called to him. "I don't think this is the safest place for you to be - " "Then I have to kill you *now!*" Luthor yelled, propelling himself at Clark again. Even as Clark fought his attacker off, his mind was whirling in disbelief. Luthor had to be insane. The man seemed to be losing his powers - his invulnerability was already going, so who knew how long his control over gravity would last? And yet, instead of getting himself to land and safety, he'd decided to make one last-ditch attack on Superman. Excerpt 3: "Trask, do you mind if I take that gun?" Zara asked. "I'd like to make sure that we don't have any trouble getting these people back where they belong." Trask looked at her, his reluctance to part with his revolver clear in his narrowed eyes and the way in which he pulled the gun a little closer to his body. Ching spoke up. "Trask, we need to secure these criminals if we're to get them safely back to New Krypton. We don't want to take any chances." Wordlessly, Trask handed Ching his gun. "Thank you. Once we've got our prisoners safely on board, we'll return here for Trey and the Elders," he said. After they left, Lois turned to Trask. "You didn't kill him." After all his rants and his paranoia about aliens, she had been surprised. "My mistake. It was tricky with Zara there. But it was a lousy shot. Better put in some range time next week," Trask responded. His eyes swept over Clark's apartment, at the smashed lamp, the singed sofa, the upended table, the two broken chairs, and the numerous holes in the plaster. "This must've been some fight," he said wistfully. "Yeah," Lois looked at the shambles. "Guess Clark's gonna lose his deposit." Excerpt 4: Several hours had passed and a very stiff, sore, and emotionally drained Lois watched as Jane rummaged through the cabinets looking for more food to eat while she waited. Lois had listened in horror as she heard her own voice betray the man she loved. Jane had only asked a few pointed questions and Lois, in her drug induced stupor, had happily obliged with the answers. Jane now knew the time, and place, of her intended meeting with Clark tonight. Unfortunately, she also knew that they had planned to meet to discuss things before planning to meet up with Henderson and his men for the raid. That meant that Clark would be alone when he arrived at their rendezvous. The only positive was that Jane hadn't asked Lois any questions which would reveal her real relationship with Superman, or that he was really award winning journalist, and her husband, Clark Kent. "You know, Lois, this has been fun." Jane squatted down in front of Lois, and casually looked at her watch. "But I really must be going if I'm to keep your date with Superman. I'll be sure to tell him that you've been unavoidably detained... forever." Jane patted Lois on the cheek. "Now I could shoot you right now, but where's the fun in that. It's obvious to me from our little conversations that you care a great deal about Superman." She smiled her shark like smile. Heck, Lois, you even impersonated me in order to save him." Excerpt 5: He barely heard the explosion as he tumbled through the other side, spinning through space, now completely out of control. He'd done it, he thought wearily; he'd been sufficiently alert as he'd flown to realise that he had managed to smash the meteor into small enough parts, and once he'd weakened its structure the explosives would have completed the task. He was vaguely conscious of objects passing him so fast that they were merely blurs... but that couldn't be true, he couldn't possibly be travelling that fast, even with his powers at full strength he wasn't capable of flying at near light-speed. He could break the sound barrier, he'd done that many times, but this was impossible. No, it was the effect of the Kryptonite. He could feel it coursing through his body; he ached fiercely all over, and yet the pain was not as extreme as he'd been expecting. Perhaps that was because he'd never been affected in space before? He didn't seem to be feeling the cold as much as he'd expected either... but perhaps that was because Kryptonite frequently made him feverish. That was it; he was feverish and that was keeping him warm. It had to be a fever; he was delirious. That was the only way he could explain planets and satellites passing him so fast he could barely see them. He was delirious... losing consciousness... this was it, he was dying, he thought almost abstractedly, as if it was happening to someone else. His world went black. Excerpt 6: Clark broke into another string of violent coughs. Jimmy looked worriedly at his boss. "He's been coughing like that since we found him, Chief. I don't know what's wrong." "Jimmy," Clark half-choked over the name. "I need Dr. Klein." He wheezed and coughed furiously until his face had turned a deep red. "Jimmy, get on the phone to S.T.A.R. Labs, now," Perry said. He held Clark's shoulders as the coughing subsided once more, leaving him gasping for breath. "What's all this green stuff in your hair, Clark? Looks to me like you got sprayed with some kind of chemical." Clark nodded, eyes closed. He took a deep, whistling breath. "They took Lois." Jimmy winced at the bitter defeat he heard in his friend's voice. "I couldn't stop them. I couldn't..." Perry leaned forward and looked hard at Clark's face. "What's the matter with your eyes, Clark? Did you get some of it in them?" Again Clark nodded. Perry waved a hand in front of the other man's eyes and Jimmy saw his editor's face go noticeably paler. "You can't see, can you?" "No," Clark said. His voice was trembling. "I can't." Excerpt 7: "I...I remember just last week I saw one stuck on the third story ledge of an apartment building. Goodness knows how he made it up there, but that little guy was pretty scared by the time I spotted him. Only took a minute to fly up an' get him though...he clung onto my arm with his claws all the way down to the street and when I took him to the animal shelter -- " Lost in the unspooling memory now, he wasn't watching his partner at all any more. Had he been, he would have been silenced by her suddenly round-eyed expression. The cookie she'd been delicately nibbling at was frozen at her lips, oatmeal slowly melting, unheeded, on her tongue. She remembered that cat. It had been a slow news day and a couple of the dailies had picked up the rescue as a page four, human-interest story. She had carefully cut out the three-quarter-page photo that had accompanied the two paragraphs of copy as a cute addition to her scrapbook. The Superhero intent on the cat, barely noticing the camera's attention as he cradled the wet and bedraggled little urchin of an animal gently against his chest with as much care as he'd have taken with a child. The same care he took with her, she'd remembered with a wistful smile as she'd pasted it carefully into the book, when he took her flying with him. Superman. Had Rescued. That. Cat. Ohmi...*God*, she thought, the exclamation gibbering in her head as realization struck her. He thinks he's Superman now! She recalled the department shrink at the police precinct talking about how her partner was suffering from Superman Complex, but no way had she thought the woman meant it this literally! Excerpt 8: Clark released a tired sigh, then turned to Lois. "Thank you. For protecting... my identity." "Why did he seem so surprised that you got an exclusive? And, by the way, why didn't you make front page with this one?" "Oh! Well... I don't do front page stories any more." His tone was matter-of-fact, but Lois recognised the signs of a sensitive topic beneath his answer. "You don't?" "Jerome Kane doesn't, no." Lois observed the way he almost flinched as he said the name he'd taken on for this job, and she hooked her arm through his, dragging him towards the awaiting elevators. "Come on, Kane. We'll get this sorted out. I'll make an award-winning reporter out of you." As Clark let himself be pulled by Lois, he became aware that his main fear as he'd heard Marc's voice behind them had been that she'd refuse to call him Jerome and reveal his real identity. But he should have trusted Lois to understand, he now realised; she'd certainly been a great help back there, coming up with explanations when he'd started to talk gibberish and could have awakened his friend's suspicions. Why did it seem so complicated to keep to the pretence all of a sudden? He'd carried on this masquerade for four months now, without ever having to think twice about watching his words, the only topic he forbade himself to raise being his life as Clark. But Lois showing up in his life was resurrecting loads of memories linked to his real self, and since last night, he'd felt himself relive them. For the first time in six months, he'd felt very much alive. He'd become Clark Kent again. Excerpt 9: As Clara's stumbling explanation drew to a halt, an exasperated Clark swung away from his troubled daughter. The child's eyes followed his worried perambulations, watching anxiously as her father's hands combed through his hair, ruining his earlier attempt to muss his hair onto his forehead, hoping to look less like his alter-ego. Though, truthfully, that had been a somewhat unnecessary operation. Wan-faced and bruised as he was, no one was about to connect the two men. Returning to face Clara, having gathered his tumultuous emotions under some manner of control, he continued his rant. "So, in the midst of a volcanic eruption, Lo . . . . your mother," he couldn't quite bring himself to say her name at this moment, "has gone off to do a spot of gardening, not only unheeding of her own safety but taking your brothers along with her." "Yes, Dad! But she didn't know that Joel and Julian had tagged along," Clara explained helpfully. "That was all their idea." "Why doesn't that surprise me?" Clark rolled his eyes as he spoke. "You kids are too much like your mother for your own good!" Excerpt 10: "Lois, you *know* that's not true," he said fiercely, and felt her flinch. "You know it's just a pack of lies," he said more gently, although his heart was cold. "He's just trying to play on your insecurities." "I know. And I know we've talked about this before. But, Clark, the truth is I *don't* know what I did, because I can't remember. What if he's right?" Her voice was beginning to quaver, and he knew she was only seconds from tears. He swallowed past the sudden lump in his own throat, and moved away from her so that he could look directly into her eyes. Cupping her face gently in his hands, he told her, "He's not right, Lois. Whatever he says, you don't believe it. Whatever he makes other people say, you don't believe it. He's an evil, sadistic bully, and he'll tell you anything he wants if he thinks it will hurt you. So you don't believe him. OK?" But her face crumpled as he watched, and as he drew her back to his chest, the tears came. "He kept calling me Wanda," she said in a small voice. "Lois..." The lump in his throat was back, and he couldn't do more than merely hold her while she cried tears of fright and hurt; the same emotions he was experiencing himself now that the white heat of fury had dissipated. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:27:46 +0200 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Hazel Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010125155407.00a9f5e0@actcom.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 11:25 AM 28/01/01 +0200, I wrote: >I've included it in both places this time to make everyone >happy... Okay, so I didn't. Next time, okay? Hazel _______ "Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble!" ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 04:31:27 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Adam Labotka Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 2: When Lightning Strike Twice by Wendy Richards Quote 3: Conections: An Alternate Story by Carol malo Quote 5: For the Greater Good by Wendy Richards Quote 7: Are You Lonesome Tonight by Labrat Quote 8: Near Wild Hevean - Half a World Away by Kaethel (Helene) Quote 9: Red Sky by Jenni Debbage Excerpt 4: A Matter of Confidence by Tank Wilson Excerpt 10: Fear of Discovery III: Coming Home by Yvonne Connell ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 06:25:28 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA Another great quiz, Hazel, and some definite surprises in here! Oh, sorry about the two quizzes! You'll have seen I forgot the Short Story part of the category, and had to make up for it. And I wanted to post the answers so you could go ahead with this quiz this morning. ;) s p o i l e r s p a c e Quote 1: Darkest Hour, by Erin Klingler Quote 2: When Lightning Strikes Twice, by me. Quote 3: the *fantastic* Connections, by Carol Malo Quote 4: A Matter of Confidence, by Tank Wilson Quote 5: For the Greater Good, by me *Extract* 6: Blind Man's Buff, by Nan Smith Quote 7: Are You Lonesome Tonight? by LabRat Quote 8: Near Wild Heaven, by Kaethel Quote 9: Red Sky, by Jenni Debbage Quote 10: Fear of Discovery III: Coming Home, by Yvonne Connell. Howzat! (to use another sports metaphor! ) Wendy ---------- Wendy Richards wendy@kingsmeadowcr.freeserve.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:59:57 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kaethel Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S p o i l e r S p a c e > Quote 1: > > "Did you get the virus into the Daily Planet computers or not?" The Darkest Hour (Before the Dawn), by Erin Klingler. > Quote 2: > > "You see before you SuperLex." Easy! When Lightning Strikes Twice, by Wendy Richards. > Quote 3: > > "You worked for the Planet and you disappeared; that interests me. Just as > I'm interested in, why, after four years, you show up in my dad's barn." Connections, by Carol Malo. > Quote 4: > > "So, you are the infamous Jane Doe? And you can guarantee to kill Superman?" Darn, everything was going smoothly till now but... All right, spent 40 minutes perusing the archive, but nope, can't find it. :/ > Quote 5: > > "So, yeah, they need Superman to make 'the ultimate sacrifice,' as they put > it - to give his life for the lives of the whole world." For the Greater Good, by Wendy Richards. > Quote 6: > > "Oh, and you think I'm in love with you because you can see?" Taking a guess... Gale Force Winds, by Irene Dutchak. > Quote 7: > > "Maybe you're the lucky one in all of this. With what's coming...if you > can't remember how it was...how will you miss it?" Are You Lonesome, Tonight...?, by LabRat. > Quote 8: > > "Luthor, Lex, whatever. He's your husband, Lois, and I... I couldn't do this." Near Wild Heaven - Half a World Away, by me, Kaethel. > Quote 9: > > "Lois Lane doesn't turn tail and run from any mountain even if it happens > to have its very own resident fire god." Red Sky, by Jenni Debbage. > Quote 10: > > "Clark, I was just telling your friend how much she looks like Lois L-" Fear of Discovery III, by Yvonne Connell. > Excerpt 4: Nope, I haven't read this yet. Ah well... Helene :) Kaethel@club-internet.fr ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 05:17:22 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I think I can give this one a try. S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: The Darkest Hour by Erin Klingler Quote 2: When Lightning Strikes Twice by 'Super' Wendy Richards (g) Quote 3: Connections by Carol Malo Quote 4: A Matter of Confidence by Tank Wilson Quote 5: For the Greater Good by Wendy Richards Quote 6: I don't know. I'll have to check the excerpt. Quote 7: Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Doc Klein's Labrat Quote 8: This sounds like it's possibly Near Wild Heaven by Kaethel Quote 9: Red Sky by Jenni Debbage Quote 10: Hmmm, this could be Yvonne Connell's Fear of Discovery III Excerpt 6: Aha! Blind Man's Bluff by Nan Smith Great choices, Hazel! Irene ===== www.originalequestrianmusic.bigstep.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:35:13 -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: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alright, let's give it a try, kids permitting ;) s p o i l e r s p a c e > Quote 1: > > "Did you get the virus into the Daily Planet computers or not?" Gotta be "The Darkest Hour (Before the Dawn)" by Erin Klingler > Quote 2: > > "You see before you SuperLex." "When Lightning Strikes Twice" by Wendy > Quote 3: > > "You worked for the Planet and you disappeared; that interests me. Just as > I'm interested in, why, after four years, you show up in my dad's barn." Gotta be "Connections," by Carol Malo > Quote 4: > > "So, you are the infamous Jane Doe? And you can guarantee to kill Superman?" umm... > Quote 5: > > "So, yeah, they need Superman to make 'the ultimate sacrifice,' as they put > it - to give his life for the lives of the whole world." "For the Greater Good" by Wendy > Quote 6: > > "Oh, and you think I'm in love with you because you can see?" Umm... I'm guessing someone went blind but my mind is blank ... unless it's Gale Force Winds, by Irene D. > Quote 7: > > "Maybe you're the lucky one in all of this. With what's coming...if you > can't remember how it was...how will you miss it?" Could be a number of stories but I'm betting it's the fabulous "Are you Lonesome Tonight" by LabRat > Quote 8: > > "Luthor, Lex, whatever. He's your husband, Lois, and I... I couldn't do this." Not sure > Quote 9: > > "Lois Lane doesn't turn tail and run from any mountain even if it happens > to have its very own resident fire god." sounds intriguing! :) > Quote 10: > > "Clark, I was just telling your friend how much she looks like Lois L-" Ah, gotta be Fear of Discovery, part III, by Yvonne Connell Hey, I did pretty good so far :) > Excerpt 4: > > Several hours had passed and a very stiff, sore, and emotionally drained > Lois watched as Jane rummaged through the cabinets looking for more food to > eat while she waited. I must not have read this. > Excerpt 6: > > Clark broke into another string of violent coughs. Jimmy looked worriedly > at his boss. "He's been coughing like that since we found him, Chief. I > don't know what's wrong." Ah, now I know! Blind Man's Bluff, by Nan Smith > Excerpt 8: > "Jerome Kane doesn't, no." I suspected as much ;) Near Wild Heaven, by Kaethel (Helene) > Excerpt 9: > "Why doesn't that surprise me?" Clark rolled his eyes as he spoke. "You > kids are too much like your mother for your own good!" Must be Red Sky, by Jenni Debbage :) So how'd I do? :) (And thank you for the distraction from my exasperating family! :D ) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:44:23 -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: Kerth Quiz 9.5: Short Story - Answers and Scores MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > It's not unheard of for writers to FAIL to > recognise their own work... is it, LabRat, Marilyn, Pam and one or two > others? Hey! I always recognize my own work (don't I?); I just sometimes fail to recognize my best friend's stuff... it's almost as embarrassing, but not quite! PJ using webmail today ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:09:22 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: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E Q1 - Erin's - Darkest before the Dawn Q2 - This is a Wendy fic! When Lightning Strikes Twice Q3 - No Idea ... Q4 - This one either ... Q5 - This is also a Wendy Fic! - For the Greater Good Q6 - Ummm ... Q7 - Q8 - Maybe Sheila's In the Beginning Q9 - Don't know ... Q10 - Sounds familar ... E3 - Still don't know ... E4 - A Matter of Confidence - Tank Wilson E6 - Still don't know ... E7 - Labby's Lonesome! E8 - Nope not Sheila's ... I'm at a loss ... E9 - Still don't know ... E10 - Yvonne - FoD3 coming Home Anne :) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:16:36 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "C.C. Malo" Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OK - here goes. I should admit that I had to check a few. from the qotes: 1. The Darkest Hour by Erin Klinger 2. When Lightning Strikes Twice by Wendy Richards 4. A Matter of Confidence by Tank Wilson 5. For the Greater Good by Wendy Richards 7. Lonesome Tonight by Labrat 9. Red Sky by Jenni Debagge >From the excerpts: 3. Connections by C. Malo -- thought the quote looked familiar but I wasn't sure 6. Blind Man's Bluff by Nan Smith 8. Near Wild Heaven by Kaethel 10. Fear of Discovery by Yvonne Connel Thanks, Hazel :) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:51:45 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Marnie Rowe Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Okay I am quite flabergasted because I actually know these ones > S > P > O > I > L > E > R > > S > P > A > C > E > > Quote 1: > > "Did you get the virus into the Daily Planet computers or not?" > This is Erin's Darkest Hour > Quote 2: > > "You see before you SuperLex." > This is Wendy's When Lightning Strikes Twice.. > Quote 3: > > "You worked for the Planet and you disappeared; that interests me. Just as > I'm interested in, why, after four years, you show up in my dad's barn." > Ok well this one I do not think that I have read, but I want to... > Quote 4: > > "So, you are the infamous Jane Doe? And you can guarantee to kill Superman?" > OH!!! darn it, Lois pretends to be a hired killer after finding out who the real one was but ooh but the title and author escape me at the moment.. > Quote 5: > > "So, yeah, they need Superman to make 'the ultimate sacrifice,' as they put > it - to give his life for the lives of the whole world." > Another of Wendy's, For the Greater Good, which was one heck of a premise... > Quote 6: > > "Oh, and you think I'm in love with you because you can see?" > I am going to have to go to the exerpt for this one cause I have two possibles in mind... > Quote 7: > > "Maybe you're the lucky one in all of this. With what's coming...if you > can't remember how it was...how will you miss it?" > This is Labby's Lonesome Tonight...great fic :) > Quote 8: > > "Luthor, Lex, whatever. He's your husband, Lois, and I... I couldn't do this." > Helene's Near Wild Heaven > Quote 9: > > "Lois Lane doesn't turn tail and run from any mountain even if it happens > to have its very own resident fire god." > Jenni Debbages(sp?) brb gotta look up a title ok Red Sky :) > Quote 10: > > "Clark, I was just telling your friend how much she looks like Lois L-" > And this is Yvonne Connel's FoD series, Part 3 I beleive And now to the Excerpts; Excerpt 6: Is Blind Man's Bluff by Nan Smith... :) there the one that I felt somewhat confident about, guess that tells me what my favorite type of fic to read is... :P Marnie ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:12:01 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Amy Lauters Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I love dramas. I think I might do all right with these ... S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: Erin's wonderful "Darkest Hour" Quote 2: Wendy's heart-stopping "When Lightning Strikes Twice" Quote 3: Ummm... Quote 4: Hmmmm.... Quote 5: Wendy again, "For the Greater Good", a three-box-of-Kleenex story Quote 6: Ringing a little bell Quote 7: I think it's LabRat's "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" Quote 8: Sheila Harper's "In the Beginning" ? Quote 9: Jenni Debbage's terrifying "Red Sky" Quote 10: Yvonne's "FOD III" Excerpt 3: I really don't remember if I read this one. Sounds good, though! Excerpt 4: I know I haven't read this one. Excerpt 6: Ding-a-ling ... no answer. Excerpt 8: Ouch. I'm completely wrong, I think. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:09:01 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "MoesyL47 L." Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit These were great! Thank you, Hazel and Wendy, for providing these quizzes. I don't always have time to participate (or remember titles/authors well enough), but I'm really enjoying them. S P O I L E R S P A C E Excerpt 1: 'Darkest Hour,' by Erin Klingler Quote 2: 'When Lightning Strikes Twice,' by Wendy Richards Quote 3: 'Connections,' by Carol Malo Quote 4: 'A Matter of Confidence,' by Tank Wilson Quote 5: 'For the Greater Good,' by Wendy Richards Excerpt 6: 'Blind Man's Bluff,' by Nan Smith Quote 7: 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?' by LabRat Quote 8: 'Near Wild Heaven,' by Kaethel Quote 9: 'Red Sky,' by Jenni Debbage Excerpt 10: 'Fear of Discovery III,' by Yvonne Connell ****************** Maureen ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 09:05:03 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Tim Porter Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E > > Quote 1: The Darkest Hour (Before the Dawn) by Erin Klingler > > Quote 2: When Lightning Strikes Twice by Wendy Richards > > Quote 3: Connections: An Alternate Story by Carol Malo > > Quote 4: Sounds familiar... > > Quote 5: For the Greater Good by Wendy Richards > > Quote 6: Blind Man's Bluff by Nan Smith > > Quote 7: Are You Lonesome Tonight? by LabRat > > Quote 8: Near Wild Heaven - Half a World Away by Kaethel > > Quote 9: Red Sky by Jenni Debbage > > Quote 10: Fear of Discovery III: Coming Home by Yvonne Connell ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:23:35 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Nancy Smith Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hazel wrote: > Well. After Wendy went and posted not one, but two quizzes over the weekend > -- *and* posted the answers before I even got a chance to see them... > > Kerth Quiz #10: BEST DRAMA S P O I L E R S P A C E > > > Quote 1: > > "Did you get the virus into the Daily Planet computers or not?" > "The Darkest Hour"--Erin Klingler > Quote 2: > > "You see before you SuperLex." > "When Lightning Strikes Twice"--Wendy Richards > Quote 3: > > "You worked for the Planet and you disappeared; that interests me. Just as > I'm interested in, why, after four years, you show up in my dad's barn." > "Connections"--Carol Malo > Quote 4: > > "So, you are the infamous Jane Doe? And you can guarantee to kill Superman?" > "A Matter of Confidence"--Tank Wilson > Quote 5: > > "So, yeah, they need Superman to make 'the ultimate sacrifice,' as they put > it - to give his life for the lives of the whole world." > "For The Greater Good"--Wendy Richards > Quote 6: > > "Oh, and you think I'm in love with you because you can see?" > "Blind Man's Bluff"--by me > Quote 7: > > "Maybe you're the lucky one in all of this. With what's coming...if you > can't remember how it was...how will you miss it?" > "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"--Dr. Klein's Labrat > Quote 8: > > "Luthor, Lex, whatever. He's your husband, Lois, and I... I couldn't do this." > "Near Wild Heaven"--Kaethel > Quote 9: > > "Lois Lane doesn't turn tail and run from any mountain even if it happens > to have its very own resident fire god." > "Red Sky"--Jenni Debbage > Quote 10: > > "Clark, I was just telling your friend how much she looks like Lois L-" > "Fear of Discovery III"--Yvonne Connell > How's that? Nan ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:26:49 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kylie Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA Here goes nothing... S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 2: Oh, I know this one and I haven't even read it yet! It's When Lightning Strikes Twice, by Wendy Richards Quote 5: Another Wendy one, For the Greater Good, by Wendy Richards Quote 7: Are You Lonesome Tonight by LabRat Quote 8: Read this a couple of days ago. It's Near Wild Heaven - Half a World Away, by Helene Quote 10: I'd know this one anywhere. Fear of Discovery 3- Coming Home, by Yvonne Connel Extract 4: Had to think about this one, but it's A Matter of Confidence, by Tank Wilson How did I do? Kylie :) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:35:53 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Nancy Smith Subject: Fanfic Recommendation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just wanted to point out the lovely little vignette, "From Me To You", by JoMarch that appeared on the Fanfic Archive last night. This one is short, waffy, and well worth the time it takes to read it. Nan ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:31:34 -0000 Reply-To: LabRat Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: LabRat Organization: LabRat Subject: Fanfic Recommendation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Okay, for all of those who never picked this one up on Zoom's mbs, walk don't run to the Archive and read Kaethel's wonderfully lyrical and exciting story, Near Wild Heaven: Half A World Away. You won't regret it! This is easily one of the best fic to have been produced last year and the fact that Kaethel is writing in a language other than her native French is even more incredible, considering the poetic way in which she weaves her words to produce an incredibly waffy, angsty and sheer adrenaline rush adventure for our heroes. LabRat :) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:31:54 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Marilyn Puett Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz 9.5: Short Story - Answers and Scores Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed WENDY WROTE: It's not unheard of for writers to FAIL to >recognise their own work... is it, LabRat, Marilyn, Pam and one or two >others? Just remember that pobody's nerfect. :P~~~~~~~~~~ And it's not like I didn't tell you up front that I stink at these. But nooooooooooooooo! You just insisted that I HAD to enter! :-) Marilyn _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:41:58 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Bethy Em Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: I'm so sure I read this, but can't remember who it is yet. Quote 2: "When Lightning Strikes Twice" by Wendy Richards Quote 3: "Connections: An Alternate Story" by Carol Malo Quote 4: "A Matter of Confidence" by Tank Wilson Quote 5: "For the Greater Good" by Wendy Richards Quote 6: I feel like I *should* know this. Quote 7: "Are You Lonesome Tonight...?" by LabRat Quote 8: "Near Wild Heaven -- Half a World Away" by Kaethel Quote 9: "Red Sky" by Jenni Debbage Quote 10: "Fear of Discovery III: Coming Home" by Yvonne Connell Excerpt 1: *Now* I remember! "The Darkest Hour (Before the Dawn)" by Erin Klinger. Excerpt 6: As Tempus says, Well, DUH! It was there in my mind -- just hiding. "Blind Man's Bluff" by Nan Smith Bethy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:49:29 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Krazman Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010125155407.00a9f5e0@actcom.co.il> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Okay - these ones popped in my head as well !!! Let's see how I do! S P O I L E R S P A C E Quote 1: "Did you get the virus into the Daily Planet computers or not?" Erin Klingler's "The Darkest Hour (Before The Dawn)" Quote 2: "You see before you SuperLex." Wendy Richards' "When Lightning Strikes Twice" Quote 3: "You worked for the Planet and you disappeared; that interests me. Just as I'm interested in, why, after four years, you show up in my dad's barn." Carol Malo's "Connections : An Alternate Story" Quote 4: "So, you are the infamous Jane Doe? And you can guarantee to kill Superman?" Tank Wilson's "A Matter Of Confidence" Quote 5: "So, yeah, they need Superman to make 'the ultimate sacrifice,' as they put it - to give his life for the lives of the whole world." Wendy Richards' "For The Greater Good" Quote 6: "Oh, and you think I'm in love with you because you can see?" Nan Smith's "Blind Man's Bluff" Quote 7: "Maybe you're the lucky one in all of this. With what's coming...if you can't remember how it was...how will you miss it?" Labrat's "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" Quote 8: "Luthor, Lex, whatever. He's your husband, Lois, and I... I couldn't do this." Kaethel's "Near Wild Heaven - Half A World Away" Quote 9: "Lois Lane doesn't turn tail and run from any mountain even if it happens to have its very own resident fire god." Jenni Debbage's "Red Sky" Quote 10: "Clark, I was just telling your friend how much she looks like Lois L-" Yvonne Connell's "Fear of Discovery III : Coming Home" I think I got all of these - - Kraz ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:15:54 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: annesplace.net Updated 01/28/01 Comments: To: lcnfanfic@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This week's updates are to the PG side once again ... Don't forget if you have fanfic you would like to see featured here, please email me at: amciotola@aol.com. We've added another new author ... Tracey brings to us her wonderful fanfic: Yesterday's New, Is That All I Am, and her wonderful (very 2001 Kerth worthy, in my opinion!) A Love Well Worth The Wait. So if you haven't read these yet, please do so now! Also, welsome to the Writer's Showcase, Carolyn Schnall! Read how this 2000 nKerth nominee got her start in Fanfic. That's all for this week ... Anne :) annesplace.net ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:20:32 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Yael Kfir Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E I think I'm getting the idea.... Extract 2 - Wendy's 'When Lightning Strikes Twice' Quote 3 - Carol Malo's 'Connections' Extract 5 - Wendy again, 'For the Greater Good' Extract 7 - LabRat's something, I can't remember which (only that I really liked it). I'm afraid I'm too lazy to go over her stories in the archive and find out which one is it, there are just so many... Yael. ----------------------- - Oh, god... - Zod. (Superman II) ----------------------- ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:37:25 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Nicole Wolke Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I was so bad in the last quizzes, that I didn't even dared to send them. But I'll try again. S P O L E R S P A C E > Quote 1: > "Did you get the virus into the Daily Planet computers or not?" "The Darkest Hour" by Erin Klinger > Quote 2: > "You see before you SuperLex." "When Lightning Strikes Twice" by Wendy > Quote 3: > "You worked for the Planet and you disappeared; that interests me. Just as > I'm interested in, why, after four years, you show up in my dad's barn." "Connections" by C.C. Malo > Quote 5: > "So, yeah, they need Superman to make 'the ultimate sacrifice,' as they put > it - to give his life for the lives of the whole world." "For the Greater Good" by Wendy > Quote 7: > "Maybe you're the lucky one in all of this. With what's coming...if you > can't remember how it was...how will you miss it?" Labrat's "Are you lonesome tonight" > Quote 8: > "Luthor, Lex, whatever. He's your husband, Lois, and I... I couldn't do this." "Near Wild Heaven - half the world away" by Hélène > Excerpt 10: Yvonne Cornell's "Fear of Discovery 3" -- AKA CKgroupie on IRC/AIM NKWolke@t-online.de Are you always searching for news about Dean Cain? And you don't have enough time to search? Here's your solution: Go to "The Dean Cain News Page" http://members.tripod.de/CKgroupie/index.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:00:43 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Terry S. Horowit" Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010125155407.00a9f5e0@actcom.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Kerth Quiz #10: BEST DRAMA OK, I think I'll actually try this one for real: >S >P >O >I >L >E >R > >S >P >A >C >E Quote 1: Erin Klinger's "Darkest Before the Dawn" >Quote 2: Wendy's "Lightning Always Strikes Twice" >Quote 3: C.C. Malo's "Connections" >Quote 4: Argh, It's by Tank but I can't remember the title... >Quote 5: another Wendy! "For the Greater Good" >Quote 6: not sure >Quote 7: Labrat's "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" >Quote 8: I think this is "Half a Wild World Away" or something like >that but I can't remember the author... >Quote 9: Jenni Debbage's "Red Sky" >Quote 10: hmm, I should know this but I'm not getting it from the quote. > >Excerpt 4: Yep, it's that Tank one but I still don't remember the title! >Excerpt 6: Nan Smith's "Blind Man's Bluff"! I can't believe it >didn't get this before! >Excerpt 8: Still not sure about the name and still don't remember >the author. Sigh... >Excerpt 10: Oh!! Of course. "Fear of Discovery III" by Yvonne Connell. How'd I do? Terry Horowit ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:11:21 -0000 Reply-To: LabRat Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: LabRat Organization: LabRat Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yael wrote: > S > > P > > O > > I > > L > > E > > R > > > S > > P > > A > > C > > E > > > > Extract 7 - LabRat's something, I can't remember which (only that I really liked it). I'm afraid I'm too lazy to go over her stories in the archive and find out which one is it, there are just so many... > Good Lord, Yael - for a moment there you almost made me feel as prolific as Wendy. [g] For a moment... ;) Thanks! LabRat :) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:56:58 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Chiara P Subject: R: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S P O I L E R S P A C E > Quote 2: When Lightning Strike Twice by WENDY! > Quote 5: AGAIN WENDY!! For a greater good! wow > Quote 6: > "Oh, and you think I'm in love with you because you can see?" > Quote 7: :))) LABBY 's are you lonesome tonight :)))))) > Quote 8: HELENE'S!!!! Nea wild heaven!!!!!! > Quote 9: Jenny's Red Sky > Excerpt 1: This is Darkest hours by Erin Klingler ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:04:54 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kaethel Subject: Re: Fanfic Recommendation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey :) Watch Helene blush madly... Thank you, LabRat, for the recommendation, and the very nice compliments. :) As for writing in English, I'm immensely grateful to my wonderful beta-readers and friends for helping me to polish the language, and to every fanfic writer out there for reminding me, on an every day basis, why I love English so much. :) Helene :) (still blushing...) Kaethel@club-internet.fr ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:58:35 +1100 Reply-To: Patricia Walpole Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Patricia Walpole Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10: BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks Hazel and Wendy for the great quizzes. I actually knew most of these. S P O I L E R S P A C E Quotes: 1. The Darkest Hour Erin Elingler 2. When Lightning Strikes Twice Wendy Richards 3. Connections Carol Malo 5. For The Greater Good Wendy Richards 7. Are You Lonesome Tonight? Labrat 8. Near Wild Heaven Kaethel 9. Red Sky Jenni Debagge 10. Fear Of Discovery 3 Yvonne Connell Tricia ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:07:54 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: No Name Available Subject: Re: Fanfic Recommendation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would like to add a recommendation: "Reflections From Space", by Randi Warwick. It's beautiful. :) Mols ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:34:56 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Randi .." Subject: Re: Fanfic Recommendation Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: No Name Available >I would like to add a recommendation: "Reflections From Space", by Randi >Warwick. It's beautiful. :) > *blush* Aw, thanks Mols. :) Randi ================================== "I'm not a praying man. I don't even know if you're up there. But if you are and you can hear me, Save me Superman!" -Homer Simpson =================================== _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:48:34 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jo March Subject: Re: Fanfic Recommendation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thank you, Nan! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou! :D JoMarch (blushing too) > I just wanted to point out the lovely > little vignette, "From Me To You", > by JoMarch that appeared on the Fanfic Archive last > night. This one is > short, waffy, and well worth the time it takes to > read it. > > Nan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:16:45 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: budmayes Subject: Superman, The Movie MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For those of you who enjoyed this movie from '77, it seems that it is = finally coming out on DVD. Like the Supergirl Special Ed, from last year, also with extra footage = added. I'm hoping it has all=20 the extra footage added when it was aired on TV.=20 Source: http://www.fandom.com/superman/ "Superman: The Movie" Re-Release Test Screening Dark Horizons reports that an expanded version of Superman: The Movie = will screen in San Antonio, TX on the weekend of March 23rd. If the test = screening proves successful, Warner Bros. will issue a wide release of = the film as they did with last year`s The Exorcist.=20 =20 I could not find the source for this on the Dark Horizons website http://www.darkhorizons.com per http://www.darkhorizons.com/release.htm the release date is May = 15,01 budmayes ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:39:15 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Dia Stilwell Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 * * s p o i l e r s p a c e * * Quote 1: "Did you get the virus into the Daily Planet computers or not?" * Erin=92s "The Darkest Hour: Before the Dawn" (see, I told you we=92d alway= s remember it after those many hours we spent worrying about it during the days and weeks between posts) Quote 2: "You see before you SuperLex." * Wendy=92s "When Lightning Strikes Twice" Quote 3: "You worked for the Planet and you disappeared; that interests me. Just as I'm interested in, why, after four years, you show up in my dad's barn." * Carol=92s "Connections: An Alternate Story." I love this scene :) Quote 4: "So, you are the infamous Jane Doe? And you can guarantee to kill Superman?" * Tank=92s "A Matter of Confidence" Quote 5: "So, yeah, they need Superman to make 'the ultimate sacrifice,' as they put it - to give his life for the lives of the whole world." * Ah, another one we spent many hours worrying over between posts. Wendy=92s "For the Greater Good" Quote 6: "Oh, and you think I'm in love with you because you can see?" * Nan=92s "Blind Man=92s Bluff" Quote 7: "Maybe you're the lucky one in all of this. With what's coming...if you can't remember how it was...how will you miss it?" * Doc Klein=92s LabRat=92s "Lonesome" er... "Are You Lonesome Tonight...?" Quote 8: "Luthor, Lex, whatever. He's your husband, Lois, and I... I couldn't do this." * Helene=92s "Near Wild Heaven - Half a World Away," which I haven=92t actua= lly read yet, but I figured it would probably be on this quiz, and when I had one quote left... Quote 9: "Lois Lane doesn't turn tail and run from any mountain even if it happens to have its very own resident fire god." * Jenni=92s "Red Sky" a favorite series of mine :) Quote 10: "Clark, I was just telling your friend how much she looks like Lois L-" * Yvonne=92s "Fear of Discovery III: Coming Home" ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:28:26 -0700 Reply-To: erink@ida.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Erin Klingler Subject: Re: Kerth Quiz #10 : BEST DRAMA In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * * s p o i l e r s p a c e * * Dia wrote: >Quote 1: "Did you get the virus into the Daily Planet computers or not?" >* Erin’s "The Darkest Hour: Before the Dawn" (see, I told you we’d always >remember it after those many hours we spent worrying about it during the >days and weeks between posts) LOL. Yeah, remind me to never again write a story this involved when I'm pregnant. Thanks for hanging in there for all the segments, though, and I'm both flattered and thrilled to see so many ppl recognizing my story in this quiz! This really made my weekend. :) Back to lurking, since I'm SO bad at these quizzes, even though I totally love them. Thanks for all the hard work and time you two put into these quizzes, Wendy and Hazel!! ;) Erin __________________ erink@ida.net Visit my LNC/Kerth Website: www.ida.net/users/davek ***** "It's not the years that count, it's the moments...right now, as they happen." __________________