This is Nancy's blog for her original writings.

Currently up on the chopping block is my fantasy series, The Valentine Trilogy. Occasionally I write in the universes of my other ideas but most of my energy is spent on the VT. Here is a Guide for it so you can read the short stories I write and know a bit about the characters and background.

A quick warning: there is very little that I consider taboo. A lot of my stories contain homosexuality. They may also contain profanity, religious blasphemy, semi-graphic to graphic sex, mild incest, violence, and other fun stuff. If this isn't your cup of tea, don't say I didn't warn you. With that said, most of my writings are tame, really. Don't go screaming just yet.

Um, yeah. Why hello Freud.

( The percussion of your daughter's lungs )

Title: There'll Be No String to Bind Your Hands
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Julia, Valentine
Word Count: 1176

You always remember your first love.

( God knows she doesn't miss Valentine for his mind. )

Title: Eight Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Menhit, Porphyry, OFC
Word Count: 1369

Whereas I feel Valentine would be a cool parent, Menhit and Porphyry would be clueless.

( Achan blamed both of them )

Holy crap. I just uploaded a gigantic mass of fiction that I've written since my last update, which is a lot, a lot. Because not only have I been working on my novels, but I've been churning out side stories like a good little aspiring writer.

Yay for me!

I'm hungry, guys.

Title: Today We Are Luminous
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Menhit, Porphyry
Word Count: 1610

Ways in which Menhit has it good.

( They publish the photos as a centerfold )

Language is super sexy.

Which is why I always get inspired to write love poems during English lectures.

( This isn't a sonnet )

Title: Lá Bealtaine
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Menhit, Porphyry
Word Count: 9929

Menhit, you are lovely and my new favourite character. Let me shower you with prose.

Who'd ever think that my longest short story to date would be about fairies?

( Once an ass, always an ass )

Title: It's Always the Quiet Ones (or why Wei-dao just can't get laid)
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Wei-dao, Jeoffroi, Menhit, Valentine
Word Count: 4490

Wei-dao, you huge dork.

( Wei-dao doesn't have a thing for married men )

Title: Assassins
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Nisda, Wei-dao, Tala, the Gloria
Word Count: 737

Called "Assassins" because the four characters it's about (Nisda, Wei-dao, Tala, and the Gloria) are the four characters in the Valentine Trilogy that I really consider assassins. Sure, other characters like Valentine do kill people, but it's a side effect. It's not part of their job description. And I really wanted to write a story about the sad, endless cycle of violence type lives these assassins live.

( Dying in our sleep is a luxury our kind is rarely afforded )

Title: Manny
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Valentine, OFC
Word Count: 4868

Can be seen as a sequel to my story 43 Years, 2 Months, and 15 Days but only in the sense that they take place in the same timeline.

This is what happens to Valentine after he resigns.

( Valentine was the best nanny ever )

Title: 43 Years, 2 Months, and 15 Days
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Fatima, Svante, the entire gang
Word Count: 6157

An extremely unusual pairing, but I rather like it.

This story is also my exploration of the Toronto Prefecture after the novels.

( It takes 43 years, 2 months, and 15 days to get over Jeoffroi )

Title: Baby, We're Scientists
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Timoti, Yulian, Blaine
Word Count: 310

I like to think that beneath all the shnazz and moves and piercings, Yulian is really just a big geek. When Timoti isn’t looking, he probably breaks out his Klingon dictionary and watches Star Trek marathons.

( I wish I could be helicase so I can unzip your genes )

Title: Epistemology
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Fatima
Word Count: 1172

Oh cool. I wrote about straight people.

( Maybe they all see it )

This is a shout out to English majors everywhere (a fine, fine lot if I do say so myself), especially those of us who don’t come from an English background and can sometimes feel alienated by the very literature we love.

( We are giants )

Title: The Road Is My Mistress (the second elm street remix)
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Nisda, Tala
Word Count: 4622

An AU where Nisda never died, but instead ran away with Tala.

The titles for some of the segments comes from W.S Mervin's "A Birthday."

( We go wherever you want )

Title: Preservation
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Esbern, Svante
Word Count: 1502

Svante: So yeah, before I became a moody vampire scientist I was a prostitute stolen from my home. Then this guy named Esbern came along and changed me into a vampire and took me with him on a life of crazy hijinks. Except I hated him because he was mean to me. So I cut off his dick.

Some psychoanalyst: This is all very Freudian.

Me: Why am I writing this instead of my many essays?

( Nobody would think he was crazy, lusting after Svante )

So, I like bologna.

( Through the rooms we go now )

Title: Salt Feeds Summer
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Nisda
Word Count: 1506

Nisda is hero and villain. If this were a video game, she'd be your first mentor and your final boss.

( You can't be afraid. Promise me you'll never be afraid )

Title: Liars Lie
Verse: Valentine Trilogy
Characters: Julia
Word Count: 1437

( None of this is real )