Pretty Poison

Title: Selmak’s War (Phoenix-verse)
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Category: Gen, AU

Summary: Separated from Jacob, Selmak forms an alliance with a disgraced Jaffa. When his host is taken by Anubis, Selmak must stay hidden, or die.

Link: Selmak’s War - all chapters on AO3


Chapter by chapter
Chapter 1: Jaffa Separated from Jacob, Selmak’s new host is a disgraced Jaffa. When Anubis attacks the planet where they are imprisoned, their attempt to escape does not exactly go to plan.

Chapter 2: Reunited The Tok’Ra are scattered following Anubis’s attack; as Daniel and Entar try to plan their next move Selmak finds his way to the Free Jaffa homeworld.

Chapter 3: Alliance Sam proposes a mission that might put an end to Anubis.


(I thought I could finish this in three chapters but the third one turned out way too long. So I need just one more to wrap up the story.)

Title: Selmak’s War (Phoenix-verse)
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Category: Gen, AU

Summary: Separated from Jacob, Selmak forms an alliance with a disgraced Jaffa. When his host is taken by Anubis, Selmak must stay hidden, or die.

Link: Selmak’s War - AO3



Author Notes: Oh, man this one is tough! I was almost at the end of writing it when I realised I screwed up and had to scrap the last chapter. But I know where I went wrong so hopefully the re-write won’t take forever. I think it will be three chapters - but they are long chapters. The first (this post) is purely Selmak’s side of the story I have already told: everything that happened to him after being separated from Jacob. Chapter two will resolve the plot threads left hanging at the end of A New Path and then Chapter three brings the over-arching story to its climax. It’s been a journey.

Title: A New Path (Phoenix-verse)
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Category: Gen, AU

Summary: Freed from the Goa'uld Osiris, Sarah Gardner finds a new life with the Stargate Program. Until an excavation on a distant planet reveals a secret kept buried for thousands of years.

Link: A New Path - All Chapters on AO3


Chapter by Chapter
Chapter 1 - Freed from Osiris, legally dead, Sarah needs help to rebuild her life. Jack offers her a job at the SGC.
Chapter 2 - An off-world excavation brings surprising revelations.
Chapter 3 - SG-1 uncover a terrifying secret.
Chapter 4 - Daniel makes a fateful decision.

When I write fiction, I often feel like I’m not actually making it up, more channelling something that is real. I guess if you subscribe to the many-worlds theory, it’s at least possible. I can’t “force” a story in a direction I choose.

Sometimes it’s because I know how it ends, so everything in the story is leading to that. I can’t do tangents that might derail the train, no matter how fun it might be.

Other times, I have no conscious idea where it’s going but when the character eventually let me know, it’s exciting to see how it all fits together.

In the story series I’ve been posting, I have mostly known how it ends. The main thread focusses on Daniel and his story, I know. But part of the story was the fate of Jacob/Selmak and in Kali Destroys an unexpected thread showed up. I had absolutely no idea where that was going.

And today I found out what happened. I know all of what happend while they were missing, I know how they ended up as they are, and I know what happens next. I literally wanted to dance when this came to me, because it’s the perfect conclusion to this arc.

But it means I have to decide how to end the current story.

I can end A New Path on a positive note, but leave the Selmak thread “forgotten”. Or I can tie that thread into the end of the current story - but that would require a major cliffhanger ending. I don’t like to do that.

I have a about a month before I’ll post the last chapter of ANP, so I’ve got until then to decide.

Thoughts? Do you like cliffhangers?

Title: A New Path (Phoenix-verse)
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Category: Gen, AU

Summary: Freed from the Goa'uld Osiris, Sarah Gardner finds a new life with the Stargate Program. Until an excavation on a distant planet reveals a secret kept buried for thousands of years.

Link: A New Path - Chapter 1 on AO3

Title: Kali Destroys (Phoenix-verse)
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Category: Gen, AU, Horror

Summary: Daniel and Entar's search for Jacob and Selmak leads them to a discovery that might change everything...if they survive to tell the tale.

Link: Kali Destroys - all chapters on AO3

Chapter by chapter

Chapter 1: Origin - Seeking news of Selmak’s fate, Daniel travels to Kali’s homeworld.
Chapter 2: Oubliette - Trapped underground, Daniel makes a horrifying discovery.
Chapter 3: Broken - Kali's return to her homeworld complicates Daniel's mission.
Chapter 4: Buried - Daniel struggles in the aftermath of an attack on Durga.

Note: This was always going to be a horror-themed story, but while I was writing it I lost someone very close to me. That put me in a dark place for a while and it changed a few things in my writing. There is no character death but, well, there are worse things than dying. And sometimes leaving it to the imagination is worse still.

It’s almost December. Social media is full of Thanksgiving, which is a holiday we don’t have in the UK and not one I really get. I mean, we celebrate an assassination attempt on our king every November, so I guess it’s not that weird to celebrate a genocide…but I don’t get it.

1 December is Mum’s birthday. Was Mum’s birthday. Gonna be tough this year. Sis wants us to go out to dinner. Maybe because that’s what we did most years for Mum. She was impossible to buy gifts for so unless there was something specific she wanted we would pick a really great restaurant and treat her. I don’t want to spend that much to be miserable, but I told Sis okay if we go somewhere a bit less pricey.

Then there’s just the rest of the month to get through. Thank goodness for the TS Secret Santa. That’s gonna keep me going if things are difficult at home. My contribution is submitted and I’m really looking forward to seeing what everyone else has come up with.

I need to make myself post here more often. I don’t know how many people read my ramblings, but feeling like someone does helps me feel connected. It’s much too easy for me to isolate myself these days. I’m naturally introverted and self-sufficient but it’s not good to have no connections.

LJ is impossible to use now. I don’t know what they’ve done to their interface but I’m not going to post there any more. And I can’t access LJ from work (probs because it’s Russian and I work for the govt.). I also killed my twitter account because it’s now the land of hate. So I’m here, I’m on Insta (but rarely post) and on BlueSky…where I haven’t been posting but maybe need to start. Also AO3, which isn’t technically a social network but is feeling more like one for some reason - not in a bad way!

Title: Kali Destroys (Phoenix-verse)
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Category: Gen, AU, Horror

Summary: Daniel and Entar's search for Jacob and Selmak leads them to a discovery that might change everything...if they survive to tell the tale.

Link: Kali Destroys - all chapters on AO3

Chapter by chapter

Chapter 1: Origin - Seeking news of Selmak’s fate, Daniel travels to Kali’s homeworld.
Chapter 2: Oubliette - Trapped underground, Daniel makes a horrifying discovery.

Note: This was always going to be a horror-themed story, but while I was writing it I lost someone very close to me. That put me in a dark place for a while and it changed a few things in my writing. There is no character death but, well, there are worst things than dying. And sometimes leaving it to the imagination is worse still.

…And realised I’m missing a key fact.

Does Jim Ellison have a canon date of birth?

A couple of short stories written for fan_flashworks prompts.

Title: Emotional Archaeology
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Category: Gen, Episode tag

Summary: Coda to Show and Tell - Jack wants to be alone; Daniel doesn’t agree.

Link: Emotional Archaeology - on AO3

Title: Pride is Protest
Fandom: The Sentinel
Category: Slash

Summary: Pride is protest. In Cascade, that matters.

Link: Pride is Protest in fan_flashworks.