January 30, 2014

Our lives are made/In these small hours/These little wonders/
These twists and turns of fate/Time falls away/
But these small hours/These small hours still remain

Inspiration

Hours was my attempt to write a Johnny/Nadine story, after being inspired by Huma’s The Right Girl. My Claudia and Nadine will never measure up to the gold standard set by her, but I like to think they’re all right. This was originally going to star Johnny/Nadine with Jason/Elizabeth playing minor roles until closer to the end, but a story change I made after initially outlining it changed that. It’s now an equal Liason/Nohnny fic.

Timeline

These Small Hours picks just after Kate is shot at her failed wedding to Sonny in September 2008, and begins in November 2008. Rather than Sonny accusing the Karpovs immediately and aligning with the Zaccharas, he instead blames Johnny, as he has been for months. Jason still has the organziation, in the wake of Michael’s shooting. He and Elizabeth intended to go to Italy that day, but they never went. Nikolas and Nadine were seeing one another, but that ends shortly after she gets herself kidnapped on the Russian freighter. Lulu had a relapse after seeing Kate shot, and has been sent to a facility in California.

I’m still working out details so this is subject to change.

Media

These Small Hours: Soundtrack

A note about videos for TSH: These were created in 2008 when I still had my old crimsonglass.com domain. (I tried to get it back before opening the site here, and it’s been bought by an ad space people, so…whatevs). Ignore the website/posting schedule parts of these videos. I cannot edit them out without losing quality.

– Promotional
– Opening Credits
– Opening Credits (Extended)

Characters

Chapters

Not Yet Posted

Inspiration

Let me take you back to July 2006, a brighter, happier time. It was the summer of the great Liason reconnection and we still were naïve as a fandom to believe that this time would be different. This time would be special. Foolish children. *cough* Anyway.

The first spoilers about August 2006 and the blackout came and we were told, as we always are that NOTHING WOULD EVER BE THE SAME. Except, this is GH. So within a few months, it was all the same. Ric was the villain, Sam was the martyr, Elizabeth was back with Lucky, Dillon walked away from Lulu to stay with Georgie — everything changed for about five minutes. As it always does when GH promises us it’s all going to hell in a hand basket.

But among these spoilers was the holy grail for Liason fans: Our couple was finally going to do the nasty. I did not trust GH to do this the way I would do it, but in only this one circumstance–GH surprised me. They wrote the Liason Night of Passion (Forever known as NOP) better than I ever could.

And they promptly screwed it up by having Jason go back to Sam, and Elizabeth go back to Lucky. FML. This is the point where the banner year of 2006 starts to dip in quality. They start taking the safe ways out. And do not get me started on the paternity debacle.

So, I was inspired to write the blackout based on spoilers. This was written ENTIRELY before the NOP aired.

Timeline

SO! If you don’t remember this momentous event (and why should you? GH’s momentous events are never as momentous as promised), here are dirty details.
+ Elizabeth found Maxie and Lucky together three times in about forty-eight hours, so my girl is pretty annoyed with life.
+ Jason and Alexis both saw Sam and Ric doing the dirty at separate times. Carly was kind of separated from Jax at that point, in the wake of the Oh-btw-John-is-Nikolas’s-son debacle. I don’t remember the details and they’re less important.
+ Dillon and Georgie are having issues because Georgie, for some reason I cannot fathom, flirted with Diego Alcazar, one of the dumbest characters to cross my screen in many moons. Lulu has discovered she’s pregnant from her night with Dillon, but the two are angry with one another.
+ Patrick and Robin are kind of seeing each other, but he’s reeling from possibly contracting end-stage AIDS during a surgery.

Characters

Welcome to the sub-site for Mad World, my General Hospital series. Mad World is set in the summer of 2003 and begins the day Jason was supposed to marry Courtney, but Ric kidnapped Carly and locked her away in a panic room.

The Original Series
In Book 1, Break Me Down, we visit the panic room storyline where Jason and Elizabeth work alongside Bobbie and the PCPD to find Carly. In Book 2, All of Me, Carly and Elizabeth begin to recover from the trauma they suffered at the hands of Ric while a serial rapist stalks young women in the park. Book 3, This is Me, followed Carly and Elizabeth dealing with Ric’s escape and the fallout of the serial rapist case, and Book 4, Liberty, returns to Ric’s reign of terror and all the damage he’s created in Elizabeth and Carly’s lives.

New Entries
The first Mad World novella, At Christmas, is set in December 2006, a little over two years after the epilogue of Book 4. Reading the first four books is recommended, but not necessary. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Begin reading with Chapter 1 or jump to the newest book, At Christmas

Update

14 Jan 2024: Book 4.5, At Christmas, completed!

Inspiration

I remember that this was a challenge response (possibly issued by Stephanie aka ILETUDRIVE) — what if Elizabeth turned out to be Jerry’s daughter? This was back in 2002, when Jerry was still the affable and lovable Julian Stone, who’d been on the show from about 1997-98, engaged to Bobbie. Now, of course, he’s the evil psychopath. I’ve mostly come to terms with the change, but I thought a disclaimer was necessary here.

Another note about this story: It’s one of the oldest stories on the site. I began writing it in October 2002. The only full-length story that’s older is Surviving the Past. So it’s not exactly fantastic, but I kind of think the Jax moments are hysterical, so there’s that.

I beg of you to remember that I was eighteen back then 😛

Background

This story is set in the fall of 2002, after the Alcazar story wraps up. I don’t really care how–it has no effect on this story. Brenda’s dying but she’s not really in this story. Jax didn’t get shot, he’s not paralyzed and he didn’t try to push Skye away. Skye is insanely jealous and insecure about Brenda.

Sonny does not know about Alexis’s baby, so he and Carly are still tight. Roy left Port Charles and went to Miami. The scene with Elizabeth and Jason took place when she left. They’ve been avoiding each other for the past two months as it is now early December. Zander left for Florida. Gia left town. Lucky, Luke and Lulu are in London. Nikolas and Elizabeth are friends again.

Characters

Chapters

January 26, 2014

Inspriration

Daughters began without much thought to the rest of the story. I just started writing the original opening scene (which has been slightly edited in this final version) in which Elizabeth and Patrick were siblings. I love the chemistry between Jason Thompson and Rebecca Herbst, and while the show has developed them as good friends, I wish they had more screen time.

It wasn’t until I reached the end of the first chapter that I even decided to bring in theme of fathers and daughters, and was able to title the story.

Timeline

Daughters is alternate universe with some use of the GH canon, which means portions of the GH world is in here. Jason’s accident, Sonny in the mob, Luke and Laura’s history with the Cassadines. However, relationships and other aspects diverge. Patrick and Elizabeth are twins who grew up in Port Charles along with Lucky, Robin, and Jason Quartermaine. Emily is still adopted. The story is relatively straightforward.