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LiveJournal Fiction
by Nicola Mody

LiveJournal

​I've had a LiveJournal as vilakins for years and have posted quite a bit of very short fiction to it and elsewhere on LiveJournal (LJ), including the weekly challenge community b7friday.
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I've set up a guide to Blake's 7 on LJ and am also co-moderator of some other B7 communities on LJ, most no longer active:
  • b7fic, which provides links to Blake's 7 fiction on LJ and other sites
  • b7discussion, where people discuss any aspect of the series
  • b7rewatch, for comments as people watch each episode. There've been two rewatches so far.
The stories​

​Most of my LiveJournal stories are between 100 words (drabbles) and around 500 words (or slightly over). These stories may be short, but the challenges are a great way of writing characters and situations in ways I mightn't otherwise choose - I can experiment!

Assorted short stories
  • A Bit of Pun - Vila and Tarrant have a slanging match
  • Vila's Pet - A return bout
  • Banking On It - More of the same
  • Peppering Things Up - Inspired by my exasperation at local restaurants having only one enormous pepper-grinder which they won't let customers use
  • When Dinosaurs Walked - More (s)word-play between Vila and Tarrant
  • Wheelie Bin - Vila puts out his rubbish for collection
  • Life Drawings - Written for an artist and Cally fan
  • Force de Frappe - Written for someone who wanted a chocolate frappe and didn't get one
  • Bedside Manner - Written for an ill Cally fan: Cally has a virus
  • Birthday - It's Vila's birthday on the Liberator
  • Through the Gate - Written in memory of several cats and two members of the Liberator crew
  • Fire - Written for a friend's birthday; she wanted fire
  • Wizardry - A crossover with Harry Potter: Draco Malfoy ends up on the Liberator
  • Oracle - Cally has some things to say to Orac after they leave the System
  • Grey - Vila encounters Chiana from Farscape
  • Party Games - a birthday story and a companion piece to Gauntlets Down
  • Bomber - a birthday story for a Jarriere fan
  • Save the Bounty Hunter, Save the Galaxy - A crossover with Heroes in which Hiro Nakamura tries to change the future. With illustration!
  • Playing With Fire - Written for a friend's birthday, and a sequel to Boarding Party, an AU she liked and wanted more of.
  • ​Technical Difficulties - Another birthday story; Avon has some difficulty with a project.

Challenges and requests
  • Orac's Vacation - Orac finds a way around not being able to move
  • Something in Mind - A missing scene from Redemption: Vila and Cally in an System cell
  • Uncharted Territories - Stark from Farscape and Tarrant meet on Ultraworld
  • Whispers - On the London, Gan talks about meeting 'his woman'
  • Poker Night - Vila and Avon set up a game of strip poker to settle a wager
  • Old Friends - A shameful incident in Bayban's past
  • His Noble Nature - Travis, Chenie, and Jarriere just after 'Gambit'
  • 30 Pieces of Silver - The others wonder how much Vila gave away on Horizon
  • Tresses - Vila and Soolin after Gauda Prime
  • Night Watch - Vila finds ways of getting through the lonely hours
  • How to Win Friends and Influence Space Rats - Vila tries a chemical experiment on CF1
  • Sunrise - The day after on Gauda Prime
  • In the Nick of Time - Vila meets the fourth Doctor on Gauda Prime
  • Bomber - Written for the birthday of a Jarriere and cricket fan
  • Dressing Gown - Written for a challenge about, yes, dressing gowns
  • Fics I will never write (except for these bits) - What it says: stories various people thought I'd never write (so I did)
  • How Many? - Vila in the rain on Gauda Prime (songfic)
  • Return of fics I will never write (except for these bits)
  • The Lumberjack, sorry, Rebel Song - filk
  • A Surfeit of Tarrants - Vila runs into Tarrant unexpectedly. Or is it Tarrant?
  • A Matter of Time - Vila buys an unusual device - and he's going to use it
  • A Closed Mind - Avon is proud of being the only one unaffected by telepathy or mind control
  • A Chemical Bond - One of Vila's school pranks brings him to the attention of a senior boy called Avon (current-day AU).
  • Little Red Lobster-Suit - One day Little Red Lobster-Suit sets off into the woods to bring Blake a basket of food, drink, and his latest gadget.
  • Commission - Vila and Soolin are buying curtains. But is that all?​

B7 Friday challenges
  • First Time - A first for a young Vila
  • Taking Sides - Dayna as a child
  • Happy End - Vila and Cally after 'Project Avalon'
  • Decisions - Tarrant's knowledge of the Mark Tens and Bayban
  • Talking to Myself - Five linked drabbles from Vila's point of view; based on Beatles song titles
  • Tactics - A missing scene from 'City at the Edge of the World' to explain Kerril's quick change
  • Life - Why did Vila throw his lot in with Blake so readily?
  • Suspicion - Another riff on the theme 'Lost, stolen, or strayed'
  • Space - Why Cally stayed on the Liberator after 'Children of Auron'.
  • Friendship After All - Vila and Avon after Gauda Prime
  • Free Trade - Jenna and Tarvin on Zolaf 4
  • The Eye of the Beholder - Travis's first meeting with Servalan
  • Fun and Games - Pure silliness because the Olympics were on
  • Trust - Vila and Servalan on Sardos
  • Playtime - Avon alone on the flight deck
  • Cavitation - The ultimate trapped-in-a-cave story
  • Trust - Sometimes an unwanted burden (yes, I used the title twice)
  • Mother - Some are natural, others it must come to
  • Fall Guy - Vila thinks about various kinds of falling
  • Armed and Nervous - What could Travis possibly be afraid of?
  • A Matter of Gravity - Some light relief
  • Education - Five drabbles about crewmembers' schooldays
  • Betrayals - Avon and Vila find something in common
  • Gone for Ever - A sequel to Friendship After All; Vila and Avon after Gauda Prime
  • While They Were Bathing - Our heroes take baths after arriving on Xenon as 'guests' of Dorian
  • Our Little Secret - Just what was the note Avon had on the London?
  • Another Day, Another Credit - Avon has a bad day in the office (a PWB)
  • Power - Servalan becomes Supreme Commander
  • Other People's Conventions - Vila and Dayna planet-side for the Teal-Vandor convention
  • All Worthwhile - Vila extracts something positive out of being cold
  • Light Touch - Vila tries to make up for his bad behaviour on Exbar
  • Revenge - Vila wants revenge after Gauda Prime
  • Spring - Vila is rescued after Gauda Prime
  • New Start - A second chance for two people
  • Fair Exchange - After Malodar, Vila decides to look after himself
  • Something in Common - Tarrant just finds Vila irritating until ...
  • Entertainment - Avon is trying to work under trying circumstances
  • All Empires Fall - Signs of the Federation's inevitable fall from inside a communications centre
  • Security - Dayna fills a hole in her life
  • Pulling Rank - A bit of power-play between Avon and Tarrant
  • Rising to the Challenge - Vila improves his personal efficiency
  • Phobias - Blake is afraid
  • Value - Vila gets his first cut as a professional thief
  • Emancipation - Vila frees a slave
  • Contact - An encounter with huge and strange aliens
  • The Games People Play - Blake is curious about what's behind Vila's fool act
  • Cabin - A draughty cabin on Gauda Prime
  • All Fool's Day - It's the traditional day for practical jokes, and most of them not perpetrated by Vila
  • Amnesty - Was Vila telling the truth about almost being a space captain?
  • Service - Gan's death leaves a gap
  • Her Day - Travis has something for Servalan
  • The Force - A crossover with Star Wars, set PGP
  • Pleasure - A crossover with Red Dwarf, set during Shadow
  • Gone in 60 Seconds - Another crossover, this time with, well, guess who
  • In the Dark - Avon and Vila on the dark side (no, not a crossover this time)
  • A Fistful of Fics - Five short stories (all 100 or 150 words each) created from Spacefall's Blake's 7 Bonk Generator. Despite the suggestive titles, they're all gen (family safe)
  • Grounds - Anna has had a bad day at work
  • Double Bluff - Vila's weak chest
  • Wish Upon a Shooting Star - It's not always good to get what you wish for
  • Alive and Well and Living on the Liberator - The request was for Cally and Travis and a Jacques Brel album
  • Hired Gun - How come Kerril threw in with Bayban?
  • Last Look - Leaving Earth on the London
  • The Naming of Planets - Pretty much what the title says
  • Three Times Three - Three ficlets, each written using three words from the Random Word Generator
  • Security Blanket - Something Vila finds on Xenon base reminds him of home
  • Reflections - Servalan encounters advanced technology
  • Alliance - Written in honour of David Jackson who had died the week before: Vila and Gan meet on the London
  • Escape Committee  - Vila in CF1: a WW2 POW spoof
  • Three Times Three Again - Three more ficlets, each written using three words from the Random Word Generator
  • Sartorially Challenged - An explanation for some of the worst outfits in seasons 1 and 2
  • Food Chain - Dayna cooks dinner to Vila's dismay
  • Work - Vila has broken a life-long record
  • Missed - Cally regrets the loss of a favourite possession
  • Cat and Mouse - The crew is frustrated by Servalan thwarting their every move
  • Short Fuse - Vila opens a booby-trapped safe
  • Typecasting - After he's cleaned the glycolene tanks. Vila tackles Soolin about her remark
  • Changes - Soolin realises she is slowing down in middle age
  • Family Ties - Jenna finds out about a death in the family (pre-series)
  • Certainty - Laying fears to rest on Xenon base
  • Arms and the Thief - Cally wonders why Vila doesn't fight back
  • The Next Generation - A young woman wants to take up where her father left off
  • Suzy Mar - A shameless and deliberate Mary Sue story
  • Little Expectations - Vila finds a secret room on the Liberator
  • Jenna Stannis PI - Jenna has gone into business as a private investigator after Gauda Prime. A sequel to Little Expectations
  • Birthday Presents - Just that, and written as one
  • Silver - A look at one fanfic cliché
  • Pax - The Andromedans have been defeated...
  • The Star - Three of the crew are interested in the light from a certain nova (a Christmas story)
  • Strategy - Avon's survival tactics
  • Clothes Make the Man - Avon dresses to project the right image
  • Enhancement - A bit of silliness inspired by a friend's photomanip
  • Delegation - A Federation worker has some computer trouble
  • Three Stories of Misfortune - Three drabbles about characters from the B7 universe
  • One Man Rescue - Tarrant is a mental home inmate after Gauda Prime
  • The Ice Princess - A child's bedtime story
  • Mind Control - Why does the teleport malfunction for Vila?
  • Glints, and Something in Common - Two connected stories set in a bar
  • Frontier - Why Lurena went to Star One
  • Aliases - Vila finds out more about Soolin
  • Detained - A spring story about everything but the season
  • Fool - She's partial to warm brown eyes...
  • Notice Board - The contents of the one on the Liberator
  • Rellyport - A bit of crackfic in which Jarriere and Blake turn out to be... well, read it and find out!
  • The Diary of a No Body - Zen's diary, written in the style of Charles Pooter
  • Reptile - Written for the 'snakes on a spaceship' challenge; say no more
  • Plants - Several kinds, as Vila goes on a mission
  • Oh, So Bright - Blake's funeral
  • Ice - Vila after the death of Cally
  • The Selfish Hermit - A children's fairy tale
  • Art for All Seasons - Art for art's sake
  • Pine Barrens - A crackfic AU in which they're all Sicilian wiseguys in the Terra Nostra, with nods to the original Sopranos episode
  • Vila of the Dead - Zombies, time travel, guns of the old west, what more could you want?
  • Putting the Leather to the Leather - written during the World Cup but you don't need to be a soccer fan
  • Tools - An alien view
  • Poppy Day - A child's essay
  • Passing of an Individualist - The invasion from the point of view of Hlun, an Andromedan
  • Boarding Party - An AU set at the beginning of season 3. I wrote a sequel: Playing With Fire.
  • Time and Revolution - It's Independence Day, and one of the Hotel Le Grande's customers is drunk
  • Legacy - The Auronar have their own way of leaving something of themselves behind
  • Xenophobia - Each crewmember's thoughts on aliens as they face the Andromedans
  • Pain Management - Vila on Xenon base
  • Section Leader Klegg - A bit of background
  • Rivalry - The Warlord Cheryl
  • Colour - Hal Mellanby can't see it
  • Interior Decorating - Another AU set at the beginning of season 3
  • Gauntlets Down - Avon knows he is walking into a trap
  • Monsters - It's Freedom Day, when children dress up to frighten each other
  • Deadly Relations - One can often be inspired by the examples of one's family
  • Unconventional Relations - Jarriere meets someone unexpected on Space City
  • Revolution! - The Liberator crew watch a new vid series
  • Hard Done By - every bad deed must be rewarded
  • The Brave Little Toolbox - what happened to it?
  • Smiles - Cally's Auronar perspective thereon
  • Deicide - A different view of Belkov
  • Three School Essays - How three students (and a teacher) view our rebel heroes
  • Powers - The crew discuss which superpower they'd like to have
  • A Tide Taken at the Full - At last, some hard SF as the Liberator approaches a neutron star
  • Memorandum - An office memo from the purchasing department of the Matter Transmission Project
  • Story Time - It was a dark and stormy night...
  • Diary of a Space Captain - Del Tarrant's diary
  • Survival - A Slave POV, in memory of Peter Tuddenham
  • Rumours of Death Watch - An AU mix of two episodes
  • Big Swirly Thing in Space - What it says!
  • Vila vs the Federation - Vila plays Snoopy the WW1 air ace. With illustration!
  • Game Over - Servalan a long time after Gauda Prime
  • The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler - The title is a Goon Show one and it doesn't stop there.
  • Alpha and Omega - Ever wondered what happened to the Avalon android?
  • Brains - Vila and Avon encounter an alien. Warning: brains. Sorry.
  • At the Core - An AU in which things happen a little differently on Aristo
  • Inducements - How to get Vila to go on a mission
  • Bad Karma - Vila starts to wonder about karma (a My Name is Earl pastiche, but you don't have to have seen it)
  • Breakfast - Vila has some, along with a joke or two
  • Job Satisfaction - Tarrant and Jarvik are not happy with a Space Fleet officer's lot
  • Gateway - Avon and Vila find a Stargate
  • Avon and Vila - a B7 take on Hansel and Gretel
  • Magnets in a Minefield - The perils of not doing research before visiting a planet
  • Big Damned Heroes - Reactions to a rebel poster after the Andromedan war
  • Firing Line - Vila's reaction to being replaced by Dayna on weapons
  • The Unpleasantness at the Belhangria Club - An incident in Avon's life told in the style of Dorothy L Sayers
  • Nobody Special - Two old acquaintances run into each other
  • Health and Safety - Vila has some concerns
  • Headstones - The question of what goes on them
  • Young People Today - Avon is not impressed with the post-revolution generation
  • What's Left - Not everything has been lost
  • Crash - The prison ship from Gauda Prime crashes on an island. Set in the Lost universe.
  • New Horizons - Ro and Selma after the Liberator left
  • Space Cavalry - Jenna and Cally are on teleport duty, as usual
  • Having a Blast - Cally and Dayna are a force to be reckoned with
  • Ask First - What if a woman had asked for directions in Blake's base? Not to mention a few other questions
  • Demons - It is at night when you are alone that the demons come
  • Ratrace - Vila has trained some rats to run mazes
  • Something in the Cellar - The crew go to see Groff's widow on Xaranar
  • Beam Me Up - Avon is a little too logical about how the teleport works
  • Back on Course - The crew is angry that their holiday on Del 10 has been cancelled
  • Man on the Beach - A reporter tries to interview the public
  • Hello Blake's Party - B7 in the Hello Kitty style, complete with illos
  • One of Those Whatchamacallits - The crew discuss domestic bliss
  • Wrong - For the Doctor Who on the Scorpio challenge
  • Touching the Past - Young Sarkoff visits his first museum
  • Minor Objections - Avon doesn't like water sports even as a child
  • The SAS - The crew train an elite Home Guard assassination unit
  • Alpha and Omega - what happened to the Avalon robot 
  • ​Five things that happened to Jenna Stannis
  • Paying One's Way - A drabble about Zee and Barr
  • Time After Time - A wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey PGP
  • Colonisation - From the POV of the space enzymes
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