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.
I've set up a guide to Blake's 7 on LJ and am also co-moderator of some other B7 communities on LJ, most no longer active:
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.
I've set up a guide to Blake's 7 on LJ and am also co-moderator of some other B7 communities on LJ, most no longer active: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!
Note: Stories added since I last updated the site are marked with New.
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!
Note: Stories added since I last updated the site are marked with New.
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