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I've set up a guide to Blake's 7 on LJ and am also co-moderator of some other B7 communities on LJ, most no longer active: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