What people don’t know is, I’ve been living a double life. There’s the Emily you see around town, pretending to look for a job, drinking coffee and smell-testing whatever shampoo is on sale at CVS. That’s the Emily who reads short stories in her bikini on the deck and always has emergency change in the car and recycles catalogues. Normal, logical things.
The other Emily, believe it or not, won the “Best Crossover Fiction” category for her Dawson’s Creek meets Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman fan fiction series in 1999. In fact, if you google my full name, skeleton-in-the-closet fan fiction comes up even before my more celebrated url’s. I can only imagine what a google-iterate potential employer might think about those results. Which is why this time, five years later, I used a pen name.
Oh, did I not mention that that’s the point of this story? Oh right, secret’s out, I wrote another fan fiction. “Gilmore Girls: Lorelai discovers cold cereal. Luke comes over. Someone drinks coffee. A fluffy, pocket-sized L&L story that takes place eventually after Raincoats and Recipes. It’s sweet like Cool Whip.” It’s been a long, dry summer of re-runs, and I am so anticipating the getting-together of Gilmore Girl’s Luke and Lorelai, that I wrote a story and it was so cute, if I do say so myself, that I posted it for all. And I’m not ashamed. After all, no reason to hide such high quality writing, no matter what the genre.
Quote of the day: “Promise me this, you will never understand me. Promise me this, you will always, always hold me, like you’re holding me now .” – Pancho’s Lament
Newsflash Update – September 18th, 2004
Fan fiction Emily (that’s not my pen name) strikes again. And I have reviews! Like, “lovely, lovely.”
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