What do you do when you have a story that refuses to be written?   A collaboration that was abandoned by the other author?   A chapter that you want to write from a story you don't want to write?   You stick it in the vault.   Here's a few things from my vault - as always, your mileage may vary.

AU to pretty much all of canon.  Not a do-over-and-make-everything-right story, but a gentle poke at one of my favorite underdeveloped characters, Remus Lupin.

Magic is all about intent, but sometimes ritual carries its own message.  After Voldemort's killing curse rebounds on him, Harry picks up Voldemort's yew and phoenix feather wand - and ends up inheriting everything Tom Riddle owns, by right of conquest.

Canon compliant - AU to epilogue

As always, thanks to help from Jeconais and to GardenGirl, a most pleasant beta.

Ported over from my LJ - challenges and drabbles

A collection of some of the interviews questions and answers posed to my characters.

Context makes all the difference - meeting someone from your past in a different context may turn an enemy into a friend - or more.

Nothing is as it seems.

The war is over.   Voldemort is dead.   Harry survived, Ginny didn't.   Life goes on, but some times it takes a while to pick up all of the pieces.

Shorter stuff, written in-between the longer chaptered works

The original thought crime that got me into the dog house at SugarQuill.net. What would have to change to make H-Hr possible?

Everyone knows that Harry and Ginny are an item. So, why is he dancing with Gabrielle at Bill's wedding?

Everyone knows that it was Lily's sacrifice that saved Harry, right?  

Not exactly, it turns out -- it was something else entirely.

Before the epilogue - the quest is over - now what?

The sequel to The Letters of Summer - somewhat HBP compliant.

Fifteen years after These Dreams   For those of you who have just twigged to this site - Jeconais conceived of a "trilogy" of stories: All Night Long, Alone and These Dreams, except that he kinda ran out of gas by the time that he finished Alone.   I asked him what he was thinking of for the final installment of the trilogy, and he threw out a few ideas.   I suggested that we collaborate on the story.   You'll find all three parts of the trilogy in Jeconais' subdomain, but I'm listed as co-author on These Dreams.   These drabbles are a few stray threads that remained after finishing that story.   The collaboration was very pleasant - I suspect that we'll do it again.   You'll find These Dreams at this link: http://jeco

Sometimes real life takes on a really odd turn. . .

Summer after 5th year - Harry gets his act together with a little help from some friends. A/U to HBP.

An older and wiser Ginny answering a letter from her goddaughter.

The Letters of Summer (TLOS) is a coming of age story.   Stories from Sixth (and Seventh) Year ties up loose ends from TLOS.   I'd always planned on writing another story set in the TLOS universe where Harry and Hermione lose their respective mates and start over again - in their mid-to-late 40s.

I'd given up hope for ever writing this story, but Brad won a short story on a charity auction, so I set aside a scrap of time to set forth the barest outline of the story - here's the chapters that survive.