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January:

Bush had not been an imaginative man, but Hornblower was, and in the days after Bush's death, dreams plagued him.

Untitled, Hornblower.

February

Hornblower got his memorial at Caudebec -- he paid for it out of his own pocket, spent months having an agent survey, inspect, and then negotiated the sale of the land, and there were complications because he was not a French citizen but wanted to purchase land that technically belonged to the state, and then, when the mayor found out that Hornblower intended to raise a memorial to the British dead but not the French dead, there was another round of negotiation, at the end of which Horatio agreed to make contributions to certain French orphanages.

Two things that didn't happen and one that did., Hornblower.

March

It was a wild, hard two days and two nights in Kingston.

Come to Honor, Hornblower

April

Sixteen days out of the Azores, they picked up a pair of shipwreck survivors.

Five Things that Never Happened to William Bush: Jedi, Hornblower, Star Wars.

May

It was more complicated finding a substitute for Hornblower than Bush thought it would be.

Untitled, Hornblower.

June

Hornblower was good at it.

Gentlemanly Persuasion, Hornblower.

July

Working at the White House pays all right for a government job.

Untitled, West Wing.

August

When you are thirty-three, you begin to have these dreams: strange, vivid dreams.

Semper, Hornblower

September

One of the peculiarities of Naval service is that two men might serve together for over a decade, become the closest of friends, fonder of each other than any other man on earth, and yet, remain vastly ignorant of each other's personal details: for years on end, men lived in closer quarters with each other than they lived with their wives when ashore, but conditions aboard a ship of the line did not encourage intimate conversation.

If Water Was Dry, Hornblower.

October

Hornblower is sixteen, and he dreams about the sea.

The Seafaring Dream, Hornblower

November

Cardassian fiction aims to be realistic.

The Story That Has Already Happened, Deep Space 9

December

Here is a story: when you are young, the Jedi find you.
Life and Story, Star Wars.

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Man I love your writing ... especially Semper. Images from that one come back to me from it even when it's been weeks since I've read it ... like the rain and them asleep on the floor, or the visceral imagery from his dreams.

Of course, I love it all, though ... I'd never read you're Untitled bits before ("It was more complicated finding a substitute for Hornblower than Bush thought it would be"). Brilliant.

Ahah. the Untitled bits were me trying to get somebody some use out of things that were driving me berserk. The Bush thing makes me a little embarrassed because ahhhhh, the cliche of Bush finding a replacement for Hornblower, but yay for it working :D

I curse the academic semester system at leat three times a week, by the way, for keeping you from writing more fanfiction. Or, you know. Posting that GUAB fic.

I know. I'm on it. I just have this bj scene that I don't think fits. I might take it out and have it as a PWP.