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Laura Hile's free online fiction:
Persuading
Elizabeth (Rapunzel's cousin, Elizabeth Elliot,
lets down her hair, all right. But the fellow who climbs up
isn't exactly the earl she's expecting! A piratical romance,
in progress, Wednesdays) (
This week's post: 3/2/11)
Gentle
Anne and the Mill (Put-upon and left behind, Anne
Elliot's life resembles The Little Red Hen's ...
until she meets the tenderhearted miller!)
The
Town Musicians of Crewkherne (Patrick McGillvary
leads a menagerie of favorite characters in this wacky fable)
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Susan Kaye didn't write fiction until she
fell in love with the characters of Persuasion. She found a website
called Pemberley.com and
there, found a story board called Bits of Ivory. She decided
to tell Captain Frederick's Wentworth's version of Persuasion, first in several free
online stories and then in two novels: None
But You and For
You Alone. The free stories are still online
and available to readers:
Plymouth
(What did the Captain do after leaving Lyme?)
A
Brother is Born for Adversity (He was six
weeks with his brother in Shropshire)
For
You Alone (free story not the
novel) (Ten days to make things right)
The
Knowledge of His Being There (With Frederick
by her side, Anne sees things differently)
The
Villain's Part (William Elliot is now the
baronet)
Had
I But Written (In the year '08, this is how
it might have gone)
Susan will be the first to tell you she
has a short attention span. So, when things get bogged down
while writing a novel, it's not unusual for her to work up a
short story. Or two, or more. Here are some free stories she's
written since publishing.
The Little
Particulars of the Circumstance (Persuasion meets Outbreak!)
Pleasant
Days (What-if Frederick left the Navy? In Progress)
Time
Brings Many Changes (A career in the Navy is
never easy on a man, or his wife) Shadows
in a Brilliant Life (a short based on a
drabble by Grace Regan)
Frederick's
Dilemma (A New Year's short)
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Hile and Susan Kaye started writing
fiction together over ten years ago. Their master work is the
five volume What-If, Love Suffers Long and Is
Kind. The story pairs Frederick Wentworth with
Louisa Musgrove, and Anne Elliot with James Benwick. (Hints of
this pairing are in Persuasion. "I
was hers, (Louisa Musgrove's) in honour..." is what Wentworth
tells Anne on the Gravel Walk when they have reconciled.) The
story is long and involved ... and some have said they like it
(*gasp*) even better than the original ... much to the
consternation of others. So, grab a cup of coffee or tea, and
then click here to get started reading Love
Suffers Long and Is Kind.
><>< Laura
Hile and Susan Kaye have also
written some shorts mocking
celebrating the character of Sir Walter Elliot, the beloved
patriarch of the Elliot family in Persuasion. Enjoy.
Sir
Walter on Safari (Sir Walter tries
Eco-tourism)
Sir
Walter Sends a Valentine (Sir Walter gets in
the middle of Anne and Frederick's reunion)
Sir
Walter and the Leprechaun (Laura Hile writes
Sir Walter looking for the pot of gold at the end of the
rainbow)
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Coffee-induced madness by Susan Kaye and Laura Hile involving Anne and Frederick,
written while Love Suffers Long was being written and
posted.
Love
Suffers Not At All and Is Instantly
Gratified (Anne's patience is rewarded RIGHT
AWAY!)
Nothing
to Keep The From Their Appointed Rounds (A
New Year's interlude)
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