General humour, SF parodies, song parodies, poems, stories and other oddments. Dragonqueen's site used to be on Freeserve, but when Freeserve became Orange they gave me an invalid dial-up number so I moved. I figured that any ISP that gives subscribers an invalid dial-up number isn't interested in keeping its customers.
Most of my stories came to me in dreams as complete stories. Friends tell me I don't have dreams, I have "in-sleep movies". After a vivid dream, I sat down to type it up; some hours later I would "come to" and read what I had typed, having no memory of actually writing it. Some needed a little work to make sense of the story, but others have been left just the way I dreamt them. I used to write the stories to amuse friends. Most have a SF&F theme.
A Dream of Elves : to see what is hidden; to be hidden from what is seen and the madness it brings.
Alain and the Ivory Dragon "Comic : A young boy discovers that dragons aren't quite what legend makes them out to be.
The Ancient Hero : A maidservant goes in search of King Arthur, but neither are quite what they seem.
Aymees : The aliens who shared Earth's final days.
Bloody Mary : A vampire hunter with a difference?
Body Loan : the latest in interstellar commerce - loan out your body as a temporary vessel for an alien mind!
Caerinnon : A sorcerer in our world's far-flung future seeks answers from the ancient past.
The Cult of the Wolf and the Rose : some scribblings left over from role play game days.
Dale Fliers : A premonition dream (from 1979) of an England where football (soccer) has been banned.
Dancing the World's End : Four people dance the dance of life to revive a dying land
The Dead King : A dead and despised king is reawakened to help his country in this tale of war and nec-romance.
A Different Kind of Immortality : trading flesh for memory-implanted silicon - death or immortality?
The Director : A dream of sex, work and betrayal
The Dove Prince : A fairy tale about two lovers in a world of magic and beauty.
Eric the Vampire : A woman who falls in love with a vampire? (And before ever hearing of Buffy!)
The Forests of the Moon : Finding myself in another reality where the moon is green and the world is drowned.
Future City : A dream which dumped me in the future, to being forcibly resettled in a hive of glass and metal.
The Golden Motor Car : a dream of finding myself in a world where the train had never been invented.
The Hawk and the Demon : short dream of supernatural beings loose in our world
Her Strong Enchantments Failing : a sorceress is challenged by a powerful young wizard - what will it mean for her land?
The Human Factor : A dream about human evolution in a machine-run society.
The Hunter : Short paranoid dream/story of a mutant human stalked by a genetically engineered hunter.
The Journey : a fairground accident sends two people on a strange journey which only one of them will complete.
The Last Days of Mankind : A dream in which I found myself part of a human resistance against aliens.
The Last Dinosaurs : A dream of sentient dinosaurs who left behind genetically engineered proto-humans, but no trace of the saurian civilization.
Lights, Camera, Action! Short tale of passion on and off the film set.
Loving the Centaur : A short erotic tale about a creature half-man, half-horse.
Maybe Another Time : a love affair across the years.
Necra and the Politics of the Dead : Necra, where Living Rights Actionists are losing out to the Dead Party.
Odd Short Dreams : A few odd, short but very vivid dreams which made an impact on me.
Odd Short Stories : A few very short stories.
Only Two Days : A dream of my own death (I gave up smoking after this dream)
Puppy and Otter Stories : A cute, innocent puppy and his romps with his best friend, the otter
Pyramids and Memories : an immortal traveller on a far future Earth remembers how it once was.
Sandstorms : A tale of honour, mercy, courage and hope among the glider fliers who live in a vast, harsh desert.
Silicon Dreams : Two desert traders discover a relic from the time before.
A Song of Magic : A singer invokes the wrath of a great mage when she falls in love with his apprentice.
The Soul-Harp : A travelling harpist finds herself playing the harp which once belonged to the greatest harpist of all, an instrument which is reputed to contain his soul.
Space Port at Shakers Valley "Comic : Can you live a past life in the future?
Summer's Echoes : A sceptical ghost-hunter finds himself in the middle of an all-too-solid ancient battle.
The Teacher Learns : A teacher and student journey into the not-too-distant future.
The Thinker : In a series of dreams over several years I saw/felt the life of a person living in a future time.
A Visit to the University of Life
The Wheel That Turns The World : Odd short story about seeing the cogwheels of the universe.
A World I Knew : Odd dream about a person trying to escape the parasitic creatures taking over humans.
Tubby's Secret Life : Innuendo-laden story, which might or might not be erotic depending on the reader.
Where Were You Last Night : unerotica.
The World In A Wine Glass : a chase, its limits defined by the duration of a wine-glass's fall.
I had a dream the other night,
I can't remember what I dreamt,
But I ache for what it meant -
It told a tale of things long lost,
Of futile search, but what struck me most,
Was how the dreams we can't recall,
Can scar the mind and change us all.
