David Gillon

untonuggan asked in another thread whether I have any fiction up anywhere, which reminded me I do have one piece of fan fiction on an old blog, and if I'm pointing one person at it, I may as well put the link where everyone can see. I keep thinking I should move it over to A03, but I haven't gotten round to it as yet.

An Open Mind

It's set in Elizabeth Bear and Emma Bull's Shadow Unit shared world, from when I was active in that fandom.

There's also a 'hidden extra', a standard part of the Shadow Unit stories, which is here if you miss the link in the main story. And some background on Shadow Unit here.

The impetus to writing it was that I and one or two others in the Shadow Unit fora with relevant experience weren't entire happy that ultra duty-driven SSA Esther Falkner was managing her back pain in a sensible manner. It was quite easy to imagine Es doing what she was doing, but there was another member of the team who would have a problem keeping her mouth shut in that situation.

I've just re-read it, and while I could make the writing a tad tighter nowadays, the story still does what I wanted it to. Ironically I gave myself backache in re-reading it, too much of a reminder of what my back is like when it's unhappy!

IIRC the story is set in mid-to-late Season 2, though I'd have to check that.