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From: lyra@camelot.bradley.edu (Heather Loresch)
Subject: A Letter To John 
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:14:45 GMT


ok, here's a little story i came up with the other day. as always c&c
is VERY welcome! tell me what you think!!!!

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Dear John,

	I love you. Before I say anything else, you've got to know
that I love you. It just isn't enough.
	It started when I met you. I looked into your eyes and saw the
incredible beauty of your soul. You get embarassed when i say things
like that, but it's true. We shared so much on that first meeting;
interests, dreams, poetry, ideas. It seemed so perfect. It was for a
while, until She came into the picture.
	I don't know why you fell for her. You have nothing in common.
You have intelligence, an appreciation for beauty, and aspirations.
She is shallow, unimaginative, and apathetic. Maybe it is true that
opposites attract. She is everything that is the opposite of you. But
if that is true, then why am I so attracted to you, and why can't I
make my feelings stop?
	I suppose I overestimated your intelligence. She doesn't
really want you and She never will. She treats you like garbage, and
you still go back for more. She lies to you and talks badly about you,
and you still love her. I suppose that's our biggest difference. You
treat me just as bad in your way, but I refuse to take it anymore.
	I love you, you know that, but now there's someone else. I
don't feel as strongly about him as I do for you, but he'll treat me
the way Ideserve to be treated, the way I _need_ to be treated. My
feelings are delicate and have to be handled gently. you would just
crush them if given the chance. He's not you and we don't share as
much, but I appreciate him. My feelings aren't as strong for him, but
given time they will be.
	Even though you haven't cared yet, I wanted you to know that
you can't hurt me anymore. Yeah, I still love you, it just isn't your
business now.

Newsgroups: alt.prose
From: neuro@bluemoon.use.com (David Hershhorn)
Subject: Hey
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 14:22:36 EST

Hey...  What's going on here?  Is some sort of publication coming out?  
Let me know, I'd love to write something for it...

"The guys in the shadows, grasping at the air, could be catching
 butterflies if there were any there."  The Residents/Freak Show

                                            -Neuromancer
From: Shic Osega
Newsgroups: alt.prose
Subject: The Constant Student (part 3)
Date: 27 Jan 1993 11:36:18 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems UK Ltd.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: napier.uk.sun.com


THE CONSTANT STUDENT (part 3)

from 'the Erroneous Memoirs of a Fool`, by Shic Osega


It took approximately thirty minutes to remove the congealed remnants of the 
pizza from my face and clothes, by which time I had developed an 
overpowering thirst.  Aware that students are supposed to be sociable, I 
invited the teetotal Raj to accompany me on a quest for a 'safe' student 
pub.  Raj gratefully declined, insisting that he did not like to frequent 
bars, as though this were the habit of Satan himself.  However, he offered 
me the advice that a pub named the 'Stella Artois' was a 'nice' pub that 
students attended in considerable numbers.  Being the sort of person who 
would immediately accept the recommendation of a strict teetotaller with a 
declared aversion to bars, I decided to follow his advice, and set off in 
the general direction of the fabled 'Stella Artois'.  I must confess to 
finding the name highly unlikely as I knew that Stella Artois is the name of 
a Belgian lager.

Hours later I had circled the entire Polytechnic campus and had not spied a 
single student or the aforementioned public house.  Directly adjacent to the 
Students' Union building, however, were two pubs: the Star and Garter and 
the Southfield.  I dithered for fifteen minutes, toying in my mind with 
stories of violence befalling students from the south who wandered 
unwittingly into the 'wrong' pub.  My thirst rose unabated until I had no 
choice but to risk entering the Southfield in search of immediate alcoholic 
relief.  

Inside I discovered a number of elderly folk casually supping opaque dark 
brown liquids from pint glasses.  A quick survey of the available lagers 
left me undoubted that a pint of Guinness would be the wisest option, and I 
retired to a darkened corner to appreciate my beverage in isolation.  The 
locals chatted among themselves in the silence guaranteed by the absence of 
a jukebox.  There were no thugs, student-murderers or anti-south terrorists.  
In fact, my entire presence in the establishment yielded an approximately 
zero response.  I correctly surmised that this was not the 'happening' 
student pub described to me by Raj.  I left after a mere ten minutes before 
senile dementia had a chance to afflict me.  When I confronted the Oracle 
Raj later he admitted that he had never actually been in a pub and hadn't 
really known what he was talking about.

And so ended my first day in a northern town.  I was hardly looking forward 
to the second...


***

Newsgroups: alt.prose
From: trish_r@mind.ORG (Trish Rucker)
Newsgroups: alt.prose
Subject: Sudden Fiction & More
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:44:46 GMT
Organization: Fortress Development HQ

Hi,
 
I'm new here & just wanted to take a moment to say hi & to introduce 
myself.   I have a BA and most of an MFA in Creative Writing from GSU 
(Atlanta).   I write poetry, short stories, and short-shorts (sudden 
fiction);   my writing has appeared in a number of publications, 
including THE NEW YORK QUARTERLY, CAROLINA QUARTERLY, and THE SOUTHERN 
HUMANITIES REVIEW.   Favorite fiction writers include Atwood, Irving, 
Kundera, Roth, Styron.   Last book of fiction I read was a wonderful 
collection of stories by Valerie Martin (THE CONSOLATION OF NATURE).  I 
would be very interested in discussing fiction ... and/or writing ... 
with anyone who has similar interests.   I prefer to exchange writing via 
Internet.
 
Hope to hear from you soon!
 
If you'd like to write back via Internet, please write
me at the following address:
trish.rucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com
From: Shic Osega
Newsgroups: alt.prose
Subject: The Constant Student (part 1)
Date: 26 Jan 1993 11:48:27 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems UK Ltd.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: napier.uk.sun.com


THE CONSTANT STUDENT Part 1

from 'the Erroneous Memoirs of a Fool`, by Shic Osega


It was early/mid September 1990, and a new town.  Armed with numerous 
suitcases, a pioneering spirit and an air of adventure I staggered out of the 
train station to commence my life as a Polytechnic student in the loveable 
north-east of England.  A short taxi-ride to my student 'digs' later, I 
climbed into my closet-cum-bedroom with my baggage but without my pioneering 
spirit or sense of adventure.  The taxi-driver had put paid to those with his 
stories of student murders and danger areas where southerners were hated 
above all else.  A glimpse at my allotted abode for the next nine months was 
the final straw.  A brown felt carpet covered a series of squeaky 
floorboards.  The carpet was offset with brown-grey curtains which decorated 
a window view into a back alley.  The wallpaper had been allowed to mature 
until it had achieved that distinctive beige hue typified by old newspaper 
left exposed to the sunlight.  Had there been room I might have prostrated 
myself on the floor in miserable lament.  Instead I sandwiched myself between 
the wash basin and wardrobe and sobbed quietly for a few hours.

My room was one of six bedrooms in an old terraced house owned and maintained 
by the Polytechnic.  Directly opposite the Polytechnic main building, and 
situated in close proximity to the town centre, it formed a square with two 
Polytechnic buildings and another terrace, also owned by the Polytechnic.  
Being so close to the local amenities, the square proved a popular place for 
local drunks to crash out on a Friday and Saturday night.  With its exclusive 
student population, the square was also an oft-frequented 'stomping ground' 
for abusive locals with their general bias against 'foreigners' from the 
north, south and west (the east being bounded by the sea).  

Until now I had passed the entry requirements for two of the locals' most 
hated categories of existence, being a southerner and a student.  As a 
resident of the square, I later learned that I had also unwittingly added a 
third category to my accolades.  The story goes that all locals were evicted 
from the two terraces by the council with the excuse that they were soon to 
be demolished (the terraces, not the locals).  But then the Polytechnic 
offered a sizeable sum for the properties and so a stay of execution had been 
granted.  The end result, of course, was a number of disgruntled and up-ended 
locals with a grudge against those cosy, spoilt students who were living in 
absolute luxury in six-foot square rooms for twenty-eight pounds a week.


***
From: larryw@lclark.edu (Larry Westdahl)
Subject: Re: Hey
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:39:05 GMT

In article <1jvljrINN9h8@bigboote.WPI.EDU> megazone@yoyodyne.WPI.EDU (MegaZone) writes:
>In article <DoBwXB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> neuro@bluemoon.use.com (David Hershhorn) writes:
>>Hey...  What's going on here?  Is some sort of publication coming out?  
>>Let me know, I'd love to write something for it...
>
>This group is for people to post there own works of prose. Fanfic, original
>creations, shorts, plays, etc...
>
>If you'd like to post feel free...
>
>Followups to alt.prose.d
>###############################################################################
># I have one prejudice, and that is against stupidity.  Use your mind, think! #
>#Email megazone@wpi.wpi.edu  Moderator, WPI anime FTP site 130.215.24.1 /anime#
>###############################################################################


Plays?

-- 

_____
larryw@lclark.edu | *L.Westdahl is a caring nurturer, a member of several
writer, musician  | twelve step programs, but not a licensed therapist.
From: megazone@coal.WPI.EDU (MegaZone)
Newsgroups: alt.prose.d
Subject: Re: Hey
Date: 26 Jan 1993 07:45:04 GMT
Organization: WPI Discordian Society, Undocumented Cabal
NNTP-Posting-Host: coal.wpi.edu

In article <1993Jan26.023905.8630@lclark.edu> larryw@lclark.edu (Larry Westdahl) writes:
>Plays?

Well... there seems to be a split between poetry and prose... And plays seem
to fall under prose. Although the only one I can recall being posted is the
short one I posted a few weeks back.

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# I have one prejudice, and that is against stupidity.  Use your mind, think! #
#Email megazone@wpi.wpi.edu  Moderator, WPI anime FTP site 130.215.24.1 /anime#
###############################################################################
From: aa794@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Pete Nofel)
Newsgroups: alt.prose.d
Subject: Mystery Literature SIG now open
Date: 25 Jan 1993 12:53:13 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa794@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Pete Nofel)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


   For those of you who are able to port into different bulletin board
systems (or if you are able to dial in), I, and my assistant sysops, have
started a SIG for those interested in the mystery genre.
   The SIG offers print and visual media reviews by users, discussion of
different types of mysteries (hardboiled, tea cozy, puzzle, locked room),
news about forthcoming books and films, advice on how to get your writing
into print, and a critique area so authors can post works for what we hope
is constructive criticism.
   We're located on the Cleveland Freenet system. From the main menu, type
"go arts" (w/o the quotes), then select #12.
   For dial-ins, the number is 216/368-3888. Enter as a visitor and follow
the directions in the previous 'graph.
-- 
Pete Nofel, aa794, primary sysop
It's a Mystery - The Mystery Literature Group
Cleveland Freenet, Cleveland Ohio
From: BECKSA@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: Troi's rank
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:57:06 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
NNTP-Posting-Host: ibm3090.bham.ac.uk

==============================================================================
 I think the idea of Troi's rank is that it was awarded for non-military type
service, ie. service to personnel and such.  (Probably also gives her the
ability to order a lower rank unfit for duty......)

Sally
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:50:25 EST
From: <CGM101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: The Vigilante - read first

The following posts are the incomplete story  The Vigilante.
I've been working on it (on and off) since about June, 92.
The Vigilante is a Star Trek Universe story.

Familiar characters only make cameo appearances.  I decided when I began
writing, that if I wrote about the big E, everybody would think
I was writing a paradoy  :)They just lend themselves so well to it.

Parts I thru III were posted last year,  parts IV & VA are brand
spanking new.
Sections so far completed....
I         "The Drawing"
II        "The Shakedown"
III a,b,c "The Warriors"
IV a,b    "Ring of Spears"
V a       "Outpost"

As always, any and all feedback, critisism, discussion etc is
welcome and appreciated.  Some who took the time to comment last
year, may see your suggestions implemented.  I do take feedback
seriously.

My current access is through a friends account, please put appropriate
salutations at the begining of all mail so as not to confuse my host.
something like:

***For Larry****

in the first line or two would be sufficient

Larry


**********************
Lawrence E. Nagy
in care of:
cgm101@psuvm.psu.edu
From: gksmith@mcl.cc.utexas.edu (G. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: Plot for new DS9 episode.
Date: 21 Jan 93 05:27:25 GMT

A friend of mine came up with an idea for a new DS9 episode.  In it,
the BORG would ambush a Bijorne on the far side of the wormhole and
use the new cyborg to attempt a take over of the DS9 station.

The name of the new cyborg would be (and you see it coming),
Bijorne Borg!


(He came up with the idea, not me).

Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
From: as401046@orion.yorku.ca
Subject: Quick question!
Organization: York University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:43:42 GMT

Hi There!
	I've just (finally) figured out how to download messages and
files from the newsgroups. Yipee! <G>
	Can someone tell me how to upload files? I have a bunch of Trek
stories that I have been collecting that I would like to upload for
everyone!
 
Thanks
Alan Raphael

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From: cwynne@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Colin J. Wynne)
Subject: Re: Starfleet Academy.................................
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:20:51 GMT
Organization: Washington & Lee University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

The ST:TNG Compendium, which lists specifics for all episodes (through the
end of fifth season, I believe) mentions where the episode "The First
Duty" was filmed.  You can either look it up there, or ask someone to look
it up for you there (sorry, I don't have it; I just remember reading it...)

CJW

--
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  =====  Colin J. Wynne                     Washington & Lee University  =====
  =====  cwynne@liberty.uc.wlu.edu              Lexington, Virginia      =====
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Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
From: benjie@hip-hop.uucp (Benjie Chen)
Subject: test
Organization: Hip-Hop BBS, Sunnyvale, CA (408-773-0768)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:18:42 GMT

test

Newsgroups: [A[Bg,alt.startrek.creative
From: domnatr@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kane)
Subject: Re: The Next Phase & an Idea
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:09:54 GMT

Problems are irrelevant.
Counseling is irrelevant.
Kindergarten is irrelevant.
       
Deanna's 'hard to get' routine is futile.
She will become one with Riker.
All females will become with Riker.
Your resistance is hopeless.

_________________________________________

Kane (Borg for the Day)   domnatr@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
__________________________________________


Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
From: guest@chopin.Physics.McGill.CA (Muhep Guest account)
Subject: Re: Q
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:47:27 GMT

Maya writes
> Hi All! 
> 
> Maybe this doesn't belong here but..... I love the character Q and was
> wondering if anyone knows if he will appear in more episodes this season  
and
> also... has anyone written any TNG stories with Q in them?  
> 
You might like _The Definitive STAR TREK Parody_ Chapters 6 and 8 as
well as Peter David's novel Q-in-Law.

> Thanks in advance!
> Also... does anyone find DS9 as boring as I do?

No.  In fact the last three episodes have been really good.  You might
want to tune in ... especially when Q shows up. :)

Martin Phipps
LOULA@hep.physics.mcgill.ca
From: steveg@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Steve Gabrilowitz)
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: Re: Wanted: The Nude Generation.
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:19:16 GMT
Organization: Martin Marietta

In article <20323.2b5deb68@ul.ie>, 9227792@ul.ie writes:
|> 
|> 
|>  Could someone out there please send me
|>  The Nude Generation ?? 
|>  I saw it here a few weeks ago but then it 
|>  was erased !!!
|>  Mail me at 9227792@ul.ie
|>  Much appreciated.

Me too!

-- 



I think
I think I am
Therefore I am!
I think...



                            Steve Gabrilowitz
                            Martin Marietta, Orlando Fl.
                            steve-gabrilowitz@orl.mmc.com
                            Fidonet 1:363/1701 (407-380-1701)
From: nielson@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Kathlina Nielson)
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: Wanted:The Nude Generation  ALSO
Summary: requst for nude nex gen
Keywords: next gen
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:47:34 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I to am requsting a copy of The Nude Generation.
            Thanks
                     --kat
 
My address is nielson@andromeda.rutgers.edu
From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: Re: Rush and Trek
Date: 21 Jan 93 10:14:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <107772@bu.edu>, shimkevi@acs.bu.edu (Sergey Shimkevich) writes...
>In article <C169xL.533@acsu.buffalo.edu> sguzdek@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Sandra Guzdek) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan20.153323.19580@husc3.harvard.edu>, cstone@husc8.harvard.edu (christopher stone) writes...
>>>Here's a story idea, if anybody wants to pursue it further?
>>>Rush Limbaugh visits the Enterprise.  What would happen?
> 
>I would love to hear him berate the Federation!!!
> 
>>Capt. Picard would shoot him out into the cold vacuum of open space? 
>>(that's what i would do!!! :) ;)  )
> 
>That's quite intolerant and not in the spirit of Trek.

     Not at all.  The philosophy of Next Generation (and the lipservice 
     from TOS which predates it in the form of IDIC) is libertarian,
     and therefore, "left" in our contemporary political scheme.

     But a philosophy which says "you can do anything you want as
     long as you don't infringe upon my right to do the same" is
     incompatible with a sniveling fascist such as Mr Limbaugh, who
     would attempt to not only infringe upon our right to do the
     same, but would do so only as it EXPANDED HIS RIGHT to do what
     he wants... not to benefit the masses, but to benefit solely
     himself.

     I'm sorry.  But that guy pisses me off.

>(However, since ST is a somewhat leftist show, I guess they would not be
>tolerant to those from the right side of the fence :-)
> 
>//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>// Ryan: What is it to you, demon?       //// Sergei Shimkevich             //
>// Lune: It is Sir, Demon to you, worm!  //// shimkevi@acs.bu.edu           //
>// -Phantasy Star III                    //// shimkevich@A1.tch.harvard.edu // 
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From: guest@chopin.Physics.McGill.CA (Muhep Guest account)
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: The Definitive STAR TREK Parody  --  What it is
Keywords: Parody
Date: 23 Jan 93 01:49:38 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

I had already written a few Star Trek parodies before I'd even heard of
usenet.  Mark Holtz' list of lists and Tim Lynch's synopses provided so
much information that I was inspired to write seven more.  Now, with the
release of DS9, those ten parodies are merely the prologue to what could
very well be the most bizarre Star Trek parody yet.  Unarbitralily
divided into sixteen chapters (the last three of which I'm still working
on), _The Definitive STAR TREK Parody_ promises to be both cynical and
ironic and both humourous and action packed.
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