Fragments of Stories Never Told

[mangosteen]

This particular meme has been traveling through the LJ-Verse, and I like it quite a lot. Here we go:

Meme: Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you a sentence from it.

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[crazybone]

That time you solved a murder mystery in Queens.

[mangosteen]

The victim's name was "Victor Taglianetti". Thankfully, "Vic the Vic" got old pretty quickly. Cause of death? Complete exsanguination.... with multiple stab wounds as cover.

Now Vic wasn't exactly a model citizen, and it's pretty easy to figure out how someone might come to the conclusion that going all Bunicula on a scumbag-shaped carrot might be considered a public service. However, murder is murder, and while I don't worry all that much about the delicate sensibilities of the typical denizens of Bell Boulevard, I have a job to do.

...and here I thought all the bloodsuckers moved out of town.

[vatine]

Tell me about when you single-handedly saved a city.

[mangosteen]

...and that, as they say, was that.

Looking at it from above, it was this wonderful machine of a city.
Just a set of equations, like anything else, like you, like me.

I saved it off to disk, and never looked at it again.

[xiphias]

I've been asking all the people who have been doing this about the same story: that hardboiled detective/romance novel with the alien invasion in Renaissance Venice.

[mangosteen]

It started like any other day. Get up, get breakfast, read the paper, check the vacations section. SF is as cold and damp is it ever was.

Hm. Another alien invasion in Renaissance Venice. What will Disney think of next? The wife will love that one... note to self: get tickets.