Old Art

I recently came across this archive of old electronic "dustjacket" images for some of my short stories and novels. Kind of a nostalgic little blast from the past...

aphasia.jpg (42033 bytes)Aphasia was a short story about Scully, with almost no Mulder. As the story begins, we find Scully being interviewed. Only over the course of the story do we realize that this is no ordinary interview...

TakenPosterFinal.jpg (52692 bytes) As the graphic indicates, "Taken" was a story originally intended for mature audiences. That usually means...well, "smut." The concept of Taken was that Scully was, perhaps, slightly sexually submissive. We saw her every week being strong, in control, a hard-charging "Blue Flamer" FBI agent. What if, in her sex life, she wanted to be a little more...sub? The story never got off the ground (although four separate drafts exist somewhere on a laptop hard drive,) but the graphic was kinda interesting, I thought.

ren.jpg (27225 bytes)This was one of the original graphics for the "Renegade" series by XFBandit. If I were to re-do this graphic today, I'd probably change the tagline to "Once you cross the line, there's no going back." Whatever. :)

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Two versions of ELS "Banners". The top one was used on the home page for a while to advertise the upcoming mega-novel ELS. The other one was a chapter banner for the first chapter.


stalkban.jpg (6875 bytes)Anyone remember Stalkers? It was my first longish fanfic piece, about time-traveling, nearly immortal warriors from another planet. Sound familiar? I wrote it during the 2nd season.

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Ah, Umbra. My first planned novel-length work. (Snapshot was a short story that got out of control...) This was the next-to-last banner done for it, after the novel was finished, and sat on the home page for a while so that new visitors would be drawn into the story.


u2main99.jpg (34081 bytes)Umbra 2: Ellipsis was (obviously) the sequel to Umbra. While never finished, I did have a lot of fun coming up with the tagline "Just another day at the office." I kind of liked the concept that Mulder and Scully saving the world had, for them, become just another thing they did. It added to the heroic quality of the characters.