Reading Room IX - Fusion Stories

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I was going to post this tomorrow, but my flist is so quiet at the moment that I'm going to post now!

Eight out of eighteen respondents voted to carry on with Fusion Stories, as planned. Four people voted for Cross-overs, and don't worry, we'll simply move on to them next, also as originally planned! One person hoped we could come back to Stories where the lads are outed sometime, and I'm sure we can!

So - what is a Fusion story? As mentioned over at the last post (and in the comments!), it's a reworking of another story, a fic where the lads are put into another story, as the characters of that story. (In a cross-over, by comparison, they're generally added to the story as new, additional characters - that's why one of them is sometimes missing, to accommodate their role in the other cross-over story).

There's a list of some fusion stories over here at the Hatstand, and an example that you can read online would be M.Fae Glasgow's Screwged - or Nanny's Christmas Carol. In this story, Doyle is given the role of Scrooge, and Bodie Christmas Past and Present, and then Cowley is the ghost of Christmas Future. In another example, The Ghost and Mrs Muir has been reworked to become The Ghost and Mr Doyle, where the part of Captain Gregory is taken by Bodie, and Doyle plays the equivalent of Mrs Muir.

And there are many more fusion stories out there than just those on the Hatstand list, which I don't think has been updated for a whilst, so I'm sure we can add to it! Please comment below, especially with:
1 - fusion story suggestions, to make a list, and
2 - volunteers to review/rec a story one Thursday over the next month or so

Thurs 22 March - byslantedlight - Out of Faith by Brenda Antrim (Torn by Natalie Imbruglia)
Thurs 29 March - unoriginal_liz - The Ghost and Raymond Doyle by Barbara Thomas (The Ghost and Mrs Muir)
Thurs 5 April - anna060957 - The Schoolmaster by Maddalia (Jane Eyre)
Thurs 12 April - byslantedlight - Poison Apples by Pamela Rose (The Wicker Man)

+more?

Fusion Stories

An Affair to Remember and Heir Apparent by Meg Lewtan (An Affair to Remember)

Apprentice to a Pirate by Kathy Keegan (Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan)

Arabian Nights by Pamela Rose (The Sheik and it's sequel, Son of the Sheik)

Bodie's Luck by Stew (The Merchanter novels by C.J. Cherryh)

Brigadoon by PFL (Brigadoon)

The Cow's Christmas by Elspeth Leigh (It's a Wonderful Life)

Down to the Waterline by Sebastian (Down to the Waterline by Dire Straits)

Elena's Shoes by Irene (Elena's Shoes by Oysterband)

Fairy Tale by Elspeth Leigh (It's a Wonderful Life)

Floral Arrangement by M. Fae Glasgow (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands)

The Ghost and Raymond Doyle by Barbara Thomas (The Ghost and Mrs Muir)

Groundhog Doyle by Irene (Groundhog Day)

Heaven Can Bloody Well Wait on the ProsLib CD (Heaven Can Wait)

I Will Lay Down My Heart by PFL (I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Rait)

I Never Metamorphosis I Didn't Like by Jane Mailander (The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka)

It's a Wonderful Life by Linda (It's a Wonderful Life)

Keeper by Irene (The Mill of Dreams in Martin Pippin in the Apple Tree by Eleanor Farjeon)

Knaves, Thieves and Teachers by Irene (I Know Where I'm Going!)

Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) by Stew (Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) by the Pet Shop Boys)

Out of Faith by Brenda Antrim (Torn by Natalie Imbruglia)

Perfect Day by Sebastian (Perfect Day by Lou Reed)

Poison Apples by Pamela Rose (The Wicker Man

Professional Dreamer by Pamela Rose (American Dreamer)

Prometheus Unbound by M. Fae Glasgow (Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers)

A Rainy Night in Soho by Kitty Fisher (A Rainy Night in Soho by the Pogues)

The Schoolmaster by Maddalia (Jane Eyre

Screwged or Nanny's Christmas Carol by M.Fae Glasgow (A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)

Silence=Death by M.Fae Glasgow (Longtime Companion)

Sunday Bloody Sunday by M.Fae Glasgow (Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2)

Sweet Surrender on the Quayside by Felicity M. Parkinson and the sequel One Good Turn Deserves Another by E.T. (Down to the Waterline by Dire Straits)

The Third Friday of October by Dana Austin Marsh (Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade)

Torch Song by Courtney Gray (Gilda)

The True Story of Navarre and the Tiercel Knight by Jane Mailander (Ladyhawke)

Two on a Treasure Island by Slantedlight (Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton)

Veils of Morning by Rhiannon (Random Harvest by James Hilton)

We're Going to Danteland! by Jane Mailander (Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri)

Wings of Morning by Rhiannon (Random Harvest by James Hilton)