Cassie Ingaben Pros Story Database – Letter N

Author (if available): Ninjababe
Title: Electrons Giving Their Lives For The Cause
Category: HUMOR
Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): The Writer tries to get B&D together but inspiration has taken a holiday and Bad Writing sets in…
Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 
Word count (thousands)    33
Date written: 700
Sequel to: March. 1999
Prequel to: 
Originally published in zine:   
 
 
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Author (if available): Norris, Dadajeanne
Title: Candy is Dandy
Category: HUMOR
Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B&D dress up for Halloween as a packet of M&Ms – but D has the yellow ones, “with nuts”…
Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 32
Word count (thousands)    900
Date written: November 1997
Sequel to: 
Prequel to: 
Originally published in zine:   
 
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Author (if available): Norris, Dadajeanne
Title: Days of Future
Category: RELAT (RELATIONSHIP)
Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): The night C is knighted and B&D become joint controllers of CI5, B thinks back of how D got hurt into a coma a while before, and how he recovered. Thank god they made it out of the field, thinks B, to enjoy each other forever. 
Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 2 pp.
Word count (thousands)    
Date written: Oct. 1997
Sequel to: 
Prequel to: 
Originally published in zine:   MOTET OPUS 2 IN B & D
 
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Author (if available): Norris, Dadajeanne
Title: Dearly Beloved
Category: LIGHT
Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): First person from D’s point of view.  D reflects on his coming wedding with B – all is perfectly romantic and conventional – except the officiant will not say “man and wife”  – bribed by B, in fact, he says “this man and his golly”…
Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 6
Word count (thousands)    500
Date written: December 1997
Sequel to: 
Prequel to: 
Originally published in zine:   
 
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Author (if available): Norris, Dadajeanne
Title: Empty Bed
Category: POEM-DEATH
  God, Bodie, I hate it when The Cow splits us.
  You got any idea what it’s like
  in this empty bed of ours?
  It’s huge, Bodie, and the longer
  you’re gone the farther
  away the other side seems to be.
  Lyin’ here tonight –had a hell of a day–
  I got to thinkin’ what it would be like if….
  Aw, I know, don’t say it:
  I think too much.
  But, Christ Bodie, without you,
  if I had to sleep in this bed –alone–
  every night for the rest of my life?
  Don’t think I’d last too long.
  What if…. what if…
  Sorry, mate, had a hell of a day.
  Learned something though, didn’t I?
  Can’t have it all.  Nope.
  Just when you think life’s perfect
  you turn around and get slapped in the face.
  Bed’s cold.
  Been hugging your pillow;
  still has that Bodie-smell.
  Wish you were here to hold me,
  tell me to stop being stupid.
  Hate it when The Cow splits us;
  I’m not there to watch your back–
  it’s a perfect Bodie-target.
  We’re supposed to be together Bodie!
  I can’t be here, alone, in this bed.
  Big, cold —empty— bed.
  I know, you hate it when I get this way.
  God, Bodie, I had a hell of a day.
  Wasn’t there—couldn’t watch;
  if I did, then it would be real.
  Bodie?
  I think–
  They buried you today.
 
Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 6
Word count (thousands)    200
Date written: near date received
Sequel to: 
Prequel to: 
Originally published in zine:   
 
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Author (if available): Norris, Dadajeanne
Title: Forever Since Just Now-Snippet
Category: RELAT (RELATIONSHIP)
Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): it is the season of anniversaries and festivities and everyone is happy except B who feels lonely (and is in love with D). D tries to cheer him up, they kiss and declare mutual and everlasting love. End of snippet.
Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 65
Word count (thousands)    2.4
Date written: April. 1997
Sequel to: 
Prequel to: 
Originally published in zine:   
 
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Author (if available): Norris, Dadajeanne
Title: Monkey Suits with Satin and Lace
Category: XMAS
Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): D asks B to marry him, but B jokes and laughs about it, since it is impossible. D is upset, as  he wants to be a proper couple outwards as well, like anyone else. B apologizes and tries to cheer him up.  They get back home (it’s Xmas’ Eve), and B asks to be left at Marks&Spencer’s as he needs Òshaving cream.”  D goes for presents too, and when he gets back home he finds B already there.  They have a romantic evening, D gives B his present of a sheepskin for the bed, and B gives D his present:  a gold wedding band with an emerald!  Happily ever after.
Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 32
Word count (thousands)    1.4
Date written: December 1996
Sequel to: 
Prequel to: 
Originally published in zine:   
 
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Author (if available): Norris, Dadajeanne
Title: Monkey Suits with Satin and Lace-D
Category: DEATH
Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): This is the summary of the first part, common to both this and the other version. D asks B to marry him, but B jokes and laughs about it, since it is impossible. D is upset, as  he wants to be a proper couple outwards as well, like anyone else. B apologizes and tries to cheer him up.  They get back home (it’s Xmas’ Eve), and B asks to be left at Marks&Spencer’s as he need Òshaving cream.”  D goes for presents too, and when he gets back home he finds B already there.  They have a romantic evening, D gives B his present of a sheepskin for the bed, and B gives D his present:  a gold wedding band with an emerald!  Happily ever after.  From here on, the story changes: a sad Cowley knocks at the door, to see how D is doing.  D happily pours 3 glasses of malt and calls B from the other room.  Gently, Cowley prods D, and then has to jog his memory:  B died that same afternoon, run over by a skidding car, in front of D, going to M&S. D denies it, and looks for B everywhere but he cant find it. Finally, triumphantly, he shows C the wedding ring; but as C pours him more malt, D sees the credit card receipt, signed by him, Raymond Doyle.   He shoots himself. 
Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 17
Word count (thousands)    2.1
Date written: Jan. 1997
Sequel to: 
Prequel to: 
Originally published in zine:   
 
 
 
 
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Author (if available): Norris, Dadajeanne
Title: Twas the Night Before Christmas
Category: SONG
 Sung to the tune of: “Twas the Night, etc”
 
 Twas the night before Christmas and all through the streets,
 Not a creature was stirring, not even a thief!
 The trousers were flung on the floor without care
 followed by sweater and shirt and -oh- bedsprings beware!
 The sweaty hot lads finally snuggled down deep in their bed,
 with visions of KY and pickles -so sweet- in their heads.
 
 Young Betty in her kerchief, and Cowley in his cap,
 had just settled down for a long -yeah, right- nap.
 When out in the skys sirens made such a clatter,
 Bodie, Doyle, and Cowley all rose…with a splatter.
 Poor Betty was heard to exclaim, 
 as she rinsed off in the shower…
 One at a time is okay…but all three -too much power!
 
Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 32
Word count (thousands)    180
Date written: December 1996
Sequel to: 
Prequel to: 
 
 
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Author (if available): Norris, Dadajeanne
Title: Vignettes Under Calico Skies
Category: RELAT (RELATIONSHIP)
Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): Series of vignettes, first from B’s point of view then from D’s; a chronicle of  the relationship between B&D, from diffidence to sex to love to happy retirement after C’s death and finally old age.
Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 7 pp.
Word count (thousands)    
Date written: Oct. 1997
Sequel to: 
Prequel to: 
Originally published in zine:   MOTET OPUS 2 IN B & D
 
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