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Dash Mercury: How It Ends

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

I just remembered I never posted the conclusion to my aborted Flash Gordon-esque story. If you’ll recall, it was never actually written, so I don’t have any actual text to show you. Instead, I’m going to tell you what I intended, in plot summary form.

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Dash Mercury: And The Rest

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Here’s the last installment of what I have written of this story I’ve been posting here in lieu of actual content. I’ll follow up soon with a synopsis of what was supposed to happen from this point, although the level of detail on that will be limited by the fact that I didn’t have exactly all the details worked out yet (which is part of what I contribute my lack of completion to). I’ll also include a post mortem of where and how I think it all went wrong.

By the way, the last chapter includes my favorite joke in the entire text. Try to guess what it is.

Chapter 16: Meanwhile, on Perdition

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Dash Mercury: Chapter 15

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

This is an exciting bit.

Chapter 15: The Two Towers

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Dash Mercury: Chapter 14

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

I’m uncomfortable letting people read what I wrote at the beginning of this chapter, but it’s necessary to understand the rest. Plus it’s funny.

“Abbazia” is a synonym for “church.” Another synonym for “church” is “kirk.” If I had finished this book, all the ship captains’ names were going to be synonyms of “church.”

Chapter 14: The Thing with the Stuff

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Dash Mercury: Chapter 13 – It’s A Big’un

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Author’s Note: The opinions of the protagonist are not necessarily those of the author and should not be construed as validation or promotion of same. Nobody’s perfect. Especially not people with developing character arcs.

Chapter 13: I Ran Out Of Subtitles

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Dash Mercury: Chapters 11 & 12

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Chapter 11: 1962

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Dash Mercury: Chapters 9 & 10

Friday, October 6th, 2006

I think this is where it starts going off the rails. I don’t want to bias the reader by pointing out what I see as weak spots before you get the chance to read it cold. So:

Chapter 9: Electric Boogaloo

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Dash Mercury: Chapters 6 Through 8

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Chapter 6: Jason Takes Manhattan

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Dash Mercury: Chapters 4 & 5–Take two, they’re small

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Chapter 4: Beyond Thunderdome

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Dash Mercury: Chapter 3

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Chapter 3: The Phantom Menace

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