Fic repost - "Hell of a Nighthorsie"

Title: HELL OF A NIGHTHORSIE
Rating: NC-17 for het
Characters: Prissy and Old Cletus, with a sideline of Jack and Will
Disclaimer: None are mine, though I did at least give names to a couple of the background extras in CotBP.
Summary: A Tortugan sailor’s wife gets a glimpse of her life that might’ve been, and it ain’t pretty – or, rather, it’s a little too pretty.
A/N: Thanks to my betas metalkatt, gryphons_lair, yoiebear, ainsoph15, and a_silver_rose.
A/N 2: Per a brief discussion with pir8fancier following a couple of recent posts (check her LJ entries for today and yesterday), I'm going to experiment with getting back to what fanfic originally started out being for me - something to practice writing and have fun with, without outside pressure. To this end, I disabled comments - read the story if you want. I chose this to repost because I am writing a second part to it, and I am going to post it with comments disabled as well.


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fanfic nitpick

I like writing for the occasional 'fest, but if I have to fill in one more header with my name next to "author," I may light my eyebrows on fire.

I am a fanfic writer. I am not an author. I post fanfic to LJ - I don't publish it there. To call a fanfic writer an author is like comparing me to Keith Olbermann. I rant about politics on my LiveJournal to a couple hundred people who might stop to read; I do not have my own show broadcasting to millions. If someday I were to publish that original novel (or get my own show), I would like it to mean something. I think the likes of Naomi Novik, Anne Rice, Brian Jacques, and others deserve better than to be lumped in on the same level with our playing with borrowed characters and dialogues.

Just two cents. If YMMV, feel free to say why.