Long become a respectable young lady, Nancy ices some biscuits at a child's teaparty with unexpected results. / England 1941 and an aviation industries application is accepted and cancelled. / AU, what if Tolkien's works had been in publication fifteen years earlier?
The Swallows prepare to set off on their voyage to a deserted planet.
'It had been like old times… so much so, that John almost wondered if they'd ever grown up at all, if they weren't caught in a never-ending childhood contained between the shores of that great and silent lake.' A brief glimpse in two parts.
The Blacketts' cook's backstory, her time at Beckfoot and afterwards, plus some news of other familiar characters.
""I got it!" Tom yelled as he ran into the Coot Club shed, waving an envelope like a flag." A letter, a question, and a promise. 50x500 8.
A young war correspondent strong-arms an Air Marshall into letting her go on a bombing run. Edited.
Set the term after Secret Water. Captain Nancy writes to Titty a while she is settling in at her new school.
"As Susan lifted the boiling kettle off the campfire, Peggy ran down to the landing place to fetch the milk, which had been put in the water to keep cool." The Swallows, Amazons and Ds' first afternoon camping on Wild Cat again.
What might have been.
Reminders of the North Polar and Secret Archipelago Expeditions. A Triolet.
John meets someone at the Rio, who turns out to be more experienced than he looks. / Can be viewed as a finished character study, or can be possibly expanded on later.
…and all the men and women merely players. The comic, tragic, romantic and epic are curiously intermingled in the life of Dorothea Callum. Peppered with sundry other cast and crew (who are currently entering stage left).
One of the Coots is a POW in WW2 and escapes. Based on two true stories and therefore grim. This is the sixth chapter of "Pieces", but I'm posting it separately so you can miss it out if you want. No swearing or sex. We don't see the violence. Rated M so you can't read it by accident when you were looking for a comfort read.
I claim no ownership of Arthur Ransome's wonderful characters, but I'm writing this to answer some questions: What would happen if the Swallows, Amazons and D's spent a Summer in the Swiss Alps? Where could they go and what kind of adventures could they have, in a landscape crying out for them to spend a summer in? They've made the Lake District their own, what about the Alps?
This is a repost of Lucy Reywood's story- I am AS and have forgotten her login details so have had to update on my own account. For ease of use, I've transferred the whole thing over. I've had a bit of an edit so for any old readers (if you haven't given up on me yet) Chapter 8 has a bit more to it than it used to. Enjoy!
I posted some of these snippets two years ago, but took the story down as some of the snippets got inserted into their own stories and some turned out not to have happened that way after all. Also, since I made a guessing game out of it, I did torture some sentences to provide pronouns rather names. So here, without the guessing, and with one extra little bit are some Valentine day
Roger sees unusual activity in the harbour and offers to help out, resulting in an experience that he will never forget.
Now that the world seems safe from evil spirits, the main spirit of sky perishes suddenly from the hand of an old Northern witch. Seyvina, the spirit of earth, knows that the times have changed and they no longer can protect the earth. It is time for her to open up a secret script, stolen by her from the Creator's inn in the sky too learn about the origin of the world.
The third of my stories about the Swallows, Amazons, Ds and Eels as adults - this one is set in the 1980s. Once again to make sense of some of the story it helps to have read my previous two! (Rated T as it is really for adult readers who are familiar with all the S & A books.) I've given this a new title as the original has been used here - apologies!
As they sail away from Secret Water, the Swallows and Amazons tell Commander and Mrs Walker some of their adventures.
Set during my story " A provincial lady visits the Lake." ( just after the Picts and the Martyrs) The younger Swallows have befriended Vicky and Robin who are spending the night on Wild Cat island, never having camped before. The mates and captains have their misgivings about this, and John is having trouble sleeping. He tries to get to sleep by imagining a "prequel" to Missee Lee.
Another story of the Swallows, Amazons, Ds and Eels as adults. This one is set in the late 1960s, again written mostly for adults to read, and rated T as it is really for adults not for anything to do with content. (Some of the story will only make sense if you have read 'Different Territory' first!)
A story about the Swallows, Amazons, Ds and Eels as adults set after WWII, showing how they have grown up. It is written really for adults who read the original books as children (hence the T rating, there is nothing to alarm or offend.) Apologies for the formatting errors - this was my first posting!
Or, whatever happened to 1930? Merry Christmas!
There are many ways to skin a Great Aunt, and Nancy's plan isn't always the most sensible. But it does sound much more fun...
The young Walker family have lived in Malta for over two years, but now John is no longer stationed there, and Nancy has brought her daughters home to Beckfoot. Peggy and Jim are have come for a visit. The little Bradings get on like a house on fire with their Walker cousins.
This story is set in the Easter holidays after Great Northern? and, I hope, explains the "hotel scene" in Baltic adventure and some discrepancies between Swallowdale and The Picts and the Martyrs.
Roger Walker starts his first term at St Custards. The story is told by Nigel Molesworth. It should be a crossover but sadly there isn't a Molesworth category, nor is there a ridiculous nonsense genre. The Speeling is ment to bee lik that. Oh noe, I can't seam to stopp doing it now.
In which the Swallows and Amazons crew get the opportunity to properly go to sea, and intentionally this time. Mainly focused on the developing relationship of John and Nancy as I have always liked the idea of these two getting together - it just seems so perfect. Only rated T for general romance. Enjoy!
Swallows and Amazons - told from the Amazons POV