Strokesfic

[tarotgal]

I've got some more Strokesfic for you. I didn't write it this week- I started it during NaNoWriMo and finished it last week. I was going to try to polish it this week, but then the writer's block hit. So... I lost interest in revising. It's not too bad, though.

And it's got a little sneezing scene, too.

Title: Toby
Rating: G
Summary: How they met Toby... and how that lead to their meeting someone else.

You can find it in the Beginnings series here:
http://strokes.kintailscape.com/SeriesBeginnings.html

This weekend I'll post 'Late Call' which I wrote ages ago, but which makes more sense after reading Toby ^^
So read this... and I'll get 'Late Call' posted soon. And THEN I'll be able to post Halloween and it will actually make sense to y'all. Er, assuming one day I'll finish Halloween.

Comments

[tinadp.livejournal.com]

Well, I was on my way to bed , but had to stay up a few minutes longer for a new fic, and it was worth it. My first response was awwwww, so sweet. At first I was trying to remember who Toby wast then it dawned on me - it was a duh moment. I loved how Nik fell in love with him, and how Toby brought Bradley into the group. I also thought it was very yummy that you gave us a little sneezy Coyote to for extra fun. And of course a little caregiving Olly is never a bad thing.
Can't wait to read more :)

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

Awww, cute! I'm a cat person, but Buster/Toby is such a sweetie that I suppose I'll have to make an exception for him. *G* And yay for having good, trustworthy people to play with and take care of him while he's gone. My friend Jill watches Eowyn for free, and I repay her with souvenirs from whereever I've gone away to.

Loved the bickering about driving, and poor sneezy Coyote too.

Two edit-y type questions/issues:

You have Olly feeling his own lymph nodes here:
Olly reached up and felt his forehead for fever. Then his hand slid down, checking Olly’s lymph nodes.

And this line, I somehow don't think they actually lived in the club. *G*:
“Well you see, Toby and I used to live in Stokes.

Just thought you might want to know. Lemme know if you ever want me to stop pointing these out, 'cause I don't want to offend/irritate you or anything.

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

Ok, now that I read that second one more closely, I see that it says 'Stokes' not 'StRokes', so maybe it's just a town I don't know of...sorry if that's the case!

[tarotgal]

Thanks for letting me know about the lymph nodes *sigh* I did say it wasn't well edited, but I feel incredibly stupid about that.

And, yeah, Stokes, Maryland is the fictional town in which the stories are set. So their calling the club 'Strokes' was sort of a play on that. The name of the club is also supposed to evoke sexual imagery (stroking) but I thought the club's tagline 'Different strokes for different folks' was just too good to pass up. ANYWAY... 'Stokes' as a town name was suggested to me by someone here way back when I was just a story or two into the series. But I'm very glad I went with it because (as mentioned in 'Rumor Has It') we can pretend that the town was named after Harriet Stokes, who was a famous transgender bricklayer.

However, I live in fear of accidentally writing Stokes when I mean Strokes and vice-versa. So it was certainly possible that I might have made that very mistake in this story. I always appreciate how close you read my stories :-)