The following ficlet is but a short snippet with emphasis not on the content, but rather on the writing exercise of fulfilling the requirements of the "ABC" challenge on the [serge] Mailing List. It shows.

Silent Hopes and Dreams
Author: allaire mikháil
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski
Rating: PG-13
Summary: During a boring day at the 27th, Ray keeps daydreaming...
Beta thanks to: lmondegreen
502 words, challenge response, RayK POV.

The following story has been sleeping in my desk drawer for quite some time now. I wrote it back in - what was it? 1994? when I first discovered K/S slash in zine format. It never got finished, and it never got translated into English. Still, I like it enough that I believe it deserves to be read, even if it's only the first part of a longer storyline:

Der Weg in der Dunkelheit - #1: Opfer und Opfer
Author: allaire mikháil
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Pairing: James T. Kirk / Spock
Rating: NC-17 (for adult themes)
Summary: Als sein bester Freund aus romulanischer Gefangenschaft zurückkehrt, versucht Spock verzweifelt, die mentalen und emotionalen Wunden von James T. Kirk zu heilen. Aber Jim tut etwas Unverzeihliches...
2.299 words, drama, Kirk POV.

How to get Kirk and Spock into bed together in a believable way? With Spock still being all Vulcan about it?

I believe the style works extremely well - another reason why translating this story into English never progressed very far.

Back in the summer of 2000, when I was deep into The Sentinel, I experienced a rare thing - inspiration. And not just for a ficlet, no, for a true story. Instead of packing my bags for my vacation in Greece, I stubbornly clung to my parents' computer and wrote down the following story in a daze:

Ripples in the Dirac Sea (or: The infinite Amount of Colors between Black and White)
Author: allaire mikháil
Fandom: The Sentinel
Pairing: Jim Ellison / Blair Sandburg
Rating: R
Summary: Life offers us many crossroads to choose from, and, no matter how we decide each time, we'll have to live with the consequences...
Beta thanks to: MoonShadow
9.319 words, drama, 3rd person POV.

The inspiration came from two short stories I'd found quite some time ago in a science fiction collection of my father's. Decisions. Crossroads. What if. The most interesting thought experiment ever.

edit: The quotes from both short stories, Geoffrey A. Landis' "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" and George Alec Effinger's "Schrödinger's Kitten", have now been taken directly from the original texts instead of been incorrectly translated.

Another exercise in pointlessness. My oldest finished "fanfic", although not the first I ever posted:

Surprise!
Author: allaire mikháil
Fandom: Highlander: The Series
Pairing: none (gen)
Rating: G
Summary: Just a little gathering of friends for a certain birthday party... with a single thing going not as planned.
Beta thanks to: natlet
1.318 words, humor, 3rd person POV.

If it helps, I believe I've since grown as a writer.