GRADUATION DAY (Gen version)

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Author: Avery11
Genre: Gen

(Author's Note: A friend suggested that I write a Gen version of the Slash story I did for a Challenge gift awhile back. Here's the result.)

Graduation Day

(Gen version)

     Illya passed through the ancient stone portal of Trinity College, his black doctoral robes flapping rather comically in the stiff breeze. Under his arm, he carried his mortarboard, gratefully redundant now, and the folder holding his PhD in Quantum Mechanics, primi ordinis -- the youngest candidate in the history of the College to achieve the distinction. He strode on, past the statue of Henry VIII with its missing, pilfered leg, and the rooms of Isaac Newton, preserved from the days when he had been a student there.

***Author's Note: The rest of this story has been deleted for a year, so that it can be published in Lisa Madden's zine, "The Kuryakin Files." It's a Gen-awesome zine, nearly 200 pages of stories and art about our favorite guys. You can contact Lisa at North Coast Press if you want to order a copy: lemadden52@gmail.com

Comments

[avery11.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think alot of us feel the same way about the lack of clarity in the rating system. (We won't even discuss FFnet!)

The problem is that there is no consensus on how to update the values, and the changes will be difficult to initiate, given how many cousins cross into other fandoms where the old rating system would still apply.

That said, I can give you paragraphs, a reasonable amount of spellchecking, and hopefully, a damned good story. :)

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

there is no consensus

That is so true. I came across a discussion somewhere in LJ that had a lot of people trying to insist that Gen mean no relationships could exist in the story at all. Even a canonical married couple had to be apart for a story to be Gen. I just didn't get it.

MfU, like B7 and DV, has grown up fans who understand the value of presenting a story in a readable form.