Hey there,

>>Thanks for posting these X-Files stories! I really enjoyed reading Silent Witness in particular, like you said, it's a favourite.  However, I don't know how you can complain that there's no plot!<<

Okay - not much of a plot, then!  In my own defence, though, I would say that when I wrote that story, I wasn't looking to write a large, complicated plot with its own X-File.  Mulder's world might be writ large, but the whole point of this story was that it was focussed on someone a lot further down the food chain, whose personal dramas were far smaller in scale.

>>I think it's great, Lizzie is a really interesting character and I think her deafness really adds dimension to the story.<<

The funny thing is that I hesitated about re-posting this story because of Lizzie Tarvi.  Writing original characters is practically a non-issue in the X-Files fandom, but I've noticed in the Harry Potter fandom that original characters pretty quickly get jumped on as Mary-Sues.  The whole issue of Snape's long-lost daughters and beautiful American exchange students aside, original characters don't have to be Mary-Sues.  Or whatever the male equivalent is.

I would point everyone towards Josan's "A Gift Of Light" if they don't believe that original characters can stand up in their own right.

>>It also seems very realistic, full of small and accurate details.<<

Including several lapses in my Americanisms <winces>  I seem to remember that I got hammered for my description of the lift when I originally posted it, though.  Several people told me that elevators aren't like that ... except that they are.  I based that one on the lift in my old office building, which has been there since the late 1920s.  It's a horror.  Mercifully, it was deactivated a couple of years ago, although it's still in situ because it's included in the English Heritage Listing as part of the building.

<shudder>

I might post a couple of the longer stories.  I might not.  I haven't decided yet, as I'm still wrestling with Harry <g>

Mad Martha