I'm not hot shit in a wineglass, more curried goat in a paper cup

(Retro post: Apparently when I updated this story I forgot to post about it on DW/LJ.)

Author: Derien
Genres: Science-fiction/Victorian Adventure/Queer Teen Romance.
Summary: In the distant future a group of settlers try to recreate Victorian England on another planet, with mixed results. Two boys from quite different social strata find themselves alone on a raft on an uncharted river.
Notes: My initial notes can be found at the top of Chapter 1, where the story so far is now archived on AO3.


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Chapter 21: A Mango a Day Does Not Keep The Doctor Away

I'm going to go under sedation tomorrow, so here's something to remember me by...

Title: Swept Away! - Two Boys' Adventures on The Great River (“With A Thousand Elephants!”) - A Pseudo Victorian Boys Adventure
Author: Derien
Genres: Science-fiction/Victorian Adventure/Queer Teen Romance.
Summary: In the distant future a group of settlers try to recreate Victorian England on another planet, with mixed results. Two boys from quite different social strata find themselves alone on a raft on an uncharted river.
Notes:(Please go Back to Chapter One for full Notes)



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Previous chapters on LiveJournal:
CH 1 / CH 2 / CH 3 / CH 4 / CH 5 / CH 6 / CH 7 / CH 8 / CH 9 / CH 10 / CH 11


( Chapter Twelve - Native Aliens )

Title: Swept Away! - Two Boys Adventures on The Great River
(“With A Thousand Elephants!”) - A Pseudo Victorian Boys Adventure
Author: Derien
Genres: Science-fiction/Victorian Adventure/Queer Teen Romance.
Notes:(Please go Back to Chapter One for full Notes)

This chapter = over 4,359 words.


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Previous chapters can be found on my own site here,
or read on LiveJournal: CH 1 / CH 2 / CH 3 / CH 4 / CH 5 / CH 6 / CH 7 / CH 8

( Chapter Nine: Fire and Fish )
Chapter Ten

Sorry about the delay with this chapter. But at least it's longer than the last one.

As always, tell me please please please if something doesn't work, doesn't fit, words or phrases are wrong, etc.

Title: Swept Away! - Two Boys Adventures on The Great River
(“With A Thousand Elephants!”) - A Pseudo Victorian Boys Adventure
Author: Derien
Genres: Science-fiction/Victorian Adventure/Queer Teen Romance.
Notes:(Please go Back to Chapter One for full Notes)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.

This chapter = 3,864 words.

Previous chapters can be found on my own site here,
or read on LiveJournal: CH 1 / CH 2 / CH 3 / CH 4 / CH 5 / CH 6

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( Chapter 7 - On the River )

Title: Swept Away! - Two Boys Adventures on The Great River
(“With A Thousand Elephants!”) - A Pseudo Victorian Boys Adventure
Author: Derien
Genres: Science-fiction/Victorian Adventure/Queer Teen Romance.
Notes:(Please see Chapter One for full Notes)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0  License.

Previous chapters can be found on my own site here,
or read on LiveJournal: CH 1 / CH 2 / CH 3 / CH 4

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( Chapter Five - The Ghost of the Caravan )

As always, please let me know if you see so much as an apostrophe out of place.

Title: Swept Away! - Two Boys Adventures on The Great River
(“With A Thousand Elephants!”) - A Pseudo Victorian Boys Adventure
Author: Derien
Genres: Science-fiction/Victorian Adventure/Queer Teen Romance.
Notes:(Please see Chapter One for full Notes)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0  License.

Previous chapters can be found on my own site here,
or read on LiveJournal: CH 1 / CH 2

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( Chapter Three: A Poor Shot and The Happy Recovery of a Misplaced Memento. )
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Chapter Four: The last farm. Into the wild lands. A strange bridge is built.

I need a proper icon that means this story. I think I may have to draw one.

Title: Swept Away! - Two Boys' Adventures on The Great River
(“With A Thousand Elephants!”) - A Pseudo Victorian Boys Adventure
Author: Derien
Genres: Science-fiction/Victorian Adventure/Queer Teen Romance.
Notes: Original story, inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P.G. Wodehouse, G.M. Fenn, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Daegaer.
My utmost, heartfelt thanks to Eor for brainstorming, listening, arguing, poking me with a pointy stick and supporting me in this venture since June of '05 - I'm sure the experience would have killed a lesser man. Daegaer has also been very patient, and several others (Littleredhead stands highly among them) have offered corrections, thoughts and considerations which have been very helpful.

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Chapter One: The Caravan Prepares.

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Chapter Two:  Young Master Ethan makes himself Disliked, and the Caravan Arrives in the Village of Saradell.

Yes I'm freaking terrified to start posting this.  Note that it's been a year and a half since I started writing this.  At this rate I should probably only post one installment per month, and even so I'll have to write twice as fast as I have been if I hope to keep ahead. 

Any criticisms will be listened to and treasured!  They may not be acted upon immediately, but they will certainly be stored away for future reference. 

(Also, I figured out how to set my spellchecker for UK English, but I'm not sure that I believe it really worked, so let me know if you see something that's not right.)

ETA: It hadn't really worked. NOW Eor has properly fixed my spellchecker to use UK English, and this post has been updated with proper spelling. I think I also fixed all the "it's" mistakes and adjusted the wording where I had used the same word several times close together. Plus added a paragraph about housing, because Daegaer wrote something really nice that I wanted to use, and I just can't stop screwing around with stuff.

ETA 11/25/07 - Replacing LJ cut with link to my website so as not to have my story stored on LJ.