Kappa Tracks

"A story is made up of words and characters. Are the words well chosen and do the characters live? All the rest is literary gossip."

My six decade love affair with the English language compels me to offer a list of authors whose work meets my critical standards. The single criterion operant is the quality of the prose as composed by the writers. I have made no discrimination whatsoever as to subject matter, theme, or plot.

Therefore be warned!

A great many of the works here listed may involve themes or subjects repugnant to some readers. I can only advise that if a particular story cannot be stomached, go on to the next; you will find at least a few to be to your taste.

Monday, March 08, 2010

'Bout time...

Some more names were added to this thing...
Have been lurking in the SS..checking out this yr's
'competition'...decided I must be doing something right..
With very few exceptions, the nominated writers also
appear in the listings on this thing...
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so, I think I'll add those exceptions now...
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List of noms(de plume)which have not
appeared on "Trax" & should have...
(musta missed them first time around)
alphabetically...
Artistic Rainey(o)[2-02]atr
the "Fallout Series"(7-09)
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BubblyShell22(o)[10-04]by
proli-fic!
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C-Puff(o)[8-02]Cp
Haven(1-10)
Wild Animals(9-09)
One Night on the Roof(6-09)
The White Bridge(4-10):ch.21-6-1-10
SSbest new:09
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Creature of the Dark(o)[5-08]cd
proli-fic!
He's Like:ch.5-6-3-09
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darke wulf(o)[4-01]dar
Cold of Winter:ch.18-6-13-10
Word of the DayTMNT:ch.5-9-30-09
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DeeMG(o)[4-09]dee
The Arena(4-09)21ch.6-28-09
and its sequel:
Sceptres and Strategies:ch.8-4-4-10
A Normal Night(10-09)
author highly recommended!
excellent writer!
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FelicitasFoo(o)[5-09]foo
The Need For a Little Down Time(6-09)
competent!
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Hyaroo/Roo(o)[3-09]hr
aka:Roo
The Turtle Who Never Was(3-09)
Donatello's Quest For Coffee(3-09)
xtreme crack--lovely!
Mike's New Hobby(3-09)
The Lion, the Cat and the Turtles:ch.9-3-30-10
x-over with Narnia! delicious!
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Leonardo Mystic(o)[12-01]ly
Perfect Enemy:ch.5-5-17-10
Waiting For You(8-04)
Never A Sick Day(6-07)
auth.mixes T with H.s.fems, but
writing is more than competent!
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Mikell(o)[2-09]mik
Xtreme Proli-fic!
competent writing..
worth reading.
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Polaris05(0)[9-07]Po5
And That's Why(p)(12-09)
What Never Happened(6-09)
angsty!
Why Leo Doesn't Cook(9-09)
Good answer!
Choosing(3-10)
Seasons(4-10)
What They Never Saw(12-09)
Confabulation(10-09)
You Can't Please Everyone(1-10)
Control:20ch.-2-9-10
WWW/RRR!
highly recommended!
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raphfreak(o)[9-08]rk
a proli-fic! storyteller..
the "Behind Bars" Trilogy
is recommended..
"Caged"16ch.3-8-09
"Imprisoned"18ch.6-29-09
"Jailed"15ch.10-20-09
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sait4soreyes(o)[11-08]sat
Evolution:ch.11-4-11-10
A/N:"only one writing at a time.."
worth reading!
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Scribe of Turesa(o)[6-09]sct
xtreme proli-fic!
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Simone Robinson(o)[7-08]sir
another xtreme proli-fic!
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Strawberi Pai(o0[6-05]str
Just A Shell:ch14-1-11-09
D. on a diet..
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Sugarloafin(o)[2-08]sgr
Where His Brothers Are(9-09)
an incident in the Cretaceous..
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Tauni(o)[4-08]tau
Sing Me To Sleep(3-09)
Falling Into A Mess(5-10)
Happening(3-09)
I Am Cat(3-10)
Sickness Unforeseen((3-10)
Intelligence is Not a Constant(11-08)
Black Iniquity:ch.4-11-7-08
Sanguinary(10-08)
A Series of Otioses(9-08)
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VGiselleH(o)[12-06]vh
Better To Have Loved:ch.18-3-19-10
xcellent! recommended!
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WebMistressGina(o0[5-01]Wmg
A Murder in Osaka:10ch.10-28-09
Yuku Sue Un Mei:15ch.10-2-09
& a sequel:
Koimonogatari:ch.2-11-15-09
What Happens Off World:13ch.9-30-09
Total Recall:6ch.7-1-09
Just The Facts:7ch.6-17-09
prequel to:
House Arrest(6-09)
And! gloriously inspired by inuficcrzy's
"Splinter's Rules For The Lair"
(check it out!)
WMGina has written:
House Rules:13ch-11-28-09
not to be missed!
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Westhaven18(o)[9-08]w18
Through The Gates:48ch-9-25-09
an AU romance...
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5-10:
Kappa comment: am not inputting any
'links' nowadays...they seem to morph
over time & lose validity...
The ff site's SEARCH function finds an
author's fic list with a reasonable degree
of accuracy.
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now, here's the Kappa comment...
(or..rant...as it were)
not all of the work(s) of the above noms
quite meet the Kappa's standards of grammar
& orthography....
However, since my fellow T-fen have seen fit to
select the creative efforts of these writers
for consideration in this and previous yr's "Competitions",
I can at least offer their names as(for the most part)
worthy of your reading time.
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Kappa, of course, has the privilege
of coming back here to tell you all about
those few really readable 'riters!("RRR")
& those capable of well wrought writing("WWW")
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In the future.....(wait for it!)
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Something tells me I've blotted my copybook....
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But since I've been fulminating in a vacuum
for a long time....It's nothing I can't handle.
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