LoneGunGuy

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Name:	LoneGunGuy, Alec Nevala-Lee
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LoneGunGuy was an X-Files author.

Interviews

• Gossamer Interview with an Author: Alec Nevala-Lee (LoneGunGuy) (1996)
• Interview with an Author: LoneGunGuy (2001)

Same Fics

• Missing Time: X-Files Fiction by LoneGunGuy

Author's Comments Regarding His Fiction

Kabuki -- My first fanfic was written in three days flat. Various aborted projects of the previous year supplied me with much material on secret codes, sonic therapy and Kabuki Make-Up Syndrome; past a certain point, it seemed almost to write itself. I never expected that anyone would read it, much less respond. Today, I'm not sure I'd regard "Kabuki" as anything more than juvenilia, although the ideas are rather lovely. First posted in January 1996.

Don't Do Anything I Wouldn't Do -- The title actually predates the storyline by quite some time: it's the name of a long, langorous jazz instrumental on the soundtrack to "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me." This was my most introspective story so far as Mulder's personality was concerned, and the results are obviously mixed; I later banished the internal monolouge from all subsequent works, going for an objective cinematic approach with little or no attempt to analyze the characters' psyches. The love scene here is one of my best vignettes, though, and -- despite an excess of pseudoscience -- the writing is powerful throughout. First posted in February 1996.

April is the Cruelest Month -- In the middle of 1995, I'd written a longish story about a flower that attains intelligence and eventually develops homicidal tendencies. The story languished on the shelf until I had the idea of writing a crossover between "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "The X-Files." The result may be too ambitious for its own good; and it may contain sequences that are a trifle miscalculated; but it still stands as a pretty good tale. I'm still proud of the dialogue and the mad scatter of ideas. First posted in March 1996.

Vital Fluids -- This story began as a synthesis of articles on pseudohermaphrodism, hemophilia and the Turin Shroud. I'm still proud of my eventual solution, although the story itself seems rather inelegant with the passage of years -- it's all plot, all action, all idea, but the characters are cardboard and the events frequently ludicrous. In the form of "Diaspora," I felt the ideas were much better served. First posted in May 1996.

Blood of Angels -- This story began as a formal challenge. I wrote the first scene of "Blood of Angels" in ten minutes with little or no understanding of how the situation would resolve itself. I didn't know why Mulder had killed Scully; I didn't know why Scully was dressed as a hooker; I didn't know what momentous secret had brought them there. My task, then, was to answer those questions. Otherwise I made everything up as I went along. At one point, I didn't know whether Palimpsest existed or not; I didn't know whether Sera or X was telling the truth; I didn't know what It was; I didn't know what was kept at K Street, or why Scully had been sent the kangaroo, or why Janneson had been surgically modified, or who had killed Kaun -- and I didn't know how I was going to bring this huge, ridiculous mess to some semblance of a conclusion. Yet I did...sort of. But there will never be a sequel. First posted in August 1996.

And, two years later...

Diaspora -- "Vital Fluids" boasted an unusually compelling beginning but its eventual solution and denouement left much to be desired. Diaspora" was an attempt to rectify the situation. I began with the same incident, the same victim, the same circumstances, then broadened the story as it progressed. The result was a meditation on God and the Holocaust disguised as a pastiche of Jorge Luis Borges. The scene where Pachad slays the college student ranks with the best things I have ever written. First posted in September 1998.

Fan Comments

Now for a blast from the past. This author has not written anything in a long time, and frankly that makes me very sad. There are not many fanfic authors out there that have successfully pulled off a long, plausible, exciting, X- Files story without being mired in romance. You'll need to give this story some allowances for timeframe as it was written before season four, but I doubt you will be sorry for doing so. Read "Blood of Angels" and join me as one of the folks who begged for a sequel. He also has an interesting take on vampires called "Vital Fluids" .