The Mara Chronicles
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| Title: | The Mara Chronicles |
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| Date(s): | "Domestic Scene With Palm Tree" -"Tales of the Blue Elf Publishing, July 1983", "retyped and revised with permission -- June 1991" |
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| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Pros, original fiction |
| Language: | English |
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The Mara Chronicles is a gen, het, and slash AU 82-page anthology of original fiction, with Bodie and Doyle from The Professionals showing up at the end.
The first story in the series was distributed as a 1983 ciruit story. In June 1991, a copy of the stories were retyped, revised and bound.
The fiction is by Nansi Loser and Lainie Stone.
Excerpt from "Time Guild"
Jennie explains her visitors to Ray:
"Mara and Bagoas are my adoptive grandparents. That is to say, they're my multiple great-grandparents. My family traces back to five little boys Bagoas bought at a slave auction in Menfe. Mara and Bagoas have always checked up on their descendants, and they are always Girandpa and Grandma. They've always been there, you see?"
It was plain that he didn't see.
"They belong to the Time Guild. Of course you don't know about that, but Time Guild agents move through history 'fixing' things—a little bit like Dr. Who. No one knows where Mara was born or when but Bagoas started out as Alexander the Great's Persian Boy. Someday, I may join the Guild, too."
Doyle didn't say anything, just looted at her with dazed incomprehension.
"Oh, dear." Jennie bit her lip. "Well, I guess we'll just have to show you." She dragged him back into the living roon where Bodie and Bagoas were eyeing each other warily, and Mara awaited the outcome.
"He doesn't believe me," Jennie announced.
"Of course not." Mara nodded. "After all, he's a rational man."
Contents
- Babylon Unbound by Nanci Loser, attributed to Mosby Singleton on the online circuit archive (Alexandria 323 B.C., two characters are Mara and Ptolemy) (62 pages)
- Epilogue by Nanci Loser, attributed to Mosby Singleton on the online circuit archive (Alexandria 313 B.C., sequel to Babylon Unbound) (4 pages)
- Domestic Scene With Palm Tree by Nanci Loser (attributed to EJ Pellham-Stewart at the online circuit archive)[1] (Alexandria, unknown past date) (9 pages)
- Time Guild, author not stated but attributed to Lainie Stone at the online circuit archive (present time, Jennie is Ray Doyle love interest, her time-traveling relatives (Mara) come to visit, Bodie and Doyle go back in time and meet Damon and Brihanet) (crossover with Wine Dark Nexus and The Professionals) (6 pages)