#in my latest alleyn rereads I've been thinking about alleyn and fox a lot. i love their conversation.

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I'm so glad you took the WIP ask invitation! Alleyn bits?? (Though I am also intrigued by "cozy mystery" with many question marks.)

Thank you! "alleyn bits" doesn't actually have a whole lot yet, but what is there is various self-indulgent fragments of Alleyn fanfiction in which I try to write around 1) hurt/comfort sort of scenarios and/or 2) the friendship between Alleyn and Fox, in the same way that Marsh sort of writes around things. A bit of a bit:

Some time after that, there was a certain amount of noise from elsewhere in the flat, and Alleyn opened his eyes and struggled to raise his head, realizing he was alone in the now-dim room.  “I was out,” he thought.  The room no longer dipped and swayed with his motion, but when he tried to sit up, a pain stabbed him between the eyes, and he thought he might be sick.  As his vision cleared again, he became aware of a basso rumbling from much nearer at hand than before, and a comfortingly solid figure blotting out the light from the hallway.  It was standing in the doorway and talking to someone outside of the room. “Fox,” said Alleyn. “Now then,” said Inspector Fox.

I have another ask waiting about the cozy mystery, so I will go answer that and link it in a reblog! The number of question marks is also related to the fact that I was wrestling with another short thing I wanted to write, and then suddenly was seized with a surprisingly complete (for an initial concept) idea for a cozy mystery series, and started to write that instead.

#in my latest alleyn rereads I've been thinking about alleyn and fox a lot. i love their conversation. #also i haven't actually gone back to check but i suspect some of this prose is dangerously similar to pieces at the end of Dead Water #an ask #an answer #on writing #should probably also tag: #inspector alleyn