Path: newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newshosting.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!yellow.newsread.com!news-toy.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!POSTED.newshog.newsread.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated Approved: ascem@earthlink.net Organization: Better Living Thru TrekSmut Sender: ascem@earthlink.net Message-ID: <41334B9D.6080000@comcast.net> From: "czb (Chris)" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list ASCEML@yahoogroups.com; contact ASCEML-owner@yahoogroups.com Subject: NEW DS9: Metamorphosis 0/4 (O/K) [NC-17] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 66 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:55:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.198.142.218 X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 1093884904 209.198.142.218 (Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:55:04 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:55:04 EDT Xref: news.earthlink.net alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated:83258 X-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:55:08 PDT (newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net) Title: Metamorphosis Author: C. Zdroj Email: czb at comcast dot net Website: http://odosgirl.tripod.com/ Series: DS9 Part: 0/4 Rating: NC-17 Codes: O/K, Dukat, Quark Warnings: explicit sex; angst; Cardassian Occupation-era violence, including execution, rape, and torture Archiving: Bajorarama, ASC*. Others please ask. ~~~~ Author's Notes for "Metamorphosis": This story was originally completed in 1997 for the second issue of the fanzine "Love and Justice." It's been at least a few years since I last read it all the way through, and in all honesty, I was a little afraid to do so before posting it here. "Metamorphosis" was my fourth completed fanfic, and is probably one of the most ambitious stories I've ever attempted. It's an AU version of Odo's transformation from changeling to human in "Broken Link" and the aftermath of that transformation, but it also draws heavily on the events of "Things Past," as well as bits and pieces of "The Die is Cast" and "Necessary Evil." It's also probably the darkest piece of fiction that I've written to date about Odo's past, both as a lab specimen in the Bajoran Science Center and as Terok Nor's security chief during the Cardassian Occupation. And if all that weren't enough, its narrative also makes sometimes elliptical use of dreams and flashbacks. I don't think that any new writer could take on all of that and fully succeed–-but I was surprised and pleased, during that dreaded re-reading, to discover how much of this fiction actually does still work-–at least for me. The sex scenes are probably a bit too purple, and if I were writing this today I'd probably try to make Odo just a little more hard-edged--and there's an awful lot here that could be more fully fleshed out ... But that's the nature of revisiting your own work once it's gathered a little dust--you always see something that you could have done differently or better. I have re-edited this version of the story just a little for posting to this forum. I got rid of a few typos from the zine version, changed or deleted a word here and there, and revised maybe two or three sentences to make them clearer, but for the most part, this is the story that I wrote seven years ago, so bear that in mind as you read. Also, when this piece was published in print, the dream/flashback portions of the story were set in italic type to visually distinguish them from the rest of the narrative. As there was no good way to duplicate that effect in text format, I decided to simply let the flashbacks stand without visually marking them off in any way except for the asterisk section-breaks that were in the original version of the story. I think these portions are reasonably self-explanatory (considering that they are coming from the POV of a couple of fairly disoriented characters), though if they aren't, I trust that readers will let me know. Later this year, I hope to post "Bodies of Knowledge," a much more recent story of mine that deals with some of the same material (Odo's transformation to human) in a slightly different way. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ASCEM messages are copied to a mailing list. Most recent messages can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASCEML. NewMessage: