JÖRMUNGANDR: A sorta kinda mostly almost in-canon tale filled with Daria and Daria-related characters, including Daria herself. (On Going)
Scarlett: When Daria came to Lawndale, someone else moved to Lawndale, too. Introducing Scarlett, her mouse, and the Lawndale Leopards, and how they fit into the bizarre events that went on behind the scenes of our favorite show: Daria.
Pause in the Air Series: A collection of stories about the Daria and Jane ship.
The Outers Triology
Who Once was Lost: Two little girls from Highland, Texas, go to Camp Grizzly for several weeks of annoying summer fun. Only one little girl comes home. Three years later, the other little girl begins her long journey back—but discovers that the world has moved on without her. Inspired by the fifth-season Daria episode, “Camp Fear,” “Who Once Was Lost” is the first tale in a science-fiction series about a Daria displaced in time.
But Now is Found:Twelve-year-old Daria Morgendorffer, the only human known to have been kidnapped by aliens, tries to return to a normal life in her new home in Lawndale. Now younger than her sister Quinn, Daria finds fitting into school again is tough—but the trouble has only started. Someone is looking for her and will stop at nothing to find her, and what will happen if she’s found, no one can say.
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A Hard Day’s Night: A serial tale that describes what actually happened during the Daria TV show that the network did not show us, as narrated by an important background personage having first-hand knowledge of events depicted in the show’s third season, a time the narrator feels was quite taxing for the necessity of saving both his family and the earth, not to mention keeping his very skin intact.
Darius: Imagine Daria with a Y chromosome. What might have happened if the eldest child of Jake and Helen Morgendorffer had been born a boy? Here is an alternate-history might-have-been, or a parallel-universe might-yet-be, with all the fallout.
Daria 2007: What might Daria have been like if the show had taken place in 2007, ten years later than it did? And what if Daria had gone to an alternate high school back in Highland? One answer to those questions lies in this response to two fanfic challenges.
It Slipped Through My Hands, Like a Shadow, Like a Dream: In an alternate universe, a lonely outcast named Daria moves from Highland to Lawndale, yet in the wake of a single change to the Dariaverse we know, disaster spreads unchecked. The one who could have prevented it now cannot, and the widening avalanche of chaos will engulf everyone the outcast has known—unless someone takes a stand to stop it.
Outcasts from Beyond: On her way to see Tom Sloane, Daria Morgendorffer has a car wreck—but that’s only the start of her problems in this long, weird alternate-universe/crossover Daria tale of secret identities and super-powers that begins about halfway through “Boxing Daria” and heads into the wild blue.
The Thirteenth Man: Compared to his intellectually and morally challenged classmates at Lawndale High, Daria’s classmate “Mack” Mackenzie is almost superhuman. What if he really was superhuman? Enter an alternate universe in which Mack is not only too good to be true, he’s even better than that. What could possibly go wrong for a straight-arrow guy who can do anything and everything? Let us see.
The Alternate History Teacher: A change has occurred in the Dariaverse, and the consequences have cascaded downward for almost three decades. Enjoy the trip.
MAD DOG: A Halloween tale from an alternate Daria universe: There shall be done a deed of dreadful note (William Shakespeare, Macbeth, III, ii, 40.)
Nine Pint Oh: Just before noon, January 1, 2005, west of Petchkasem Road down to Bang Niang Beach, resort city of Khao Lak, Phang-Nga province, Kingdom of Thailand: The Griffin family’s New Year.
When the Torrent of That Time Comes Pouring Back: The lone survivor of a disastrous family vacation returns to Lawndale in January 2005, in this sequel to the Daria fanfic, “Nine Point Oh.”
A Certain Amount of Depth: Quinn Morgendorffer and David Sorenson meet in Lawndale just before Quinn’s senior year, and they try to resolve troubling issues between them from the time when he was her tutor a year earlier (in Is It Fall Yet?).
African Queen: Fourteen heavily armed men went hunting for her in the jungle. It was not a fair fight.
After the End: Jane eventually forgave Daria for kissing Tom . . . but what if she hadn’t? What if the “freakin’ friends” were no more? An AU story with a twist.
All Shall Love Me and Despair: A Daria/Lord of the Rings crossover (Unfinished)
Almost Strangers in the Night: A short Quinn/Upchuck shipper-fic.
Always Besides You: Two siblings meet late in life to share dreadful secrets, but someone else is with them, too: an old friend who is no longer among the living. This alternate-universe tale spins off from events in the episode, “Fair Enough,” carrying them in a nightmarish direction.
And All Was Right With the World: A soldier comes home, but the war has never left him.
And When Your Heart Begins to Bleed: Daria, Jane, Quinn, Stacy, Sandi, and other students at Lawndale High struggle through a brutal twenty-four-hour period of unforeseen challenges, in this alternate-universe tale created from a list of the “Top Ten Things That Never Happen in Daria Fanfics” (with a few extra ideas thrown in).
Another Damn Mary Sue Fanfic: The author writes a Mary Sue story for Daria. The cause of literature is hurled back into the Dark Ages.
Anything for Jane: A Mother’s Day fanfic about a favorite niece who discovers her favorite aunt was more important in her life than she had guessed.
April is the Cruelest Month: Two junior undergraduates from Boston take their medical and emotional problems with them during spring break in the Rockies.
Art of Seeing: When Daria meets Jane in an alternate universe, they discover things that the eye will never find.
As Many Worlds as There Are Artists: Daria and Jane consider their future after high school, while Trent and his friends discuss Mystik Spiral’s next masterpiece—but what if things had come out differently, artistically speaking?
Aunt Kara: When Helen Morgendorffer’s youngest sister (the “wild one” from Hollywood) comes to visit, guess which member of the family gets the biggest surprise!
Backhanded Remarks: Sandi Griffin courts disaster at the French Open tennis tournament, and nets a ton of trouble.
The Ballad of Stacy Rowe: A musical spin-off from a much better fanfic by E. A. Smith (“Good Intentions”), this bluegrass-music ballad works best if sung to the tune of Grandpa Jones’s famous “Mountain Dew,” with banjo accompaniment.
Brave New World: The only thing worse than waking up without remembering where you are, who you’re with, or how you got there . . . is remembering.
Bus Stop: This was written as an entry in Erin M.’s February 2003 Iron Chef contest to write a brief crossover ficlet for Daria that “shouldn’t be done.” It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the major characters of the Daria show, so explanations of who is who are not needed.
But in Her Heart a Cold December: “Might be CIA,” Daria Morgendorffer sarcastically wrote of the security-obsessed principal of “Laaawndale High,” Angela Li—but Daria was closer to the truth than she knew. From her hospital bed, Ms. Li reviews her turbulent life as she recovers from her breakdown in the fifth-season episode, “Fizz Ed.”
Change the World: Mr. O’Neill asks his class to write inspirational essays—and comes to regret that when Daria Morgendorffer reads one entitled, “You, Too, Can Change the World.”
Click, Click, BOOM: Somewhere in an alternate universe, Daria Morgendorffer meets Jane Lane—and before you know it, things click and they’re all over Lawndale, shooting people.
Crossing Over: A dystopian Mary Sue crossover Daria metafic ficlet that should not have been written.
Daria Dance Party: Song lyrics about an alternate-universe Daria that you aren’t likely to recognize—once the sun goes down.
darea: A very short tale of a secret, unrequited love.
DariaLance: A Daria/Dragonlance crossover was suggested, and a ficlet was born.
Daria’s Addition: What could have happened after “Jane’s Addition”: Daria finds a new friend that comes in a bottle and is 80 proof.
Darkness: In the not-too-distant future, a funeral-home director in Montana struggles to defend her family from the chaotic End Times foretold in the Book of Revelation. Who is she? A world-weary, thirty-something cynic named Daria.
Dark of Hearts: How would the third-season episode “Jake of Hearts” have gone if Jake’s father, Mad Dog Morgendorffer, were still alive? This twisted Daria/Tom shipper-fic from a dark alternate universe answers the question.
Das Elendskücken: Hitler wins. Fifty years later, the Misery Chick comes to Lawndale. (Unfinished)
The Amazing Adventures of D-DAY and the MIGHTY JANE!: The unstoppable D-Day Morgendorffer and The Mighty Jane Lane face their greatest challenge yet in this alternate-universe tale of superheroes, supervillains, cliffhangers, and sudden death!
Dear Whoever: Daria minutia: a sad plea from a Daria character, from the unpublished musical version of, “And When Your Heart Begins to Bleed” (not really, but if there was one, this song would be in it).
DEUS JANE: What was happening behind the scenes of the Daria show? Were the show’s artistic and script-related mistakes truly “accidental”? Who was the show really about? Discover the shocking answers in this fantasy crossover tale about a teenage girl whose Neverland was her own home town: Lawndale.
Die, Die, You Bastard: After ruining Jane’s hair-dye job, Daria fears she has lost her best friend. Jane, for her part, fears Daria is trying to steal her boyfriend, Tom. Will everything work out for the best? And what does T. S. Eliot have to do with any of this?
DRIVE: Investigative show hosts Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane take their “Good Mornings with Daria and Jane Show” to a Pacific island that houses a secret government research base—and are caught up in a nightmare that leads them farther from home than they can imagine in this near-future science-fiction adventure based on MTV’s Daria.
Driving Miss Daria: A shipper-fic with a surprise. With two failed relationships and three miserable years of college behind her, Daria sits down to write a difficult term paper. Then comes a knock at her apartment door. . . .
THE DUST BUNNY PROJECT: A Musical Review!: Daria’s worst nightmare: the dust bunny project has come to life!
Easy A: A good grade doesn’t always mean that getting it was a good thing, too.
Every Hour Saved from That Eternal Silence: Astronaut Daria Morgendorffer takes one small step on the greatest voyage of her life—then discovers her ultimate destination is not the moon, but hell.
The Original Underground Government-Suppressed Version of Brother Grimace’s Classic Daria Fanfic, “THE SUN WILL COME OUT, TOMORROW”: A sad example of what happens when a fanfic writer takes a well-known opening scene from another fanfic writer’s story and mucks it up, abusing other fanfic writers in the process. There ought to be a law. However, since there isn’t, you may as well read the story.
Feeding Frenzy: On a most unusual day at Lawndale High School, Upchuck discovers that he has—somehow—become king of the babe magnets.
The First Time: Daria and Tom do it for the first time—and it’s rated G!
Forgotten But Not Gone: The statue of a bearded man stands in Lawndale’s Village Green, but no one in town knows who he is. When Daria is reluctantly goaded into discovering the bearded man’s his identity, she and Jane uncover a bizarre ninety-year-old mystery leading them into extraordinary danger. This (slightly AU) Daria fanfic is set in the “lost summer” between Daria’s sophomore and junior year at Lawndale High School.
Fortunate One: When Quinn Morgendorffer moves with her family to Lawndale, she tells her new friends that she is an only child—but she secretly suspects this was not always so. Did she once have a big sister? What happened to her? Where did she go? And was her sister named . . . Daria?
Go Ahead and Dance!: The lyrics to one of Trent Lane’s better-known songs, written after Mystik Spiral’s move to Boston, shortly after Trent’s sister Jane began college there (per the Daria movie, Is It College Yet?).
Gone: The Cuban Missile Crisis boils over in October 1962—and the lives of three sisters change forever. The young Helen, Rita, and Amy Barksdale star in this tale of family bonds tested under the worst of worst-case scenarios.
Hal Point Nine: A story about a girl and her unusual . . . pet.
Highland Fling: The best night that Daria ever had in Highland, Texas, did not start out that way.
History Lesson: The Morgendorffers discover a little secret about their family tree.
Home on Deranged: The annual faculty-vs.-DJ competition at Lawndale High School gains a Wild West flavor when mechanical bull riding becomes the death-sport of choice. A third-season Daria comedy script (before Tom), set during Daria’s junior high-school year.
Howard: Daria Morgendorffer hears the story about Howard the duck (not that Howard the Duck) in this third-season tale that explains why Trent Lane will not go into a bookstore. A little shipperiness and angst included.
If You Only Walk Long Enough: A ten-year-old girl, in abject misery at summer camp, has an unexpected conversation with a talking cat.
Illusions: What did Daria see behind the attic door that made her faint? Would you believe . . . another Daria? Prepare for a crossover journey into strange but familiar Lawndales, drawn from alternate-universe Daria fanfics of every sort.
The Impossible: A little girl realizes her goal in life with the help of an even smaller girl—a bright blue one.
In the Beginning: Brittany Taylor is hiding a guilty pleasure. How will people react when they discover what she’s been doing, and how long will she keep lying about it?
Prayers for the SAINT: Amy Barksdale takes her favorite niece out to celebrate the publication of a Melody Powers story. Another story follows.
Invisible Planet: Quinn Morgendorffer sets out to visit her aunt, Amy Barksdale, for a long January weekend. When her plans are literally shot to pieces, Quinn discovers that nothing is as she once believed, and saving her aunt from further harm might also mean saving the entire world as well.
Jane Unchained: During a sensory deprivation experiment, Jane Lane reveals a talent for getting her freedom—in a very unexpected way.
Just Desserts: Timothy O’Neill makes a special dinner for Janet Barch—right after Barch makes O’Neill stop taking that completely unnecessary psychiatric medication.
KILL TOM: The Deadly Fashion Viper Squadron meets its match in this Daria/Kill Bill crossover.
A Knight to Remember: An offbeat Daria shipper about a girl, a guy, and a Batmobile. The tale continues from where “Sappy Anniversary” leaves off, about half a year later.
Life is Good: A very short tale of an evil Daria and a sympathetic Tom. Sort of.
Like a Circle in a Spiral: Mystik Spiral hits it big—but not in the way they had always expected. This post-IICY tale spins off from the Daria episode, “Speedtrapped.
Like Angels’ Visits, Short and Bright: Amy Barksdale and two girlfriends are in a spot of trouble, with the fate of Earth at stake, in this way-over-the-top crossover of Daria, Charlie’s Angels, Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, the USAF Space Command, and H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu stories, if you will.
Like Father, Like —: What personality quirks did Daria inherit from her father, Jake? One possibility is explored in this ficlet.
Luuuv Story: A decade after high school, Daria and Quinn learn that their widowed mother, Helen Morgendorffer, has a special man in her life . . . and it’s Kevin Thompson. A sensitive and touching portrayal of mindless sex gone wrong.
Mack Daddy: Andrew Landon and Michael Mackenzie meet again, years after Mack and Jodie graduate high school, and Mr. Landon says something that Mack never expects.
Making the Breast of It: A ficlet about an alternate-universe superheroine with two big problems.
Meet the Fashion Club: There was one career path that the Fashionable Foursome could have taken, if they had wanted popularity, money, fame, and dates—and had talent, too.
Memory Lame: Amy Barksdale tells a little story, and Daria and Quinn almost die.
I Never Metamorphosis I Didn’t Like: Daria Morgendorffer awakens one morning from uneasy dreams to find herself transformed in her bed into a giant cockroach. Seriously. Well, not seriously, but a giant cockroach. We’re talking great literature. Based on it, I mean.
A Midsummer Nightmare’s Daria: Quinn pulls a prank that causes Jake to think that Daria has taken up demon worship, so he takes Daria to a weekend father-daughter seminar to “bring her back to the light.” Add in a few former classmates, romance, and an unexpected twist straight out of Stephen King’s world, and a very strange summer weekend gets underway in Lawndale.
More Than Just Lost: Jane Lane and Alison meet once again, a few years after the events of Is It Fall Yet? in this play for three voices. However, much has changed, and the meeting does not come out as expected.
The Morgendorffer Code: Imagine a Daria crossover involving Dan Brown’s thriller, The Da Vinci Code. Now imagine you’re about to read it.
Natural Charms: When Upchuck takes up modeling photography, things unexpectedly develop in a negative way.
Next in Line: Thirty years from now, three old friends reunite to remember the past, just moments before the future arrives to overtake them.
Nine-Eleven and Counting: The lives of Daria and Quinn Morgendorffer and Jane Lane are caught up in the traumatic events of September 11, 2001, when Quinn flies to Boston to visit Daria one weekend—then tries to fly home on that terrible Tuesday morning.
No One Lives Forever: It’s a typical day in Los Angeles for Brittany Taylor: warm sun, busy streets, no job, and sudden death.
Nothing Happens for a Reason: College freshmen Daria Morgendorffer and Tom Sloane are together again, joyously happy and blissfully in love—until the day she finds him in bed with a small zoo and Tiffany Blum-Deckler. You’ll weep, you’ll cry, you’ll kiss ten minutes of your life goodbye when you read this unofficial sequel to Mahna Mahna’s Daria/Tom shipper, “Everything Happens for a Reason.”
The Nothingness of Being: Joey arrives to take Quinn on a date—but she slams the door in his face. What happened after that moment in the fifth-season Daria episode, “One J at a Time”?
Nuthouse: Dinnertime visitors at the Morgendorffer home prove that Jake was right about one thing after all.
The Ωmega Jane: After a lethal pandemic kills almost everyone alive, Jane Lane inherits the earth—but only from dawn to dusk. Ghouls by the billions arise after sunset, and Daria Morgendorffer is one of them. A horror tale inspired by Richard Matheson’s classic novel of paranoia and vampirism, I Am Legend (later filmed as The Omega Man).
One More River to Cross: In helping Sandi Griffin through a difficult situation, Quinn Morgendorffer must make a decision that could determine her own nature, for good or for evil—but which choice is the right one? Story rated R for language and content.
And I on the Opposite Shore Will Be: Jane Lane makes a stunning confession to her closest friend—but is it a secret she should have kept to herself? A tale of how one third-season episode, “The Lawndale File,” could have gone.
The Other Story of D: Jane discovers a short story that Daria wrote during a low period in her life, and she gains a view into Daria that she never imagined existed.
Pander Bare: Daria mulls a possible career path as a nude exotic dancer.
Polly Andry Rides Again: Jeffy, Joey, or Jamie? Quinn can’t make up her mind which boy she wants to be with, so she picks . . . all of them.
Potential: Quinn Morgendorffer meets the man of her dreams, but the potential for nightmare is there, too, in this post-IICY? continuation of the second-season Daria episode, “That Was Then, This Is Dumb.”
Prisoner of Hope: Daria’s sole fan from childhood is reunited with her heroine—and learns a bitter lesson in this continuation of the fifth-season episode “Camp Fear.”
Pristine: Tom Sloane discovers that his ex-girlfriend, Daria Morgendorffer, has gotten an unbelievable car—but he has forgotten that old saying about curiosity and cats.
Can’t Touch That!: Kevin “QB Hammer” Thompson gets his fifteen seconds of fame on Lawndale Idol, with predictable results.
Quinnisqatsi: A Daria/Koyaanisqatsi crossover. It is impossible to describe this story better than that.
Quinnts: Episode #101: Extremesters: Mike Xeno once asked on PPMB, what if Quinn were a quint? Thanks to shoddy fertility drugs, Quinn in this alternate-history tale becomes the oldest of a group of quintuplets—five same-age, genetically identical sisters, each with her own interests. The dramatic effects that this has on the Morgendorffers’ life are revealed—with the equally dramatic effects this new family arrangement has on Our Heroine, Daria. Details on the five Quinnts are given in a special section at the start of this script.
As She Remembered It in the Long Years After: A love that never spoke its name finally does . . . too late.
The Secret Life: Two college students from Lawndale finally realize they were made for each other—but will anyone else realize this, too?
Self-Insertion: A semi-erotic furry Mary-Sue fanfic for the Daria show. One day I will regret ever writing this, I am sure.
Small Worlds: Jane and Daria meet a new Tom in this shameless Mary Sue.
Smoking Mirror: After a disastrous experience in Central America, Penny Lane returns to Lawndale, her life in shambles—but with her is a dark souvenir that unravels the lives of everyone around her in terrifying ways.
Snow Ball in Hell: Mrs. Johanssen collects souvenir snow balls—but only of a certain kind, as Tricia Gupty discovers.
Snowflakes: Daria makes a surprising discovery while looking through her parents’ bedroom drawers, but the real surprise is yet to come.
Special Delivery: Why was Daria out after curfew in “The Big House”? One possible (if far-fetched) explanation is given here, in this prequel to that episode.
Stacy and the Lamp: Stacy Rowe rubs an ancient brass lamp, gets three wishes—and it’s the end of the world as Lawndale knows it.
Stacy in Hell: A cautionary tale. The title says it all.
Sudden Death Overtime: A pink blossom grows from Kevin Thompson’s crutch at the end of the fourth-season episode, “A Tree Grows in Lawndale.” What happened after that? This horror-story sequel starts immediately following the blossom’s appearance, so its beginning is entirely in Daria canon!
Suite for Cello, Two-Part Invention: Brittany Taylor has a secret talent—and her new tutor, David Sorenson, is about to discover what it is.
Summer of the Hot Lake: The younger siblings and relatives of major Daria characters find themselves spending the summer at “Uncle” Timothy O’Neill’s Okay-to-Cry Corral, with none other than Wind Lane as their cabin counselor. There, the kids face the horrors of rice cakes and tofu for breakfast, therapy sessions to heal their inner selves, a legendary monster in the cooling pond of a nearby nuclear power plant, and—first love. Sam and Chris Griffin, Rachel Landon, Brian Taylor, Link (from the movie, Is It Fall Yet?), and Jane Lane’s nephew and niece, Adrian and Courtney, appear herein. The action takes place during the summer after the conclusion of the movie, Is It College Yet?
Terrible Tales of Tiffanny: A series of unfortunate dates with Tiffany Blum-Deckler, guaranteed to bring new meaning to the term “dismemberment.”
The Girl Who Walked Home All Alone in the Dark: Jane Lane tells a slightly twisted bedtime story to the Gupty kids, in the manner of the “Legends of the Mall” tales.
The IUF Tale: The author inserts himself and numerous other Daria fans, particularly members of the notorious IUF, into a lurid Daria fanfic, a nightmarish tale of cartoon lust and horror. You won’t understand this unless you’ve read the IUF spam threads on PPMB. No penguins were harmed in the writing of this script. I swear.
The Other: In yet another weird alternate universe, Daria is still a Scorpio, but her birthday is Halloween, with significant consequences, and her best friend Jane is . . . not who you think she is. (Unfinished)
There Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies: Ninth-grader Daria Morgendorffer learns from her new phys-ed teacher at Highland High that the future can ride on the flip of a coin, in this alternate-history tale.
The Thong Remains the Same: In this sensitive and insightful, though unofficial, continuation of Kara Wild’s Driven Wild Universe, Amy and Joel separate after fighting over a trivial issue, as married couples usually do, and they and Daria, Jane, Quinn, Helen, Jake, Tom, and everyone else wander Lawndale in search of a plot that is supposed to involve thongs. I think this is also the first Daria fanfic to feature a Hooters restaurant as a major setting.
Though the Course May Change Sometimes, Rivers Always Reach the Sea: Ten years after she met Daria Morgendorffer at Lawndale High School, Jane Lane has moved on with her life—but adulthood has led her in unusual directions.
Three Ways of Looking at a Tiffany Blum-Deckler: Just what is the deal with Tiffany Blum-Deckler, anyway? Three suggestions from science-fiction movies follow.
Through a Scooby Darkly: Daria meets Scooby-Doo! Isn’t that great
Till Death Do Us Part: “I’m in the witness protection program,” Daria told the bridesmaids at her cousin Erin’s wedding. “The Morgendorffers were kind enough to take me in after my real family was exterminated by the mob.” What if she had been telling the truth? Here is an alternate-history version of the wedding episode, “I Don’t.”
Tiffany in Futureland: A sad Daria ficlet with a happy ending. Tiffany Blum-Deckler stars in this topical political/sci-fi tidbit written in early November 2004, before the elections.
Tiffany in Wonderland: Tiffany Blum-Deckler goes to Wonderland, and Wonderland goes to heck.
True Lies: What were Daria and Quinn really doing out late on a school night just before they were caught by their parents in the opening scene of “The Big House”? And who would dare believe their answers?
Could Someone Turn Down the Sun?: Wackiness aplenty takes place on the “Good Mornings with Daria and Jane Show,” when Madame Tiffany the psychic accidentally causes the sun to go nova and destroy the earth. How will Daria and Jane cope with the loss of their core audience and network ratings, not to mention an astronomical catastrophe? Read on and find out! (Based on the future-ego shots at the end of Is It College Yet?)
The Two of Them: A blind date goes horribly awry—or does it? A Daria/Stacy shipper from an Iron Chef challenge, just because.
Unto the End: A church-based debate on the War in Iraq gets out of control—thanks to the person least likely to cause such a problem.
Uranium in the Drinking Water: There really was uranium in Highland’s water supply—and a new kind of Daria Morgendorffer is the result! Meet Daria the Faerie, the counterpart to Tinker-Jane of “Jane Unchained,” in this delayed response to an Iron Chef fantasy challenge.
You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows: A terrible secret from the past catches up with a former hippie radical, engulfing her family, her job, and the rest of her life.
Where No Light Breaks, Where No Sea Runs: Sunday afternoons at the Kinsington Women’s Correctional Facility are very slow, and one lone inmate has nothing to look forward to—until her only friend appears, and everything changes.
Whish Upon a Fallen Star: Stacy Rowe goes out on a weird date with Ted DeWitt-Clinton—and they discover the future.
Winter in Hell: Two cynical outcasts, seniors at Lawndale High School and the best of friends, struggle through another difficult day.
Wonderlane: It was hot, and little Jane Lane was tired and bored and had nothing to do, when a White Rabbit wearing a waistcoat ran past her, and—
Essays
Jane and the Lanes: It is possible with a little math work and careful study of Daria show scripts to work out the approximate ages of Jane Lane’s many siblings and the circumstances of their birth, feeding interesting speculation about the Lane family’s history and the sources of their interpersonal problems. More fanfic about the Lane family is called for. This is the fourth revision of this essay and includes much new material.
Jane Lane: Hero in the Making?: Is Jane Lane the offbeat artist soon to become Jane Lane, Hero for Hire? Her genetic code might hold the answer, thanks to a potential stockpile of famous Lane ancestors, courtesy of science fiction’s Wold Newton family!
The Sound of Muzak: Music has more of an influence on fanfic writing than is sometimes thought. Some examples of this are given from this author’s own Daria works. (This essay has been greatly expanded from its original form.)
Rita is Better Than Helen or Amy!: Rita Barksdale deserves better press than she’s gotten in Daria fanfic. This essay attempts to rectify the situation using material from the episodes themselves as proof of her basic goodness. Fanfic plot ideas are appended for everyone’s use.