Taleya
Author at Final Refuge http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~taleya.
911 (Sentinel)
Reviewed by Kathryn A on 30th July 2000 (16)
Tags: Short Story
(15K)
The log of a 911 call. Very good.
Blair to a T. We just love our Blair. And the last bit is Simon to a
T. Gotta smile at the last line.
Bereft (Doctor Who)
Reviewed by Kathryn A on 30th March 2008 (20)
Tags: Short Story
(8K)
Summary:What would happen if the TARDIS actually HAD been destroyed during the Big Finish Audio Singularity?
This is sad, heartbreaking, moving... with a sliver of hope.
Just enough to keep Turlough and the Doctor going, enduring in this bleakness;
the bleakness of a Russian winter, the bleakness in the Doctor's mind
of the loss of the TARDIS and the communion he had with it.
The Dark Path (Sentinel)
Reviewed by Kathryn A on 13th March 2002 (2)
Tags: Short Story
(28K)
This story follows on from the end of the episode "Dead Drop".
Well, it may follow on, but I don't follow it. It didn't make sense to
me. It started out promisingly, with the emotional aftermath of the
episode, and I thought it would be a nice insightful emotional
resolution story. Then it turned into something completely different!
I can't see where one follows on from the other, except possibly the
implication that Jim threatening to drop Rachins at the end of the
episode is explained by the Evil Presence. But as it was, the spirit
plane stuff just felt cliched to me, and lacked subtlety. There's more
to a choice between good and evil than a fancy setting and rotting
corpses. This story really did not work for me.
Desperate Measures (Doctor Who)
Reviewed by Kathryn A on 30th March 2008 (21)
Tags: Short Story
(10K)
Summary:Set after Enlightenment, Turlough takes a final, desperate action to claw his way to freedom.
This story is painted with emotions, gestures, actions, expressions;
oh yes, there is dialogue, but very little is needed.
Masks fall, and then rise again.
Intense, well written, plausible missing scene.
Fallout (Sentinel)
Reviewed by Kathryn A on 28th November 2000 (1)
This story is an angst-fest, with spooky mystical stuff.
There are a few stale phrases -- I noticed two instances of "burly
Captain(s)" within the space of a few paragraphs, and while I might
describe Joel as burly, I don't really think of Simon that way. The
characterisation is a touch more fanon than canon.
The story picks up in the second half, becoming more interesting to me
as Jim has to face the strangeness of a fractured reality, and making
me cheer as he doesn't play by the rules, and giving us some cool
character moments at the end.
Jim sank down onto the couch, cradling his
head in his hands. He had no idea. This wasn't his realm, this was
Blair's. Give him something tangible, something he could fight with
his fists, not words. Blair was the academic, the wizard who built
towers of elegant phrases, not him. Blair was the one who opened his
mind, seeing things that no one thought of noticing. Blair was
the Shaman, the Guide.
The soul.
But Blair wasn't there.
All in all, reasonably good. Though I was actually expecting the end
to be somewhat chilling, but the author didn't do what I expected.