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*bounces excitedly* I ordered my letterman's jacket! It's pretty and it's navy blue with white leather sleeves and a music staff and a saxophone (alto, there was no bari) on the back, with my grad year and a bulldog on the front pockets. And my name and "Ellensburg," of course.

And I have been writing, and have vague ideas for a Halloween fic set sometime after Bloody Sunday. It has ghosts. Would ghosts seem amiss?

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I find it funny that this is a science-oriented fandom, or should be, and everyone's going "Yay ghosts!"

Man, Mac's totally going to pull his "Ghosts don't exist" thing and Aiden's going to go, "Oh, please. What am I, a hallucination? I died in your arms."

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Hmm. Maybe that's (part of) why? I mean, for me, aside from the fact that I just plain like ghost stories, I'm curious to see how people who are very science- and logic-oriented react to the presence of the supernatural. Particularly Mac. He so *is* going to pull the "ghosts don't exist" thing, and that reaction from Aiden? Yikes.

And when the supernatural manifests itself in everyday life (this is something I was reading the other day, and it struck me, though right now I'm paraphrasing wildly), it rarely bothers to be cooperative. It doesn't offer up nice little explanations for itself, or anything firm to grasp onto.

...I ramble; I'm sorry. This sort of thing interests me.

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...I need a plot, though. Besides "Aiden shows up, haunts the lab, and terrorizes the lab techs."

That sort of thing is very interesting, and your rambling is welcome and always interesting.

I ought to add that CSI: NY is the first thing I've written in pretty much ever that doesn't involve the supernatural in one way or another; I'm a fantasy writer by trade. The supernatural's not going to go and explain itself; it's just going to roar on in and take over the couch, but it's dirty mud-and-blood clad boots up on the coffee table, drink ale-and-blood and invite all its friends over for the game.

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I waited 'till I got home to reply to this so that I could find the thing I read that I was thinking of:

[D]ark fiction dealing with the inexplicable should, itself, present to the reader a certain inexplicability. It's not about resolution nor understanding, but that brief, disturbing contact which usually characterizes actual paranormal encounters.

Which is exactly why it will freak Mac right the fuck out.

I've written surprisingly little fantasy or supernatural fiction myself, especially when you consider that I *am* a genre fan, and that's the category into which a lot of my reading falls. And that's the kind of ghost story I want to try to write (and that I don't know if I can pull off or not), that kind of little hint of the supernatural, and you're not even sure if you saw it or *what* you saw, but it's enough to be unsettling.

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[D]ark fiction dealing with the inexplicable should, itself, present to the reader a certain inexplicability. It's not about resolution nor understanding, but that brief, disturbing contact which usually characterizes actual paranormal encounters.

Oh, that's cool. That's not usually what I do, but reading that sort of thing? Is so fucking freaky. It's cool, but it's freaky, because it's like, "What happened? What...?" and everyone has different ideas about what did happen, and there's no right or wrong. Except that something definitely did happen.

I've written surprisingly little fantasy or supernatural fiction myself, especially when you consider that I *am* a genre fan, and that's the category into which a lot of my reading falls. And that's the kind of ghost story I want to try to write (and that I don't know if I can pull off or not), that kind of little hint of the supernatural, and you're not even sure if you saw it or *what* you saw, but it's enough to be unsettling.

I want to try and write that sort of story sometime, because I think it would be a challenge, but like I said, my background's primarily in fantasy. It's pretty much "in your face" sort of supernatural. It's here, you can see it, there's no way to change it or ignore it. *pokes at City of Ghosts storyline* Which is sort of what my Halloween fic is going to be about. Samhain...when the spirits can cross...