Stuff to see in...Creative Research:

The most developed section; most of this is taken up by the stuff my friend Lynne Abernathy and I wrote for SherwoodRPG, a play-by-e-mail roleplaying game we used to run on the old ONElist service. The story may have begun normally enough; but then Legionary Lucius Marius Fimbria [wink] stepped out of a faerie circle and into Robin Hood's England, met a Druid-in-training named Marin (Lynne), and had interesting things happen to him. The chapters, in the order they were written, are:

• The Village Festival
• Lucius' Arrival at Sherwood
• The Fishing-trip
• Maeve the Druidess
• Some Thinking to Do
• Stone Circle
• The Blessing
• The Gift
• Wolf-Wandering
• Old Marius (my favorite)
• Searching
• Homecoming
• The Imposter
• A Kind of Peace
• The Saracen
• Departure

There are also a few other odds and ends worth noting, they being:

• Life with the Legions, which started out as my term paper for Western Civ I...but wound up being the story of a fictional Roman reporter conducting a front-line interview with the troops. (I wrote it right after I got back from Desert Storm.) In July of 2000 it was my entry for the Ludi Apollinares, a literary contest held in honor of Apollo by the citizens of Nova Roma.
• Part of the Catullus paper but worth listing separately, this is, as far as I know, the only Pay and Benefits Table for the Roman Legions in existence. Being ex-military, I couldn't see not having one; so I went spelunking in the footnotes of about five different references and came up with this chart. Scholars have wired me for it. O, the Homework I do for Fun!
• Fun with ASCII Art I: Kilroy Was Here!! (For best results, copy/paste these into Notepad or another plain-text editor. The proportional spacing used by most word processors and e-mail programs makes them come out all funny.)
• Fun with ASCII Art II: A Latin Menu I developed for the Fort Irwin (CA) Computer Lab. Each letter-option started up a batch file (remember those?) to run the appropriate program or command.
• Marius Peregrine's Excellent Historical-Fiction Reading List! -- in which I describe my favorite works of Roman historical fiction, fantasy, and SF (yes, there really is such a thing!)