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about the story ::
In early 2003, I started writing a
story that I eventually called November Rain. One of my best
friends, Ashley, was not only inspired to make her own contributions
(which I happily incorporated into the story), but later wrote her own
fic – a story called Avery. Ashley later started writing an
alternate version of Avery from a different character’s
perspective, but it’s unfinished and has sat in my story archive since
sometime in 2005.
About twenty years later, in late March 2025, I sent Ashley a message asking for permission to either adopt that unfinished story or to write my own version of it – permission that was very enthusiastically granted. I started writing my remix the next day. I hadn't actually planned on posting my remix until it was either done or very close to it, but I ended up caving to my own impatience and posted the prologue and the first chapter to Archive Of Our Own and in my Dreamwidth at the end of April 2025.
This is that story, named for the Muse song of the same name.
About twenty years later, in late March 2025, I sent Ashley a message asking for permission to either adopt that unfinished story or to write my own version of it – permission that was very enthusiastically granted. I started writing my remix the next day. I hadn't actually planned on posting my remix until it was either done or very close to it, but I ended up caving to my own impatience and posted the prologue and the first chapter to Archive Of Our Own and in my Dreamwidth at the end of April 2025.
This is that story, named for the Muse song of the same name.