The Blue Footed Booby
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Joined 01-06-09, id: 1795582, Profile Updated: 12-13-18
Author has written 17 stories for Haibane Renmei, Kino's Journey, My Little Pony, and Christine.

Hello all.

Kino's Journey -- Dead Man's Curve was completed in February 2010, though your reviews and comments are of course always eagerly invited.

The sequel to the series, Old Haunts, is essentially complete as of February 2011, though both series are subject to additions. Because "Haunts" follows a different character, Gia, I've formatted it as a single entry. Again, I'm eager to read your feedback.

A third series, The Bird of Time, was completed in October of 2014. If you're just now reading my stories here, welcome. Kino's in for a mind-blowing trip that will change her forever. I don't think she'd want it any other way.

In real life I've built a career in Hollyweird, but not as a writer, sad to say. Seven feature screenplays currently languish on my hard-drive. I did publish a non-fiction book in late 2015 -- Firewall: The Propagandist's Guide to Self-Defense, available on Amazon, where you can also find over a hundred audio-books I've recorded for other authors.

I hope to have my first novel, Tryptich -- Colette's Crusade, up on Amazon soon. The story is very, very loosely inspired by an anime called Noir. Soon as my art team is finished, my first children's book should be out, "The Squirrel Who Tried Peanut Butter." I ultimately hope someday to re-dress all the copyright-infringing elements of the Kino and Gia stories and repackage all this fan-fiction as a novel.

I have a modest YouTube channel called "Commando Solo," where I offer two mini-courses on creative writing. The first, for adults, is a reading of some of the greatest essays on writing. The second, for the young'uns, is a series called "How to Fix It" where I demonstrate how sound writing principles could improve episodes of "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic."

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A Green and Growing Land reviews
Dead Man's Curve part one: When short of cash, visit prosperous, thriving cities and find temporary work. It's not glamorous but it's necessary for a traveler's survival. So all Kino asked for was a rich town with no dark, scary secrets.
Kino's Journey - Rated: K - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 3,516 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 10 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 1/2/2018 - Published: 2/2/2009 - Kino, Hermes - Complete
On the Wing reviews
The conclusion of The Bird of Time, in which Yeirumis reads and ruminates upon Kino's memoirs.
Kino's Journey - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 2 - Words: 4,008 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: 10/1/2014 - Kino, Hermes - Complete
A Horse in the Race reviews
The Bird of Time part five: "All these alternate realities I've been shuffling through, Hermes, it's like a radio changing channels, but I've finally locked on to a strong signal. I'm in touch with something. This is way too elaborate for a hallucination. I'm afraid of never coming back, I don't wanna get stuck out there. This time I wasn't even human!"
Crossover - My Little Pony & Kino's Journey - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Friendship - Chapters: 2 - Words: 13,426 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 9/10/2014 - Published: 9/1/2014
The Aegis of Zeus reviews
The Bird of Time part four: "You are talking to humanity's first-recorded conscientious objector," Hermes told Kino. "I'm the last person to ever tell someone they should go fight in a war."
Kino's Journey - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,356 - Reviews: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/18/2014
The Land of Observances reviews
The Bird of Time part one: Time flies, people change, and nothing can last forever, not even for Kino the Traveler.
Kino's Journey - Rated: T - English - Angst/Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 6,117 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 2/2/2014 - Published: 1/31/2014 - Kino, Hermes - Complete
Flowers and Smoke reviews
The Bird of Time part three: Wouldn't it be interesting to know how Kino's Journey... ends? Will she find a warm home and family, or will she perish in the cold? Will she travel on, until the years catch up with her? Will she reach the destination Hermes promised, or was she fated all along to go up in smoke?
Kino's Journey - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,704 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 4 - Published: 1/31/2013 - Kino, Hermes - Complete
The Bird of Time reviews
The Bird of Time part two: Kino thought back to the stories Master had given her to read - in one, a person had panicked and frozen to death. Another protagonist had died by infection. More by thirst, quicksand, bog, crocodile, abandonment or betrayal. Now, Kino knew, she was in one of those stories, and despite all her efforts and preparation, fate had found her weakness!
Kino's Journey - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,809 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: 9/10/2012 - Kino, Hermes - Complete
Old Haunts reviews
The adventures of Gia and her talking car, the sequel to Dead Man's Curve, and the horrid perversion of everything Kino's Journey ever stood for.
Crossover - Kino's Journey & Christine - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 12 - Words: 53,816 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 6/6/2012 - Published: 10/6/2010 - Kino - Complete
Under the Cherry Trees reviews
On the occasion of March, 2011.
Kino's Journey - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 3,858 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 3/10/2012 - Published: 3/16/2011 - Kino, Hermes - Complete
The Vast Wasteland reviews
Dead Man's Curve part eight: The series concludes as Kino encounters her doppleganger. Plus an afterword by your blue-footed host.
Kino's Journey - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 9,908 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 5 - Updated: 7/2/2010 - Published: 1/11/2010 - Kino, Hermes - Complete
Leaf reviews
Old Home was the same, Guri was the same, yet everything seemed out of joint to Hikari. Some primal voice inside her whispered an alarm she couldn't ignore. What was wrong with this strange new young feather named Leaf?
Haibane Renmei - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,966 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 3 - Published: 3/9/2010 - Complete
Threnody reviews
Dead Man's Curve part seven: Kino and Hermes summon help in their struggle against a threat from his past - the deadly Erinyes.
Kino's Journey - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12,191 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 3 - Published: 12/19/2009 - Kino, Hermes - Complete
Little Vehicle reviews
Dead Man's Curve part five: "You've dropped hints about being reforged and having other riders. Strange that I've never stopped to ask... where does a motorcycle learn to talk? Just what are you, Hermes?"
Kino's Journey - Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,425 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 12/1/2009 - Published: 8/24/2009 - Kino, Hermes - Complete
Reprise reviews
Dead Man's Curve part six: Camping in the rain, a bad omen, a budding romance, a vice indulged, a secret society and old wounds reopened. "Will you ever see me the same way, Hermes?"
Kino's Journey - Rated: T - English - Romance/Horror - Chapters: 2 - Words: 8,084 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 6 - Published: 10/20/2009 - Kino, Hermes - Complete
The Land of Freedom reviews
Dead Man's Curve part four: There was one place Kino never wanted to visit - the land of the slavers. But now, bereft of Hermes, stripped of her weapons and shackled, Kino faces the end of her journey.
Kino's Journey - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 12,178 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 7 - Updated: 7/31/2009 - Published: 7/13/2009 - Kino, Hermes - Complete
A Tale of a Pure Land: Song From the Nest reviews
Dead Man's Curve part two: Brigadoon, Germelshausen, Shangri-La... Kino the Traveler had heard the legends vagabonds tell around campfires. Hamlets that could appear without warning and vanish just as suddenly? Myths! Kino didn't believe in such nonsense
Crossover - Haibane Renmei & Kino's Journey - Rated: K - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 3 - Words: 12,463 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 21 - Follows: 5 - Updated: 4/30/2009 - Published: 1/9/2009 - Kino - Complete
A Tale of the People reviews
Dead Man's Curve part three: Know my children, in the days of your fathers' grandfathers we fled from the warriors of Koth-Shem. Hither came Keynoe, a vagabond, a derelict, a traveler astride her chariot Eremizu, to lead the People to their new land.
Kino's Journey - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,566 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 8 - Published: 3/26/2009 - Kino, Hermes - Complete