<html> <head> <title>The Angst Guy Fanfics</title> </head> <body bgcolor="33CC00"> <BODY LINK="FFFFFF" VLINK="red" ALINK="red"> <P><H1><center><b><font color=FFFFFF>Fanfiction by The Angst Guy</b></center></font></H1></P> &nbsp <hr> <br> <P><b>For regular updates of The Angst Guy's work, visit his personal <a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/">website</a>!</b></P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/africanqueen.htm">African Queen</a></H3></P> <P>Fourteen heavily armed men went hunting for her in the jungle. It was not a fair fight.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/afterbirth.htm">After Birth</a></H3></P> <P>A moment after midnight with mother and child (Part 10 of the Pause in the Air series.)</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/aftertheend.htm">After the End</a></H3></P> <P>Jane eventually forgave Daria for kissing Tom . . . but what if she hadn't? What if the "freakin' friends" were no more? An AU story with a twist.</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/almoststrangers.htm">Almost Strangers in the Night</a></H3></P> <P>A short Quinn/Upchuck shipper-fic. No, seriously. Look, it was Brother Grimace's idea, so go blame him.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/dday.htm">The Amazing Adventures of D-Day and the Mighty Jane</a></H3></P> <P>The unstoppable D-Day Morgendorffer and The Mighty Jane Lane face their greatest challenge yet in this alternate-universe tale of superheroes, supervillains, cliffhangers, and sudden death!</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/oppositeshore.htm">And I On the Opposite Shore Will Be</a></H3></P> <P>Jane Lane makes a stunning confession to her closest friend-but is it a secret she should have kept to herself? A tale of how "The Lawndale File" could have gone.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/andwhenyourheart.htm">And When Your Heart Begins to Bleed</a></H3></P> <P>Daria, Jane, Quinn, Stacy, Sandi, and other students at Lawndale High struggle through a brutal twenty-four-hour period of unforeseen challenges, in this alternate-universe tale created from a list of the "Top Ten Things That Never Happen in Daria Fanfics" (with a few extra ideas thrown in).</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/anotherdamn.htm">Another Damn Mary Sue Fanfic</a></H3></P> <P>The author inserts himself into this ficlet. Another one of <i>those</i> fics... right?</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/anything4jane.htm">Anything for Jane</a></H3></P> <P>A Mother's Day fanfic about a girl who discovers her favorite aunt was more important in her life than she had imagined.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/aprilcruelest.htm">April is the Cruelest Month</a></H3></P> <P>Jane and Daria take their first vacation since that horrible day in April...</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/aprilshowers.htm">April Showers</a></H3></P> <P>A surprise visitor opens the door to chaos in the little world of two Boston college freshmen, two months away from the birth of their child.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/artofseeing.htm">The Art of Seeing</a></H3></P> <P>When Daria meets Jane in an alternate universe, they discover things that the eye will never find.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/asmanyworlds.htm">As Many Worlds As There Are Artists</a></H3></P> <P>Daria and Jane consider their future after high school, while Trent and his friends discuss Mystik Spiral's next masterpiece -- but what if things had come out differently, artistically speaking?</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/remembered.htm">As She Remembered It in the Long Years After</a></H3></P> <P>An alternate-universe love that never spoke its name finally does...too late.</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/auntkara.htm">Aunt Kara</a></H3></P> <P>When Helen Morgendorffer's youngest sister (Kara, the "wild one" from Hollywood) comes to visit, guess which member of the family gets the biggest surprise! This is the "short form" of the PPMB story.</P> <P>(<i>Read the long version <a href="fanfics/rm_fics/auntkarappmb.txt">here</a>.</i>)</P> &nbsp <H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/backhanded.htm">Backhanded Remarks</a></H3></P> <P>Sandi Griffin courts disaster at the French Open tennis tournament, and nets a ton of trouble.</P> &nbsp <H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/balladstacy.html">The Ballad of Stacy Rowe</a></H3></P> <P>A musical spin-off from a much better fanfic by E. A. Smith ("Good Intentions"), this bluegrass-music ballad works best if sung to the tune of Grandpa Jones's famous "Mountain Dew," with banjo accompaniment. </P> <br> <H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/bravenewworld.htm">Brave New World</a></H3></P> <P>The only thing worse than waking up without remembering where you are, who you are with, or how you got there... is remembering.</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/busstop.htm">Bus Stop</a></H3></P> <P> A crossover ficlet with an ironic "uh-oh."</P> <br> <H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/butinherheart.htm">But in Her Heart a Cold December</a></H3></P> <P>"Might be CIA," Daria Morgendorffer sarcastically wrote of the security-obsessed principal of "Laaawndale High," Angela Li -- but Daria was closer to the truth than she knew. From her hospital bed, Ms. Li reviews her turbulent life through the Cold War as she recovers from her breakdown in the fifth-season episode, "Fizz Ed."</P> <br> <H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/butnowisfound.htm">But Now Is Found</a></H3></P> <P>In this sequel to "Who Once Was Lost," twelve-year-old Daria Morgendorffer, the only human known to have been kidnapped by aliens, tries to return to a normal life in her new home in Lawndale. Now younger than her sister Quinn, Daria finds fitting into school again is tough - but the trouble has only started. Someone is looking for her and will stop at nothing to find her, and what will happen if she's found, no one can say.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/qbhammer.htm">Can't Touch That</a></H3></P> <P>Kevin "QB Hammer" Thompson gets his fifteen seconds of fame on "Lawndale Idol," with predictable results.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/certainamount.htm">A Certain Amount of Depth</a></H3></P> <P>David Sorenson discovers that Quinn Morgendorffer has changed since he saw her last-but is he ready for the new Quinn?</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/changetheworld.htm">Change the World</a></H3></P> <P>Mr. O'Neill asks his class to write inspirational essays -- and comes to regret it when Daria Morgendorffer reads one entitled, "You, Too, Can Change the World."</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/clickclickboom.htm">Click, Click, Boom</a></H3></P> <P>Somewhere in an alternate universe, Daria Morgendorffer meets Jane Lane, things click, and they're all over Lawndale, shooting people . . . sort of.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/turndownsun.htm">Could Someone Turn Down the Sun?</a></H3></P> <P>Wackiness aplenty takes place on the "Good Mornings with Daria and Jane Show," when Madame Tiffany the psychic accidentally causes the sun to go nova and destroy the earth. How will Daria and Jane cope with the loss of their core audience and network ratings, not to mention an astronomical catastrophe? Read on and find out! (Based on the future-ego shots at the end of Is It College Yet?)</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/crossingover.htm">Crossing Over</a></H3></P> <P>A dystopian Mary Sue crossover Daria metafic ficlet that should not have been written.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/darea.htm">darea</a></H3></P> <P>Unrequited love is not always properly spelled.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/danceparty.htm">Daria Dance Party</a></H3></P> <P>Song lyrics about an alternate-universe Daria that you aren't likely to recognize - once the sun goes down.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/daria2007.htm">Daria 2007: The Girl from Hope</a></H3></P> <P>What might <I>Daria</I> have been like if the show had taken place in 2007, ten years later than it did? And what if Daria had gone to an alternate high school back in Highland? One answer to those questions lies in this response to two fanfic challenges. (Rated R)</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/danceparty.htm">Daria Dance Party</a></H3></P> <P>Song lyrics about an alternate-universe Daria that you aren't likely to recognize-once the sun goes down.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/dariasaddition.htm">Daria's Addition</a></H3></P> <P>What could have happened after "Jane's Addition": Daria finds a new friend that comes in a bottle and is 80 proof.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/darialance.htm">Darialance</a></H3></P> <P>A Daria/Dragonlance crossover was suggested, and a ficlet was born.</P> &nbsp <H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/darius.htm">Darius</a></H3></P> <P>Imagine <i>Daria</i> with a Y chromosome. What might have happened if the eldest child of Jake and Helen Morgendorffer had been born a boy? Here is an alternate-history might-have-been, or a parallel-universe might-yet-be, with all the fallout.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/darkofhearts.htm">Dark of Hearts</a></H3></P> <P>How would the third-season episode "Jake of Hearts" have gone if Jake's father, Mad Dog Morgendorffer, were still alive? A twisted Daria/Tom shipper-fic from an alternate universe answers the question.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/darkness.htm">Darkness</a></H3></P> <P>In the not-too-distant future, a funeral-home director in Montana struggles to defend her family and home from the End Times foretold in the Book of Revelation. The protagonist? A tormented, world-weary, thirty-something cynic named Daria.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/dearwhoever.htm">Dear Whoever</a></H3></P> <P>Daria minutia: a sad plea from a "Daria" character, from the unpublished musical version of, "And When Your Heart Begins to Bleed" (not really, but if there was one, this song would be in it).</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/deusjane.htm">Deus Jane</a></H3></P> <P>What was happening behind the scenes of the Daria show? Were the show's artistic and script-related mistakes truly "accidental"? Who was the show really about? Discover the shocking answers in this fantasy crossover tale about a teenage girl whose Neverland was her own home town: Lawndale.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/diedieyoubastard.htm">Die! Die! You Bastard!</a></H3></P> <P>Episode 413 as The Angst Guy thinks it should have gone.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/drive.htm">Drive</a></H3></P> <P>Investigative show hosts Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane take their "Good Mornings with Daria and Jane Show" to a Pacific island that houses a secret government research base -- and are caught up in a nightmare that leads them farther from home than they can imagine in this near-future science-fiction adventure based on MTV's <i>Daria</i>.</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/drivingmissd.htm">Driving Miss Daria</a></H3></P> <P>A shipper-fic with a surprise. With two failed relationships and three miserable years of college behind her, Daria sits down to write a difficult term paper. Then comes a knock at her apartment door. . . .</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/easya.htm">Easy A</a></H3></P> <P>A ficlet that proves that a good grade in school doesn't always mean that getting it was a good thing, too.</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/everyhour.html">Every Hour Saved from That Eternal Silence</a></H3></P> <P>Astronaut Daria Morgendorffer takes one small step on the greatest voyage of her life -- then discovers her ultimate destination is not the moon, but hell.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/familyaffairs.htm">Family Affairs</a></H3></P> <P>Valentine's Day in Boston has a twisted surprise for college freshmen Daria and Jane in this, the sixth story in the "Pause in the Air" series.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/feedingfrenzy.htm">Feeding Frenzy</a></H3></P> <P>On a most unusual day at Lawndale High School, Upchuck discovers that he has, somehow, become king of the babe magnets.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/firsttime.htm">The First Time</a></H3></P> <P>Daria and Tom do it for the first time -- and it's rated G!</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/forgottenbut.htm">Forgotten But Not Gone</a></H3></P> <P>The statue of a bearded man stands in Lawndale's Village Green, but no one in town knows who he is. When Daria is reluctantly goaded into discovering the bearded man's his identity, she and Jane uncover a bizarre ninety-year-old mystery that leads them into excitement - and extraordinary danger. This Daria fanfic is set in the "lost summer" between Daria's sophomore and junior year at Lawndale High School.</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/fortunateone.htm">Fortunate One</a></H3></P> <P>When Quinn Morgendorffer moves with her family to Lawndale, she tells her new friends that she is an only child - but she secretly suspects this was not always so. Did she once have a big sister? What happened to her? Where did she go? And was her sister named . . . Daria?</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/thegirlwho.htm"> The Girl Who Walked Home All Alone in the Dark</a></H3></P> <P>Jane Lane tells a slightly twisted bedtime story to the Gupty kids, in the manner of the "Legends of the Mall" episode.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/goahead.htm">(Go Ahead and) Dance</a></H3></P> <P>These are the lyrics to one of Trent Lane's better-known songs, written after Mystik Spiral's move to Boston (shortly after Trent's sister Jane began college there). (Song lyrics)</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/gone.htm">Gone</a></H3></P> <P>The Cuban Missile Crisis boils over in October 1962, and the lives of three young sisters change forever. Helen, Rita, and Amy Barksdale star in this tale of sibling bonds tested under the worst of worst-case scenarios.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/halpoint9.htm">Hal Point Nine</a></H3></P> <P>A story about a girl and her . . . unusual pet. (Or: A story about a college girl and her robot. Or something like that, whatever you want to say.) (Note: This is <i>not</i> a science-fiction story.)</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/highlandfling.htm">Highland Fling</a></H3></P> <P>The best night that young Daria ever had in Highland did not start out that way. (Crossover: Daria/Doonesbury, Bloom County, and Calvin & Hobbes)</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/historylesson.htm">History Lesson</a></H3></P> <P>The Morgendorffers discover a new branch on their family tree.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/homeonderanged.htm">Home on Deranged</a></H3></P> <P>The annual faculty-vs.-DJ competition at Lawndale High School gains a Wild West flavor when mechanical bull riding becomes the death-sport of choice. A third-season <i>Daria</i> comedy script (before Tom), set during Daria's junior high-school year.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/howard.htm">Howard</a></H3></P> <P>Daria Morgendorffer hears the story about Howard the duck (but not the one you are thinking of) in this third-season tale that explains why Trent Lane will not go into a bookstore. A little shipperiness and angst come with the humor.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/metamorphosis.htm">I Never Metamorphosis I Didn't Like</a></H3></P> <P>Daria Morgendorffer awakens one morning from uneasy dreams to find herself transformed in her bed into a giant cockroach.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/ifyouonlywalk.htm">If You Only Walk Long Enough</a></H3></P> <P> A ten-year-old girl, in abject misery at summer camp, has an unexpected conversation with a talking cat.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/illusions.htm">Illusions</a></H3></P> <P>What did Daria see behind the attic door that made her faint? Would you believe... another Daria? Prepare for a crossover journey into strange but familiar Lawndales, drawn from alternate-universe Daria fanfics from almost a dozen authors!</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/impossible.htm">The Impossible</a></H3></P> <P>A little girl realizes her goal in life, with the help of an even smaller girl--a bright blue one.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/inthebeginning.htm">In the Beginning</a></H3></P> <P>Brittany Taylor has a guilty little secret. How will people react when they discover what she's been doing, and how long can she keep lying about it?</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/invisibleplanet.htm">Invisible Planet</a></H3></P> <P>Quinn Morgendorffer sets out to visit her aunt, Amy Barksdale, for a long January weekend. When her plans are literally shot to pieces, Quinn discovers that nothing is as she once believed, and saving her aunt from further harm might also mean saving the entire world as well.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/itslipped.htm">It Slipped Through My Hands, Like a Shadow, Like a Dream</a></H3></P> <P>In an alternate universe, a lonely outcast named Daria moves from Highland to Lawndale... yet in the wake of a single change to the Dariaverse we know, disaster spreads. The one who could have prevented the horrors now cannot, and the avalanche of chaos widens to engulf everyone the outcast has known -- unless someone takes a stand to stop it.</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/theiuftale.htm">The IUF Tale, or, Total Disaster in a Nutshell</a></H3></P> <P>The author inserts himself and numerous other Daria fans, particularly members of the notorious IUF, into a lurid Daria fanfic, a nightmarish tale of cartoon lust and horror. You won't understand this unless you've read the IUF spam threads on PPMB. No penguins were harmed in the writing of this script. I swear.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/janeunchained.htm">Jane Unchained</a></H3></P> <P>During a sensory deprivation experiment, Jane Lane reveals a talent for getting her freedom - in a very unexpected way.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/justdesserts.htm">Just Desserts</a></H3></P> <P>Timothy O'Neill makes a special dinner for Janet Barch -- right after Barch makes O'Neill stop taking that completely unnecessary psychiatric medication.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/killtom.htm">Kill Tom (Volumes 1 and 2)</a></H3></P> <P>The Deadly Fashion Viper Squadron meets its match in this Daria/"Kill Bill" crossover.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/knight2rem.htm">A Knight to Remember</a></H3></P> <P>An offbeat <i>Daria</i> shipper about a girl, a guy, and a Batmobile. The tale continues from where the fifth-season episode "Sappy Anniversary" leaves off.</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/laborrelations.htm">Labor Relations</a></H3></P> <P>On a dark and stormy night before a funeral, the tiny world of a married couple in college changes forever (Part 9 in the Pause in the Air series).</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/lifeisgood.htm">Life Is Good</a></H3></P> <P>A very short tale of an evil Daria and a sympathetic Tom. Sort of.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/likeangelsvisits.htm">Like Angels: Visits, Short and Bright</a></H3></P> <P>Amy Barksdale and two girlfriends are in a spot of trouble, with the fate of Earth at stake, in this way-over-the-top crossover of <i>Daria</i>, <i>Charlie's Angels</i>, Robert Heinlein's <i>Starship Troopers</i>, the USAF Space Command, and H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu stories, if you will.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/likeacircle.htm">Like a Circle in a Spiral</a></H3></P> <P>Mystik Spiral hits it big - but not in the way they had always expected. This post-IICY tale spins off from the Daria episode, "Speedtrapped."</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/likefatherlike.htm">Like Father, Like --</a></H3></P> <P>What personality quirks did Daria inherit from her father, Jake? One possibility is explored in this ficlet.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/luuuvstory.htm">Luuuv Story</a></H3></P> <P>A decade after leaving high school, Daria and Quinn learn that their widowed mother, Helen Morgendorffer, has found someone special in her life . . . and it's Kevin Thompson. A sensitive and touching portrayal of mindless sex gone wrong.</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/mackdaddy.htm">Mack Daddy</a></H3></P> <P>Andrew Landon and Michael Mackenzie meet again, years after Mack and Jodie graduate high school, and Mr. Landon says something that Mack never expects.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/maddog.htm">Mad Dog</a></H3></P> <P>A Halloween tale from an alternate Daria universe: "There shall be done a deed of dreadful note" (William Shakespeare, "Macbeth").</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/makingthebreast.htm">Making the Breast of It</a></H3></P> <P>A ficlet about an alternate-universe superheroine with two big problems.</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/meetfashion.htm">Meet the Fashion Club</a></H3></P> <P>There was one career path that the Fashionable Foursome could have taken, if they had wanted popularity, money, fame, and dates--and had talent.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/memorylame.htm">Memory Lame</a></H3></P> <P>Amy Barksdale tells a little story, and Daria and Quinn almost die.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/midsummer.htm">A Midsummer Nightmare's Daria</a></H3></P> <P>Quinn pulls a prank that causes Jake to think that Daria has taken up demon worship, so he takes Daria to a weekend father-daughter seminar to "bring her back to the light." Add in a few former classmates, romance, and an unexpected twist--inspired by Stephen King--and a very strange summer weekend gets underway in Lawndale.</P> <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/midsummer.jpg">View Fan Art!</a> by Galen Hardesty</b></P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/morethanjust.htm">More Than Just Lost</a></H3></P> <P>Jane Lane and Alison meet again, a few years after the events of the movie, "Is It Fall Yet?" in this play for three voices. The meeting, however, does not go as expected.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/morgcode.htm">The Morgendorffer Code</a></H3></P> <P>Imagine a <i>Daria</i> crossover involving Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code." Now imagine you're about to read it.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/movingday.htm">Moving Day</a></H3></P> <P> A romantic conversation--but since when was anything what it seemed?</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/naturalcharms.htm">Natural Charms</a></H3></P> <P>When Upchuck takes up modeling photography, things unexpectedly develop in a negative way.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/nextinline.htm">Next in Line</a></H3></P> <P>Thirty years from now, three old friends reunite to remember the past, just moments before the future arrives to overtake them.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/nineeleven.htm">Nine-Eleven and Counting</a></H3></P> <P>It's Daria's first year in Boston and Quinn has come to visit. All seems normal, until the fateful day Daria and Jane take Quinn to the airport...</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/ninepointoh.htm">Nine Point Oh</a></H3></P> <P>Just before noon, January 1, 2005, west of Petchkasem Road down to Bang Niang Beach, resort city of Khao Lak, Phang-Nga province, Kingdom of Thailand: The Griffin family's New Year.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/no1lives.htm">No One Lives Forever</a></H3></P> <P>It's a typical day in Los Angeles for Brittany Taylor: warm sun, busy streets, job hunting, and sudden death. </P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/nothingness.htm">The Nothingness of Being</a></H3></P> <P>We get a look at Joey's homelife as he agonizes over being dumped by Quinn in "One J At a Time."</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/nothinghappens.htm">Nothing Happens for a Reason</a></H3></P> <P>College freshmen Daria Morgendorffer and Tom Sloane are together again, joyously happy and blissfully in love - until the day she finds him in bed with a small zoo and Tiffany Blum-Deckler. You'll weep, you'll cry, you'll kiss ten minutes of your life goodbye when you read this unofficial sequel to Mahna Mahna's Daria/Tom shipper, "Everything Happens for a Reason."</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/nuthouse.htm">Nuthouse</a></H3></P> <P>Dinnertime visitors at the Morgendorffers' home prove that Jake was right about one thing after all.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/omegajane.htm">The Omega Jane</a></H3></P> <P>After a lethal pandemic kills almost everyone alive, Jane Lane inherits the earth--but only from dawn to dusk. Cannibalistic ghouls in the billions arise after sunset, and Daria Morgendorffer is one of them. A horror tale inspired by Richard Matheson's classic novel of paranoia and vampirism, "I Am Legend" (later filmed as "The Omega Man").</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/onemoreriver.htm">One More River to Cross</a></H3></P> <P>In helping Sandi Griffin through a difficult situation, Quinn Morgendorffer must make a decision that could determine her own nature, for good or for evil - but which choice is the right one? Story rated R for language and controversial content.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/fakebgstory.htm">The Original Underground Government-Suppressed Version of Brother Grimace's Classic <I>Daria</I> Fanfic, "The Sun Will Come Out, Tomorrow"</a></H3></P> <P>A sad example of what happens when a fanfic writer takes a well-known opening scene from another fanfic writer's story and mucks it up, abusing other fanfic writers in the process. There ought to be a law. However, since there isn't, you may as well read this.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/otherstory.htm">The Other Story of D</a></H3></P> <P>Jane happens upon an alternate tale that Daria wrote about her future.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/outcasts.htm">Outcasts from Beyond</a></H3></P> <P>On her way to see Tom Sloane, Daria Morgendorffer has a car wreck -- but that's only the start of her problems in this long, weird alternate-universe/crossover <I>Daria</I> tale of secret identities and super-powers that begins about halfway through "Boxing Daria" and heads into the wild blue.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/panderbare.htm">Pander Bare</a></H3></P> <P>Daria mulls a possible career path as a nude exotic dancer. Seriously.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/pauseintheair.htm">Pause in the Air</a></H3></P> <P>An unexpected guest appears during Thanksgiving dinner at the Morgendorffers' home.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/pollyandry.htm">Polly Andry Rides Again</a></H3></P> <P>Jeffy, Joey, or Jamie? Quinn can't make up her mind which boy she wants to be with, so she picks... all of them.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/potential.htm">Potential</a></H3></P> <P>Quinn Morgendorffer meets the man of her dreams, but the potential for nightmares is there, too, in this post-"Is It College Yet?" continuation of the second-season <i>Daria</i> episode, "That Was Then, This Is Dumb."</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/prayers4saint.htm">Prayers for a SAINT</a></H3></P> <P>Amy Barksdale takes her favorite niece out to celebrate the publication of a Melody Powers story. Another story follows.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/prisonerofhope.htm">Prisoner of Hope</a></H3></P> <P>Daria's sole fan from childhood is reunited with her heroine, only to learn a bitter lesson in this continuation of the fifth-season episode, "Camp Fear."</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/pristine.htm">Pristine</a></H3></P> <P>Tom discovers that his ex-girlfriend Daria has gotten a new car -- but he has forgotten that old saying about curiosity and cats.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/quinnisqatsi.htm">Quinnisqatsi</a></H3></P> <P>A Daria/Koyaanisqatsi crossover. It is impossible to describe this better than that.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/scarlett.html">Scarlett </a></H3></P> <P>When Daria came to Lawndale, someone else moved to Lawndale, too. Introducing Scarlett, her mouse, and the Lawndale Leopards, and how they fit into the bizarre events that went on behind the scenes of our favorite show: Daria.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/secretlife.htm">The Secret Life</a></H3></P> <P>Two college students from Lawndale finally realize they were made for each other--but will anyone else realize this, too?</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/selfinsertion.htm">Self-Insertion</a></H3></P> <P>A semi-erotic furry Mary-Sue fanfic for the <i>Daria</i> show. One day I will regret ever writing this, I am sure.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/seejanespike.htm">See Jane Spike</a></H3></P> <P>Daria, Jane, and the Fashion Club find themselves on opposing teams in a nasty session of volleyball - a first-season sequel, of sorts, to the opening scenes from every <i>Daria</i> show in which Daria screws up the game for Stacy and Tiffany.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/shockandaww.htm">Shock and Aww</a></H3></P> <P>Two parents-to-be wrestle with attitude problems and a need for change at their first childbirth class.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/silentnight.htm">Silent Night</a></H3></P> <P> A question about a Higher Power keeps Jane and her spouse from sleep (a "Pause in the Air" story).</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/smallworlds.htm">Small Worlds</a></H3></P> <P>Jane and Daria meet a new Tom in this shameless Mary Sue.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/smokingmirror.htm">Smoking Mirror</a></H3></P> <P>After a disastrous experience in Central America, Penny Lane returns to Lawndale, her life in shambles - but with her is a dark souvenir that unravels the lives of everyone around her in terrifying ways.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/snowballinhell.htm">Snow Ball in Hell</a></H3></P> <P>Mrs. Johanssen collects souvenir snow domes -- but only a certain kind, as Tricia Gupty discovers (rock video script developed for an Iron Chef contest).</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/snowflakes.html">Snowflakes</a></H3></P> <P>Daria makes a surprising discovery while looking through her parents' bedroom drawers, but the real surprise is yet to come.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/specialdelivery.htm">Special Delivery</a></H3></P> <P>Why was Daria out after curfew in "The Big House"? One possible (if far-fetched) explanation is given here, in this prequel to that episode.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/stacyandlamp.htm">Stacy and the Lamp</a></H3></P> <P>Stacy Rowe rubs an ancient brass lamp, gets three wishes -- and it's the end of the world as Lawndale knows it.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/stacyinhell.htm">Stacy in Hell</a></H3></P> <P>A cautionary tale. The title says it all.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/suddendeath.htm">Sudden Death Overtime</a></H3></P> <P>A pink blossom grows from Kevin Thompson's crutch at the end of the fourth-season episode, "A Tree Grows in Lawndale." What happened after that? This horror-story sequel starts immediately following the blossom's appearance, so its beginning is entirely in canon!</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/suite4cello.html">Suite for Cello, Two-Part Invention</a></H3></P> <P>Brittany Taylor has a secret talent -- and her new tutor, David Sorenson, is about to discover what it is.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/summerhotlake.htm">The Summer of the Hot Lake</a></H3></P> <P>The younger siblings and relatives of major <I>Daria</I> characters find themselves spending the summer at "Uncle" Timothy O'Neill's Okay-to-Cry Corral, with none other than Wind Lane as their cabin counselor. There, the kids face the horrors of rice cakes and tofu for breakfast, therapy sessions to heal their inner selves, a legendary monster in the cooling pond of a nearby nuclear power plant, and -- first love. Sam and Chris Griffin, Rachel Landon, Brian Taylor, Link (from the movie, "Is It Fall Yet?"), and Jane Lane's nephew and niece, Adrian and Courtney, appear herein. The action takes place during the summer after the conclusion of the movie, "Is It College Yet?"</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/terribletales.htm">Terrible Tales of Tiffany</a></H3></P> <P>A series of unfortunate dates with Tiffany Blum-Deckler, guaranteed to bring new meaning to the term "dismemberment."</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/thanksgiving.htm">Thanks Giving</a></H3></P> <P>Thanksgiving is a time for families to go a little crazy, but it is also a time for . . . giving thanks. (A sequel to the Daria fanfic, "Pause in the Air," by The Angst Guy; it, like "Pause in the Air," is a Daria/Jane slash shipper, but quite mild.)</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/therebeneath.htm">There Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies</a></H3></P> <P>Ninth-grader Daria Morgendorffer learns from her new phys-ed teacher at Highland High that the future can ride on the flip of a coin.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/thirteenthman.htm">The Thirteenth Man</a></H3></P> <P>Compared to his intellectually and morally challenged classmates at Lawndale High, Daria's classmate "Mack" Mackenzie is almost superhuman. What if he really was superhuman? Enter an alternate universe in which Mack is not only too good to be true, heÍs even better than that. What could possibly go wrong for a straight-arrow guy who can do anything and everything? Let us see.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/thong.htm">The Thong Remains the Same</a></H3></P> <P>In this sensitive and insightful, though unofficial, continuation of Kara Wild's Driven Wild Universe, Amy and Joel separate after fighting over a trivial issue, as married couples usually do, and they and Daria, Jane, Quinn, Helen, Jake, Tom, and everyone else wander Lawndale in search of a plot that is supposed to involve thongs. I think this is also the first <I>Daria</I> fanfic to feature a Hooters restaurant as a major setting.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/thoughthecourse.htm">Though the Course May Change Sometimes, Rivers Always Reach the Sea</a></H3></P> <P>Ten years after she met Daria Morgendorffer at Lawndale High School, Jane Lane has moved on with her life -- but adulthood has led her in unusual directions. (Rated R)</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/threeways.htm">Three Ways of Looking at Tiffany Blum-Deckler</a></H3></P> <P>How well do we know Tiffany? Will this fic bring us any closer to the truth??</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/throughscooby.htm">Through a Scooby Darkly</a></H3></P> <P>Daria meets Scooby-Doo! Isn't that great?</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/tinfutureland.htm">Tiffany in Futureland</a></H3></P> <P>A sad ficlet with a happy ending. Tiffany Blum-Deckler stars in this topical political/sci-fi tidbit written in early November 2004, before the elections.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/tinwonderland.htm">Tiffany in Wonderland</a></H3></P> <P>A little girl goes down a rabbit hole--and Wonderland goes down the drain. Yet another Daria/Alice in Wonderland crossover.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/tilldeath.htm">Till Death Do Us Part</a></H3></P> <P>"I'm in the witness protection program," Daria told the bridesmaids at her cousin Erin's wedding. "The Morgendorffers were kind enough to take me in after my real family was exterminated by the mob." What if she had been telling the truth? Here is an alternate-history version of the wedding episode, "I Don't."</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/truelies.htm">True Lies</a></H3></P> <P>What were Daria and Quinn really doing out late on a school night just before they were caught by their parents in the opening scene of "The Big House"? And who would dare to believe their answers?</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/twoofthem.htm">The Two of Them</a></H3></P> <P>A blind date goes horribly awry -- or does it? A Daria/Stacy shipper from an Iron Chef challenge, just because.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/untotheend.htm">Unto the End</a></H3></P> <P>A church-based debate on the War in Iraq gets out of control -- thanks to the one person least likely to cause such a problem.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/uranium.htm">Uranium in the Drinking Water</a></H3></P> <P>There really was uranium in Highland's water supply and a new kind of Daria Morgendorffer is the result! Meet Daria the Faerie, the counterpart to Tinker-Jane of "Jane Unchained," in this response to an Iron Chef fantasy challenge.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/whenthetorrent.htm">When the Torrent of That Time Comes Pouring Back</a></H3></P> <P>The lone survivor of a disastrous family vacation returns to Lawndale in January 2005, in this sequel to the Daria fanfic, "Nine Point Oh."</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/whooncewaslost.htm">Who Once Was Lost</a></H3></P> <P>Two little girls from Highland, Texas, go to Camp Grizzly for several weeks of annoying summer fun. Only one little girl comes home. Three years later, the other little girl begins her long journey back „ but she discovers that the world has moved on without her. Inspired by the fifth-season Daria episode, "Camp Fear," "Who Once Was Lost" is the first tale in a science-fiction series about a Daria displaced in time.</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/winter.htm">Winter in Hell</a></H3></P> <P>Sandi faces a painful senior year, with Quinn as her only friend. (<i>Warning: contains adult material and disturbing subject matter.</i>)</P> <br> <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/wishfallenstar.htm">Wish Upon a Falling Star</a></H3></P> <P>Stacy Rowe goes out on a weird date with Ted DeWitt-Clinton -- and together they discover the future.</P> <br> <P><H3><a href=" http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/wonderlane.htm">Wonderlane</a></H3></P> <P>It was hot, and little Jane Lane was tired and bored and had nothing to do, when a White Rabbit wearing a waistcoat ran past her, and --</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/writesofspring.htm">Writes of Spring</a></H3></P> <P>Winter changes to spring (and more changes come to light) in the little home of two Boston college students in this, the seventh tale in the "Pause in the Air" series.</P> &nbsp <P><H3><a href="http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/weatherman.htm">You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows</a></H3></P> <P>A terrible secret from the past catches up with a former hippie radical, engulfing her family, her job, and the rest of her life.</P> &nbsp <P><b><font color=white size=5>Artwork</font></b></P> &nbsp <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/daria_april01.jpg">Daria at 21 (from "April is the Cruelest Month")</a></b></P> <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/daria_aprilthumb.jpg">Daria at 21 Thumbnail</a></b></P> <P>Colored pencil on photocopied image of original sketch; early 2003. Daria Morgendorffer at age 21, per "April Is the Cruelest Month." Part of a larger picture showing Daria and Jane Lane in the lobby of a Colorado ski resort.</P> <br> <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/quinnswim01.jpg">Quinn at 18</a></b></P> <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/quinnswim01thumb.jpg">Quinn at 18 Thumbnail</a></b></P> <P>Colored pencil on photocopied image of original sketch; October 2003. Quinn Morgendorffer on the beach.</P> <br> <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/janeatsix.jpg">Jane at Six</a></b></P> <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/janeatsixthumb.jpg">Jane at Six Thumbnail</a></b></P> <P>Pencil sketch transferred large-scale to BMP, cleaned up, colored using MS Paint, and shrunk; October 2003. Paint set, sketch book, bear, moon boots, and smirk--Jane Lane is ready for her Muse. The original is much larger.</P> <br> <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/janeatart01.jpg">Jane in Art Class</a></b></P> <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/janeatart01thumb.jpg">Jane in Art Class Thumbnail</a></b></P> <P>Colored pencil on photocopied image of original sketch; October 2003. Jane isn't satisfied with what she's drawn.</P> <br> <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/janebench01.jpg">Jane Drawing On a Park Bench</a></b></P> <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/janebench01thumb.jpg">Jane Drawing On a Park Bench Thumbnail</a></b></P> <P>Pencil sketch transferred to BMP and colored using MS Paint; early 2003 (revised October 2003). Her boots are black, not dark gray, alas.</P> <br> <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/janedrive01.jpg">Jane Driving</a></b></P> <P><b><a href="fanfics/rm_fics/janedrive01thumb.jpg">Jane Driving Thumbnail</a></b></P> <P>Pencil sketch transferred to BMP and colored using MS Paint; early 2003 (revised October 2003). Sort of an op-art, Andy Warhol look.</P> &nbsp <P><b>Return to <a href="indiv_ffic_authors.html">Individual Fanfic Authors Page</a></b></P> </body> </html>