One:
Waaaaaaaay, back when, last century, when I started reading fanfic,
there was this story that I just adored. The author's name was
Hyacinth Andrews and the title was "Brightest of Futures." I like it
so much I printed a copy to read over and over again. And then
Tropical Storm Allison flooded my house and my binder'o'fic -
including this story! Now this was seven years ago and I've been
digging around on the internet ever since with no luck.

So the question is: Can ANYBODY Tell me where to locate this story or
its author?

Two:

(this sound so wrong) Does anybody know of a great "Beverly gets
raped" story. Preferably not by Jean-Luc. I read that one already.

Thanks,
J, the recluse.

Hello Izzie,

2) About a Beverly rape story, Heather Smyth just concluded A Hand in Fate in 31 parts.
Searching alt .startrek .creative on Google Groups might prove rather useful.

The crime in question was done by the end of part 4.

1) All the best with your Hyacinth Blossom's 'Brightest of futures' search.
Unfortunately, my shallow search skills predictably turned out nothing.

(I'm grateful to have found, on the ASC archive, Kellie Matthew-Simmon's TNG Silence, from way back in 1993.)

Izzie wrote:
> One:
> Waaaaaaaay, back when, last century, when I started reading fanfic, there was this story that I just adored.
> The author's name was Hyacinth Andrews and the title was "Brightest of Futures."
> I like it so much I printed a copy to read over and over again.
> And then Tropical Storm Allison flooded my house and my binder'o'fic - including this story!
> Now this was seven years ago and I've been digging around on the internet ever since with no luck.
>
> So the question is: Can ANYBODY Tell me where to locate this story or its author?
>
> Two:
>
> (this sound so wrong) Does anybody know of a great "Beverly gets raped" story.
> Preferably not by Jean-Luc.
> I read that one already.
>
> Thanks,
> J, the recluse.

--
Alan Heah

>Waaaaaaaay, back when, last century, when I started reading fanfic,
> there was this story that I just adored. The author's name was
> Hyacinth Andrews and the title was "Brightest of Futures." I like it
> so much I printed a copy to read over and over again. And then
> Tropical Storm Allison flooded my house and my binder'o'fic -
> including this story! Now this was seven years ago and I've been
> digging around on the internet ever since with no luck.
>
> So the question is: Can ANYBODY Tell me where to locate this story or
> its author?

I found the story in question linked here: http://www.loony-archivist.com/ptcarchive/AF.html

The direct link to the story is here: http://www.loony-archivist.com/ptcarchive/fiction/bright.txt

Unfortunately, the link leads to an unformatted .txt file. However, if
you copy/paste it into a word processing program, the story *is* there
in its entirety. You'd just have to fix the text yourself, though.

I hope that helps.

-mack

Dear mackillian and Izzie,

Great! The sign and location of the story treasure chest are revealed!

A comment about opening unformatted text in a word processor:
I've avoided using something basic like Notepad, which does not improve the mass.
Often, when using OpenOffice (Text document .ODT), enough of the residual formatting remains, so that I can
re-save into something readable.
I do not know how it comes out with Microsoft Office Word (.DOC) these days, but I would expect better.
Especially given that one highly resembles the other.

mackillian wrote:
> (Izzie wrote:)
>> ... The author's name was Hyacinth Andrews and the title was "Brightest of Futures." ...
>> ...
>> ... Can ANYBODY Tell me where to locate this story or its author?
>
> I found the story in question linked here: http://www.loony-archivist.com/ptcarchive/AF.html
> The direct link to the story is here: http://www.loony-archivist.com/ptcarchive/fiction/bright.txt
>
> Unfortunately, the link leads to an unformatted .txt file.
> However, if you copy/paste it into a word processing program, the story *is* there in its entirety.
> You'd just have to fix the text yourself, though.
> ...

--
Alan Heah
http://alanheah.blogspot.com/
now also on Facebook

> > The direct link to the story is here:http://www.loony-archivist.com/ptcarchive/fiction/bright.txt
>
Hello J.
just in case you need a little help reformating that .txt with MS Word
into a more readable layout, I found that all the new paragraphs and
changes of speaker start with 5 spaces so if you use the Edit/ Replace
function to replace
......
with
^p.....
where ..... means 5 space characters.

then MS Word will put line breaks at all the right places.
Then use Edit/Select All
and then change the font to something more readable than Courier.
My appologies if I'm telling you what you already know. Someone might
find this ^p technique useful.

Cath

Cath wrote:

> just in case you need a little help reformating that .txt with MS Word
> into a more readable layout, I found that all the new paragraphs and
> changes of speaker start with 5 spaces so if you use the Edit/ Replace
> function to replace
> .....
> with
> ^p.....
> where ..... means 5 space characters.
>
> then MS Word will put line breaks at all the right places.
> Then use Edit/Select All
> and then change the font to something more readable than Courier.
> My appologies if I'm telling you what you already know. Someone might
> find this ^p technique useful.

Oooh, very cool, thanks. I've overlooked so many stories because of this
problem. I'll definitely try this out the next time I run across wonky
formatting.

seema

Cath wrote:

> just in case you need a little help reformating that .txt with MS Word
> into a more readable layout, I found that all the new paragraphs and
> changes of speaker start with 5 spaces so if you use the Edit/ Replace
> function to replace
> .....
> with
> ^p.....
> where ..... means 5 space characters.
>
> then MS Word will put line breaks at all the right places.
> Then use Edit/Select All
> and then change the font to something more readable than Courier.
> My appologies if I'm telling you what you already know. Someone might
> find this ^p technique useful.

Oooh, very cool, thanks. I've overlooked so many stories because of this
problem. I'll definitely try this out the next time I run across wonky
formatting.

seema

Cath wrote:

> just in case you need a little help reformating that .txt with MS Word
> into a more readable layout, I found that all the new paragraphs and
> changes of speaker start with 5 spaces so if you use the Edit/ Replace
> function to replace
> .....
> with
> ^p.....
> where ..... means 5 space characters.
>
> then MS Word will put line breaks at all the right places.
> Then use Edit/Select All
> and then change the font to something more readable than Courier.
> My appologies if I'm telling you what you already know. Someone might
> find this ^p technique useful.

Oooh, very cool, thanks. I've overlooked so many stories because of this
problem. I'll definitely try this out the next time I run across wonky
formatting.

seema

Cath wrote:

> just in case you need a little help reformating that .txt with MS Word
> into a more readable layout, I found that all the new paragraphs and
> changes of speaker start with 5 spaces so if you use the Edit/ Replace
> function to replace
> .....
> with
> ^p.....
> where ..... means 5 space characters.
>
> then MS Word will put line breaks at all the right places.
> Then use Edit/Select All
> and then change the font to something more readable than Courier.
> My appologies if I'm telling you what you already know. Someone might
> find this ^p technique useful.

Oooh, very cool, thanks. I've overlooked so many stories because of this
problem. I'll definitely try this out the next time I run across wonky
formatting.

seema

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:36:02 -0700 (PDT), Cath
<catherine_ell69@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>> > The direct link to the story is here:http://www.loony-archivist.com/ptcarchive/fiction/bright.txt
>>
>Hello J.
>just in case you need a little help reformating that .txt with MS Word
>into a more readable layout, ...

If you have to reformat text frequently, you might want to use an
application I wrote a couple of decades ago when documents could come
at you in any number of formats. I originally wrote the program to
reformat unix mail messages (back when mailx was the hot thing).

Disclaimer: the site on which this software is hoseted is R-Rated so
if such material offends you, do not go navigating around. However the
directory in which the software download resides is strictly G-Rated.

Here is the URL to go to
http://www.thebarnyard.net/posting/filter.html

A program description is described on this page. The program was
originally written to handle oddly-formated text pages, and I added in
translations for control characters left behind by MS-Word later on.

Installation is manual and requires a little knowledge of windows. If
someone is smart enough to write an installer for the program, and
also wrap a VB front end so people can navigate to and name files like
windows explorer I would be much obliged.

For those of you who are on the geeky side, source code is included*
and so are man pages for some of the sub programs used. In fact, even
if you aren't geeky, the source code and the man pages are still
included.

* The program is written in C. The last time I complied it was about 7
or 8 years ago and I had to modify the source code since C had changed
since I originally wrote it. If C has changes since then, it may be
possible that it won't compile anymore.