Hobo Sapiens: A DOCTOR WHO Inspired Fanfiction Story

 

Hobo Sapiens: A DOCTOR WHO Inspired Fanfiction Story is now available as an ebook on Amazon.  If you would like to get a free copy (epub), leave a comment on this post.  If you have read the story, please leave a rating on both Amazon and Goodreads -- even better if you can also leave a review!

(I didn't catch the mistake on the cover until it was too late, but I'll fix it later.)

To help everyone understand my hesitations in publishing both Hobo Sapiens (and Monday, Monday) at this juncture, let me first remind everyone that I am a perfectionist.

The end?

Okay, no, not the end.  There are a lot of things that come into play between Drastic Changes and Hobo Sapiens -- several of those are mentioned multiple times through various other stories and, if you're not me, you may not catch them beyond mentally noting "Okay, this little human guy is really scared of this lady because of some baseball ordeal at some point in his pa--" [INSERT MOMENT OF OH MY DEAR SWEET RASSILON because you realize Jean-Marc did not enter into her life pre-Drastic Changes and you have heard absolutely NOTHING about a baseball beyond his internal monologues]

Yes, she catches a bat-hit baseball with her bare hand.

Yes, she helped lead a rebellion in a war - and intentionally pointed, and shot, a gun in his direction.

Yes, she has really scared him a lot with a bunch of other things, and they all occur during the space between Drastic Changes and Hobo Sapiens during an unfinished story entitled "The Long and Winding Timeline / Get Back to When You Once Belonged."  Because it is unfinished, I am not sure if it will be one continuous story, or two separate items.  In my mind, it is extremely long.

In my writing, things seem a bit short in the tooth.

I still don't like leaving that huge gap of missing information open, which is why 1) I've been dragging my feet about publishing and 2) I'm letting you know ahead of time that there's a lot of information missing because I'm allowing you to skip ahead.  My writing is slow, and measured, and I feel as though I need to pay more attention to the stories further ahead -- gap or not.

So, yes, there are gaps.  Monday, Monday has a Q&A at the end to help fill in a little bit of it, though.  And just about every story has a tie-in with another story, so ...yes, that gap is HUGE the further we dig.

I still need to (re)write Broken Records: The Fourth Album, but that contained a tiny little moment that's tied in to Get Back to When You Once Belonged.  It is a HUGE gap that shows how fragile Jean-Marc is, and how tender and caring Stella will be -- it is a HUGE moment that shows how much information Jean-Marc carries but keeps buried, and how oblivious Stella is because she ends up being more integrated in his life at this very moment in her future/his past-present.

See what just happened?  You read that correctly: His past-present.  Another portion of his past is happening during his current present, all of it is happening on Earth, and it lasts for several weeks.

She knows nothing about it, and he intends to keep it that way.

He does mention to Stella a tiny fragment about what happened during that time in Hobo Sapiens, though I doubt he realized.

“I did not know you cared.  You… I tried to find you.”

He also mentioned a tiny little detail about the future Stella to her ship (yes, they talk to one another in Hobo Sapiens):

“Why did she save me, then?  Was she planning on that ‘happily-ever-after’ once I was much older?  Did we ever spend time together, the reason for that ring she was wearing?  Was I already cyberized during her timeline when she decided to fix me and bring me back?!”

The main reason for pointing out the ring, and then jumping to the possibility of already being cyberized, is the simple fact that the ring was silver and not gold.  She also mentioned to him in Get Back to When You Once Belonged that she wore it as a promise, but did not go any further.

We'll see how my writing manages to keep up with things.

Until then?  Enjoy!

-- Mathie Tremas.