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« on: April 02, 2008, 03:10:45 AM »
I will update this occasionally by "modifying" it - so hopefully, there will only be one place authors will have to look. Please make comments in the "story comments" thread.
The cast of characters is still growing! Now we've got (roughly in order of appearance):
Cassandra (presumably O'Hara): our knickerless homeless heroine, writer for men's magazine
Dr. Ivan Asimov: the handsome but regrettably unavailable Ob-gyn
Leonora: the attractive and definitely available nurse
Rambo: the blue tabby - a gift to Cassandra from Apollo
Apollo: Cassandra's hunky ex - a heroic fireman and hotly jealous - but perhaps a little too ready to add a third to the situation.
Robert O'Hara: Cassandra's father, divorced but involved with a cute young thing, Tamara, younger than his daughter – and whose new girlfriend does not know the High Court judge is a cross-dresser
Sybil: Cassandra's prim and proper overbearing unfashionable divorced mother
Sophie Tate: the unattractive, clever former schoolmate, vindictive and a man-snatcher
Tamara Bainbridge: Cassandra's former workmate, now involved with Cassandra's dad; revealed to have had a love-child, Adam, the product of a fling with an American
Bryce Jenkins: Cassandra's high school sweetheart, newly revealed as a cheating scum, and not nearly as experienced as he'd like to be
Dennis/Denise: cross-dressing friend/current host/independently wealthy/bisexual
[nameless] American driver of Mustang
the aliens
Just so we can keep track of who's who as Our Story unfolds!
The story so far...
After our heroine, Cassandra, has learned at her handsome-but-unavailable ob-gyn's office that she has abnormal cells, she returns to find that her apartment building has suffered a fire. Luckily her ex, Apollo, has used his firefighting skills to rescue her cat Rambo, but in the process has become furiously jealous because he believes he has found evidence that she is seeing someone else. In reality, she had had a visit from her divorced father, who has announced that he has met someone, three years younger than his daughter. An unfortunate breeze reveals that Cassandra has forgot to redon her knickers, and her overbearing mother, in the crowd watching the firefighting activities, demands that she return to the smothering family home. To avoid that, she searches the crowd desperately for someone else she and Rambo can stay with, and finds an old schoolmate, Sophie, a clever but homely nerd she had often taken advantage of while in school. When she approaches her, Sophie reveals not only that she remembers and resents Cassandra's cruel teasing, but that she had been shagging Cassandra's first boyfriend. Appalled, Cassandra either throws the agitated Rambo at Sophie or loses her grip on the cat - in either case, Sophie is now even less attractive with the blood running down her face.
Realizing that Sophie will not provide a refuge from her overbearing mother, Cassandra approaches Apollo, who suggests that they move on to the local pub. When they arrive there, Cassandra recognizes the barmaid, Tamara, as an old workmate that she had lost track of, and in the ensuing conversation realizes that this is the woman her father has met and plans to marry. Though Apollo has had hope of a romantic encounter, possibly even a threesome, his plans are shot down when Tamara recognizes Cassie and realizes that her old workmate is her new lover's daughter.
They leave together to talk over the situation, but are thrown out of Cassandra's favorite restaurant when she lights up a cigarette. Tamara leaves when she gets a phone call, while Cassandra is still hinting at her father's unsuitability. Still homeless - and catless - and knickerless, Cassandra is pondering what to do when Bryce, her faithless high school boyfriend appears, obviously after Sophie has revealed to him that she has spilled the beans. Cassandra reams him out and is left still without shelter.
Luckily, she remembers the perfect refuge – two blocks away with Dennis/Denise, her cross-dressing wealthy friend, who immediately welcomes her and begins making plans. After a good night’s sleep, Cassandra is just getting up and looking out the window when she spots Rambo – who narrowly escapes death from a speeding Mustang driven by an American who berates her until he realizes that she is standing there in her knickers and bra. Humiliated, Cassandra runs into the house, where Dennis provides her with clothes, and they go out for a day of shopping and plotting. When they return home, Cassandra finds and rescues Rambo, and continues plotting how to convince Tamara that she does not want to marry Cassandra’s father Robert.
While Dennis bathes and primps for a night out, Cassandra decides to see what she can rescue from the ruins of her apartment. When she arrives there, she finds Apollo among the other firemen standing by as the apartments are cleared of rubble. But to her chagrin, she finds that Sophie has persuaded Apollo that she has come by to help retrieve Cassandra's possessions, and in gratitude (oh really?) he has invited her out for dinner. He does have the courtesy to ask Cassandra along, but she informs him that she is engaged for the evening, inciting a little jealousy. She retrieves a few possessions, and returns to Dennis's apartment, determined to reinvent herself - living well will be the best revenge.
Dennis helps her put herself together, and with his skills she looks like a model. They relax while they await Dennis's surprise guest for the evening, whom he'd phoned while she was out, and to her surprise it's Tamara.
In the ensuing conversation, Tamara explains that she had fled all those years ago to avoid her father and his lecherous brother, now both fortunately deceased. She had gone to France, where she had found shelter with the kindly owners of the vineyard where she worked, and where she had given birth to her love-child Adam, the product of a short-lived but intense affair with an American visitor.
Suddenly, while they were talking, they were quite unexpectedly abducted by aliens and drawn up into their space ship. Cassie had had it – the last two days had been traumatic enough already, and this was the last straw. She led the others out to confront the leader of their kidnappers, but decided to stop off at the beauty parlor first in order to look her best for the encounter. Dennis is enraged when one of the aliens suggests that the new abductees have a long way to go to become beautiful. His rebuttal, in the form of criticism of the alien's own appearance and odor, enrages the alien, which swells into a distinct likeness of a radish, and seizes the three with its triffid-like roots. Dennis frees them by filing the tentacle with his nail file, which so tickles the alien that it releases them.
The cast of characters is still growing! Now we've got (roughly in order of appearance):
Cassandra (presumably O'Hara): our knickerless homeless heroine, writer for men's magazine
Dr. Ivan Asimov: the handsome but regrettably unavailable Ob-gyn
Leonora: the attractive and definitely available nurse
Rambo: the blue tabby - a gift to Cassandra from Apollo
Apollo: Cassandra's hunky ex - a heroic fireman and hotly jealous - but perhaps a little too ready to add a third to the situation.
Robert O'Hara: Cassandra's father, divorced but involved with a cute young thing, Tamara, younger than his daughter – and whose new girlfriend does not know the High Court judge is a cross-dresser
Sybil: Cassandra's prim and proper overbearing unfashionable divorced mother
Sophie Tate: the unattractive, clever former schoolmate, vindictive and a man-snatcher
Tamara Bainbridge: Cassandra's former workmate, now involved with Cassandra's dad; revealed to have had a love-child, Adam, the product of a fling with an American
Bryce Jenkins: Cassandra's high school sweetheart, newly revealed as a cheating scum, and not nearly as experienced as he'd like to be
Dennis/Denise: cross-dressing friend/current host/independently wealthy/bisexual
[nameless] American driver of Mustang
the aliens
Just so we can keep track of who's who as Our Story unfolds!
The story so far...
After our heroine, Cassandra, has learned at her handsome-but-unavailable ob-gyn's office that she has abnormal cells, she returns to find that her apartment building has suffered a fire. Luckily her ex, Apollo, has used his firefighting skills to rescue her cat Rambo, but in the process has become furiously jealous because he believes he has found evidence that she is seeing someone else. In reality, she had had a visit from her divorced father, who has announced that he has met someone, three years younger than his daughter. An unfortunate breeze reveals that Cassandra has forgot to redon her knickers, and her overbearing mother, in the crowd watching the firefighting activities, demands that she return to the smothering family home. To avoid that, she searches the crowd desperately for someone else she and Rambo can stay with, and finds an old schoolmate, Sophie, a clever but homely nerd she had often taken advantage of while in school. When she approaches her, Sophie reveals not only that she remembers and resents Cassandra's cruel teasing, but that she had been shagging Cassandra's first boyfriend. Appalled, Cassandra either throws the agitated Rambo at Sophie or loses her grip on the cat - in either case, Sophie is now even less attractive with the blood running down her face.
Realizing that Sophie will not provide a refuge from her overbearing mother, Cassandra approaches Apollo, who suggests that they move on to the local pub. When they arrive there, Cassandra recognizes the barmaid, Tamara, as an old workmate that she had lost track of, and in the ensuing conversation realizes that this is the woman her father has met and plans to marry. Though Apollo has had hope of a romantic encounter, possibly even a threesome, his plans are shot down when Tamara recognizes Cassie and realizes that her old workmate is her new lover's daughter.
They leave together to talk over the situation, but are thrown out of Cassandra's favorite restaurant when she lights up a cigarette. Tamara leaves when she gets a phone call, while Cassandra is still hinting at her father's unsuitability. Still homeless - and catless - and knickerless, Cassandra is pondering what to do when Bryce, her faithless high school boyfriend appears, obviously after Sophie has revealed to him that she has spilled the beans. Cassandra reams him out and is left still without shelter.
Luckily, she remembers the perfect refuge – two blocks away with Dennis/Denise, her cross-dressing wealthy friend, who immediately welcomes her and begins making plans. After a good night’s sleep, Cassandra is just getting up and looking out the window when she spots Rambo – who narrowly escapes death from a speeding Mustang driven by an American who berates her until he realizes that she is standing there in her knickers and bra. Humiliated, Cassandra runs into the house, where Dennis provides her with clothes, and they go out for a day of shopping and plotting. When they return home, Cassandra finds and rescues Rambo, and continues plotting how to convince Tamara that she does not want to marry Cassandra’s father Robert.
While Dennis bathes and primps for a night out, Cassandra decides to see what she can rescue from the ruins of her apartment. When she arrives there, she finds Apollo among the other firemen standing by as the apartments are cleared of rubble. But to her chagrin, she finds that Sophie has persuaded Apollo that she has come by to help retrieve Cassandra's possessions, and in gratitude (oh really?) he has invited her out for dinner. He does have the courtesy to ask Cassandra along, but she informs him that she is engaged for the evening, inciting a little jealousy. She retrieves a few possessions, and returns to Dennis's apartment, determined to reinvent herself - living well will be the best revenge.
Dennis helps her put herself together, and with his skills she looks like a model. They relax while they await Dennis's surprise guest for the evening, whom he'd phoned while she was out, and to her surprise it's Tamara.
In the ensuing conversation, Tamara explains that she had fled all those years ago to avoid her father and his lecherous brother, now both fortunately deceased. She had gone to France, where she had found shelter with the kindly owners of the vineyard where she worked, and where she had given birth to her love-child Adam, the product of a short-lived but intense affair with an American visitor.
Suddenly, while they were talking, they were quite unexpectedly abducted by aliens and drawn up into their space ship. Cassie had had it – the last two days had been traumatic enough already, and this was the last straw. She led the others out to confront the leader of their kidnappers, but decided to stop off at the beauty parlor first in order to look her best for the encounter. Dennis is enraged when one of the aliens suggests that the new abductees have a long way to go to become beautiful. His rebuttal, in the form of criticism of the alien's own appearance and odor, enrages the alien, which swells into a distinct likeness of a radish, and seizes the three with its triffid-like roots. Dennis frees them by filing the tentacle with his nail file, which so tickles the alien that it releases them.