22. Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them?

Not the very oldest, which are in a box somewhere. And it's been a while since I've dipped into my virtual season or my war!fic. However, I do go back and reread my old stories—not all of them, but at least some. How do I feel about them? It's hard to believe sometimes that I actually wrote them: that I managed somehow to pry out the words and phrases and get them reasonably right. I look on my handiwork and see it is good—and it's downright astonishing.

In case you are curious, these are ones I probably reread the most. Most of these are longer works, which is not to say that I don't now and then browse through the ficlets. I also check my more recent stories; but that's partly a matter of belated polishing. Not that I don't find typos, even sometimes after years!

For FK:
• “Simcoe Day”
• “The Sun of Cairo”
• “Phases of the Moon”
• “Couched Work”
• “Out of the Night that Covers Me”
• “En Vacances”
• “Festival of Festivals”
• “The Father, the Son, and the Unholy Ghost”
• “The Siege of Hastings”
• “Gone Where the Goblins Go”

For Mary Renault's The Charioteer:
• “A Dog’s Life”
• “The Road to Rio” (X with Swallows & Amazons)
• “Applefic”
• “Exit Stage Left, A Wounded Warrior: The Lost Chapters of The Charioteer”
• “A Fork in the Road to London” and its sequels

For the Arrowverse:
• “Stopped Cold”
• “Rogue Kiss”
• “Silver is Gold”
• “Double, Double, Time and Trouble”

For other fandoms:
• “Afterword” (Alan Garner's Alderley Edge books)
• “Hot Buttered Crumpets” (Narnia X Alice in Wonderland)
• “Hobbiton Farm” (The Lord of the Rings X Victorian Farm series)
• “Season 7, Episode 4: Day Two” (Time Team X Diana Wynne Jones's Dalemark series)
• “Minstrelsy and Apple-Pie” (Elizabeth Goudge's A City of Bells)
• “Fairies of the Orchard” (Cicely Barker's Flower Fairies)
• “Fenlanding” (Dick Francis's Flying Finish)
• “Jean at the Witching Hour” (Janet Sandison's Jean Robertson series)
• “A Winchester Always” (M*A*S*H)
• “A Different Shade of Gold” (S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders)
• “The Rape of the Book” (Georgette Heyer's Venetia)

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