Gabrielle F. Dolly (Baby Troll)
The Dolly Apocrypha

My name is Gabrielle Dolly, and I approve the contents of this site.

Table of Contents

01. Report from New Xenaland

02. Double Switch

03. Sinfonia de la Inamorata

04. The Moose Jaw Incident

05. Readings from the Xena Sutra /
The Season-Ending Cliffhanger

06. Xena and Gabrielle After India: Whither Faith?

— A lecture at the Center for Xena Studies
— To Prof. Clotho's Mythology 101 class
— Thursday night session
— Delivered June 24, 1999
— by Dr. Mitchell Cary Drummond

07. Dolls' Night Out

08. Out of Bounds (Unplugged)

09. A Dynasty Divine

10. Fragments

11. Odalisque

12. The Great Crossover Episode

13. A Doll's Odyssey

14. A Very Dolly XMas

15. It's Dolly's Birthday

16. Writer's Block

Ordinarily, authors don't publish their "trunk" stories — those stories they cannot or will not sell. But these stories of the Dolly Apocrypha were effectively written in public. They were composed in 1500-word chunks, as posts on a mailing list. They have been on the Web almost since they were first written. Withholding them now would be kind of churlish. And... I hope that they can bring a few people some joy.

Recent developments in the publishing arena make it feasible for me to publish these stories without having to face the gatekeepers of the publishing industry in New York. Leaving aside the question of whether this is wise, I am pleased to let it be known that I am preparing to publish a heavily revised version of the Apocrypha — call it Apocrypha 2.0 — in ebook formats (Kindle, Nook, et al) sometime before the end of 2012. Thus it is then that one may come to think of the stories as they have been published on the Web these last 12 years as the first draft of what someday will be the final version of the Dolly Apocrypha. Sometime also in 2012, I hope to have paper edition(s) available as well. Watch this space and at BabyTrollBlog

Also sometime in the future (I hope in the NEAR future), Dolly and I will seek professional publication of The Dolly Canon — stories purpose-written for publication, at (one hopes) a higher level of quality and professionalism. Friends have read the stories as they stand: Geppetto's Log, Genesis, Armed Citizen, The Omega Trilogy (Deicide in Irian Jaya, You Could Spend Years, The Next Story). All have much work to be done on them to bring them to an acceptable level of quality. I offer this here in the hopes that these will expand beyond the mere 15 pastiches here into an admirable body of work. Additionally, all of the thought I have put into this whole ball of wax has persuaded me that there may be yet a THIRD story arc — call it the Continuing Adventures of Gabrielle Dolly — and a FOURTH — call those The Adventures of Gabrielle Godslayer. As I say, watch this space and the blog.

Content: Being as this is created by and for fans of a violent television show that had a notorious following of people who are interested in sex, (as if there is anybody who is not interested in sex), it's a pretty safe bet that, even though this story is not about the characters in the show, there's plenty of both. There is also some language that some may find offensive and will tut-tut about. Too bad. That's what the off-button is for. Nobody is forcing you to read this. Exercise your freedom of choice. Everybody else: enjoy!

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© 1999-2011 Mark Philip Alger. All rights reserved.

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There is none of that wishy-washy open-source crap here. This stuff is mine. I made it. I intend to defend it vigorously. Infringe on my copyrights at your own moral peril.

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