Pissing off Christie Blatchford since 2011

Part of the All the King's Men Universe.
Set after Mutiny and Retribution.


If you've read no ATKM, you might want to read the letterfics first . That should provide enough context to be going on with.

Explicit Sexuality. Chronological Skullduggery.

Thanks to: The Usual Supects, and I love them: damned_colonial, fairestcat, black_hound, ataniell93. Readers, cheerleaders, editors, arse kickers, co-conspirators, history geeks, madwomen, beloved friends.

A good beta is beyond rubies. Mine are beyond diamonds: wemyss, sjkasabi, farjdrako.


Respectfully dedicated to the men shot at dawn, and to the men who have died shamefully because they did not consider that their sexual preference excused them from serving their country. Someday there will perhaps be an Article XXIX memorial.



By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept...
Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song,
Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.
But at my back in a cold blast I hear
The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear.


( The Naval Gazette, March 1802 )