Steven Sweeney Index

[foolish_m0rtal]

Steven Sweeney and the Man With the Silver Cigarette Case

"There is a sad lack of noir-film detective slash. Y'know, fics that start with: "It was a dark and stormy night..." or "It was a day like any other...grimm_psyke 


(art manip from cover art of The Art of Film Noir, by Eddie Muller and the film poster for Desert Fury)

Summary: When grizzled gumshoe Steven Sweeney takes a case from a mysterious client, he gets into the middle of a mystery where no one can be trusted. Has Sweeney finally bitten off more than he can chew? Is this the case that will finally have Sweeney sleeping with the fishes?

Changes:
1) Bernice's hair is brown instead of red because I couldn't have HER be Irish, MacIntyre be Irish, and Sweeney be vaguely Irish (Sweeney comes from MacSweeney). On top of that, Rokossovsky, Lyov, Andrei & Yuri Baranova, and the Khostovs all live in the middle of an Irish community. I had not thought this through. This is too much.

2) I did my research incorrectly. The bar Sweeney goes to often is not in the Gold Coast district but on Wells Street.

Chapter One
It was a day just like any other. Well, a day like any other for a private eye in downtown Chicago.

Chapter Two
So I stared where any good private eye would start- at the scene of the crime.

Chapter Three
I shut the Baranova’s door behind me, and it creaked open again as the busted lock didn’t click. There was nothing else I could do here.

Comments

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

umm, thanks?

IT'S FUCKING WEIRD TO HAVE REAL LIFE PEOPLE READING THIS. THIS WAS ALL GRIMM_PSYKE'S IDEA, I SWEAR

*points fingers*

[grimmsical.livejournal.com]

Hey, no need to point fingers.

...of course, I've no shame accepting credit for inspiring something AWESOME LIKE THIS.

P:

*dances*

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

haha, it's just AWKWARD and embarrassing for me. I don't know, it's so much easier for me to share fiction with people I don't see in real life. It's only after MUCH deliberation and two years, for example, that I sent a story off to two people I know in real life.

It's my own fault for friending people I know in real life, I suppose. Is there a way to block friends? :)

[grimmsical.livejournal.com]

>.- I totally understand. I had a real-person scare earlier this year. I even hate having my teachers read anything I write, so I tend to write the most boring things for them. XD

But uh... I think you can ban them, but that will make them unable to see anything on your journal. You could make a filter, but then that's like putting a friend-lock as well as narrowing down which friends can see the entry... third option is making a community to put your writing on it and making it members only, and you can then monitor the people in the comm... >.- I dunno.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Haha. I was...joking. (kind of)

I've actually entertained the thought of having a separate journal for everything I write.

Oh yeah, my teachers get the boring stuff if they get anything at all.

I've actually looked into it in the past for other reasons- LJ figures out that users have so many other loopholes to access your journal that filtering out certain users is useless for just a few entries, so yeah, I would have to block my whole journal, and that's kind of rude, since I really do like these people. I should know better than putting what I write on the internet, I guess.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

btw, you said you reced Steven Sweeney in a comm? Which comm is this?

[grimmsical.livejournal.com]

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