Where's Mary Sue When You Need Her?

A shaggy-dog story that depends as much (if not more) on Daria fan culture as knowledge of the series, "Where's Mary Sue When You Need Her" follows a day in the life of its author, Scissors MacGillicutty, as he chaperones Stacy Rowe around his (then) native New York, writes a old-style script fic under an assumed name, and then crosses dimensions to Lawndale where things really start to get weird for him. Marred by repetitive exposition throughout, confusing discussions of self-referentiality in art at crucial points, and half-digested analytic metaphysics in the mouth of an impossibly off-canon Daria at its end, it won a [Crappie]] in 2006. Only on line at the PPMB, the author plans numerous revisions.

[Category: Stories]]