Where's Mary Sue When You Need Her?

Synopsis
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.

Discussion
Despite much initial acclaim, the author now considers this story marred by repetitive exposition throughout, confusing and unnecessary 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. After some sober reflection, Daria fandom agreed, and the story won a Crappie in 2006. Only on line at the PPMB, the author plans numerous revisions.

Characters Introduced

 * Jim Vitale
 * S—
 * Jim Ellenbogen