The Night Show

Characters: Titans as of the end of the Family Lost paperback, starting with Bart Allen (Kid Flash) and Tim Drake (Robin). This installment also includes Conner “Kon” Kent (Superboy).
Rating: PG.
Content: Mystery with comic relief, or perhaps comedy with mystery relief.
Word Count: about 1,200 words per chapter. Unknown number of chapters.
Summary: Bart Allen as Kid Flash wants to help Robin on a Titans case involving a convict with a super-power and a strange police record. He knows honing his investigatory skills will require insight, concentration, and...what was the third thing? Kid Flash, Robin, and Superboy are on the trail of the helicopter that lifted a criminal out of Alcatraz.
Continuity: DC Comics standard.
Disclaimer: The Titans and its members are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely with no hope of commercial reward.
Notes: It all started here.

Characters: Titans as of the end of the Family Lost paperback, starting with Bart Allen (Kid Flash) and Tim Drake (Robin). This installment also includes Cassie Sandsmark (Wonder Girl), Koriand’r (Starfire), Conner “Kon” Kent (Superboy), Gar Logan (Beast Boy), and Victor Stone (Cyborg).
Rating: PG.
Content: Mystery with comic relief, or perhaps comedy with mystery relief.
Word Count: about 1,200 words per chapter. Unknown number of chapters.
Summary: Bart Allen as Kid Flash wants to help Robin on a Titans case involving a convict with a super-power and a strange police record. He knows honing his investigatory skills will require insight, concentration, and...what was the third thing? The Titans assemble on a ridge in the Sierra Nevadas as they prepare to chase down an escaped criminal.
Continuity: DC Comics standard.
Disclaimer: The Titans and its members are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely with no hope of commercial reward.
Notes: It all started here.

Characters: Titans as of the end of the Family Lost paperback, starting with Bart Allen (Kid Flash) and Tim Drake (Robin). This installment also includes Cassie Sandsmark (Wonder Girl) and Koriand’r (Starfire).
Rating: PG.
Content: Mystery with comic relief, or perhaps comedy with mystery relief.
Word Count: about 1,200 words per chapter. Unknown number of chapters.
Summary: Bart Allen as Kid Flash wants to help Robin on a Titans case involving a convict with a super-power and a strange police record. He knows honing his investigatory skills will require insight, concentration, and...what was the third thing? Cassie has just radioed for assistance from an Air Traffic Control Station.
Continuity: DC Comics standard.
Disclaimer: The Titans and its members are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely with no hope of commercial reward.
Notes: It all started here.

( Chapter 14: Flight Paths )

Characters: Titans as of the end of the Family Lost paperback, starting with Bart Allen (Kid Flash) and Tim Drake (Robin). This installment also includes Vic Stone (Cyborg), Conner Kent (Superboy), Gar Logan (Beast Boy), and Cassie Sandsmark (Wonder Girl).
Rating: PG.
Content: Mystery with comic relief, or perhaps comedy with mystery relief.
Word Count: about 1,200 words per chapter. Unknown number of chapters.
Summary: Bart Allen as Kid Flash wants to help Robin on a Titans case involving a convict with a super-power and a strange police record. He knows honing his investigatory skills will require insight, concentration, and...what was the third thing? The Titans and U.S. Marshals are investigating a breakout from Alcatraz, finding too many possible suspects and not enough clues.
Continuity: DC Comics standard.
Disclaimer: The Titans and its members are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely with no hope of commercial reward.
Notes: It all started here.

( Chapter 13: Habits )

Universe: DC standard, very early in the career of Young Justice.
Rating: All ages.
Genre: Humor.
Characters: Robin (Tim Drake), Superboy, Impulse (Bart Allen).
Word Count: 385.
Summary: We’ve got to keep ourselves amused somehow. (This ficlet is brought to you by the letter P.)
Note: Voted first place in a batfic_contest competition for stories under 500 words on the theme “Hot and Cold.”
Disclaimer: Young Justice and its members are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely with no hope of commercial reward.

( Warmer, Cooler )

Characters: Titans as of the end of the Family Lost paperback, starting with Bart Allen (Kid Flash) and Tim Drake (Robin). This installment also includes Vic Stone (Cyborg) and Conner Kent (Superboy).
Rating: PG.
Content: Mystery with comic relief, or perhaps comedy with mystery relief.
Word Count: about 1,200 words per chapter. Unknown number of chapters.
Summary: Bart Allen as Kid Flash wants to help Robin on a Titans case involving a convict with a super-power and a strange police record. He knows honing his investigatory skills will require insight, concentration, and...what was the third thing? Having seen the video footage of a bloody escape from Alcatraz, Bart speeds out of the meeting in the secure room to talk to Tim alone.
Continuity: DC Comics standard.
Disclaimer: The Titans and its members are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely with no hope of commercial reward.
Notes: It all started here.

( Chapter 12: Rock-Paper-Scissors )

Universe: DCU, circa 1966 with dashes of later additions and attitudes
Genre: Humor
Rating: All ages
Characters: Robin, Aqualad (Garth), Wonder Girl (Donna), Speedy (Roy), Kid Flash (Wally)
Word Count: 464
Summary: The newly formed Teen Titans have their first party! But one member has never been to a party on dry land.
Disclaimer: The Teen Titans and their sidekick grown-ups are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely with no hope of commercial reward.

The Brave and the Bold, #149, revealed that Wonder Girl had a previously (and subsequently) unmentioned power: the ability to exactly imitate any voice after hearing it once.

An earlier version of this tale won first place in the batfic_contest challenge for fiction of <500 words on the theme “Fish out of Water.”

( Party On, Garth )

Universe: DC standard—but offering a slight alternative to Red Robin, #1.
Rating: All ages.
Genre: Family.
Characters: Tim Drake Wayne (Robin), Dick Grayson (Batman), Damian Wayne (Robin).
Word Count: 1,100.
Summary: Dick is ready to become the new Batman, and Tim is ready for...?
Disclaimer: Batman and Robin are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely with no hope of commercial reward.

I don’t really care for fanfiction that attempts to “correct” characters or what they do. I think such storytelling works best as a way to explore established characters, and fictional forms or tricks. And yet I find myself posting a story that offers an alternative to Tim Drake Wayne’s break with Dick Grayson in the pages of Red Robin, #1.

( Much more explanation and analysis )

( the actual “Goodbyes” at last )

Universe: DC standard, Young Justice magazine after the group has moved into the old Poconos resort, but before Empress and Li’l Lobo arrive.
Rating: All ages.
Genre: Humor/Friendship.
Characters: Secret (Suzie), Superboy (Kon-El), Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark), Robin (Tim Drake), Impulse (Bart Allen), Nightwing (Dick Grayson).
Word Count: 4,002.
Summary: It’s Robin’s birthday—so why isn’t anyone having any fun?
Disclaimer: Young Justice and Nightwing are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely with no hope of commercial reward.

( Sweet Fifteen )

Universe: Young Justice, early on.
Rating: G.
Genre: Humor.
Characters: Tim Drake (Robin), Superboy a/k/a the Kid, Bart Allen (Impulse), Cassie Sandsmark (Wonder Girl), Cissie King (Arrowette), Lex Luthor.
Word Count: 1,200.
Summary: Which is more annoying—knowing that Lex Luthor has a satellite spying on Metropolis, or your teammates’ responses to that news?
Disclaimer: Young Justice, its members, and Lex Luthor are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely with no hope of commercial reward.


( Look! Up in the Sky! )

Third place (tie) in the batfic_contest community’s voting for best entry of 500+ words in 2008.



Characters/Pairings: Dick Grayson (Nightwing), Tim Drake (Robin).
Universe: DC Comics standard, late 1990s.
Summary: Dick has just settled down for a long winter’s mope when there’s a knock on the roof. With apologies to Henry Livingston or Clement Clark Moore.
Genre: Family dynamics.
Rating: G.
Word Count: 656.
Disclaimer: Nightwing, Robin, and their sidekick Batman are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely with no hope of commercial reward.

( The Visitor )

First place (tie) in the batfic_contest challenge for fiction on the theme “Christmas.”


Banners assembled by amara_anon.

Title: Crushed
Universe: DC Comics standard, late 1961. Alfred doesn’t yet have the surname Pennyworth, Batman doesn’t wear a yellow oval on his chest, and girls are still icky.
Genre: Humor
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Dick Grayson, Alfred, Betty Kane, Kathy Kane, Bruce Wayne
Word Count: 373
Summary: Bruce is having a dinner party. Dick is having an urge to hide.

( If you want to know more about Betty Kane, the original Bat-Girl... )


( Crushed )

Title: The Lights of Metropolis.
Characters/Pairings: Tim Drake (Robin), Cassandra Sandsmark (Wonder Girl).
Summary: The only thing Tim hates about being Robin is lying to his father. Has he mentioned that?
Universe: DC Comics standard. During the A Kid’s Game Teen Titans collection.
Genre: Adolescent angst. Created for batfic_contest on the theme “Metropolis.”
Rating: G.
Word Count: 406.
Disclaimer: Robin, Wonder Girl, and the Titans are owned by DC Comics under copyright and trademark laws. This pastiche is offered freely with no hope of commercial reward.

( The Lights of Metropolis )