Alternate Frequencies
Stories on the edge of my signal.
Some transmissions don’t quite fit the usual wavelength. They exist sideways to the main current. Experiments, reimaginings, and love letters to other worlds. Alternate Frequencies is where those live.
This section is home to occasional pieces of fan fiction and speculative homage. It’s not an area I often explore. These are works that take place in existing fictional universes or are inspired by them. They don’t fit so easily into my Shiny Toy Robots section - neither part of the Static Drift continuity or aligned with the standalone stories of my usual fiction.
Work here is more irregular, and might play by slightly different rules. I suppose you can think of them as signals from parallel fictional timelines: adjacent, affectionate, and a little unexpected.
You won’t find these stories in the main feed. They’re off to the side, deliberately. A quieter frequency you can dip into when you want something a little different.
Ripper & Rayne
Imagining a 1979-set occult detective TV series following the early, volatile partnership of Rupert Giles and Ethan Rayne from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It’s a love letter to Buffy, British genre television, a story about power, guilt, desire, and the mess we make trying to outrun our past.
“New Drama. Old Sins. Dangerous Chemistry.” TV Times, August 1979
Episode 3: Names of the Dead
Episode 4: Ashes and Honey
Episode 5: Department C
Episode 6: The Hollow Man
Episode 7: A Handful of Dust
Episode 8: The Devil’s Bargain
Episode 9: The Angel’s Tongue
Episode 10: Through a Glass Darkly
Episode 11: The Reckoning Charm
Episode 12: The Beautiful Disaster (Finale)
Ripper & Rayne: Ashes of London (1986 TV Movie)