FDK: Coffee at the Bakery - Lois & Clark Fanfic Message Boards

Wonderful

I love the interaction between the different universes you've created. Let's see... there's the SHADO universe, the Plane Storm universe, the All I Have to Give universe, the Time Enough Universe... It also looked like you had the canon Lois and Clark too. Did I miss any?

Madge and the Bakery refers back to Steel Shadows by Paul-Gabriel Wiener and CC Aikens In A Better Place. And if I bothered to describe Joy - well she looks like me - fifty-something, brown curly hair turning gray, a little short and dumpy with glasses.

Hey, I really, really like this, Dandello! All these Loises and Clarks! And I love the fact that so many of them appear to be the parents of a daughter!

I don't watch Smallville... ugh, I hate it, actually. A Clark who doesn't love Lois? That's sacrilege! There is no way I can watch it!

Ah, but this... this seemed to promise that even that Clark could perhaps learn to love his Lois one day. Maybe. Let's hope so. Meanwhile, what a family get-together you treated us to at the Bakery!

Ann

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It wasn't the usual Metropolis coffee house mix, young urbanites and college students with a smattering of retirees. The men were uniformly fit, as were the women. There wasn’t an extra ounce of fat anywhere except for the two older women at the counter. The ages of the customers seemed older than the usual mid-afternoon coffee crowd too. He and Lois seemed to be the youngest people in the place aside from several children, two of them in high chairs at one table.

OMG, I see where you're going with this! (Although I admit I wouldn't have yet without your A/N at the top.)

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They got married,” he said simply.

Oh, that poor Clark!

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"Well, if he takes after most of them, sometime after he proposes,” Joanne told her.

oh BOY! Lois is going to have a fit!

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“We’ve found the programming change,” Madge announced

Madge! I knew that name sounded familiar! And the Bakery! *bounces* This is a homage to In A Better Place!

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When a man who flies decides to openly become the defender of Metropolis and the world. A distant memory or something else? Clark heard the faint pop of a sonic boom somewhere in the distance. Maybe someday.

Great ending. Great fic!

Lisa

I sure enjoyed your meeting. 'You look like a Clark.' - hah!

Cute idea! Laura

Oooh! Excellent!

Loved it.

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More like the Number Of the Beast.

I spy - a reader of Heinlein! One of my favorite writers, even if he did get weird towards the end of his life.

This was even better than the excellent short (which title I cannot recall) about all the different Clark Kent/Superman incarnations trapped in one room for a few hours. Or the one about all the different Lex Luthors (which title I also cannot recall) stuck on an island together comparing psychoses and trying not to get killed by each other.

Very nice, especially the end where Smallville-Clark almost remembers the line about openly becoming a flying protector. Nice going, you infinitive-splitter you!

Sweet story. I got the opportunity to read this before James did, but he saw the title and said, "That reminds me of Madge and the bakery." I'm sure he'll enjoy this.

Elisabeth