This is a definite departure from what seems to dominate this 
list recently.  I've always been more attuned to the long-fic groove (and 
BGC, at that), 

Where's the Prodinator?  I wanna see "Machina non Grata" finished!

so this is also a departure from my past work.  In any 
event, enjoy...

	

	Ranma: Bourgeoise Blues

	By: Charles Lewis

Foreword:  This is a short fic, and doesn't fit within the continuity of 
anything much within the Ranma universe.  I like Ranma, and Ranma fan 
works, and have for quite a while now.  

	I fully realize that this Ranma Saotome doesn't really resemble 
Takahashi's character.  Then again, that's sort of the point.

	Feel free to send any comments to clewis@virtu.sar.usf.edu

No public comment wanted?  <oops!>

	CHL, 5/28/96


	Sometimes we just wake up in a bad mood.  The culprit might be a
night of drinking and debauchery, a brain tumor, or just plain bad luck. 
To Ranma Saotome, the cause hardly mattered; the end result was, after
all, the same.  He was in a bad mood ... a very bad mood, indeed.

<snip>

	With that, Ranma stood and walked out the door, and towards the road.  
With grace borne from a lifetime of training, Ranma Saotome stepped in 
front of a fast-moving truck, ending what had been a singularly 
unpleasant morning.

A very different take on the characters, and Ranma's comments on each of
them were, IMO, fairly dead-on.  You just intentionally left out the comic
twist to make their characteristics endearable.


Jeanne Hedge

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