A long time ago, in a geekery long since tempered (but obviously not by much), I wrote a novella all about Dr. Crusher. I know that I have mentioned this many times here. I also know that I have never really given any details on the novella beyond the fact that it’s about Dr. Crusher.

The truth is, it’s quite an embarrassing bit of writing, and I’ve only ever showed it to a handful of people I know and trust (to those whom I will probably never meet who bought my story, I’m very sorry; my only excuse is that I wrote it when I was 15-17 years old…and I was a raging nerd with limited life experience at the time).

What I will show you all, however, is the cover art that I drew for the story. Once upon a midnight dreary, I also considered myself an artiste. I used to practice sketching and everything. I haven’t done that in years, however, so who knows what my sketching would look like now. One step up from stick figures, I suppose 😉

Here, then, is probably the last pencil sketch I ever completed (minus the outline sketches I do for work designs or random doodles jotted down during staff meetings). These are the three primary characters from my story. I know so many of you are surprised right now. The empty white space is from where I removed the title of the novella. A geek’s gotta keep some things to herself, you know…