Mordieu (short story)

Mordieu
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Main setting:	Los Angeles, 1950s
Key crew
Writer:	Tara Samms
Release details
Part of:	Short Trips: The Muses
ST short stories
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Mordieu was the third short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: The Muses. It was written by Tara Samms, a pseudonym used by Stephen Cole. It featured the Eighth Doctor and was set during the Eighth Doctor's period of amnesia within the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures post-The Burning and pre-Escape Velocity.

Summary

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Characters

• Eighth Doctor
• Bill
• Cindy
• Susie

References

• The Doctor uses his John Smith alias.
• The Doctor works as a freelance writer.
• The Doctor eats onion soup.

Notes

• The stories in Short Trips: The Muses are inspired by the Muses of Greek mythology. This story is based on Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy.

Continuity

• The Doctor is still suffering from his amnesia. (PROSE: The Burning)
• One of the stories that the Doctor writes concerns a drilling project that cracks the Earth's crust and releases a gas that drives people insane. (TV: Inferno) Another story is about the end of the world beginning in San Francisco. (TV: Doctor Who)