Foreward

Disclaimer: I do not in any way own or profit from the characters or settings of Thunderbirds. They were created by Gerry Anderson, and the copyright is held by Granada. These stories are for my own entertainment and that of others.

Author's Note: These "missing scenes" were first posted at fanfiction.net on April 20, 2004. I wrote most of them for a contest at the Yahoo! group, Tracy Island Writer's Forum. The first, "Fixing The Fuse", was the contest winner.

One of the scenes, "Compression Surge", is no longer posted at fanfiction.net. It was inspired by a similar scene by Rosemary Alcott, and in deference to her, I removed it from the group at that site. I've published it here because, though my offering was inspired by hers, I felt I took the scene in a different enough direction to make each story unique.

Each story mentions the episode that inspired it, as well as a line or two about what I was trying to accomplish. In most cases, I was musing about "what really happened?" or "what could have happened?" or "how could they do that?" The series left many of these questions open, and these little stories are my attempts at filling those gaps.

I hope you will enjoy these little "scenes from the cutting room floor".

Tikatu