CSI Forensics

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The Shape of Happiness by automatic_badgirl
(CSI - Ship Ahoy! > Greg/Sara - PG-13)
Greg Sanders normally didn’t lie. He may have exaggerated, stretched the truth...

Snakebite by Leinney Moorlyn (PG-13)
This story answers the question: why not a Brass "Ship" story? It also fan-fic's my own work slightly, just for kicks. 13 woeful chapters.

Lies Without Deceit by Leinney Moorlyn (PG-13)
Brass finds a witness lying to him without intentionally deceiving him. Spoilers from the end of Season 8 -- what happened to Warrick.

Love on the Rocks by jjd022980 (R)
this is the fourth story of the Wolfe/Caine Family Saga: Hope you enjoy it like you guys have for the other three!!

Skin the Wolfe by Griffon (PG-13)
After 7:20 Ivan Sarnoff is in prison, but his mob is very much alive and avid to take their revenge upon Horatio Caine and his team. Under the authority...

Malevolent Justice by alligator138 (NC-17)
Ryan's in the worst mess he could possibly imagine, with no hope of escape...

Flashback by lunastar (PG-13)
When Greg's new case brings him back in touch with an old friend; he's left to wonder about the decisions he made years ago and if he can separate personal...

Stranded by The Dark Knight (NC-17)
Mac and Stella are abducted and held on an abounded island.

On the Run by jjd022980 (R)
when the event's of "Seeing Red" bring Eric to seek help from unlikely allies..in the end what will it cost them all?

Welcome to CSI Forensics, a fandom wide CSI fiction archive. Pull up a pew and we'll show you around the lab.

We accept stories of all types, all pairings and for all three shows. We do not, however, accept real person fiction, which includes crossovers with reality television shows, or stories that feature underage relationships. If you're planning on submitting stories, please take a moment to read the submission rules before uploading any stories. This is a moderated archive and stories that do not comply with the rules will not be accepted. You will also need to ensure that your browser has cookies enabled, in order to be able to log in.

We do not accept account registrations from anyone under the age of 13. You need to be at least 13 to create an account, and by creating an account on the site you are confirming that you are, in fact, of an age to do so. This is to ensure that we comply with the requirements of COPPA. Further information on our privacy policy can be found in the help page.

If you're not familiar with the operation of automatic archives like this one, you can also refer to the help file.

Your archivists are Alyse [CSI, temporarily CSI: Miami] and Emony [CSI: NY], assisted by Paige [CSI]. If you have any questions, or are experiencing any problems registering or logging in, they can be reached by using the 'contact' option on their user profile, linked here.

As some of you may have noticed, we've lost some of our admins, and others are struggling to deal with story submissions. I'm therefore asking for volunteers to help out with the archive, particularly fans familiar with CSI and CSI: Miami. At the moment, I'm covering the CSI: Miami category but don't actually watch the show, and both Emony and I, who are the most active archivists, are struggling to find the time to keep on top of submissions.

If you think you could help out and:

- have any familiarity with the way in which eFiction archives work

- have a good grasp of grammar, punctuation and spelling

- believe that you can handle rejections from the archive tactfully (we do have standard letters drawn up to help with this so won't throw you in cold); and

- can devote maybe an hour a week to dealing with story submissions

then we'd absolutely love to hear from you.

I'm afraid that the alternative may be that we're forced to close the site to new submissions for the foreseeable future, which would be very disappointing, for us as well.

I am currently struggling with tennis elbow and, given that there are currently only two active admins on the site this means but there will be delays in validating submissions. If I am able to validate your story immediately I will do so. However, if I need to reformat your story or send you a letter either explaining why your story cannot be added to the archive or pointing out things so that you need to correct in future submissions, then it may take me a while to be able to do this.

You can help speed the process up by ensuring that all of your submissions meet the archive's required minimum standards as well as the other archive rules.

Thank you for your assistance.

I've added one small thing to the rules, asking authors to ensure that all submissions are double spaced.

What this means is that all submissions should have a blank line between paragraphs, just as is the case for this news item. This makes blocks of text easier to read online.

Most of you are good at doing that - because it's a fairly standard way of doing things on the 'net - but it will help people who are new to online posting make their stories as readable as possible.

I've made some housekeeping changes, including:

- updated the help page to reflect the new names that pages have (just in case you couldn't figure out that 'edit personal information' and 'edit bio' meant the same thing ;) )

- fixed the issue with the skins that meant that the menu wasn't wrapping in smaller resolutions

- uploaded a new version of series.php, which had unfortunately not uploaded properly, so you should now be able to add series

- I think I've now caught most of the places where links were still wrong. The new site handles non eFiction pages like links etc that we'd added to the old site in a totally different way than it used to, meaning that any links to those pages built into the old version of the skins had to be changed. And, of course, I missed a few the first time around.

I've also added a new skin - called 'elegantcsi' - which doesn't use as many images, so is a bit better for those on dial up.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to report things like this. We do appreciate it, as we're never going to be able to catch everything ourselves. I would ask, however, that when you do contact us, you remain polite. I realise that sometimes things might be a bit frustrating, but there's really no excuse to be rude to any of the archivists, all of whom are giving up their free time (and money in some cases) to run the site for you. Being rude is never a good way to get someone to take you seriously and look into any issues that you might be having.

Thank you.

As the title says - everything seems to be in working order, so I've turned story submissions back on.