Here’s another Atlas Shrugged fanfic from yours truly!  One of the fascinating things about these characters – now that I’ve got a little distance from the novel – is that Rand leaves them as nearly blank slates.  Even when some of the characters do having living family, like Hank Rearden, their family seems to have no real relationship with the character, evidenced by Hank’s mother’s name, in the novel, is literally “Hank’s mother.”  She has no proper name.  And while both Francisco and Dagny are obsessed with long dead ancestors, we learn almost nothing about their immediate family and nothing at all about their fathers.  Ayn Rand has daddy issues that burn so brightly that people are Jupiter are blinded by them.

A new Atlas Shrugged “fanfic”, Francisco d’Anaconia in Hell!  This one is a meeting between one of the protagonists of Atlas Shrugged, Francisco d’Anaconia, and the gangsters Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel.  Francisco owes them money.  It goes well for everyone!