Easter Eggs that haven't been spotted yet:

[MediocreAuthor]

Okay, every now and then, we all included tiny nods or Easter Eggs that no one seems to catch.

@Altissimus was the only one to catch my Easter Egg in Eldritch Pact; although he did catch it, so it doesn't count here.

@NoTalentHack published a great story that is basically one huge Easter Egg, but people caught it in the comments.

Anyone else got a small nod or huge reference that no one seemed to catch? NO CHEATING!

I'll go first. This is from my light coercion, resistance story, The Price of Embezzlement.

"That's...! That's...!"

"That's sexual harassment," He finishes for me. "Yes, yes it is. Quite definitely. And you don't have to take it... although, from my position, it seems infinitely preferable to the other option..."

[I was a kid when that PSA came out. Anyone else remember it?]

 

[AwkwardMD]

I have an entire piece of Life is Strange fan fiction that isn't labeled as such, and no one has ever caught on that it's fan fiction.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

I have an entire piece of Life is Strange fan fiction that isn't labeled as such, and no one has ever caught on that it's fan fiction.

I'd miss it. I never played "Life is Strange"

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Tormented by my Muse (750 words) has three. People pretty quickly got The Raven

It was well past midnight when she came, though I was indeed weak and weary, exhausted by the struggle of putting metaphorical pen to digital paper.

and the Neuromancer

In silent disdain, she surveyed my disorderly room. The tepid tea in its cup. The infinitely patient cursor on its field of pristine snow. The window showing the sky lightening to the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

but so far nobody has gotten the Trix cereal commercial

With one swift kick, she parted my legs. With another, she brought my surging pleasure to a retching halt. "Silly boy," she cooed. "Orgasms are for authors."

I don't know what it says about my readers that they know Edgar Allen Poe and William Gibson but not children's breakfast cereal.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

I don't know what it says about my readers that they know Edgar Allen Poe and William Gibson but not children's breakfast cereal.

I'm not sure what it says about my credentials as an author, but I'm pretty sure I would have only gotten Poe and Trix.

 

[djrip]

Tormented by my Muse (750 words) has three. People pretty quickly got The Raven



and the Neuromancer



but so far nobody has gotten the Trix cereal commercial



I don't know what it says about my readers that they know Edgar Allen Poe and William Gibson but not children's breakfast cereal.

Thought that one was from

 

[Carnevil9]

My latest story has several subtle Star Trek (TNG) references, but so far nobody has commented on noticing them.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

@djrip Ooh, I'll take that.

Now I want to write a story where this poor writer's dominatrix muse quotes the ABC monologue at him somehow.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

My latest story has several subtle Star Trek (TNG) references, but so far nobody has commented on noticing them.

Link? I watched some TNG, although I was more a DS9 fan. I love long plot arcs.

 

[Carnevil9]

Link? I watched some TNG, although I was more a DS9 fan. I love long plot arcs.

Link is in signature. Yeah, I'm also a huge fan of DS9.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

My latest story has several subtle Star Trek (TNG) references, but so far nobody has commented on noticing them.

My Father in law would probably catch them. Unfortunately I'm not gonna link him to my favorite erotica site.

 

[NoTalentHack]

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@NoTalentHack published a great story that is basically one huge Easter Egg, but people caught it in the comments.

What? What are you talking about? Easter Eggs? *looks around nervously*

 

[MediocreAuthor]

What? What are you talking about? Easter Eggs? *looks around nervously*

No... uhhh... I mean... Her Master's Voice..! Yeah! That had references to... uhh... THE BEETHOVEN MOVIES!!! YEAH!

 

[NoTalentHack]

No... uhhh... I mean... Her Master's Voice..! Yeah! That had references to... uhh... THE BEETHOVEN MOVIES!!! YEAH!

*teleports away, leaving only a cloud of sulfurous smoke behind*

 

[MediocreAuthor]

What? What are you talking about? Easter Eggs? *looks around nervously*

Honestly, NTH, you should just come clean already. We've all figured out that In Health is just one giant critique of the loathsome effects caused by the Industrial Revolution. It's barely even an Easter egg at this point. If anyone can read that story, and not figure that out, I imagine they're just dumb.

 

[jsmiam]

My story “Dinah might with a laser beam” is phonetically a line from the song Killer Queen by Queen. Nobody noticed.

It also includes a movie quote or two, but the narrator identifies the quotes, so in those cases it’s more like an Easter egg that says “Happy Easter from Mom. P.S., there’s no Easter bunny or Santa.” ;-)

 

[jsmiam]

My latest story has several subtle Star Trek (TNG) references, but so far nobody has commented on noticing them.

Star Trek TNG?

You’re number one! (I made it so.)

 

[Djmac1031]

In The Devil And Angel Em, my she-demon character Cozbi dresses in an outfit very similar to another demonic character Randall Flagg from Stephen Kings novel The Stand.

Of course, I couldn't contain myself and pointed out the reference directly in my Afterwards lol.

 

[Djmac1031]

Oh, my 750 word short story, A Fleeting Glimpse:

The story title is snipped from the lyric in Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb."

"When I was a child,
I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye..."

The story is about a young man who indeed catches a fleeting glimpse of his unrequited crush half naked one night in a blink and she's gone moment.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've got the entire Apollo Eleven moon landing sequence in a story. If anyone spotted it, no-one commented.

 

[MajorRewrite]

There may be a difference between “nobody noticed” and “people noticed but didn’t bother to comment on it”.

 

[AchtungNight]

My work is full of Easter eggs. Some are blatant (the LotR nods in 2 Cats in Heat referencing Reddick’s purity ring, the whole title of Confessions of a Sexaholic referencing the film Confessions of a Shopaholic). Others are deeply hidden (Erika, Keri, Alicia, and Evan overact various movie moments throughout The Rendezvous and I doubt anyone but me can name them all). Every time another story greatly influences my work, I slip in a reference when I can.

Another favorite of mine from the Star Trek story-
“What can you tell me about this alien civilization, Bones?”
“I’m a doctor, Jim, not an anthropologist!”
Guess what anthropologist tv show I was thinking of when I wrote that line.

 

[KeithD]

Most of the Easter Eggs I include in stories are in having a character reading a book I've written. If anyone's noticed, they haven't said anything. A few times I've included a "from a different perspective" scene from one story in another story, as Lawrence Durrell did with his Alexander Quartet. A vignette that's a minor scene segment put in one story but becomes a central scene in another story, giving dimension (and explanation for something) to a character or two. Again, if anyone's noticed, they haven't mentioned it where I could see.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Link is in signature. Yeah, I'm also a huge fan of DS9.

Ah sorry, signatures don't display on the mobile site.

I caught the explicit sitting like riker reference, and the fact that the two guys are named Patrick and Stuart (Stewart) but that was all.

 

[NoTalentHack]

Ah sorry, signatures don't display on the mobile site.

I caught the explicit sitting like riker reference, and the fact that the two guys are named Patrick and Stuart (Stewart) but that was all.

You can make sigs show up if you turn the phone on it’s side. On my phone, anyways.