I wrote this for Comment is free:

I first heard about fanfics a couple of years ago, when my best friend and I stayed at his 13-year-old cousin’s house in France. We were chatting about music in her bedroom when she confessed to being a rabid fan of the boy-band Blue, whose rise to fame in 2001 was as quick as their demise in 2005. Seemingly unfazed by our teasing, she proceeded to grab an enormous folder packed with pictures and handwritten pages. “Those are my fanfictions,” she proudly said. “I’ve been writing about Blue for some time now and I also share my stories with other girls on the internet. They’re mostly about me and Lee Ryan, he’s my favourite member of the group”…