101 Ways To End Up In A Canadian Shack: #68 by Dorinda (PG)

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Fandom: HORATIO HORNBLOWER
Pairing: Horatio Hornblower/Edward Pellew
Author on LJ: (none as far as I can tell)
Author Website: Dorinda's bare bones page
Why this must be read:

For those of you who are squicked by Hornblower/Pellew because of age or consent issues, this is the fic for you: no blushing midshipmen here. This Hornblower is a captain very much in posession of himself, and the story is beautifully, economically told with just as much control.

Dorinda sketches out the characters in a few lines, brings them together in a few more, and closes with a line that still makes me smile whenever I read it. It's true to the characters, and it rings true, more generally, as only Nelson's Navy and a writer with an amazing grasp of her craft could make it.

101 Ways To End Up In A Canadian Shack: #68.

Comments

Re: *was a Hornblower/Pellew girl five seconds into the first Hornblower episode she saw*

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Thank you :)

(You know, I'd somehow forgotten that Hornblower was obsessed with Gibbon when I named that story! Rather appropriate, now you point it out!)