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The Winter's Heart by Brighid (R)
Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: Blair Sandburg/Jim Ellison
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brighidestone
Author Website: The Brighid E. Stone Memorial Reading Room
Why this must be read:
Brighid is one of my favorite writers simply for the beauty of her prose. I particularly love her Sentinel adaptations of faery tales. It was hard to choose one of these jewels. The Winter's Heart is a retelling of The Snow Queen with its themes of emotional isolation and the healing power of love. The old tale illuminates the relationship between Jim and Blair and they bring the faery tale to life.
I feel Brighid's writing like an ache in my chest. I started off writing a flowery description of its sensory delights, its elegance, its wit, its evocative imagery, its revelatory moments, yadda yadda yadda. I can't do the story justice, so just read it.
Excerpt:
In the months he'd lived with Ellison, he'd long ago figured out that Jim was the sort of guy who needed to be needed. He was always doing little things, all gruff-like and defensive and on the sly, but doing things, all the same. "Here, Sandburg, stop borrowing my fucking socks, these were on sale at Costco." and, "Hey, Sandburg, I found this bookcase down at the Salvation Army store, can you believe it?" not to mention, "What do you mean you're taking the car in for an oil change? Christ, no wonder you're always broke. Didn't any of your mom's boyfriends ever teach you anything about cars?"
The man was a big ol' softie, provided you didn't point it out to him.
Not to mention, Carolyn struck him as a talker, someone who liked to draw boundaries and debate things all civilized and keep Robert's Rules of Order, and as far as he could tell, saying "Jim, we've gotta talk," was the surest thing to get the man down into a hole so fast there'd be six more weeks of winter. Jim didn't talk, he just did.
The Winter's Heart
Pairing: Blair Sandburg/Jim Ellison
Author on LJ:
brighidestone Author Website: The Brighid E. Stone Memorial Reading Room
Why this must be read:
Brighid is one of my favorite writers simply for the beauty of her prose. I particularly love her Sentinel adaptations of faery tales. It was hard to choose one of these jewels. The Winter's Heart is a retelling of The Snow Queen with its themes of emotional isolation and the healing power of love. The old tale illuminates the relationship between Jim and Blair and they bring the faery tale to life.
I feel Brighid's writing like an ache in my chest. I started off writing a flowery description of its sensory delights, its elegance, its wit, its evocative imagery, its revelatory moments, yadda yadda yadda. I can't do the story justice, so just read it.
Excerpt:
In the months he'd lived with Ellison, he'd long ago figured out that Jim was the sort of guy who needed to be needed. He was always doing little things, all gruff-like and defensive and on the sly, but doing things, all the same. "Here, Sandburg, stop borrowing my fucking socks, these were on sale at Costco." and, "Hey, Sandburg, I found this bookcase down at the Salvation Army store, can you believe it?" not to mention, "What do you mean you're taking the car in for an oil change? Christ, no wonder you're always broke. Didn't any of your mom's boyfriends ever teach you anything about cars?"
The man was a big ol' softie, provided you didn't point it out to him.
Not to mention, Carolyn struck him as a talker, someone who liked to draw boundaries and debate things all civilized and keep Robert's Rules of Order, and as far as he could tell, saying "Jim, we've gotta talk," was the surest thing to get the man down into a hole so fast there'd be six more weeks of winter. Jim didn't talk, he just did.
The Winter's Heart