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Chains by Kipler (PG)
Fandom: X-FILES
Pairing: none
Author on LJ: no
Author Website: here
I should introduce myself. I'm cofax and I'll be your tour guide to the wild and wonderful world of XF fic for the month of January. There's far far too much good fic in XF to do more than scratch the surface, but I'll try to provide a good sampling of what there is. I'll be focusing on casefiles, post-colonization, and romance, since those are the kinds of fic I know best. Sit back and enjoy some of the best the Interweb has to offer...
Why this must be read:
Kipler's name is immediately recognized by almost everyone in X-Files fandom. She's been around since the early season, as both a regular poster on the Usenet groups and a formidable ficwriter. She specialized in tightly-written casefiles with clean, occasionally poetic prose, and solid characterizations. While casefiles are the holy grail for many readers in XF, the truth is that a really good one is hard to pull off, and Kipler's are very good indeed.
Chains is set in season 4, after Scully is diagnosed with cancer but before she becomes debilitated by it. The focus is on the case itself, but the subtext of the story shows a deep concern with the partners' relationship.
She must have been nine or ten, the first time she read those words. It had been a sultry summer night, and winter had seemed far off and mysterious. Somewhere her mind still stored the image of that reading: the living room carpet, the thick red book lying open on the floor, the quiet of the house. The dark and the slant of the kitchen light falling across the pages of her book. The gentle fall of snow in the cold woods. Her father's voice calling her to bed.
Read and enjoy.
Pairing: none
Author on LJ: no
Author Website: here
I should introduce myself. I'm cofax and I'll be your tour guide to the wild and wonderful world of XF fic for the month of January. There's far far too much good fic in XF to do more than scratch the surface, but I'll try to provide a good sampling of what there is. I'll be focusing on casefiles, post-colonization, and romance, since those are the kinds of fic I know best. Sit back and enjoy some of the best the Interweb has to offer...
Why this must be read:
Kipler's name is immediately recognized by almost everyone in X-Files fandom. She's been around since the early season, as both a regular poster on the Usenet groups and a formidable ficwriter. She specialized in tightly-written casefiles with clean, occasionally poetic prose, and solid characterizations. While casefiles are the holy grail for many readers in XF, the truth is that a really good one is hard to pull off, and Kipler's are very good indeed.
Chains is set in season 4, after Scully is diagnosed with cancer but before she becomes debilitated by it. The focus is on the case itself, but the subtext of the story shows a deep concern with the partners' relationship.
She must have been nine or ten, the first time she read those words. It had been a sultry summer night, and winter had seemed far off and mysterious. Somewhere her mind still stored the image of that reading: the living room carpet, the thick red book lying open on the floor, the quiet of the house. The dark and the slant of the kitchen light falling across the pages of her book. The gentle fall of snow in the cold woods. Her father's voice calling her to bed.
Read and enjoy.