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Cowley's Irregulars by Gil Hale (PG-13)
Fandom: The Professionals
Author: Gil Hale
Author web site: Gil Hale's Literary Leaflets
Pairing: None
And now for something completely different!
Or, at least, mostly different.
Although the Hatstand and the Circuit Archive are the best and most fruitful sources of Professionals fic online, the fact remains that many great stories are out there, waiting, lurking in cyberspace, unattached to any Professionals archive and unknown by the vast majority of readers. Obviously, Crackvan is the place to rectify this as much as possible!
As my tastes are eclectic and highly eccentric, I wager I've stumbled over more of these than most. Thus I have taken upon myself to do my level best this month to ensure that as many of the recs as possible originate outside of the well known archives of Pros fandom.
Why this must be read:
I love Cowley's Irregulars for managing to skillfully draw an original AU for the boys to fight for, while at the same time getting the voices and emotions of all three protagonists pitch perfect.
Here's an AU where Ray and Bodie aren't indolent sex fiends or possessed of Curious Social Rituals! Not that that type of AU is bad... but variety is the spice of life. Gil Hale brings that in this fic, and does it well.
Cowley's Irregulars is set in an alternate history where modern day society, while not quite fascistic, has even less in the way of civil rights, rule of law or social conscience than the nation that CI-5 strove to clean up in the television show. Yet deeply flawed as their world may be, Cowley and Doyle are just as ready to make things better, and their situation is hardly hopeless.
This story covers a lot of emotional ground, but because it's written from Bodie's matter of fact point of view, the depth of feeling expressed sneaks up on you. Gil Hale has a light touch on a story that could easily have turned to pruple prose, and that makes all the difference.
I like the plot, I like the style, and I like the very language of the thing.
Is this a novel-length epic? No, worse luck. I could certainly do with more tales of Cowley's Irregulars, but this is a story of average length and it stands entirely alone.
True, this story isn't slash. Much like some of the best episodes of the show, however, I hardly noticed that until five or ten very satisfied minutes later. Don't miss this story, it won't disappoint.
Cowley's Irregulars
Author: Gil Hale
Author web site: Gil Hale's Literary Leaflets
Pairing: None
And now for something completely different!
Or, at least, mostly different.
Although the Hatstand and the Circuit Archive are the best and most fruitful sources of Professionals fic online, the fact remains that many great stories are out there, waiting, lurking in cyberspace, unattached to any Professionals archive and unknown by the vast majority of readers. Obviously, Crackvan is the place to rectify this as much as possible!
As my tastes are eclectic and highly eccentric, I wager I've stumbled over more of these than most. Thus I have taken upon myself to do my level best this month to ensure that as many of the recs as possible originate outside of the well known archives of Pros fandom.
Why this must be read:
I love Cowley's Irregulars for managing to skillfully draw an original AU for the boys to fight for, while at the same time getting the voices and emotions of all three protagonists pitch perfect.
Here's an AU where Ray and Bodie aren't indolent sex fiends or possessed of Curious Social Rituals! Not that that type of AU is bad... but variety is the spice of life. Gil Hale brings that in this fic, and does it well.
Cowley's Irregulars is set in an alternate history where modern day society, while not quite fascistic, has even less in the way of civil rights, rule of law or social conscience than the nation that CI-5 strove to clean up in the television show. Yet deeply flawed as their world may be, Cowley and Doyle are just as ready to make things better, and their situation is hardly hopeless.
This story covers a lot of emotional ground, but because it's written from Bodie's matter of fact point of view, the depth of feeling expressed sneaks up on you. Gil Hale has a light touch on a story that could easily have turned to pruple prose, and that makes all the difference.
I like the plot, I like the style, and I like the very language of the thing.
Is this a novel-length epic? No, worse luck. I could certainly do with more tales of Cowley's Irregulars, but this is a story of average length and it stands entirely alone.
True, this story isn't slash. Much like some of the best episodes of the show, however, I hardly noticed that until five or ten very satisfied minutes later. Don't miss this story, it won't disappoint.
Cowley's Irregulars
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Cowley's Irregulars (http://www.thebrowsery.us/gilhale/tp-fiction/cowleysirregulars.html).
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http://www.gilhalefic.com/cowleysirregulars/
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