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Everything Zen by Zara Hemla (PG-13)
Fandom: GILMORE GIRLS
Pairing: Rory/Jess
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zarahemla
Author Website: http://if.sweetdarkness.net/
Why this must be read:
What I love about this story is how it blends all the things that are essential to the Gilmore world- the townies, the banter, Rory’s absolute sincerity- and places them in an entirely different context while maintaining their integrity. Everything Zen is told from Jess’ point of view and the writing has a gorgeously literary quality to it. It’s wonderfully detailed and has an off kilter sense of humor that really sells Jess’ frustration. What impresses me most though, is how in such a short story,zarahemla captures the best and worst of Jess so thoroughly.
The sun comes up over Luke's Diner and Jess is sitting outside getting in one last smoke before he has to go make coffee and pile doughnuts in their little glass case.
Doughnuts. That's what life has come down to. Don't forget to pile the ones with the sprinkles on top, because no one wants their sprinkles covered with icing from a doughnut on top of them.
There are things about cheese that Jess has to know. Things about meat and its rareness. Things, yes indeed, about how and where to place a ketchup bottle in relation to the A-1 steak sauce bottle and the napkins. These small, useless things that he can memorize but never attach any importance to; these things represent what he is now -- a guy who works at a small-time diner.
Everything Zen
Pairing: Rory/Jess
Author on LJ:
zarahemlaAuthor Website: http://if.sweetdarkness.net/
Why this must be read:
What I love about this story is how it blends all the things that are essential to the Gilmore world- the townies, the banter, Rory’s absolute sincerity- and places them in an entirely different context while maintaining their integrity. Everything Zen is told from Jess’ point of view and the writing has a gorgeously literary quality to it. It’s wonderfully detailed and has an off kilter sense of humor that really sells Jess’ frustration. What impresses me most though, is how in such a short story,
zarahemla captures the best and worst of Jess so thoroughly.The sun comes up over Luke's Diner and Jess is sitting outside getting in one last smoke before he has to go make coffee and pile doughnuts in their little glass case.
Doughnuts. That's what life has come down to. Don't forget to pile the ones with the sprinkles on top, because no one wants their sprinkles covered with icing from a doughnut on top of them.
There are things about cheese that Jess has to know. Things about meat and its rareness. Things, yes indeed, about how and where to place a ketchup bottle in relation to the A-1 steak sauce bottle and the napkins. These small, useless things that he can memorize but never attach any importance to; these things represent what he is now -- a guy who works at a small-time diner.
Everything Zen