Dibaajimowin by Todd F (PG-13)

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Fandom: EMERGENCY!
Pairing: none
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: http://www.geocities.com/toddfe2002/brice.html
http://kmg365.com
Why this must be read:

A lot of authors, in an effort to hurt poor Johnny, write him with child abuse in his past. Or worse yet, with a stereotypical Indian father who drinks too much and regularly beats his half-breed son.

Not Todd F., who takes a worn-out premise and breaths new life into it with breathtaking details of life on the reservation, parents who aren't cartoon cut-outs of Native Americans, and real, tear-jerking emotions.

“What happening? Hva?” his mother asked in an English-Norwegian mishmash, as she stood in her nightgown at the door. She walked toward the man and boy as they argued. “John. Johnny. Aaniish gaa kida yek? What happening?”

Dad reached down and grabbed something. He took a swing. Johnny ducked, yelling at his mother as he did so, “Mama, get out of the way!”

She didn’t. He realized later that he had yelled his warning to her in English -- not that her reaction time would have been fast enough anyway. That noise she made hitting the ground… for the rest of his life, that noise would remind him of the sound a pile of laundry makes when it hits the basement stairs.

Dibaajimowin

Comments

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is a good one. I remember how much I liked it the first time I found it.