Eclipse, by lferion (G)

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Fandom: HIGHLANDER
Pairing: none; Methos
Length: Six linked drabbles: 600 words
Author on LJ: lferion
Author Website: unknown; stories on Highlander Fiction archive
Why this must be read:
An effective use of the form, here functioning between poetry and prose. These six drabbles present incidents of Methos viewing an eclipse, three ancient and three modern. Read it for the history, for the skillful use of drabbles, and for pleasure in the language itself.

A taste, from the first:

He remembered when the blood-brown moon was cause for sacrifice: blood and life poured out upon the ground, flesh and hope offered to the fire, the smoke billowing up, entreating the heavens to mercy. When the temple-singers wailed and the mourning-women took up the threnody of grief and fearful, aweful hope. He remembered the cacophony of horns and pipes, the vibration of shell and copper, horn and bronze a desperate vibration against his lips; the rattle and clatter and boom of sistrum and drum, the cry and crash of cymbals shaking the air, calling the moon back into the sky.

Eclipse