68 Wives, by hmpf (PG?)

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Title: 68 Wives
Fandom: HIGHLANDER
Pairing: Methos/OCs
Author: Hmpf MacSlow (hmpf)
Author Website: Hmpf's fan fiction
Why this must be read:
They're all here, resident in Methos's mind and revived in snatches of memory. I really like Hmpf's meticulous writing and the careful joining and flow of these descriptions. The descriptions, in waves, are sensual and evocative and give a feeling of great age and timelessness. I said originally that they led Methos to a thoughtful conclusion, but on rereading, that's wrong. It's the reader who draws conclusions. (ETA to add a bit.)

A taste:

Wife #68 was a political activist, an idealist, who fell into black depression as her country fell into murder, and her blood in the bathwater tinges his memory. Wife #67 was an Italian countess of dubious descent, and he pretended to obscure Romanian nobility to please her brothers. Wife #66 laughed at him when he worried about her brothers, and did not stop laughing for days. Wife #65 wrote bad poems about thrushes, about larks, about nightingales, about swans on the river. Wife #64 murdered him for his money.

68 Wives