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crack_van2008-08-10 03:06 pm
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Hard Times, Come Again No More by CazQ (no rating)
Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Length: One-shot
Author on LJ:![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cazfic
Author Website: Her fic is archived at her journal.
Why this must be read:
One thing that's wonderful about the new X-Files movie is that it's brought a number of amazing writers out of "retirement." CazQ has always been one of the all-time greats of the X-Files fandom, but like many of the old school writers, she hadn't written anything new in years. Well, retirement has clearly treated her well, as her new story is absolutely stunning. It's an exploration of the years Mulder and Scully spent before the movie's events and the adjustments they've had to make to their new lives.
Nearly every sentence of this post-movie story could be used in a fiction seminar on how to write mature, evocative, gorgeous fiction that is rich in description without being too wordy.
Her bones ache now and then with the effort of keeping him safe, keeping him near, keeping him closed inside this skinny, egg-shell peace of theirs. She can mostly kid herself that she has him tamed - Vulpes domesticus - but some days when she steps into his scrappy little nest of cuttings and photos and scrawled notes time seems to slip, like a scratched record, and her heart is in her mouth all over again, a painfully neat, bad-suited, soft-faced girl of 28, walking into the basement hideaway of a strange and fantastical creature.
Hard Times, Come Again No More
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Length: One-shot
Author on LJ:
cazficAuthor Website: Her fic is archived at her journal.
Why this must be read:
One thing that's wonderful about the new X-Files movie is that it's brought a number of amazing writers out of "retirement." CazQ has always been one of the all-time greats of the X-Files fandom, but like many of the old school writers, she hadn't written anything new in years. Well, retirement has clearly treated her well, as her new story is absolutely stunning. It's an exploration of the years Mulder and Scully spent before the movie's events and the adjustments they've had to make to their new lives.
Nearly every sentence of this post-movie story could be used in a fiction seminar on how to write mature, evocative, gorgeous fiction that is rich in description without being too wordy.
Her bones ache now and then with the effort of keeping him safe, keeping him near, keeping him closed inside this skinny, egg-shell peace of theirs. She can mostly kid herself that she has him tamed - Vulpes domesticus - but some days when she steps into his scrappy little nest of cuttings and photos and scrawled notes time seems to slip, like a scratched record, and her heart is in her mouth all over again, a painfully neat, bad-suited, soft-faced girl of 28, walking into the basement hideaway of a strange and fantastical creature.
Hard Times, Come Again No More