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"A Horizontal Fall" by Rosalita (NC-17)
Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Length: 12K
Author on LJ:![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
iamrosalita
Author Website:http://archiveofourown.org/users/Rosalita
Why this must be read:...
The first time I read this story was just before the Weekend in the Country con in August of 2000. It came to my inbox via the SXF mailing list and I was impressed. It was a hot, urgent story, a play on Blair-survives-narrowly-and-sex-with-Jim-affirms-life that isn't run of the mill. Written in the first person present tense in Jim's pov, there is plenty of angst as Jim watches nearly helplessly as a gun-man holds Blair with a pistol to his head. Jim is already mourning when a lucky break saves Sandburg and Jim realizes that for the last three years, he and Blair have been involved in one long courtship and that soon they will finally becme lovers.
It's not unexpected that when they arrive at the loft, Blair makes his move and Jim responds, understanding Blair thought he would die without ever having a chance to show Jim how he feels.
And it's going to be fast. It's going to be hard. It's going to be good.
Really fucking good, Jim thinks.
And it is. Rosalita's writing is neat, economical and clean (in syntax) and dirty (in hotness). Blair doesn't bother with a lot of foreplay and the author doesn't mess around with flowery descriptions and metaphors about stars exploding. Jim's voice is realistic and eager, amazed and sexy as he responds to Blair's urgent need. And what transpires between them isn't exactly what this oft-used theme in TS fic would lead the reader to expect. Also, there's no tiresome "but I thought I/he was straight" stuff to side-track the action, something that was still relatively new in fanfic in 2000. It's a PWP but it doesn't need more.
Oh yeah, right after Blair isn't killed by the bad guy, he throws up. I found this realistic and it didn't squick me at all, but comments at the time about the scene did indicate it seemed to bother other readers. Blair does get water to wash his mouth out with afterwards and if the story doesn't explicitly state he chews gum or swishes with some Scope on the way back to the loft, do yourself a favor and imagine it does. You'll thank me.
Back to Weekend in the Country -- I was pleasantly surprised to see a woman walk in to the Friday night meet and greet with a name tag that read "Rosalita" and even more pleased to learn she lived in near-by Virginia. I introduced myself and told her how much I enjoyed "A Horizontal Fall" and we've been close friends ever since. I even got to publish another gem of hers in an issue of my TS zine, Warriors, "Love and Basketball." Rosalita hasn't written a lot of TS, unfortunately, but her stories are a definite must read. Maybe we can lure her back to TS someday.
A Horizontal Fall
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Length: 12K
Author on LJ:
iamrosalita Author Website:http://archiveofourown.org/users/Rosalita
Why this must be read:...
The first time I read this story was just before the Weekend in the Country con in August of 2000. It came to my inbox via the SXF mailing list and I was impressed. It was a hot, urgent story, a play on Blair-survives-narrowly-and-sex-with-Jim-affirms-life that isn't run of the mill. Written in the first person present tense in Jim's pov, there is plenty of angst as Jim watches nearly helplessly as a gun-man holds Blair with a pistol to his head. Jim is already mourning when a lucky break saves Sandburg and Jim realizes that for the last three years, he and Blair have been involved in one long courtship and that soon they will finally becme lovers.
It's not unexpected that when they arrive at the loft, Blair makes his move and Jim responds, understanding Blair thought he would die without ever having a chance to show Jim how he feels.
And it's going to be fast. It's going to be hard. It's going to be good.
Really fucking good, Jim thinks.
And it is. Rosalita's writing is neat, economical and clean (in syntax) and dirty (in hotness). Blair doesn't bother with a lot of foreplay and the author doesn't mess around with flowery descriptions and metaphors about stars exploding. Jim's voice is realistic and eager, amazed and sexy as he responds to Blair's urgent need. And what transpires between them isn't exactly what this oft-used theme in TS fic would lead the reader to expect. Also, there's no tiresome "but I thought I/he was straight" stuff to side-track the action, something that was still relatively new in fanfic in 2000. It's a PWP but it doesn't need more.
Oh yeah, right after Blair isn't killed by the bad guy, he throws up. I found this realistic and it didn't squick me at all, but comments at the time about the scene did indicate it seemed to bother other readers. Blair does get water to wash his mouth out with afterwards and if the story doesn't explicitly state he chews gum or swishes with some Scope on the way back to the loft, do yourself a favor and imagine it does. You'll thank me.
Back to Weekend in the Country -- I was pleasantly surprised to see a woman walk in to the Friday night meet and greet with a name tag that read "Rosalita" and even more pleased to learn she lived in near-by Virginia. I introduced myself and told her how much I enjoyed "A Horizontal Fall" and we've been close friends ever since. I even got to publish another gem of hers in an issue of my TS zine, Warriors, "Love and Basketball." Rosalita hasn't written a lot of TS, unfortunately, but her stories are a definite must read. Maybe we can lure her back to TS someday.
A Horizontal Fall