Night is the Colour of a Self by Salieri (all ages)

[hazelwho.livejournal.com]

Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Characters: Fraser, Kowalski, Dief
Length: 1000 words + a few pictures
Author on LJ: Salieri/troyswann
Author Website: incomplete list here - please let me know if you know where to find more of Salieri's stories! ETA: more due South fic can be found here, but your browser may throw an error the first time you click on the link. Persistence is rewarded, apparently...
Why this must be read: This is one of those stories that really sticks with you. The writing is gorgeous and has a dreamy, ethereal quality to it that's almost haunting. At the same time, the details of the landscape are so richly described that you feel like you are right there with Fraser and Ray and Dief.


Ray turns full-circle on the alpine plain. All around them, the peaks are sketched thin blue on blue in unbroken chains just below eye-level. The weird scale of it makes him want to kneel. Beside his boot, a tree—maybe a hundred years old, Fraser says—is a pinwheel of leathery branches tight against the gray rock, pressed flat by the weight of the sky. Ray crouches to measure it. It’s not much bigger than his spread fingers, grows in a flaky bed of pale lichen and scruffy moss. When he lifts his head, he has to steady himself with a fist in the thick fur at Dief’s neck. Vertigo. The tiny and the vast are pressed together in the thin margin of space at the top of the world.


Night is the Colour of a Self

Comments

[sef1029.livejournal.com]

Have you tried here for her work?

http://salieri.bonuspoints.net/

[hazelwho.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I did try there, but it gives me a "cannot open page because the server was reset error" every time. If that's a my-computer thing, I'll edit the main post, but I was afraid it was no longer a working link.


Also, I don't know why that got marked as suspicious, but I tried to fix that and couldn't. Hopefully the mods will come along soon and take care of it. *kicks LJ spam filter*

[sef1029.livejournal.com]

I got that the first click, but the second click worked.

[hazelwho.livejournal.com]

Hm, weirdness. I could not get it to work earlier, but this time the second click did the trick. I've updated the post with a direct link to the dS page - hopefully that will work for people. Thanks!!

[magician113.livejournal.com]

I keep getting an "Internet Explorer cannot display the web page" message, no matter how often I click on it. I can get to it through the Way Back Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20091005030740/http://salieri.bonuspoints.net/DS/ds.shtml

[hazelwho.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link! The original link appears to be working now with a second click. I'm crossing my fingers that continues to be the case. =)

[troyswann.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the rec! Also I have no trouble getting to the stories on my site if I go through the site's homepage/index page.

Here:
http://salieri.bonuspoints.net

[hazelwho.livejournal.com]

Sorry I'm so late in replying, life's been nuts lately. Thank you for continuing to write such gorgeous due South fics! I've fixed the link, it should work now. =)

[luzula]

Oh hey, did you find this from my podfic? : )

[hazelwho.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think I must have! Sorry if I stole a future rec out from under you. *hugs* It was so great seeing you in person. I hope you and Inga are having an amazing vacation!

[luzula]

No problem! There are tons of good fics to rec. And yes, it was good to see you! We went to the Oregon Aquarium today, and they had sea otters. \o/