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crack_van2012-05-29 09:07 am
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THE LETTERBOX by LILY K (adult)
This is my final day on the road. I’ve reached my quota of fics and the only thing I missed out on was the drive-in-night vid rec - through no fault of mine, or ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
crack_van’s or even LJ’s. (I’m blaming my ISP.) I’ve enjoyed the drive and I hope you’ve enjoyed the ride. I’d better start clearing out the glove compartment and removing my rubbish for the next driver. First, one last spin.
I seem to have got into supernatural gear and can’t get out of it. But at least we’re back in London. It’s just the date that seems to be uncertain.
Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 19,802 words
Author on LJ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Author website/archives Automated Hatstand. This will take you to Lily K’s more recent Professionals stories. Her older ones are at the old Hatstand: Hatstand but be careful to scroll down to LilyK - there’s another Lily just before the one you want!
Why this must be read: This unusual and delightful story was apparently inspired by the Keanu Reeves film The Lakehouse, in turn inspired by a story, etc. etc. The whole idea hinges on a kind of time travel but not huge leaps into the past or future. The lads are only a couple of years apart but it seems impossible they should ever meet, or at least meet at a time when they are both aware of the situation. However, they start a correspondence which is sometimes amusing, sometimes angry and sometimes romantic. There is a rented house, with a time-travelling letterbox. There is also a cat which may or may not be clairvoyant. I was so intrigued by the story that I rented the film, to compare. Lily K does a better job, I think, and explains the problems and the ending, or at least her ending, more satisfactorily. You don’t need to have seen the film; I understood the story perfectly well without it.
I first became aware of the story when the author contacted me (knowing I’m Brit) to ask about letterboxes in UK and whether there would be a problem with the concept. (She was putting the fic online after a zine version timed out, I think.) I reassured her that although they aren’t common they aren’t unknown, but usually lie nearer the house than their US or European counterparts, sometimes even on the wall of the house or porch. In any case, the idea would not be foreign. The idea of the time-crossed lovers, however, is one that takes getting used to wherever you're from. I found myself lying awake puzzling about it... You have been warned!
The Letterbox
crack_van’s or even LJ’s. (I’m blaming my ISP.) I’ve enjoyed the drive and I hope you’ve enjoyed the ride. I’d better start clearing out the glove compartment and removing my rubbish for the next driver. First, one last spin.I seem to have got into supernatural gear and can’t get out of it. But at least we’re back in London. It’s just the date that seems to be uncertain.
Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 19,802 words
Author on LJ
sc_fossil Author website/archives Automated Hatstand. This will take you to Lily K’s more recent Professionals stories. Her older ones are at the old Hatstand: Hatstand but be careful to scroll down to LilyK - there’s another Lily just before the one you want!
Why this must be read: This unusual and delightful story was apparently inspired by the Keanu Reeves film The Lakehouse, in turn inspired by a story, etc. etc. The whole idea hinges on a kind of time travel but not huge leaps into the past or future. The lads are only a couple of years apart but it seems impossible they should ever meet, or at least meet at a time when they are both aware of the situation. However, they start a correspondence which is sometimes amusing, sometimes angry and sometimes romantic. There is a rented house, with a time-travelling letterbox. There is also a cat which may or may not be clairvoyant. I was so intrigued by the story that I rented the film, to compare. Lily K does a better job, I think, and explains the problems and the ending, or at least her ending, more satisfactorily. You don’t need to have seen the film; I understood the story perfectly well without it.
I first became aware of the story when the author contacted me (knowing I’m Brit) to ask about letterboxes in UK and whether there would be a problem with the concept. (She was putting the fic online after a zine version timed out, I think.) I reassured her that although they aren’t common they aren’t unknown, but usually lie nearer the house than their US or European counterparts, sometimes even on the wall of the house or porch. In any case, the idea would not be foreign. The idea of the time-crossed lovers, however, is one that takes getting used to wherever you're from. I found myself lying awake puzzling about it... You have been warned!
The Letterbox
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