The Road to Hell by Crowswork (PG)

[magician113.livejournal.com]

In focusing on the 852 archive/collection, I definitely leaned heavily toward slash this month. So, I’m ending with a gen story that gives one more tip of the hat to Father’s Day. Cheers until the next time.

Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Characters: Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg, Naomi Sandburg, Simon Banks, surprise characters
Length: 9K words
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: at Wolfpup’s Den

Why this must be read: It covers a popular fandom subject: just who the heck is Blair’s father ?

Post-series, Naomi is still feeling terrible guilt over the release of Blair’s dissertation and the subsequent fiasco. She and a friend join a group of nuns who are in a Central American country to help set up schools. But they are kidnapped by an insurgent group and thrown in with other Americans; one of them being the last person she expected to see thirty years and hundreds of miles from when they parted.

Crowswork has written dozens of stories that range from funny to heavy, and has been a consistent contributor to our fandom for close to a decade. If this is your first intro to her, I suggest you take some time to wander through her offerings. Enjoy.

The Road to Hell by Crowswork (PG)

--magician’s mantra: make an author’s day. Send feedback if you like her story!

Comments

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

That is such a great adventure story, and the inclusion of the monks was a real surprise, but also made perfect sense! The boys are perfectly in character too. Thank you for this great rec and for all the others over the month!

[magician113.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I really liked the twist as well. I had a great time uncovering new (to me) stories and "old faithful" ones as well. Thank you so much for your kind comments.

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

And i keep your mantra in mind whenever i read things now! After all, i know how i feel when people give me feedback. and when they don't! ;)
When I first started reading TS stuff, I found it very difficult to give feedback on older sites. So often website and email links no longer worked. So I kind of gave up trying. It's so much easier now when things are on AO 3. I've just tried again for this story and there's nothing on wolf pups dens to show how - though I admit I haven't tried the email on that one just yet. It's such a shame though, not to able to register how great a story is.....

[magician113.livejournal.com]

Yeah we are definitely spoiled with AO3--if you can't think of a comment, you can always kudo it. I have noticed recently that gen authors like Jael Lyn and Helen W are putting their stories at AO3, so the word is getting out to more than just the slashers. Hopefully we'll see more authors showing up.

I haven't yet sent Crowswork feedback on this story, but I have sent her FB in the past to her iwon address and it didn't get rejected, so I think it's probably still valid. Thanks for ramping up your feedback. I know sometimes it's hard to know what to say, but authors are always so grateful that I think it's worth the effort.

Cheers, dearie.

[stargatesg1971.livejournal.com]

Crowswork has written some lovely pieces, its nice to see her get rec'd here. Thanks for all the lovely recs throughout the month.

I generally leave feedback when I read something but AO3 does make it a whole lot easier to do so. Its a great option and one that I hope people take advantage of. Thanks again for all the you do for this fandom.

[magician113.livejournal.com]

Thank you, as always for your great comments. I agree with you about AO3. As much as I love having lots of archives, AO3 has done a superior job of focusing on what the authors need and want. Making feedback easy to leave is wonderful and the kudos feature is inspired.