I give you more lives than you can count by Pene

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Fandom: Farscape
Pairing: John/Aeryn
Author on LJ: pene
Author's Website: the stars, baby, the stars
Why this must be read: It's beautiful and bleak and shows just how bad Aeryn would be with a baby. This Aeryn is disconnected from whatever maternal feelings she may be experiencing, yet she's determined that she'd going to do everything herself and that she doesn't need any help.

And then John shows up.

The writing in this is lyrical and rich with description, without being purple or overly florid. It starts out like this:

"If you hold yourself still, if you capture the light and span of that gray place against your retina, it has a bleak beauty. A fragile beauty, despite its vastness, because its delicate features are all but invisible, and if you breathe too soon it collapses, is only space."

And gets only more lovely from there.

I give you more lives than you can count by Pene

Pssst! Some of you West Wingers may also remember Pene as Penelopody, the co-author of the story "Retina Burn" with August, among others.

Comments

[cofax7]

Oh, that's SUCH a good story. Mmmm, Pene. And the line about sleeping in the same room and hearing another man breathe. Ouch.

I almost kind of miss the S3/4 hiatus...