Story 139: "Home, Home" by onpaperfirst

[wendelah1]

This story was recced by one of our anonymous lurkers. In my experience, it's rare for a story or novel to live up to its hype. I mean, when was the last time you saw four pages of comments on an X-Files story? Almost never would be the answer I'd give. But this story is just as special as our fandom's response suggests. It's a prequel to the second X-Files movie, but if you aren't a fan of that, and I'm not either, don't let that deter you.

The structure is simple: ten very short, connected vignettes. What's wonderful and unique about this fic is how it gives us a believable, detailed, note-perfect portrait of Mulder and Scully being happy, post-The Truth. "What's the opposite of angst?" is one of onpaperfirst's tags for the story. Joy is my answer. If you haven't read it, what a treat you have in store. If you have read it, maybe it's time for a reread.

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"Home, Home"

Short-Short Story Nomination Post

[wendelah1]

If you've been following along, here at xf_book_club, I post a new story every week (or two, or three). What this means is that we tend to focus on stories that take time to read and discuss--in other words, longer stories and novels.

However, there are some great vignettes and short-short stories in the X-Files fandom, which tend to be over-looked here.

amyhit were discussing the possibility of a Short Story Week, where we'll post and discuss a different short story every day. But first we'd like your suggestions! Back in 2008, we didn't put an upper limit on the word count, but this time, we'd like to try to keep the stories at 1000 words or less. Drabbles, vignettes, one-shots: anything goes, as long as it doesn't exceed 1000 words in length.

Please post suggestions in the comment here. If you have a link or somewhere you know it's archived, please post that as well.