X-Files Book Club

Just had another thought - one thing that appealed to me a lot of the fic was that the language wasn't flowery. Yes, there are good writers who can get away with it, but it never manages to stop me thinking that this is what the writer wishes the X-files could be, rather than what it actually is. This is a show that's stark but for brief moments of gorgeousness, so when a writer can tell it without cluttering the language or making the imagery over-delicate, then yay!