Story 9: "Young CSM" series by Plausible Deniability (NC-17)

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This week's selection, nominated by yours truly, has no Mulder or Scully whatsoever. Well, it does have Mulder, but let's just say that he doesn't have a speaking part. It is a series of five closely linked short stories written by Plausible Deniability about the unfolding of the relationship between the Cigarette Smoking Man and Teena Mulder. Perhaps I'm cheating by picking five stories, but I console myself by thinking that the total length is not that great.

Author: Plausible Deniability

Address: pdeniability@hotmail.com

Category: SR

Rating: *NC-17* (sexual situations, mature language)

Spoilers: Concerns events hinted at in Talitha Cumi (3.24) and Patient X (5.13)/The Red and the Black (5.14); also contains a name and references to a pivotal incident from Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (4.7).

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Somebody's Fool
You Don't Know Me
It's All in the Game
When I Fall in Love

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Comments

[wendelah1]

I have to admit, this series made me feel more than a little uncomfortable. The first story, especially. That whole scene on the beach was very Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity, and as such, I just didn't know how to react. Am I supposed to feel, what for these people? We know who they are, we know what they did. Why should I care who or why they are screwing each other?

It is just too out of context of the series, without enough back-story for the characters to make me care about them. Why are they doing the bad things that they are doing is the question that never gets asked, so it never gets answered, not to my satisfaction, in any case.

It was very competently written as far as it went. I guess I just hated the subject matter, and the writer never gave me a reason to feel otherwise.

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