Yeah, it is really, really good. I was pretty blown away when I first read it. It's a reccer's wet-dream: a great story that I'd never seen on anyone's rec lists.

She ties together so many stories, bringing into focus the show's notoriously loose canon. By pushing Mulder and Scully back into the Consortium's larger story, she changes their personal tragedy into something more universal. Yes, yes. A Boschian panorama is exactly right.

it emphasizes the neglect of the Consortium to value human life, without making it about the show's neglect. it's the way everything is taken, if not in stride, then simply as matter of fact, that i find so smart and so chilling; that attitude that says, "Of course there is a human cost. There always is, where these things are concerned."

This story is so ambitious and so successful and so -- short -- all at the same time. It made me rethink every preconception I held about the limitations of the short, short story form.

As far as I know, Mike and Jason Holloway are not canon characters, they belong to Melymbrosia.