Date: 2010-12-08 10:04 pm (UTC)
I have read Melymbrosia, and I remember thinking that she does angst right: brief, hard, and to the point. The writing is hard, that is, in the way of prose that has been triple-edited by the writer herself. I don't mind feeling fictional pain but I don't enjoy enduring unnecessary words to reach it.

The thing about a dry, stripped-down recitation of bad things is that when someone expresses an emotion it really strikes a spark. When Bill Mulder waits to punish his son because he's sure to have done "something or other horribly and unforgivably wrong" it tells you all you need to know about the guilt and pain that has been assigned to Fox Mulder.

I didn't need to read something as long as Oklahoma to get that.

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