Story 135: "Untold" by Melymbrosia
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xf_book_clubOnce again, I am reminded it has been far too long between posts. But "Universal Invariants" was long and wonderful and worth spending the time on. Plus we had Thanksgiving weekend! Anyway, if you haven't already, there is still time to participate in the discussion, as well as send feedback to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
syntax6. I am still hoping she will finish "Original Sin," eventually.
This week I have a short short story for you. I know I recced it at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
crack_van and might have mentioned it in passing here too, but it deserves a post of its own. It is unusual for a story of this length, and in this genre yet, to have so impressed me since I usually like long stories with complicated plots.
Technically a post-ep for the pilot, "Untold" is told through a series of interconnected vignettes about the Consortium, featuring some familiar names and places, and introducing a few new ones as well. It is chilling and unforgettable.
You can read the rest of her stories at her website or at her author's page at Gossamer. Let us know what you think and remember to feed the author.
Read "Untold."
syntax6. I am still hoping she will finish "Original Sin," eventually. This week I have a short short story for you. I know I recced it at
crack_van and might have mentioned it in passing here too, but it deserves a post of its own. It is unusual for a story of this length, and in this genre yet, to have so impressed me since I usually like long stories with complicated plots. Technically a post-ep for the pilot, "Untold" is told through a series of interconnected vignettes about the Consortium, featuring some familiar names and places, and introducing a few new ones as well. It is chilling and unforgettable.
You can read the rest of her stories at her website or at her author's page at Gossamer. Let us know what you think and remember to feed the author.
Read "Untold."
Re: If conspiracy means "breathe together" would condeletum (destroy together) not be more accurate?
Date: 2010-12-05 09:15 am (UTC)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.