Story 183: "All the Children Are Insane" by MustangSally

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In The X-Files fandom there are debatably no two authors more closely associated in the minds of fanfic readers than RivkaT, the author of our last fic, and MustangSally, who are indelibly linked by their co-authorship of "Iolokus". Which is why this week we're going to be reading "All the Children Are Insane," perhaps MustangSally's most widely read solo fic.

It's a vignette set in the summer after S5, with sex, angst, and the burnt-office base notes of existential crisis. The posting date stamp on "All The Children Are Insane" is June 18th 1998, just one day before Fight the Future hit theaters. To me the writing has always hummed with the captured tension of that summer, the fever pitch of fannish excitement and anxiety.

All the Children Are Insane

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Comments

[wendelah1]

Hi! estella_c is right, the more the merrier here. I'm glad to know people are reading fic and lurking here but I love, love, love when people actually comment.

I know what you mean about Scully in this story. This is Mustang Sally's Scully; to me, she greatly resembles the Scully from Iolokus. I think badforthefish is correct: this is a grittier, darker version of Scully than most, and she certainly takes some getting used to. For writing purposes, this would not work for me, but when reading fic, I like seeing different interpretations, and this one is really different.