Story 213: "Undying" by Elanor G

[wendelah1]

This story is told from Tooms's POV and it's just as creepy as that suggests. Elanor G is better known for her well-plotted casefiles, and they are excellent too, but this story is darkly original. The author rates it R but I would give it no more than a PG-13 for violence.

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Read "Undying".

Comments

[badforthefish.livejournal.com]

Eeep, I'm still reading "Fish for Fallen Light"!

(http://badforthefish.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/494/35946)

Edited to add: oh well this was short so, I read it anyway. It was an interesting piece. It's not often that you get to see the POV of the monster. Tooms laughing his head off at the cinema was a great scene - love his comment about blood being too thin, how creepy! And I liked the way the story travelled through times with the different characters. I thought that "his thoughts are long and slow" was a clever way to describe his 'otherness'. I liked that the old detective was used as one of the character.

One nitpick though. Are we supposed to think that the cross in the last piece belongs to Scully? Because the necklace Tooms got off Scully was not a cross. It was some roundish trinket.

This would make a good Halloween story. Nice and creepy.

[mogster495.livejournal.com]

I caught that too. I wish it was the cross though, would have been cooler.