Story 245: "A Thin Veneer" by Analise
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xf_book_clubFirst, your Fanfiction BINGO Update. We're getting so close! Come on, people, we can do this. We still need a story for each of the following categories: Aah-aaah!, Best Friends, MY ASS, and Straight People Do Not Exist in This AU. I can imagine exactly what the latter would look like. It would be an AU with these pairings: Mulder/Krycek, Skinner/Doggett (don't tell me you can't see it) and Scully/Reyes. Someone, somewhere must have written this fic.
Like a good little mod, I am trying to stick to the nomination queue. I'm working backwards, which means if you nominated something last year, we will get to you this year, but if you nominated something in 2008, chances are you've moved on long ago, maybe to Fringe, or to the Sherlock fandom, or possibly The Walking Dead. Sorry about that, folks.
Last year, an anonymouse nominated--something else--by Analise, a something else I didn't care for. We've never done one of her fics and I couldn't bear the idea of doing something that seemed so--uncharacteristically sentimental. So because I'm Bad Mod Wendy, I decided to be contrary and post her post-col/thriller fic, which I read a long time ago and remember liking. What can I say? I like post-col stories.
This is the pretty, illustrated version, but there is a text file on the site, too, if that's your preference.
SUMMARY: Colonization has come and gone, taking civilization with it. But not necessarily civilzation's monsters.
Read A Thin Veneer
Like a good little mod, I am trying to stick to the nomination queue. I'm working backwards, which means if you nominated something last year, we will get to you this year, but if you nominated something in 2008, chances are you've moved on long ago, maybe to Fringe, or to the Sherlock fandom, or possibly The Walking Dead. Sorry about that, folks.
Last year, an anonymouse nominated--something else--by Analise, a something else I didn't care for. We've never done one of her fics and I couldn't bear the idea of doing something that seemed so--uncharacteristically sentimental. So because I'm Bad Mod Wendy, I decided to be contrary and post her post-col/thriller fic, which I read a long time ago and remember liking. What can I say? I like post-col stories.
This is the pretty, illustrated version, but there is a text file on the site, too, if that's your preference.
SUMMARY: Colonization has come and gone, taking civilization with it. But not necessarily civilzation's monsters.
Read A Thin Veneer
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Date: 2014-05-11 07:26 pm (UTC)I'm torn because I also felt like some things could have been more fleshed out (I wanted to know a bit more about some of the others in their small group, especially Roz as you say) but at the same time, I'm not sure I would have wanted the story to be a whole lot longer than it was. To me, it seems like two stories that sort of collided, neither of which would completely stand on its own, but the result seems slightly disjointed to me.