Story 23: "Undone" by August

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

Before introducing today's story, allow me to point out that yesterday's is languishing with no comments at all. You can do better, people!

Anyway, our selection for today was nominated by idella. It might be interesting to compare it with "Table for Two" (which we discussed a couple of days ago), given that both of them deal with questions of loss.

Title: Undone.
Author: august
Email: appelsini@hotmail.com
Rating: R
Spoilers: everything until X-Cops
Category: angst, M/S
Summary: "I am made by her, and undone." - T. Gunn.

Comments

[lightlack.livejournal.com]

I speak slowly, before his damn drawl can talk me out of it. I tell him everything I know: that Einstein fell in love with his cousin, that the sun has only four billion years of energy left, that the Beatles smoked a joint in the toilets of Buckingham palace, that Nietzche was crazy with syphilis when we wrote his most famous works.

Ahhh, I love this paragraph. I love the idea of Scully really having that kind of capacious mind, able to hold all those facts in. And I mean, it's not that we're ever given any reason to believe she doesn't; I just love it when different writers have their own "Scully brain-dump" paragraph, each with their own ideas of what little factoids she can pull up at will.

[amyhit.livejournal.com]

Dude, you totally have read things by August! I brought her up while I was over one day, a while back, but we never decided conclusively whether you'd read her or not. She's the one I keep saying I love beyond all measure, even though her characterizations are just so gut wrenching. I'm glad you like this bit. Her writing is so beautiful, whether the characterizations are one's cup of tea or not.