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

[dictatorcari]

Sorry! I couldn't contain myself and read all the stories on the first day. That's my excuse for the lack of comments. Haha.

This story is really lovely in its melancholy. The thing I'm starting to realize about the X-Files is that some of its genius is in its ambiguity. You can make a strong case for just about anything not explicitly stated in the series--stories like these, in my opinion, ring just as true as some of the more, um, cheerful ones. Because the tone of the show varies so substantially from episode to episode, it's not automatically non-canon to have Mulder and Scully mope all the time. Or, conversely, to tussle over ice cream. :)

[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.

[22by7.livejournal.com]

an observation; i read this, not out loud, but definitely in the scully-voice i heard during 'memento mori'.

[wendelah1]

Here is a working link if you get a chance to fix it: http://web.archive.org/web/20090909213905/http://appelsini.tripod.com/xfiles/undone.html