X-Files Book Club

I admit it freely: no matter what fandom I'm in, I'm all about the female characters. I love Mulder but Dana Scully is why I came here and why I stay here. Though none received the screen time they deserved, The X-Files does have other interesting and complex female characters.

When writers beat up on Teena Mulder or turn her into a Consortium co-conspirator, I can't understand it. While the latter is an attempt to give her agency, it still turns my stomach. Told from Teena Mulder's POV, "Lady Lazarus" is insightful, well-written, and fair to the character while remaining canon-compliant. The fic is short, pre-series, genfic, PG-13, no warnings apply.

SUMMARY: "Fox answered my tentative questions about his final term at Oxford, and his two weeks in France with the impatience of a tennis pro determined to end the rally against an inept amateur. He had done well his final term. Paris was beautiful in the early summer. Yes, Chanel was making a comeback. When he looked at his watch and said he had to go, I couldn't bring myself to ask him to stay longer."

Read "Lady Lazarus" at: IOHO | OOcities. Also at Gossamer.

Please leave your suggestions at the nomination post and let us know what you thought of the story.

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.

Please send the author some feedback and then let us know what you think.

Read "Undying".

Once again, I am reminded it has been far too long between posts. But "Universal Invariants" was long and wonderful and worth spending the time on. Plus we had Thanksgiving weekend! Anyway, if you haven't already, there is still time to participate in the discussion, as well as send feedback to syntax6. I am still hoping she will finish "Original Sin," eventually.

This week I have a short short story for you. I know I recced it at crack_van and might have mentioned it in passing here too, but it deserves a post of its own. It is unusual for a story of this length, and in this genre yet, to have so impressed me since I usually like long stories with complicated plots.

Technically a post-ep for the pilot, "Untold" is told through a series of interconnected vignettes about the Consortium, featuring some familiar names and places, and introducing a few new ones as well. It is chilling and unforgettable.

You can read the rest of her stories at her website or at her author's page at Gossamer. Let us know what you think and remember to feed the author.

Read "Untold."