Insta-rec: The Fraser Record (Excerpts)
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ds_recsreduxTitle: The Fraser Record (Excerpts)
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Pairing: Vaguely F/K
Rating: R
Length: 2440 words, plus footnotes
Why I'm reccing this fic: Me? I like being completely and utterly creeped out while I eat my breakfast. Or at least when I started eating my breakfast, by the end, I'd put my cereal on the floor, to finish when I'd stopped holding my breath. The style is original and compelling, jumping from formal snippits of report, to as-the-events-unfold speech, to quotes from the original book that its based on that could easily read as Fraser's journal entries. There are unfinished sentences that make you want to scream "what? Making-what?" The story makes full use of the media its being posted in, providing links to... well, find out yourself... throughout the story, which for me heighten the growing sense of unease I felt following each link. The best written parts of this story, though, are the parts that go unwritten.
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The journal received by the 27th Precinct was written in lettering that was abnormally narrow and spiky, slanting sharply to the right, and the pen had been pressed so firmly to the paper that it had punched through at nearly every punctuation mark and at the ends of the tails and risers to many of the letters. All these, according to the experts consulted, are indicators that Fraser was under an increasing degree of stress as events progressed--
The Fraser Record (Excerpts)
Author:
custardpringlePairing: Vaguely F/K
Rating: R
Length: 2440 words, plus footnotes
Why I'm reccing this fic: Me? I like being completely and utterly creeped out while I eat my breakfast. Or at least when I started eating my breakfast, by the end, I'd put my cereal on the floor, to finish when I'd stopped holding my breath. The style is original and compelling, jumping from formal snippits of report, to as-the-events-unfold speech, to quotes from the original book that its based on that could easily read as Fraser's journal entries. There are unfinished sentences that make you want to scream "what? Making-what?" The story makes full use of the media its being posted in, providing links to... well, find out yourself... throughout the story, which for me heighten the growing sense of unease I felt following each link. The best written parts of this story, though, are the parts that go unwritten.
Note: Written for the
ds_flashfiction challenge: SpaceThe journal received by the 27th Precinct was written in lettering that was abnormally narrow and spiky, slanting sharply to the right, and the pen had been pressed so firmly to the paper that it had punched through at nearly every punctuation mark and at the ends of the tails and risers to many of the letters. All these, according to the experts consulted, are indicators that Fraser was under an increasing degree of stress as events progressed--
The Fraser Record (Excerpts)
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Date: 2007-01-17 12:07 am (UTC)Feel I should clarify, though: the passages in italics are quoted straight out of of Leaves, although you can look at them as being from Fraser's journal if you like.
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Date: 2007-01-17 01:10 pm (UTC)Not only my first ever instarec, but my first ever rec at all. It just made such an impression on me ^_^
Ahhh, right-o, will just change the wording of the rec a tad.