Prosfic - An Angel in the Architecture by Slantedlight

[byslantedlight]

Finally - that fic I started the other day - written for the 13th picfor1000 challenge, the general theme of which was "unlucky", and my prompt picture is after the story. According to my count it's exactly 1000 words, but that did take some battling with Word, which insisted on counting ellipses as words, this time around... whatAnd with many thanks to

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[hagsrus]

Oh, Word -- what it counts drives me nuts.

These days I do a preview post to AO3 which gives the proper result, and has revealed many a messed-up drabble to my embarrassment.

Well done, anyway - is it ready to archive or not just yet?

[byslantedlight]

They all seem to give different results for wordcount, and so unless I hand count myself I'm afraid I don't really trust any of them any more! Ah well - this is why it's important to have humans at the end of everything we do...

And thank you - yes, please do archive it if you'd like to. (I've just posted to Safehouse with the archiving header for you, too!)

[milomaus]

You made it before March, YAY!!!

Now the sentence you delievered later makes sense to me, and the last one is so much stronger for it!

I love this ficlet, it's thrilling and the pictures you conjur are so livid. I do wonder how they will get Doyle out of there without causing any more damage...

And Bodie to the rescue!!!

[byslantedlight]

Yeay - I made it before March! *vbg*

And yes - I realised that I could actually move the sentence and still have the same effect, but also the effect I wanted from the opening line. *g*

They do manage to get people out of the most awful car crashes and so on, so I'm sure Doyle will be okay... luckily it was, as they always do for each other, Bodie to the rescue! Perhaps one day they won't make it, but not yet...

[shooting2kill]

Well done for a very neat piece of writing and for achieving so much within the word count.

And thank you for the mention! I wasn't expecting or deserving of it but it's very nice to see!

[byslantedlight]

Thank you! And you're welcome, thanks for the late-night thoughts!

[miwahni]

That was tense! I could feel Doyle's injuries, and the cold, and worry when the sound of the garbage truck broke through.

[byslantedlight]

Oh good - that was just what I wanted! *g* And hopefully the relief of Bodie appearing at the end too..!

[gvenanne]

gods... *exhales* one-mississippi... that was close as they in movies. so close for Doyle... but! it's beautiful as it is but! wish i could follow every movement of Bodie now, every touch... it's such a relief in his last exclamation though. for a reader i mean. *nervous giggling* and the most beautiful thing is it's not 'help', it's 'Bo-daaaay!' he didn't know, couldn't see but it was 'Bodie' what he cried out even if only in his head. absolutely mind-breaking

[byslantedlight]

Hee - sorry, but yeay. *g* And yes, I kind of wish we could watch Bodie rescuing Doyle all through too, but I think it might be a bit too traumatic for everyone - I shall give them some privacy for that... *g* Thank you!