matchstick

[malefics]

Matchstick
Rabastan/Rodolphus
R; references to incest, sex, and torture
Prompt: We lived north of the future, days opened
letters with a child's signature, a raspberry, a page of sky.
--From Dancing in Odessa, Ilya Kaminsky

Comments

[softlyforgotten]

One of the most brilliant ficlets I've read in a long, long time: macabre and breathtaking. ♥

Thank you.

[spessartine]

Damn it, LJ ate my comment. Anyway, this is so fantastically wonderful and involving that at the end I very nearly shouted Yes, fuck yes! Possibly I'm a little too involved, but you know how I am with Rabastan. I love your Rodolphus.

Roddy at eleven years old, writing love letters to statues. That's so perfectly him it made me shiver.

[choccies]

This was beautiful. I can not think of a better word to describe this. I loved it, and all of it's originality, as well as the tragic ending.