Been meaning to post a review of this for a while but have recently read A Slight Trick of the Mind, by Mitch Cullen. It takes on the premise of Sherlock Holmes and who he was, both in the Doyle canon and as a literary figure, through an exploration of the life of a much older Holmes eking out his retirement in the wake of WWII on a rural farm in
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All my decent fic ideas lately seem to be set around LotF, which has lead me to give in and go back to the beginning (which, for LotF, I'm counting as the Dark Nest series) to try to get some concepts straight. Which in turn leads me to the overwhelming need to unburden myself as to some of the more problematic areas in the themes the DN/LotF arc
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I've tweaked it until I'm thoroughly sick of tweaking, and it's posted: Dream Days, a Luke, Mara and Ben vignette, post NJO. Also posted at the Jedi Council forums as per usual.
Note to self: the use of present tense in an introspective, fairly reflective fic leads to headaches. *facepalm*
I'm not entirely happy with this, but I like a couple of sections enough to post. Trying to get Luke and Mara's feelings re Jacen training Ben straight was a task. Remember when Mara was completely opposed to Jacen back in the Dark Nest trilogy? And then she changed her mind, apparently at random? Yeah, I still don't get that. But trying to work
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