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Spooked Challenge by mizface

Oct 31, 2009 00:30

Title: With Apologies to Poe
Author: mizface
POV: RayK
Rating: G
Word Count: 1385

It's the bicentennial of “The Raven” - combine that with a “Spooked” challenge, and I couldn’t resist.

( nevermore? )

spooked challenge

Comments 25

simplystars October 31 2009, 05:10:04 UTC

Dude. That is the cheatingest ending of all ends left dangling!

*grumblemutters at you*

*decides to haunt you too* :-p

bravo! \o/

mizface October 31 2009, 11:34:01 UTC

Sorry if you felt cheated! I kinda like the "Lady or the Tiger" feel, myself.

*twirls you for the bravo*

phenyx_tp November 7 2009, 01:14:07 UTC

I agree.
and I really really really love your KtF icon

wihluta October 31 2009, 08:57:43 UTC

O.M.G. This is awesome!

It's so Ray and yet so poetic (he's a poet on the inside!) and spooky and creepy and sad and funny! Oh, you break me!

Fraser’s who you should be haunting, ‘cause you know that he’d be wanting
A last chance to get to see you and to say good-bye to you.
All he ever wanted was a chance to say good-bye to you.”
And we both knew that that was true.
This made me simultaneously laugh out loud and tear up.

*applauds you*

mizface October 31 2009, 11:37:26 UTC

Thank you! This was a lot of fun (and crazy-making) to write.

When the idea hit me I immediately thought of Ray *because* of the "poet on the inside" line. It wasn't easy keeping his voice AND the feel of the Raven, so I'm excited to hear that it worked for you.

luzula October 31 2009, 10:46:32 UTC

Oh, that is so cool! And appropriately spooky, too. I love it, especially the places which are like the original, only clearly in Ray K POV, like the opening line.

mizface October 31 2009, 11:39:40 UTC

Thank you!

You know, that opening line made me keep this a Ray POV piece, becaus there were times I was shaking my fist and wondering why I didn't change it over to Fraser of the Huge Vocabulary.

Glad to hear he shone through, at least in spots.

akite October 31 2009, 11:51:07 UTC

*applaudes* Excellent! I choose to believe the ghosts were a dream and that's the real Fraser at the door, ready to make right whatever was wrong between them.

mizface October 31 2009, 12:50:48 UTC

Thank you! I'd like to believe that too, but this being Halloween, and ghosts being canon, you never know.

almightychrissy October 31 2009, 12:18:08 UTC

This is AMAZING. You manage to make something which is both very true to the fandom and to Ray, and also follows the form and flow of the poem. And that ending-- ack! (I am choosing to believe that it was the best of all possible endings.)

Again, so wonderful.

mizface October 31 2009, 12:52:37 UTC

Thank you so much! Keeping all the elements in place, making it dS and still Poe, was a real (but fun) challenge), and I am thrilled to hear it worked for you.