After that, we just sit on the line and listen to each other breathe.
You all should read this!
We Live In Such Enormous Places, by willowbell
It's a dystopia AU based on this poem by Jeffrey McDaniel, and is set in the same universe as this, although you don't need to have read it before reading We Live In Such Enormous Places, it's more like a companion piece.
If I could describe the way this fic felt, I think it would be a lot like being suddenly deaf - the way the spaces and disconnectedness made me feel... removed, and that's not in anyway a bad thing - what I'm trying to say is that it made me hold my breath and occasionally come back to myself at odd moments when I was reading it, to go no it's not real, it won't happen.
The phone rings and she takes her index finger out of her mouth, wet with some of her spit and some blood from her hangnail. It doesn't hurt- nothing hurts very much anymore. The phone rings and rings, and she turns the volume of the television down and picks up the phone with her free hand.
"Jess," she says, before the person on the other line can even say a word. "It's going to be okay."
"Jess," she says again, softer now. "Tell Nick to get you a paper bag."
I would say I really enjoyed the cameos by Tom and Vicky-T in here, but that would suggest I didn't enjoy Pete, Ashlee and Patrick in here equally enormously. I could read REAMS of fic set in this universe, and willowbell is a fantastic writer. Seriously, go read it.
We Live In Such Enormous Places, by willowbell
It's a dystopia AU based on this poem by Jeffrey McDaniel, and is set in the same universe as this, although you don't need to have read it before reading We Live In Such Enormous Places, it's more like a companion piece.
If I could describe the way this fic felt, I think it would be a lot like being suddenly deaf - the way the spaces and disconnectedness made me feel... removed, and that's not in anyway a bad thing - what I'm trying to say is that it made me hold my breath and occasionally come back to myself at odd moments when I was reading it, to go no it's not real, it won't happen.
The phone rings and she takes her index finger out of her mouth, wet with some of her spit and some blood from her hangnail. It doesn't hurt- nothing hurts very much anymore. The phone rings and rings, and she turns the volume of the television down and picks up the phone with her free hand.
"Jess," she says, before the person on the other line can even say a word. "It's going to be okay."
"Jess," she says again, softer now. "Tell Nick to get you a paper bag."
I would say I really enjoyed the cameos by Tom and Vicky-T in here, but that would suggest I didn't enjoy Pete, Ashlee and Patrick in here equally enormously. I could read REAMS of fic set in this universe, and willowbell is a fantastic writer. Seriously, go read it.