[REC] Generation Kill (176/365)

[mementis]

Every once in a while, you find a story. It's a story about a couple of people you know well, having read other stories about them and having got a pretty good idea in your head, you think, about who these folks are, and what they're like, and how their lives are likely to proceed, where they're likely to go, what they're likely to do. So you find

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[chemm80]

Lovely read. Thanks for the link.

[mementis]

You're so very welcome! Truly one of my favorites.

[templemarker]

God, woman, you have overwhelmed me. That is everything I was trying to do with that story. I know we've talked about it before, but seeing it written out is staggering. Thank you.

[mementis]

I still really don't feel like I've done it justice. I've been circling around the idea of reccing it since the beginning of the year and still, it's difficult as hell to talk about it. It feels as if we'd need hours of real-time conversation to get through all the issues that brings up.

But at the same time it's still just a beautiful story, it doesn't have to be dug into quite so hard, it's still just... Brad, learning how to be a self-directed person and all that, figuring out how to belong somewhere.

Happysigh.

Seriously, this story man, this story just kills me.

[alethialia]

My very favorite 'Brad retires' story and one of the few ways I could actually see it happening. Great rec.

[mementis]

*nod* It really is beautifully realistic and I love it so :)