Fic: Brand New Day by Quinara

[quinara]

Something a bit more meaty for your perusal now, and that's me done! (Wow, I am far more jittery than I should be.)

Title: Brand New Day
Author: Quinara
Rating: PG-13 (Be afraid! Or, you know, don't be.)
Notes: Thank you to kcarolj65 for the beta! It was her first time beta-ing and she did a great job. :D
Summary: Solutions aren't always answers.

Comments

[timeofchange]

Interesting, and disturbing, and kind of sad/happy. Reading it makes me long for the rest of the story.

[quinara]

Always gotta leave people wanting more. ;)

Seriously though, thank you.

[effulgent_girl]

This story kind of disturbs me, but in a good way.

[quinara]

Thank you! I'm glad it wasn't in a bad way.

[morgantree]

Damn. You have a really interesting and evocative style, which I can only assume reflects your habit of mind. And I love your use of language -- the narrative and all its shadows, so that nothing is entirely clear at the same time that the mood and the emotion are dead-on.

Reading this is like wandering in a dream that is telling the truth in a hundred different ways, and not one of them direct.

Besides the obvious enjoyment of reading such fine stuff, I'll be trying to figure out how you do what you do for quite some time to come.

Thanks for a very original, very memorable read.

[quinara]

Thank you so very much. I have a fear of exposition; I know how boring it can get and it so rarely happens in real life. I find it's much more fun to see how much can become apparent on its own. :)

[morgantree]

OMG you are right! Exposition can feel contrived, and can be downright irritating in a yada yada yada kind of way... going to write this one down in my "to be avoided" list for fic writers.

But, oh no! the fic I'm working on breaks this rule at least twice! ::smacks forehead:: I'll have to see what can be done before my posting day. Darn.

[quinara]

Hey, don't rule it out completely! (Heh, pun...) People still need to know what's going on - my Spike-Angel conversation is pretty much all exposition.

[petzipellepingo]

Very dreamlike quality to this but the dream isn't a pleasant one, it feels like the big thing with teeth is just around the corner. Very palpable sense of unease, almost like an itch you can't reach and you just know it's going to bother you all night long.
I like it.

[quinara]

Thank you. It's so hard to know, when you're bogged down in it, whether or not you're sustaining a tone, so I'm really glad it worked. :)

[gillo]

Goodness, that's complex. Excellent and disturbing, with a happy ending too disturbing to think through.

O just love the earwax demon! Brilliant and ingenious.

[quinara]

Thank you! I think this is what happens when I try to write something cheerful... ;)

I really want one as a pet.