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Fic: Pickled Red Herring (1/?)

Jan 02, 2010 19:30

Title: Pickled Red Herring (Part I of ??)
Author: lareinenoire
Play: Richard III
Characters / Pairings: Stanley, Hastings, Elizabeth, Richard, and the corpse that was formerly George
Rating: M
Warnings: Violence, profanity, references to drug use, references to prostitution descriptions of murder scenes, shady economics, infidelity, bad life choices, Epic ( Read more... )

play: richard iii, author: lareinenoire, romance?: gen, au: csi: shakespeare, collaborative?: open for collaboration, fic: pickled red herring, era: present-day

Comments 6

gileonnen January 3 2010, 00:43:22 UTC

I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I love what you've done here with Meg; she's such a competent, subtly intelligent character, and an excellent choice for point of view. And I especially love what she observes about Richard, the strange knowingness about him and the way that he waits to see which way a person will leap--I'd love to see what happens when she discovers his real motive. (I wonder if it's going to be like Iago's, and remain unspoken.) This feels like the start of something much deeper and creepier; the end could easily be the beginning of madness as much as true revelation. Brilliant work! SHAKESPEARE AND PROCEDURALS.

lareinenoire January 3 2010, 01:33:09 UTC

Thank you!! I happened to finish a detective novel today and Meg Stanley's voice just fell into my head. I know this was meant to have more hedge-fund managers and fewer detectives, but I've at least seen enough episodes of various CSIs and I know nothing about finance. ;)

speak_me_fair January 3 2010, 04:47:00 UTC

HOW do you go from making me laugh too hard to think coherently to being creeped out beyond all description?

It's a gift, it really is.

That was superb, and also so very right *G*

lareinenoire January 3 2010, 14:21:01 UTC

::grin:: Like I told gileonnen, it was originally meant to have more high finance and fewer police detectives, but I happened to finish a detective novel yesterday afternoon and Meg Stanley's voice fell into my head and wouldn't go away.

I am so pleased the creepiness came out! I thought I might have gone too far in the direction of camp silliness, what with pickling corpses and so forth. ;)

kerrypolka January 4 2010, 05:53:31 UTC

I love all your modern AUs and this one is especially all kinds of great. IT'S MEG STANLEY! And she and Hastings are intrepidish detectives! And it is squirmy yet also hilarious! ILU BASICALLY.

lareinenoire January 4 2010, 13:57:24 UTC

I'm very glad you're enjoying! Because I'm writing more of it and I can't stop.