Story 169: "In My Secret Life" by David Hearne

[amyhit]

I was originally considering something fluffy after last week's horror and gloom, but then this fic lured me in with its spare, eerie tone and the unique way it makes use of several important loose threads the series left us with

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[wendelah1]

I like this story a lot. It reminds me just a bit of, yes, "Silver Bells and Cockle Shells," because of the ghosts, I suppose, but also of a longer story which was recced here a little over three years ago but never discussed, probably because people were too preoccupied with the second movie. I should have put this place on hiatus for the entire month of August in 2008. From the looks of the comments, or should I say lack of them, maybe we should go on hiatus again until September this year? Well, let's see if "Certitude" brings anyone out to play.

Yeah, the story that it reminds me of a bit is Susanne Starz's "The Great Baseball Prodigy of Caribou Cove." Both stories are about William, and his place in the mythology. I rarely like or read stories about William because I hate, and I do mean hate the canon concerning him, starting with the IVF and ending with his being given up for adoption. I prefer to ignore eighth and ninth seasons as a result, and I suspect a little of my animosity toward the second film has to do with its non-handling of the William issue.

But this story handles his storyline very well. Too bad they didn't hire Hearne to write the second film.