Story 224: “We Could Have Made Music” by DiscordantWords

[lyryk]

Thanks to wendelah1 for suggesting this wonderful fic!

We Could Have Made Music (the link goes to AO3), 3025 words, rated R/Mature for violence and horror, is a great look at Teena Simmons and Cindy Reardon seven years after the events of ‘Eve’, and there’s also a wonderful section featuring a major character. The story is unsettling in the best way, as

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[estella_c]

Wonderfully conceived, tightly written, a damn good chunk of chill. The point(s) of view are handled very well, and the idea of following the Eves into their destructive teens makes for original X-fic. Why, I wonder, didn't Chris Carter do it instead of wasting time on some of his terrible stuff. It's a tiny bit, I suppose, like the blind girl who is stalking her horrible father (title?), but not so upbeat.

overtly horrible, with references to fingers eaten into bone weapons and all the murders, but the depth of the horror is in the characters. Such warped little kids, designed by warped scientists, without anything resembling compassion or any reason to understand it. They don't even know whether they are happy or despairing. They have no emotions to compare. They are blind and deaf to feeling: Helen Keller on the moon. They are pitiable, unless you can imagine meeting them and then you hope you could do what Scully did. But that's Scully, and we're just reading scary stories.

How will the remaining Eve will deal with being psychically alone? Will there be a sequel? It would be interesting to see whether there is a character change of some sort, thinking of the nostalgia for Daddy's guitar. But that would be a sad, sad tale.

This story is as good as much professional stuff I've read, though a little less original in the wider context. It reminds me, for some reason, of Charles Beaumont's "Miss Gentlebelle." Good luck finding that one, but you don't need to as you have this.

[lyryk]

the depth of the horror is in the characters

That's one of the reasons I really liked this one. :-) I like all the thoughts you have about it. This is the kind of fanfic I like a lot, which leaves room for speculation and makes you want more.

I'm usually more of a sci-fi/fantasy reader because explicit horror doesn't do a lot for me, but that story you mention sounds intriguing! I'll check it out. :-)