Sestina!fic #2: "A Typical Day in Diagnostics"

[bironic]

Sestina the second, also known as Fun with Alliteration. Slightly different tone from the last one.

Title: A Typical Day in Diagnostics
Characters: Main Cast of House; ~Chase POV
Rating: PG
Word Count: 330
Prompts: Chase, House, Foreman, Cameron, Cuddy, Wilson
A/N: This is the proper/standard format for the end words, if anyone's curious. Thanks

Comments

[silsbee329]

Chase stands alone. ;)
I love this one. It's so alive. Busy.

One of my favorite parts:
In wanders Wilson

With his empty coffee mug (Doesn't Wilson
Ever have any work to do? wonders Chase).
Today's pretense:

You managed to fit everything in. :)

[bironic]

Hee, thanks. The Wilson bits were the easiest because I just channeled what I say to the TV when the show's on. I'm sure there's stuff missing in here, but I'm glad it feels comprehensive and that you like it!

Sestina: A Typical Day in Diagnostics

[secondsilk]

This is fabulous. Yay for Chase.
And well done getting everyone into a stanza.
Lovely picure of their lives.

Re: Sestina: A Typical Day in Diagnostics

[bironic]

well done getting everyone into a stanza.

Heh. That one was the most fun to write, getting everyone in with a phrase each and bookending them with the comments about the patient. Glad you enjoyed it!

[kassrachel]

Oh, YEAH. This rocks. I'd never thought of making the teleutons a sextet of names, though of course that works brilliantly, and this manages to encapsulate the swirling drama of every episode, the roles everyone falls into. Nice work!

[bironic]

Thanks! I got the idea of using everyone's names from a sestina at McSweeney's that used the cast of Friends to retell (or possibly invent; I don't know, I never really watched the show) an episode. Here I thought it would work because for all that the show is House-centric, everyone around him plays hot potato with the patient diagnoses enough that the poem could keep swinging back to them. Not to mix metaphors or anything.