Original - “All Our Yesterdays”

[eltea]

Title: All Our Yesterdays
Universe: EPET (new for this story)
Prompt: Mostly this picture (also slightly inspired by this one, from an unclaimed set)
Wordcount: 9124
Genre: Action/Adventure/Supernatural
Rating/Warnings: T for violence
Summary: A town teeming with nightmares, a rainy summer evening, and a story that doesn’t start at the beginning.

Comments

[sabriel75]

This story's bloody brilliant! Just the whole girl doing a boy's job made me think of Patricia Wrede's Dealing with Dragons series... as well as make Daryl eminently likeable in my book!

Frank being a seer but not just used for his skills to see but forced to lead and see in the future. A fresh take and more powers for him to control and to take responsibility not only for the future but the past. Morgan... Morgan Alvey... the beginning and ending of this story packaged in such a loving tribute to a very important person. That too shows care with a plot that could very well have gone amok, but you reigned it in and kept it precise, fast-paced and smart.

Nicely done...XD

(BTW... received your postcard... the Coliseum looks magnificent on the cover of it. Quite imposing with the colors of the sky glistening between its crumbling, open-ended walls. Sounds like you had a delightful romp around Europe. You must share more pictures when you get a chance. We'd all love to hear more. Did you get to meet up with chamyl, at all?)

[eltea]

Thank you so much; I’m so glad you liked it! :D And I’ve read that series (and loved it) - I didn’t connect it until now, but you’re right. It happened because Daryl was originally going to be a boy, but then decided she was actually a girl, and… I didn’t want to make her a fairy princess, so I kept her as the prince because it seemed to fit. XD

The seer stuff was fun to make up; when I do the next draft of this, I might try to include more about it. :D And I want to include more of Morgan, too, since I had a lot of fun writing about her. :)

I’m so happy that you liked it! :D

(Oh, I’m glad you got the postcard! :) Picspam should be arriving within the next day or so; I’ve got most of it coded and just need to finish writing part of it. I did get to meet up with her, and it was awesome! :D)

[eltea]

Oh, thanks, I’m so glad you liked it! :D I’m looking forward to doing the next draft; this was a lot of fun to write, and there’s some stuff I wanted to include that I’ll be able to when I have more time. :) I’m really glad you like Frank! ♥