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Sisyphus, by rhymer23 (Not Dead Yet challenge)

Mar 07, 2008 08:09

Title: Sisyphus
Author: Eildon Rhymer (rhymer23Rating: PG-13 ( Read more... )

author: rhymer23, challenge: not dead yet

Comments 47

pansychubb March 12 2008, 19:33:18 UTC

That was wonderful. Thank you!

-Pansy Chubb (aka LilRicki)

rhymer23 March 12 2008, 22:28:06 UTC

Thanks! Glad you liked it! :-)

briar_pipe March 13 2008, 18:44:25 UTC

Absolutely incredible. The feeling of horror comes through very clearly, yet somehow it's not overwhelming. *stares in awe*

rhymer23 March 18 2008, 08:20:45 UTC

Sorry for the really late comment reply. My email notifications must have been down, since I only saw this comment when I came here to reply to some more recent ones. Anyway... Thanks! This story just came to me in a flash, took over my mind while I wrote it (or, rather, let the words flow out, without me having much conscious control over them), then left me feeling a little dazed. Glad you liked reading it! :-)

dossier March 17 2008, 21:04:08 UTC

I really love the way that you built the un-reality, layering it on until it felt totally fake when John was rescued. And thanks for sort of getting him over it at the end!

rhymer23 March 18 2008, 08:19:19 UTC

Thanks! He does, of course, get over it completely in the end (in as much as anyone can ever get over anything, because everything has the potential to change a person), but the story didn't want to go as far as complete "happy ever after" resolution. As so often, I went for hope, not closure. It's a (bad?) habit of mine.

spuffyduds March 17 2008, 22:38:54 UTC

This is quite astonishingly wonderful.

rhymer23 March 18 2008, 08:17:27 UTC

Thank you! :-)

saphanibaal March 20 2008, 08:00:29 UTC

Every now and then, I go through periods of thinking I don't like horror.

Then I realize that it's not that I don't like horror, it's that I only like good horror with hopeful endings, such as this.

(Which is good, I mean.)

And of course Sheppard will never let go. No matter how often it kills him. Even if he loses his mind in the doing.

(Actually, I think I might come along and hold his jacket while he kicks down the gates; haven't seen anyone break open hell lately.)

rhymer23 March 22 2008, 14:41:20 UTC

You know, I hadn't actually realised that I'd written a horror story here, until several people commented on how creepy and scary it was. If asked, I'd have said that I "don't write horror" (or, probably, that I "can't write horror.") Of course, now that I look back on it, I realise that the readers are right and I'm wrong, and it is a horror story. I just didn't this at the time. :-)