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A Way With Words - AU/AU story, COMPLETE (300,000+ words)
I'm currently slightly revising this story and a PDF version will be available in in the spring of 2015. Watch this space for details.Set in Boston in the 1980s. Ennis is a Kansas farm boy who leaves home to attend college in Boston and then remains in that city after graduating. He has ( Read more... ) -
A Way With Words - Chapter 65 (Final)
Heartfelt thanks to Paola freetraveller15 for outstanding beta work (and truly amazing fact-checking) from about chapter 13 onwards. Thanks also to Alex rt-in-town for beta work on the first 60 chapters. Taking up where he left off, Gillian gilli-ann gave incredibly helpful feedback on the last four chapters. I could not have carried on with this for five years without all of your ( Read more... ) -
A Way With Words - chapter 64
AUGUST 21, 1989
You better get your ass back home because we have a goddamn fucked up situation here with our exes.
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A Way With Words - Chapter 63
Heartfelt thanks to freetraveller15 and gilli-ann for beta help with this demanding chapter. I am well into writing the next one and I can tell that it will not be the last one after all -- it will require two chapters to cover the remaining events.
August 1989Elliot Dedieu. E.D. Ed. “I’ll never say his name again.” Elliot kissing a man in his lobby - Jack. The cassette ( Read more... ) -
A Way With Words - Diary entry - April 21, 2014 (3)
My eyes were squeezed shut so I didn’t see what Junior saw when he walked into the living room. Just heard his voice behind us, Sorry I’m late oh shit what happened? He thought someone had died and he was right. A tragedy can happen a long way off or a long time ago and when the knowledge of it finally hits the right people it can make another one ( Read more... ) -
A Way With Words - Chapter 62
Many thanks to faithful commenter gilli_ann for stepping in to second freetraveller15 in beta help. (Might as well disable comments now.) Another 1 or 2 chapters to go and I will finally be done.
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A Way With Words - Diary entry - April 21, 2014 (2)
Knew something was up when I saw how Jenny was pinging all over the house Saturday afternoon, cleaning everything in sight. Even her own room. She didn’t notice Jack was tense and neither of them could see my heart was turning every which way as I tossed spices around in the kitchen.
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A Way With Words - Chapter 61
23-29 July 1989I first began to write down my dreams the morning after the first time Jack Tornado called me in London. The moment I awoke, spent and sticky, I reached for my notebook. I wanted to remember everything I'd just dreamt so that someday I might understand it. My scrawled fragments show that I was barely awake. But seeing my handwriting ( Read more... ) -
A Way With Words - Diary entry - April 21, 2014
Last week Jenny told us Barindra was coming to Boston for the marathon. Totally casual, like it was one of her friends that we had never met and had no connection to. Jack put down his fork, looked at me. She said a friend of his from Toronto was running in the race and he decided to come too, so he could meet her. Us, that is. Nice of her to ( Read more... )