Can you post the actual website because the link I have is broken? Is the email address valid? No, it isn't, I already tried it. Rats. I was all excited, too.
erm, did you mean to reply to my comment? her website is the same as the link above, just minus the filename, http://s88210564.onlinehome.us/segretti/. someone from the scullyfic list might have her current email address - did you try mrsblome@yahoo.com? that's the email on her most recent fic.
*laughs* copy&paste is my friend. :) also, i don't actually know if that email address works, since her last fic is from 2003. but i thought it might be worth a shot.
it's sweet...i like it. but i'm really a sucker for anything msr that doesn't look like it was written by a slow-track seventh-grader. :)
i keep searching my brain for recommendations, but everything i'm reading (the words series, the magician) takes ages to read. i promise i'll let you know if i think of something relatively short!
I am glad that you liked it. I tried to find something relatively upbeat to read for around the holidays. I will write more later, about what specifically appealed to me about this story.
And baby makes threewendelah1December 29 2007, 21:36:09 UTC
"A minivan, some classic rock, and a trunk full of babygear. All is not as it appears." Well, when you traveling with small children, it rarely is. It was the author's summary that got me to read this story in a genre that is so different from the case files that I love. There are so many little details in this story that feel right to me, and bring the story alive.
The military didn't pack like this for Normandy, he thought. Who knew someone this small would need all this stuff?
As the mother of a formerly small, now very grown up, son, I remember all too well the amount of stuff that must be carted around when traveling with an infant or a toddler.
"A minivan?" was all she could say, the baby balanced on one hip, as he got out.
Back in the day, the mini-van was the vehicle of choice for a new family, and a 1998 tan Dodge Caravan would be so common as to nearly disappear from view. They discuss the cupholders and the miles per gallon.
"Cupholders." She gave him the same look he usually got for coming up with lunatic theories
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Re: And baby makes threeemily_shoreDecember 30 2007, 14:18:36 UTC
I found the resolution of the William arc to be so heartrending that I resisted even watching the episode for the longest time. In fact, I resisted season nine in its entirety. Those DVDs sat in their box unopened, their owner sticking to her sworn path of "Deny Everything." When I finally broke down and watched the episode, I was shocked at the cruelty of the writers toward Scully.
I avoid babyfic for this reason. It just makes me sad, because I want to believe in a happy ending for the perfect little family that we got to view, so briefly at the end of season eight. I want to believe and I can't. It didn't happen, something else did, something unimaginable to me, as a mother.I haven't watched that episode, and I'm not going to. Cruelty is exactly right, but beyond that I can't see the scenario as psychologically realistic at all. Giving a baby up for adoption at birth? Possible, albeit heartrending. I can imagine Scully doing that in season one, say, if she had gotten pregnant accidentally and been unable as a Catholic to go
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Re: And baby makes threewendelah1December 30 2007, 19:21:34 UTC
I quite agree. I am sorry to be depressing you. I have been thinking a lot about the end of the series, I suppose, because of the second movie filming. I keep trying to come up with a plausible scenario for M&S to be reinstated (and to have retrieved William) but none comes to mind, unfortunately. They really did a number on my head with the adoption. I can't imagine Scully going on after that, either. I can imagine, though, the torment she was in. She wasn't able to keep William safe. She tried contacting Mulder and only ended up nearly getting him killed in the process. She was between a rock and a hard place. Stupid writers. She was betrayed by her creators.
Thank you. I think this might now be my favorite of her stories and I loved "America's Games." This one just captured me from the summary right on through. I didn't hear a false note, although she is teasing us a little bit with the heredity is spooky line. Since the show did it all the time, I forgave her. I thought the song choices were perfect, too. I could completely see this scene unfolding as I read it. That is always the goal, but it is harder to do than one might think, isn't it?
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also, it's archived on her Gossamer author page, although perhaps that's not what you meant by archived. it's also available on her website.
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i keep searching my brain for recommendations, but everything i'm reading (the words series, the magician) takes ages to read. i promise i'll let you know if i think of something relatively short!
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Well, when you traveling with small children, it rarely is. It was the author's summary that got me to read this story in a genre that is so different from the case files that I love. There are so many little details in this story that feel right to me, and bring the story alive.
The military didn't pack like this for Normandy, he thought. Who knew someone this small would need all this stuff?
As the mother of a formerly small, now very grown up, son, I remember all too well the amount of stuff that must be carted around when traveling with an infant or a toddler.
"A minivan?" was all she could say, the baby balanced on one hip, as he got out.
Back in the day, the mini-van was the vehicle of choice for a new family, and a 1998 tan Dodge Caravan would be so common as to nearly disappear from view. They discuss the cupholders and the miles per gallon.
"Cupholders." She gave him the same look he usually got for coming up with lunatic theories ( ... )
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I avoid babyfic for this reason. It just makes me sad, because I want to believe in a happy ending for the perfect little family that we got to view, so briefly at the end of season eight. I want to believe and I can't. It didn't happen, something else did, something unimaginable to me, as a mother.I haven't watched that episode, and I'm not going to. Cruelty is exactly right, but beyond that I can't see the scenario as psychologically realistic at all. Giving a baby up for adoption at birth? Possible, albeit heartrending. I can imagine Scully doing that in season one, say, if she had gotten pregnant accidentally and been unable as a Catholic to go ( ... )
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