SloaneFic by you? My day simply cannot get any better *g*
These are beautiful. I was just reading an older story (S1) that touched on Sloane's love for Emily, and since I know you had been thinking about the subject... well, I am just overjoyed to see this. And to see his grief so artfully drawn.
I think this might be my favorite part:
Emily would see its beauty and dream of ways to improve on that beauty; he sees only a weed-choked ruin, peaceful as an empty tomb. It has been a dry spring, in Italy. A lizard runs along a cracked paving-stone, a hawk wheels overhead.
She is not here.
Not only does it read beautifully and create an incredible image, it also brings the truth of their relationship to life. Arvin saw in Emily, hope, redemption and love. She was the one who tended to living things, and he... well, that isn't quite his world view or experience.
The entire piece is just incredibly poignant and lovely.
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These are beautiful. I was just reading an older story (S1) that touched on Sloane's love for Emily, and since I know you had been thinking about the subject... well, I am just overjoyed to see this. And to see his grief so artfully drawn.
I think this might be my favorite part:
Emily would see its beauty and dream of ways to improve on that beauty; he sees only a weed-choked ruin, peaceful as an empty tomb. It has been a dry spring, in Italy. A lizard runs along a cracked paving-stone, a hawk wheels overhead.
She is not here.
Not only does it read beautifully and create an incredible image, it also brings the truth of their relationship to life. Arvin saw in Emily, hope, redemption and love. She was the one who tended to living things, and he... well, that isn't quite his world view or experience.
The entire piece is just incredibly poignant and lovely.