Fic Rec: Triplicate (The Emily Dickinson Lives Forever Remix)

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Title: Triplicate (The Emily Dickinson Lives Forever Remix)
Author: jibrailis
Pairing: Gen.
Length: 1036 words
Rating: T+
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Three times John Watson stops death.

Reccer's comments: A short piece, but told very well through snapshots of John's life. A bit of magical realism, and a bit of John's history, and a bit of John dealing with life post-Reichenbach; and you have a lovely, understated little one-shot.

Excerpt: His uncle with the gaunt face and the yellowed fingernails, beckoning him under the rowan tree.

Years later, when John asked, his mother would look at him blankly and say, "I don't have a brother. Are you sure you're feeling all right, dear?" He would then have to dodge her hand as it came out to feel his forehead for fever, for signs of delirium.

But he remembers: his uncle's slanted smile underneath that tree, and leaning in close, his whisper like the crackling of burning paper: "Happy birthday, John my boy. Three gifts. Three times. Three moments you'll be able to stop death."

"I'd rather have a new bike," John said honestly.

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Wow. I love the way you did not tell too much. You used just enough detail to see-- we filled in where we needed, and yet we were able to see Johns soul. He is the boy who would save his sister, he is the man who would save a cat.

I really liked this.

[chapbook.livejournal.com]

Sounds quite interesting. I love magical realism, so I will definitely check this one out.