Fic Rec: Intersections

[chapbook.livejournal.com]

Title: Intersections PDF LJ
Author: mazaher and Jns
Pairing: Gen
Length: 8,500 (6MB .pdf file)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: The hiatus years, seen through the eyes of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.
A long, rambling prequel of sorts to Shanghai, straightaway, a double 221b by mazaher, at
http://www.mazaher.org/BBC-SH_shanghai.pdf.
Reccer's comments: Striking, intricate multimedia character studies of post-Fall Sherlock and Mycroft, consisting of graphics, quotations, and prose poems written by mazaher and Jns. Sherlock and Mycroft reflect on their present and past experiences, and consider their relationships with others. A Narrator/OC (HT) provides occasional "voiceovers".

I adore authors who try to make the reader work a bit (to good purpose!) and are not afraid of ambiguity. There is a loose narrative arc, which means one can read this as a complexly unified whole. Nevertheless, I can also see myself returning again and again to individual sections of this work, enjoying them as standalone meditations on two very human brothers caught up (for a time) in the Spider's great web.

Excerpt:
SH:
we agreed I wouldn't leave the flat for anything less than a seven (halogen, prime, neutral)
on a scale of fourteen, two above chromatic, two below two octave, two weeks
that is what I have with John; agreements
Mycroft makes laws-- Boxing Day, morgues, caring
Moriarty calls
it is less than a six, more a five
or three: the Game and Richard Brook (trinity, his holy ghost)
John makes agreements, they're for the best, they're sensible and I break them before I...
fall. fell.

HT:
Sherlock Holmes is dead.
Sherlock Holmes, the fake genius, has thrown himself from a roof after his last
victim, the actor Richard Brooks, shot himself.
The fact that Sherlock Holmes is alive and breathing
(breathing rather hard, right now: dying does tend to be
a bit breath-taking)
doesn’t help much in dampening the shock.

Comments

[swissmarg]

This is very very cool, thanks so much for pointing it out!

[numberthescars.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! I never would have found this if it weren't for your rec. Thanks so much!

[pennypaperbrain.livejournal.com]

I totally love this fic and have recced it myself elsewhere, so am really glad to see it here.

The link is just to a PDF though. If you want to leave comments for the author after reading, you can do it here: http://mazaher.livejournal.com/53188.html

[chapbook.livejournal.com]

You are right. I was waffling over which link to post, but I could have put up both! This is what happens when I post late at night.

I will edit to include this link above.