Fic Rec: An unlikely association in seven fish

[ficklepig.livejournal.com]

Title: An unlikely association in seven fish
Author: Bold_as_Brass
Pairing: None
Length: 2,046 words
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Of course they haven’t met up every Friday for fish and chips.

Reccer's comments: I have a bias toward shorter works that are choosy about what they reveal outright. If you're at all interested in that approach and in the prickly détente between John and Mycroft during the Reichenbach hiatus, then Bold_as_Brass has the story for you. The choice of venues in the two-year process of finding a perfect piece of haddock says as much about the characters as any of their wary conversation. Descriptions of settings and dishes - some mercifully spare and some sinfully detailed - read like notes taken mid-meal with greasy fingers, and the character voices ring despairingly, impatiently, smugly, quietly true.

Minor spoilers for The Empty Hearse.

Comments

[unovis.livejournal.com]

Thanks, this was lovely -- and right up my alley.

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

Lovely rec, thank you! (And now I'm absolutely famished!)

[archea2.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was delicious. Thanks for the rec!

[marta-bee.livejournal.com]

Oh, how I loved this fic! It earned a rec over at my LJ (http://marta-bee.livejournal.com/294622.html) if anyone needs further convincing, not that it should need it. Good catch on this one.

[persiflager.livejournal.com]

I wanted to read a fic based on that line and this was excellent! Thanks for reccing it.