Fic: all the honey in the hive

[phoenixfalls.livejournal.com]

Title: all the honey in the hive
Author: scioscribe
Pairing: Gen
Length: 2,157 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None apply
Verse: Elementary
Author's summary: You’ll tell me I’m mixing my metaphors, but I’m only trying to be precise in describing your confusion.

Reccer's comments:
Most of the fics I’ve recced thus far this month have been fluffy and domestic. This is absolutely not. This is a Sherlock-is-relapsing fic, and it is absolutely gorgeous, twisting and thorny and razor-sharp.

This is a literate and literary fic, referencing Milton and switching effortlessly between second first* and third person while never leaving Joan’s point of view, and when I first read it it reduced me to cursing inarticulateness. It is carefully measured and so much more heartbreaking as a result. It’s the sort of fic that inspires me to work on my own writing, in the hopes that someday I might move someone else as I have been moved.

*See comment from unovis.

Comments

[unovis.livejournal.com]

Very nice; thanks for the rec.
Actually, it alternates first and third person; Joan is speaking in first person, as "I", addressing Sherlock (he's the "you" she's talking to).

[phoenixfalls.livejournal.com]

D'oh! You're right. It's just so *much* directed at Sherlock (and focused on describing what he did) that I got confused.