sv_communityfic

[devin_chain]

gothphyle and spike21 have each contributed sections to the community fic, and it's remarkable. The language! Oh God! I want to pour syrup all over my body and roll around in it until all these great words stick.

And it's a smart story. God, it's smart. In fact, I'm a babbling mass of incoherence trying to describe how, so I'll post more samplings below.

From gothphyle: "Maybe pneumonic devices would help? The old tried-and-true standby, best friends of a disinterested youth squandering his days and his potential in the hallowed halls of Excelsior. C. Easy one. C was for Clark. And R? Running. Clark running away. Leaving him here. Alone. That takes care of A. Z. Z was harder. No need for a Zebra in this place, the pink elephants dancing on the ceiling after each 'treatment' took care of the zoological component of his hallucinations quite nicely. Skip over Z, then, and move to Y. Yourself. The only person you could rely on. Young. The excuse for so many indiscretions, so many poor decisions and disastrous choices.

Clark's excuse."

From spike21: "In the whiteout buzz of grand mal he wades deep into the bitstream of the universe. Brushes the mind of every human on the planet. Tastes their thoughts, bitter and sweet. Broadbosom loves her cats. Entropy, his aging mother. Others whose names he doesn't want to know share details of every triumph and defeat. It should be overwhelming but all it feels is *right* -- eavesdropping on the voice of God while God is spilling all of His secrets -- his birthright: this world, this universe, this everything

Everything but Clark. The one dark focus in his grid. Convergence of nothingness, non-existence. The asymptotic nexus, the place where all the lines never meet. It fills him with a despair as blinding as the whiteness. "

Please go read if you haven't yet.

And we definitely have room for more voices. In fact, I notice The Spike has left a nice opening for the next writer.

So jump right in. The water's... electric.

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[alee-gothphyle.livejournal.com]

{{hugs}} Thank you so much for the kind words! And thanks for getting us off to such a wonderful start -- I think this is going to be GREAT! ;)