FICLET: Hope

[calove]

My general New Year's Resolution is not to make a New Year's Resolution. However, this year I've resolved to finish those little orphaned fics waiting patiently on my HD. Having made the resolution and looked them over, I'm begining to see why some of them got orphaned... However, I am resolved

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[hesadevil]

the sight catches a breath he doesn’t need in his throat
with a beauty that catches the breath in her throat

He doesn’t see love.
This is not love.

And that might yet tear him apart.
and that what she sees might tear her apart.

I love the mirroring you use in this (even though I read it again with hands over eyes against the smut)

Congrats on the noms - I too had a visit from the nomination witch fairy.

[calove]

Hee! I write smut with my hands over my eyes, too :) Not really - but I still find it hard... ahem... despite the pretty visuals.

I do mirror these two a lot - they always turn out to be more similar than they think.

And yay for the nomination! See what happens when you write Spuffy? ;)

[hesadevil]

See what happens when you write Spuffy?
The Dark Side is calling, but shall resist for I am strong, I am immune to Spuffyistis, I am hesadevil.

Have you checked your diary for the weekend of the 28th Jan? MWNN is keen to fly off somewhere - he quite fancies the thought of Greece (it was Italy last time).

[calove]

You said that before and look what happened. The lure of the Spuffy is a siren call...

The 28th should be OK - the only fly in my ointment is little sis, who buggered up our Christmas because she'd just got a new puppy and she couldn't possibly travel with him, and really, we couldn't expect to upset its delicate new puppyness by staying with her over Christmas and interupting its routine, so we need to do the family catch up in January. Nice to know family takes second place to a puppy. Anyway, I'll see if I can chase them all for a date, and try to avoid that weekend.

[kazzy_cee]

I think what I like best about your smut (and that's a sentence I never thought I'd ever type!!), is that it's descriptive, but not that descriptive and leaves something to the reader's imagination. It also avoids all the words that I find really 'jar' to me that describe the bits of anatomy that are banging together...!

I like this little vignette a lot - the mirroring is a great idea.

[calove]

I rarely write smut because the words are just... yueck. They make me wince and giggle in pretty equal measure. Which is why when I do write it, it tends to be a bit... restrained.

Besides, my reader's imaginations are so much better than mine :)

Glad you liked it, KC.

[slaymesoftly]

ah - so them - I love the way you can capture a relationship/emotion in so few words.

And congrats on the nom! Go you!

[calove]

Thank you! I don't seem to be able to get beyond the short ones these days, but I do try to pack it in :)

And - thank you :)

[elisi]

God this is amazing. Perfect, perfect S6 Spuffy. Hot of course, but the sex is almost the least of it... I am totally and utterly in awe!

[calove]

Awww... thank you, sweetie, you're much too kind! I'm glad people aren't getting hung up on the sex in this. It was very much part of S6 Spuffy, true, but only a small part of so much more.

[smudgiboo]

Wow, that was great!! I hope there will be more.

[calove]

Thank you! And more... of something, at least, soon :)