Original M/M Fic

[crazyamoeba]

Brendan isn’t really his name, it’s just the name that the agency plastered on all his adds, the one that is emblazoned in tasteful script above his tasteful picture in their tasteful catalogue of men for sale. It was the one that they thought sounded more exciting than Ted.

He doesn't mind. He likes his work. The agency is tasteful. So were the

Comments

[charisstoma]

This is so desperate, the characters are. One person being pulled into the other's need to recapture someone lost.
Poignant so much that I wanted Brendan, whose name is not Brendan, to be Glen.
Good story.

[crazyamoeba]

Thank you very much, I'm really glad you enjoyed this story. And yeah, I did feel a bit cruel while I was proof-reading this, and almost turned the story round, and was very close to turning Brendan into Tony for real. But I'm mean and was in a foul mood, so decided not to. ;)
Thanks for reading and reviewing!

Haunting!

[idurre]

Excellent story. Haunting, in that sense that it sticks with you long after you've read the story. Haunting, in that sense where you want the characters to find that place of happiness, but knowing loss is sometimes insurmountable.

Re: Haunting!

[crazyamoeba]

Thank you very much, I'm really glad that you enjoyed this, it really is high praise when you say that this story stuck with after you had finished reading.
I was a little wary of making the prospects for Glen so gloomy, but I'm really pleased that you picked up his sense of insurmountable loss from this, as that was, as depressing as this is, kind of what I was going for. I don't know why, I must have been in a proper little paddy when I wrote this. It's just that sometimes the thought of somebody learning to look at the bright side by the end of the story just seems a little odd. Anyway, thanks so much for reading and taking the time to review, I'm glad that you liked this story.