fic update: Never Have I Asked an August Sky (Sheppard/McKay)

[hth]

Never Have I Asked an August Sky
by Hth
Sheppard/McKay

Originally written for the zine Surfacing, now available right here on your internets.


“Major,” Rodney said by way of a greeting, which sucked and was stupid and oh my God, if there was room left for this to get more pathetic, then absolutely the way to get there was to call the man by his military title, as if he’d driven seven hundred and thirty miles through fucking Kansas for some kind of horrifically awkward war-buddy reunion moment.

Comments

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I love how you wreck me. You get in there deep with your gorgeous language and amazing intimacy and find all the places where I resonate with the characters and then you twist, and it's awesome. I love the angst in this so effing much, and the neediness and the wanting and the regrets and the little tinge of hope for a someday that probably won't ever happen, and, just, damn. Beautiful.

(You know, if you really wanted to go for OTT bleakness, you could have stationed him in Altus. But maybe that would have been too much. *eg*)