Hey, hello! Thank you! The second part of Fathers is with my beta now, and the accidental third part (it grew ... why do they always grow?) is well underway, as is another fic that will be out by Feb 11 and then some more Fragile chapters, which have been mostly written for months and meanly ignored. Hope that will fit the bill! I was accidentally roped into sewing for a production ... so my slowness was made even worse!
As to Anne Rice, I very much like your fractionally out of sync comment. I think at times she aims for and achieves a heightened ambience that leaves you following her quick prose a step behind, but at other times it is like watching an old-school glacier (and global warming ruins another of my favourite metaphors ...) So, at her best, I think it could well be intentional, and then she pads it out with many more pages, because publishers want volume! Had she lived in earlier days I see her perhaps turning out elegantly slim novellas, a la a pervy, prosey Emily Dickinson ...
Re: a fic in search of cannon
As to Anne Rice, I very much like your fractionally out of sync comment. I think at times she aims for and achieves a heightened ambience that leaves you following her quick prose a step behind, but at other times it is like watching an old-school glacier (and global warming ruins another of my favourite metaphors ...) So, at her best, I think it could well be intentional, and then she pads it out with many more pages, because publishers want volume! Had she lived in earlier days I see her perhaps turning out elegantly slim novellas, a la a pervy, prosey Emily Dickinson ...