From: keerawa (keerawa@yahoo.com)
Date: 01/13/2008 |
This story surprised me with it's mix of comfort and horror. Fraser in his own little bublle of denial, the Rays going out to hunt zombies every day, all of them stubbornly refusing to giver up on Chicago. But it was the tattoos that kicked it up to the next level, that made it oddly personal and threatening.
Well done!
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From: belmanoir (belmanoir@gmail.com)
Date: 01/11/2008 |
this was AWESOME!!!
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From: Alexis (alexis.muirhead@gmail.com)
Date: 01/04/2007 |
This was an excellent sci-fi story, fully realized and beautifully observed. I love how plausible the world you've created seems (and, uh, it's terrifying, too) and your characterization of Fraser and the Rays is both poignant and honest. Good work on this.
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From: SDWolfpup (sdwolfpup@gmail.com)
Date: 01/04/2007 |
Fantastic story. Believable even with the zombies, because you pay so much attention the detail of who the characters are, and who they'd be in that situation. Fraser's denial is haunting, and I love the brief glimpse of quiet mornings between Kowalski and Vecchio.
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From: slidellra (slidellra@gmail.com)
Date: 01/02/2007 |
This is so cool. It's haunting and powerful and we get such a wonderful sense of the three of them clinging to who they used to be and each other, and adjusting to who they are now. Incredible how vividly you created this world in a not very long fic.
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From: brooklinegirl (brooklinegirl@rcn.com)
Date: 12/29/2006 |
wow, this is - brilliantly awesome. man, yet another strike for the DS world of "for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture." This is perfectly in character, utterly them, and amazingly well-written, and, god, poingnant. endearing. with zombies.
I LOVE it.
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From: Lucifercircle (Luciferofthecircle@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/28/2006 |
Chilling. Absolutely chilling. Your Ray K voice is excellent and your Fraser-in-denial is scarily believable. Awesome.
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From: catwalksalone (catwalksalone@livejournal.com)
Date: 12/27/2006 |
Last night I watched "Shaun of the Dead" (again) then today read this. Both, in their own way, matter of fact pieces about life with zombies. Shaun is funny and the zombies make me giggle, but yours, you don't even see the zombies and it makes me shiver.
I don't know if you ever read "Girlfriend in a Coma" by Douglas Coupland, but your fic gives me the same post-apocalyptic sense of emptiness and Fraser's attempts to keep order in a disordered city broke me a little. And the idea that it could so easily have been RayK on the wrong side of zombie hunters - that it's a fine line they walk every day. Just. Perfect.
What I'm trying to say in all this random waffling is I loved this and I'm glad you wrote it.
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From: exeterlinden (exeterlinden@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/26/2006 |
I love how you've told this story: matter-of-fact like - it echoes the theme of the story, how this has become everyday for the three of them.
It reminds me a little of 28 Days Later - and what I liked the most about the movie is also what I like the most about this story: the Robinson Crusoe element that is so beautifully pointed out throughout the story - my absolute favourite the bit about how the sex and the sleeping and the waking up works out for them.
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From: Devan (mightyducks_dev@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/26/2006 |
I thought I'd do this right.
This? Is. Brilliant.
Adore it. Best zombie-fic I've ever read. I hate to say that it works, because it's, well, you know - zombies - but it does. It's almost real enough. You totally nailed it. It's eerie, with the deserted city and all. The ton of the whole thing is just spot-on, eerie and sad and... gah.
It's perfect.
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From: J S Cavalcante (JSCavalcante@nycap.rr.com)
Date: 12/25/2006 |
Ooh, appropriately spooky for the, er, genre. Brain-eating zombies...wow. One would think a story about them would have to be total crack and also badfic, but no--this is post-apocalyptic science fiction, and it's good writing.
The image of the tattooed victims is haunting--poor Ray! And God, Fraser still going through the motions--that's so him and so poignant. The three of them stand their ground and do their duty, and also, they love. Wow. A heartbreaking look at a Chicago that, thankfully, will never be. *shivers*
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From: mazily
Date: 12/24/2006 |
Oh! OH! Zombies and tattoos and that lovely matter-of-fact language (which I, and this is a theme here, just love) and the boys and Fraser leaving money in exchange for goods even though it's meaningless and still manning his post and Ray and Ray and OH. LOVE and thank you.
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