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I came to this story off a post on reddit and instantly remembered reading Erosion as a teenager and liking it heaps.
That was enough to sky rocket my anticipation for what was essentially, a well written bodice ripping Separation!fic bonanza, if Separation fic is even a thing.
It wasn't until after reading both that I realised how similar the two were.
Hence that's why I plan to lump the two (amazingly well written stories) into the one post.
Similarities: There are large periods of M and S being apart and pining for each other. Explicit sex scenes upon their reunion(s). Similar descriptions that M has of S and vice versa.
Erosion has M and S separated due to an unknown event whereby, if they are together, their families will suffer. As a compromise, M devises a plan to meet S once a year on a secluded beach/private beach house where wild sex and heart breaking goodbye scenes ensue.
It took a good 2 hours to read it (admittedly I probably skimmed through a lot of it) -- until I made myself slow down and read the prose (which is beautiful, despite being a little gag worthy). The ending is very sad, beyond melancholic - which the author forewarns about needing tissues and the like but to be honest : I was eye rolling for the majority about this supposed "Reason for them to be apart" (unless you tell me the reason it just sounds like some made up thing) -
however the ending gets very realistic and beautiful.
But not tear worthy in my opinion.
Reading the author's warnings I almost thought it would be Cancerfic where Scully dies (although, not something my teenage memory remembered). -- and it's not.
I won't spoil it.
Then there was "Glass landscape" which a much more fleshed out storyline about colonisation.
It's dripping with beautiful prose (much like Erosion) however I think the storyline is better fleshed out and super descriptive.
It's much less vom worthy and I stayed up to read this one to completion. Another 2 hours. No skimming, because it was lovely.
Somehow my memory remembers Erosion as being my favourite -- considering I don't even remember Glass landscape(although I'm absolutely certain I did read it, considering my teenage attachment to AU and colonisation stories.
Now having read both, Glass landscape is definitely my favourite- same Annie Sewell-Jennings prose (I feel like I could sleuth it from a far now) with a fleshed out storyline where its not Separationfic for the sake of Separationfic.
Although that ending of Erosion is rather something....
Both are located: here
In reading these I was intending to look for and read Skin (as recommended in the reddit post), but actually, reading her stuff is a bit like eating a cadbury milk block and nothing else. My teeth hurt from all the bodice ripping beauty that is Dana Scully and the sexy hunk that is, Fox Mulder.
That was enough to sky rocket my anticipation for what was essentially, a well written bodice ripping Separation!fic bonanza, if Separation fic is even a thing.
It wasn't until after reading both that I realised how similar the two were.
Hence that's why I plan to lump the two (amazingly well written stories) into the one post.
Similarities: There are large periods of M and S being apart and pining for each other. Explicit sex scenes upon their reunion(s). Similar descriptions that M has of S and vice versa.
Erosion has M and S separated due to an unknown event whereby, if they are together, their families will suffer. As a compromise, M devises a plan to meet S once a year on a secluded beach/private beach house where wild sex and heart breaking goodbye scenes ensue.
It took a good 2 hours to read it (admittedly I probably skimmed through a lot of it) -- until I made myself slow down and read the prose (which is beautiful, despite being a little gag worthy). The ending is very sad, beyond melancholic - which the author forewarns about needing tissues and the like but to be honest : I was eye rolling for the majority about this supposed "Reason for them to be apart" (unless you tell me the reason it just sounds like some made up thing) -
however the ending gets very realistic and beautiful.
But not tear worthy in my opinion.
Reading the author's warnings I almost thought it would be Cancerfic where Scully dies (although, not something my teenage memory remembered). -- and it's not.
I won't spoil it.
Then there was "Glass landscape" which a much more fleshed out storyline about colonisation.
It's dripping with beautiful prose (much like Erosion) however I think the storyline is better fleshed out and super descriptive.
It's much less vom worthy and I stayed up to read this one to completion. Another 2 hours. No skimming, because it was lovely.
Somehow my memory remembers Erosion as being my favourite -- considering I don't even remember Glass landscape(although I'm absolutely certain I did read it, considering my teenage attachment to AU and colonisation stories.
Now having read both, Glass landscape is definitely my favourite- same Annie Sewell-Jennings prose (I feel like I could sleuth it from a far now) with a fleshed out storyline where its not Separationfic for the sake of Separationfic.
Although that ending of Erosion is rather something....
Both are located: here
In reading these I was intending to look for and read Skin (as recommended in the reddit post), but actually, reading her stuff is a bit like eating a cadbury milk block and nothing else. My teeth hurt from all the bodice ripping beauty that is Dana Scully and the sexy hunk that is, Fox Mulder.
