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Gift of Exile - first fanfic
coffeecat33:
Thanks for posting those photos - they are great. The beach looks lovely; too bad it's too cold to go swimming. I'm looking forward to more chapters from you!
Leslie.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: coffeecat33 on February 15, 2007, 08:28:33 pm ---Thanks for posting those photos - they are great. The beach looks lovely; too bad it's too cold to go swimming. I'm looking forward to more chapters from you!
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I've seen people swimming in Lake Superior and will probably have Ennis do that at least once, but the closest I've ever gotten is wading! ;) And I've been told that this long sandy beach is unusual for Superior - most of its beaches are rocky.
I look forward to more chapters too - will have to tackle Ennis' arrival this week. Thanks!
nic:
Sorry, I meant to say attack in my first sentence - d'oh. Probably too much of it going around in my head. I know, if an accident it makes it worse in a way :(
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: nic on February 16, 2007, 01:42:47 pm ---Sorry, I meant to say attack in my first sentence - d'oh.
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I can identify with that - now it makes more sense! Either way, Jack's death taught Ennis in the worst possible way what the consequence of a life ruled by fear can be.
louisev:
I provided a recommendation for this story on Slash Discussion on DC:
excerpted here:
In this vein I would like to add my recommendations on stories that are excellently written and oft-overlooked that happen to "ship the OC" : "A Gift of Exile" a remarkable first story by TDS Editor Marge_Innavera, and "Ennis: Brokeback Sequell" by Tom Forster. Before getting into writing any fan fiction stories myself I sent a comment to Tom about "Ennis", which he wrote in December 2005, and it is one of the original fan stories about BBM. He told me at the time that he felt very strongly about making a future for Ennis after the end of BBM, and like my story, and like Marge's story, Tom's Ennis is grief-stricken, and stumbles upon a new love relationship in an unlikely (but historically probably quite accurate way) by meeting another ranch hand in the course of ranching work when he is older. He wrote the story for himself (as I initially wrote "Taking Chances" for myself), and like me, was sad to discover that it did not get much attention among other fans. That has since changed.
"Ennis" http://www.rainbowcommunitywritingproject.com/Ennis.html
Marge_Innavera' story "A Gift of Exile" has a quite original story line in it about the immediate future after the end of BBM in which Ennis meets a "gay man" who is a wedding guest at a marriage reception in Riverton and takes up a correspondence with him after giving him some horseback riding lessons. The truly unique take on BBM that Marge brings to this tale is the mystical element, expanding Annie Proulx's concept of "seeing Jack in his dream" into a complete mystical journey in which Jack returns to Ennis on Brokeback in a two-day-long vision -- reminiscent of vision quests of the native peoples -- and urges him to find a new life with his blessing, allowing Ennis to say goodbye at last, and enjoy the peace that comes from knowing that the dead have not truly died but live on in a spiritual sense. It is the mystical tale that I was going for myself in writing "A Warm Wind Blows", my first fan fiction about Ennis developing cancer in later life and receiving a visitation from a still young Jack Twist who reassures him he does not have to die of grief. Mine was a bit of a ghost-story fantasy romp, but Marge's is a far more serious, far more moving treatment:
"A Gift of Exile" http://talkstocoyotes.livejournal.com/
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