I posted an LJ at the end of your latest chapter, but I just wanted to say... after all of the fancy-schmanzy Au! and AuAu! and increasingly exotic and bizarre permutations of Ennis and Jack you have done something so simple it is amazing no one else has tried it: put them into the present tense. Where being gay isnt so much a mark of death as it is a setting-apart from the larger, more acceptable society - something more to be avoided than feared. And the portrayal of the characters in their need and desire for one another, their inability to shake off the inconveniences and weaknesses within themselves so that they can be together, shows at core the real tragedy of the original story - as Shakespeare said "The flaw is not in our stars, but in ourselves..."
