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Post by Bryony Marsh on Jul 14, 2017 20:17:58 GMT
This was a single hit-and-run a story submission from an author called TenorPenny, who never returned to Fictionmania... and I'm guessing didn't finish the tale off on some other site. A shame because it's really got something. (At least, to my twisted mind.) Worth a look, I think. Even unfinished, there's something to be learned from it. I don't imagine direct links to FM work, but let's try... www.fictionmania.tv/stories/readtextstory.html?storyID=1294486292161354721 |
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Post by Chrissy on Jul 14, 2017 23:42:37 GMT
Broadly speaking, I've little time for the 'magic' trope; that said, I have read two superb examples: "Tea Party" by Beregeist, to which I was directed by none other than Our Lizzy and which was described (accurately) by La Bennet as being "mad as a box of frogs" and "My Shallow Regret" by Regina de Maris, which was one of those serendipitous discoveries I made all by myself with no help from a grown-up (or from Lizzy, for that matter).
The first can be found on FM; the second is on FM in serial form (which I happen to prefer) and in its entirety on BC.
Still, if Bryony recommends something, I have to concede that there's at least a chance of it being worthwhile so I'll have a gander. At some point.
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Post by Bryony Marsh on Jul 17, 2017 4:39:41 GMT
Well, I could be wrong. Maybe it's not great literature, but I think the author had something good going on, there. (A shame it never was finished, obviously. That scores heavily on the debit side.) I like the way the central character finds herself so very small: I found that very hot. Note how the author managed to resist the silly and very dull trope that the magically transformed person is instantly happy with the way things now are... but also how the universe seems to be exerting a kind of motivational slippery slope that it appears will lead 'Tina' to conform to a stereotype, eventually.
Not wishing to put out spoilers, I'll leave it at that.
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