Date: 26 May 2013 18:12 Title: Twelve
Again not sure where this is going, though I assume the same divide is such that it is a section for Scotty on top and a section for Corry below?
Date: 24 May 2013 04:46 Title: Twelve
I love the contrast here: Scotty fighting for survival and Corry fighting (the skiff, the wind, the sea) for the sheer joy of it. This is borne out so well in the allegory of breathing. Again, Scotty breathing to know he was still alive, as was Corry, but for very different reasons. One out of sorrow and pain, the other out of joy and the zest for his current life. You are a master at this, m'dear!
Date: 21 May 2013 23:53 Title: Twelve
You do know you are a genius. Maddeningly brilliant.
Author's Response: I don't know about genius. But I know I try hard to say it without giving it all away. <3 Thanks, dear.
Date: 21 May 2013 14:41 Title: Twelve
Big, big contrast here - despair (and addiction? Abuse?) vs. hope.
Author's Response: Time tells all. (Except not in this set.) Thanks for the comment!
Date: 21 May 2013 07:07 Title: Twelve
Well this ficlet certainly lives up to the series name. What a contrast between these two. Happy Corry, out on the sea, enjoying his freedom without a care in the world. And Scott, recovering from trauma ... an attack on his life ... fighting to survive.
Author's Response: Aye, a contrast it definitely is. Thanks for the comment!
Date: 21 May 2013 07:06 Title: Twelve
Wow. Poor Scotty. I have no idea where he is or what's happening ... in a bathroom? But why? I don't know but the scene you set was disorienting, confusing, and completely engrossing.
Corry's is just the opposite. He's happy, joyful, and you can feel his enthusiasm with every wave he hits. He loves what he's doing and he loves that it's him doing it by himself.
These were contrasting indeed. I don't what's happening to Scotty but I know he turns out all right in the end ... it still doesn't make it any easier to read about. Well done.
Author's Response: Takes Scotty about... another fourteen years before he ever tells that story. (Now I just have to finish writing it.) And another two after that before he comes clean on all the pieces leading to it, too. Yeah, I figured this one would be the biggest divergence of the pair. Totally opposite lives, at this point. Thanks for the comment!