Town Made of Straw
Oh, this was nicely done. Short, sweet, and a pleasantly bloody ending. I'm very intrigued by these crows... :D
Kokoa_b - Liquid Lust
Hot, sexy and satisfying.. very nice! I really enjoyed reading this. And she got a nice morning after too. Yay! :)
tcr - Stalker
Nice little violent addition to the Halloween fic list, although I have to say it's the kids I feel sorry for most of all. I mean, at some point they're going to find out that the lady covered in blood wasn't wearing a costume, aren't they? That's the kind of thing that can follow a person through their whole life... *g* Very good!
CloverReef - Blue Eyes
Every time I read something of yours, I'm so envious of your talent. This is perfect in so many ways. I mean, zombies? Oh, yes! But... what you did to me here. I mean, you left me hungry. Not necessarily for the tag you'd have needed to add for it, but for something to go Crispin's way.
The way you wrote this, you had me on his side so far that reality doesn't matter. Reality is harsh and cruel and not worth the time it takes. His boss is a perfect illustration, and yet, his boss (aside from the horrendous sexual abuse) is kind of right, isn't he? About Crispin's misplaced concern for the dead, instead of the living? Crispin is kind of creepy. I wouldn't want him hanging around my dead relatives.
Yes... in that way, he's right, but you made it so that I didn't want what was right. I didn't want reality. That's what I love most about this. You made me want it, and you didn't give it to me. You gave me horror, yes, but the true horror is leaving me with my own thoughts afterwards. Yet I still love you. Skilfully done. Bravo!
Desiderious Price - Bones
I really tried. Got partway through. Can handle all your tags except the scat. I hate that. For what it's worth, what I did read was all right. When they turned up at the party was good, and that sense of wanting in. Don't be afraid to really go for that. I could have handled more of that teasing, just there. :)
George Glass - Black Cat
Aha! Fabulous! Had to read this out loud to the whole house. Really well done. We laughed. :)
Incidentally, best cat I ever had was a wonderful big black feral cat we took in from the street. This did kind of remind me of him.
BronxWench - The Price of the Land
Ah, I have been looking forward to this! And you did not disappoint. :)
There are stone circles littered throughout the countryside in the UK. Big ones, small ones, forgotten ones, fallen down ones... lots and lots of them. I'm not sure what's it's like in Ireland, but here most people walk up to the them with the same sense of baffled wonder as a caveman discovering a bus shelter. Even local people. It doesn't make sense without the bus. Stone circles don't make sense without their context, and we've forgotten that, but what you've conjured here works wonderfully well. And it is very fitting.
I can't blame Connor for his sense of self-preservation, even if it does come off as a bit cowardly. He did summon them, after all. Even after hearing all those stories from his Gran.
I'm still not sure he got the better option though. I mean, in years to come, he'll need to save his life by encouraging people to attend with him on Samhain. That will get more difficult as he gets older, unless he establishes some kind of touristy ghost walk or something. Though the village is small, and it doesn't seem like an option. Perhaps he'll be bled to death eventually anyway. He'll just get longer to anticipate it. I don't envy him.
Maybe he'll start to hear the banshee wailing at him in the days and nights leading up to the night of the offering each year. That would be a fitting punishment, I think, for his abandonment of the others.
Brilliant! :)
Tahn - Town Made of Straw
Ah, I kind of suspected something like that as soon as the "important" people weren't included any more. But still very good and creepy for something so short. Anyone over five years old? That's cold, indeed. Very well written! :)
The Last House - KoKoa_B
Simple and great.
The Price of the Land:
That was awesome! Now, I want to know what happens to the "tributes" as well as who and how many Connor brings each year. I'm going to assume that the others hauled ass out the village because they're a bunch to likely squeal, therefore no tributes for Connor.
Unless no one in the village believes them. And they go with Connor willingly to see if it happens again. Either way: I wanna know what happens next! :D