Rec: Cautionary Tales for Incautious Children by JayTheNerdKid

[humantales.livejournal.com]

I'm humantales and your calufrax reccer for this week. All of the stories I'm reccing this week have been written by authors who haven't previously been recced here.

Story: Cautionary Tales for Incautious Children
Author: JayTheNerdKid bewarethespork
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 1,516
Author's Summary: A guide to fairytales (and how to interpret them) for the clever and discerning child or child-at-heart.
Characters/Pairings: The Doctor (11th)
Warnings: None

Recced because: This is an "experimental" story (according to the author's notes) which is made all the more chilling by the format. A meditation on fairy tales, hero/villains and points of view, it tells the story at the core of the fifth season of New Who, in a seemingly dispassionate voice and vivid detail.


The stories are right about one thing - there really is a man. Right now, on this deceptively innocuous-looking day, he is sitting at a table in a cafe on a planet you've never visited on the other side of the universe from where you are. He is drinking tea. Some things are constant. His companion is drinking coffee from a blue mug with cheerful yellow flowers painted on it. Her hair is very, very red, redder than a sunset, and when the sun shines on it through the grimy cafe window, it blazes orange.


Enjoy! And review.

Comments

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Hi, just a heads-up that this story has been recced before: http://community.livejournal.com/calufrax/304759.html

It's a good choice, though -- the reason I knew it had been recced before was I wanted to rec it myself, and had to take it off my list. : )

[humantales.livejournal.com]

Argh! I can't believe I missed it! (Thanks for the heads up. I'll double-check my other recs and look for a real seventh.)