Prosfic - Never The Words They Say

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Well, happy Boxing Day - I hope everyone's full of goodness and glee after yesterday, and enjoying themselves still. Here's another story from me, should sorting out all that wrapping paper start to pall *g*

Never The Words They Say


Title: Never The Words They Say
Author: Slantedlight
Slash or Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit/Hatstand: Certainly, if wanted!
Disclaimer: Bodie, Doyle and the CI5 universe do not belong to me, and I certainly don't make any money out of them. I'm just borrowing them to play with over the long cold winter...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I was reading another story tonight but my mind kept slipping back to your story I'd read a few nights ago. So I read Never the Words They Say again. Of the many lovely stories I've read this winter this one has completely bowled me over. There's not one single scene I can say is my favourite. They all share a special place - the long trek, finding the cold Croft, making it *home*, the snowball fight, the snowman, the brilliant village characters I came to love, finding the old newspaper, the shaving scene, their first time, their fear and misgivings, Doyle's trek to and from the pub, Bodie's protectiveness, *Doyle's* protectiveness, meeting Cowley... I know there are scenes I've missed. This is a Keeper and I know I'll read it again and again. I almost hated Cowley for his intrusion. I wanted the Croft to go on forever. Gorgeous writing.

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I was reading another story tonight but my mind kept slipping back to your story I'd read a few nights ago. So I read Never the Words They Say again. Of the many lovely stories I've read this winter this one has completely bowled me over. There's not one single scene I can say is my favourite. They all share a special place - the long trek, finding the cold Croft, making it *home*, the snowball fight, the snowman, the brilliant village characters I came to love, finding the old newspaper, the shaving scene, their first time, their fear and misgivings, Doyle's trek to and from the pub, Bodie's protectiveness, *Doyle's* protectiveness, meeting Cowley... I know there are scenes I've missed. This is a Keeper and I know I'll read it again and again. I almost hated Cowley for his intrusion. I wanted the Croft to go on forever. Gorgeous writing.
<Signed: MaDonna>

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Thank you so much for coming all the way over here to tell me this! I'm honestly sitting here with this huge grin on my face... I hope you get this somehow, though I'm not sure if you will or not! I was going to reply to you on the list, but your message seems to have vanished... I was a bit shy of writing to the list to say thank you, cos I'm not sure that it's that sort of place, but people have been so nice that I really have to. The mods can yell at me if I get it wrong, I guess... *g*

I've got to admit that I really enjoyed writing this story - well, I usually do love writing the lads *g* - and I'm just chuffed to bits that other people like it so much too. And it hadn't really occured to me to write a sequel or anything like that - the story was the story, I thought - now people have got me thinking, and really I want to know more about Jimmy, cos he was a surly sod even as I wrote him then... So... I'm thinking we might all go back one day... *g*

Again - thank you so much for taking the time to come over here!