Festival of Lights by Dorinda

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A mention of this story on a non-Pros list sent me scrambling to re-read it, and appreciate once again how lovely it is.

Title: Festival of Lights
Author: Dorinda
Circuit Archive Link: http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/2/festivalof.html
Zine: Originally published in Virtual Pros: Christmas Edition
Permission to archive: Sure

Summary:
Bodie and Doyle try to disarm a bomb as a temporarily paralysed Cowley watches and listens.

Review:

I've always been fond of Cowley--I think he's got an inescapable humanity even when he's being a total bastard--so it's nice to see a sympathetic take on the character. Dorinda, who is a Cowley fan extraordinaire, as well as a writer whose work is always a joy to read, gives us a wonderful Cowley POV as Bodie and Doyle fight to free him from a time bomb. She's got the rhythms of Bodie and Doyle's dialogue to a T, but she also gives us a very satisfying view of Cowley's thought processes. And I have to admit to being a sucker for stories where Cowley shows sympathy for the connection between the lads, which he definitely does here.

Comments

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is a really nice one. Simple, yet so effective.

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec - have not read any of hers. Will certainly go and look for more of her stories. I always like it when the dialogue is crisp and blunt like this. And the ticking bomb was a great backdrop

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Dorinda's far from prolific, but her writing is uniformly wonderful and she has a definite gift for dialogue.

She's got all her Pros stories, and those in other fandoms, up on her web site:

http://www.thechicagoloop.net/dorinda/

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Sometimes simple really is best.

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

I just finished reading this story and loved it. Perfectly written with much wit and the right content of suspense, emotion and insightful notations. I now intend to read all the "Pros" stories by the same author.

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I can heartily recommend any of Dorinda's stories, in any fandom.

[bistokidsfan77.livejournal.com]

This story is not long, but it's one of my very favorites. The first time I read it, I just sat there and marveled. Then, I slapped myself upside the head for think I was a writer. The auther spins a simple action tale, but wait, it's really a internal dialogue, no, it's a romance, uh action story...Well, you get my drift. So many levels, yet not crowded or contrived - it's almost lyrical - yet still so Pros.

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Dorinda's writing is always a marvel to me. I just wish she was more prolific.