Random Pros Read - Plague House by Asymphototropic

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I decided I deserved a break from work before my lunch break today, and that a proper random at the Circuit Archive for the Pros Random Reading Challenge would help me get into a Pros-y mood. That'll teach me...

It turned up The Plague House by Asymphototropic, which I think was her first Pros story. I'm as puzzled by it now as I was then - I like the premise (half of CI5 out with flu, and quarantined all together - it'd never happen, but fun to imagine if it did!), but it all falls apart with the characters, who bear absolutely no resemblance to the Bodie, Doyle and other agents I love so well. The story's pretty much all in dialogue, but it's nothing ever heard on Pros, and reads like some strange in-joke that very few people are going to be in on.

I think if this hadn't been presented as a Pros story, it would have its own kind of charm (if you can work your through to understanding more than half of it), but because it's pretending to be people that it just plain isn't, it stops working at all for me.

So... a story that's very hard work, just when I was hoping for something relaxing! I'll have to try again later... *g*