You're Tender and You're Tired, by Yasmin M.

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Title: You're Tender and You're Tired
Author: Yasmin M.
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Q/O
Warnings: ( if terri can get an lj, i can post warnings )

Author's e-mail, web site and/or LJ id: dude, i can't believe i found her. mad props to the MA site for the link-list. e-mail: the_jentayu @ hotmail . com ; website: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/4888/fiction.html
Link to story: http://www.masterapprentice.com/archive/y/youre_tender.html
Reasons for recommending: Second-person present-tense narration that works. 'Nuff said? No? (Really, though, doesn't that go a long way?) This vignette is lovely and spare: watercolors, rather than oil painting. If this were a film, it would be filmed in black and white but you'd have a sense of what the colors were anyway. This is the kind of economy of language and deftness of description that I envy with everything I've got. How I would love to be able to write like this -- a mood piece of fewer than a gazillion words? A mood piece in which something happens?! is that even allowed?

Quote from story: ( Carefully, you tear the letter into tiny pieces and scatter them into the wind. )