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

Title: You're Tender and You're Tired
Author: Yasmin M.
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Q/O
Warnings: The author's warning states "I am not a nice romantic. Consider yourself warned." (my kind of writer. [g]) Character death, yes indeed. Character euthanasia, in fact.
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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. The storm picks up again, driving rain to splash against your face and drip from your beard.

You whisper to the Force, what must I do?

The Force's answer is soft and full of tears, singing to you what you already know.