My Yuletide Story: Ultra Rec!
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scribblinlenoreI received an absolutely AMAZING story this year:
The Age of Unfolding (10514 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Major Character Death
Relationships: Guert Affenlight/Owen Dunne, Pella Affenlight/Mike Schwartz, Owen Dunne/OMC
Characters: Owen Dunne, Pella Affenlight, Mike Schwartz, Henry Skrimshander, Guert Affenlight, Adam Starblind
Summary:
If you haven't read Art of Fielding, you should! Here's the Amazon blurb:
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.
Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life.
As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment--to oneself and to others.
I bought this book for the baseball and the gay relationship, and I loved it for the characters and their friendships. Here's what I requested for Yuletide:
Owen is my favorite character in a novel filled with characters I love. What I'd truly adore is Owen future fic. What does his life look like in a year, five years, ten or twenty? Is he in love? How do his memories of Guert affect his relationships? Is he a scholar? Is he still in touch with his friends from college? What role does baseball play in his life? As I mentioned, I like all the characters in the novel, so please include any that you would like. If you want to tell me about the relationship Owen is in, I'd happily read about an original character.
My amazing anon writer gave me ALL OF THAT in one brilliant package. It's beautifully imagined, impeccably written--in epistolary form no less, which I adore--and has an Owen voice that it is so true and so perfect I feel like Chad Harbach must be my Yuletide gift-giver. The story captures what I love so much about the characters and their friendships, deftly interweaving the past of the novel with the future of the story and introducing new characters that make the world even richer. I was sad when I got to the end of the book, because I just wanted it to go on and on. My Yuletide story brings "what happened next" magically to life in the most satisfying way I can imagine.
If you liked the book, you don't want to miss this story. Highly recommended.
The Age of Unfolding (10514 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Major Character Death
Relationships: Guert Affenlight/Owen Dunne, Pella Affenlight/Mike Schwartz, Owen Dunne/OMC
Characters: Owen Dunne, Pella Affenlight, Mike Schwartz, Henry Skrimshander, Guert Affenlight, Adam Starblind
Summary:
It's been twenty-five years since Owen graduated from Westish, but now he's being called back - to see old friends, play one more baseball game, and perhaps lay a few ghosts to rest.
Major spoilers for the entire book from the very beginning.
If you haven't read Art of Fielding, you should! Here's the Amazon blurb:
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.
Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life.
As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment--to oneself and to others.
I bought this book for the baseball and the gay relationship, and I loved it for the characters and their friendships. Here's what I requested for Yuletide:
Owen is my favorite character in a novel filled with characters I love. What I'd truly adore is Owen future fic. What does his life look like in a year, five years, ten or twenty? Is he in love? How do his memories of Guert affect his relationships? Is he a scholar? Is he still in touch with his friends from college? What role does baseball play in his life? As I mentioned, I like all the characters in the novel, so please include any that you would like. If you want to tell me about the relationship Owen is in, I'd happily read about an original character.
My amazing anon writer gave me ALL OF THAT in one brilliant package. It's beautifully imagined, impeccably written--in epistolary form no less, which I adore--and has an Owen voice that it is so true and so perfect I feel like Chad Harbach must be my Yuletide gift-giver. The story captures what I love so much about the characters and their friendships, deftly interweaving the past of the novel with the future of the story and introducing new characters that make the world even richer. I was sad when I got to the end of the book, because I just wanted it to go on and on. My Yuletide story brings "what happened next" magically to life in the most satisfying way I can imagine.
If you liked the book, you don't want to miss this story. Highly recommended.
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