Oh holy shit, this was excellent. I may have to go track down Numbers right away.
The thing that I love about your stories - quite apart from the way you alter your style to match that of the source material; quite apart from the intensity and creativity of your characterisation and language - is that you make the stories themselves interesting outside the context of my interest. Or, wait, that's a terribly lame and obvious thing to say. What I mean is, sometimes one looks at a pairing, sometimes at a concept, and the story is the pairing or the concept. You seem to consistently tell stories in which the pairing and concept are integrated parts serving the story itself. Argh. I'm saying this badly. Maybe I should just summarise: I really enjoyed reading this.
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The thing that I love about your stories - quite apart from the way you alter your style to match that of the source material; quite apart from the intensity and creativity of your characterisation and language - is that you make the stories themselves interesting outside the context of my interest. Or, wait, that's a terribly lame and obvious thing to say. What I mean is, sometimes one looks at a pairing, sometimes at a concept, and the story is the pairing or the concept. You seem to consistently tell stories in which the pairing and concept are integrated parts serving the story itself. Argh. I'm saying this badly. Maybe I should just summarise: I really enjoyed reading this.