untitled random case file #4664
Somewhere outside of Seattle
Because that’s where I live
And my writing teacher always said:
Write what you know
The next day
every sparrow falling by alloway
Slapping an insect away, Scully was reminded of the old saying: male mosquitoes hum, but don’t suck blood; females suck blood, but don’t hum. When should you be afraid of mosquitoes? When you don’t hear humming. Scully didn’t hear humming. But Mulder did. A child’s lazy tune drifted through his thoughts. “Peanuts… popcorn… crackerjack…”
relativistic gravitation and celestial mechanics by lm
When she was twenty-one, she’d been brave enough to rewrite Einstein. Now, burrowed into Mulder’s neck, she finds herself doing it again.
five people fox mulder never met by zauberer_sirin
There’s something about Fox Mulder’s sense of humour Jack Bauer doesn’t get.
vehicle and tenor by suture
The Lone Gunmen standing at the trailer door. “You’ll be completely safe here, Gibson,” Byers says in his kind, formal way. “You know how to contact us if you need anything. Right, kiddo?” Frohike asks. Langley doesn’t say anything, but he gives Gibson another hundred dollars when Byers isn’t looking.
what is essential by emma brightman
The porch stairs creak under their feet, and a black cat appears from its hiding place beneath the porch, mewing pitifully and circling them when they stop to pick the lock. “I guess you’ll get your Halloween after all, Scully,” Mulder says, pushing open the door, which seems to moan in greeting.
no greater love by karen rasch
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John, 15:13
all through the night by m. sebasky
Raindrops hit the window pane, tapping out their untranslatable Morse code commands to the wind and trees. The sound will keep the Gunmen company tonight out in Arlington, she thinks and it brings a lump to her throat. She swallows it down. She has cried so much since she heard of their loss the blood vessels on her eyelids have broken. She finds no consolation they died heroes. She just wants them back.
