 AJ 8/17/00 . chapter 1 i know that i'm going to sound unbelievably sappy, but i just read your scarecrow and mrs. king story, "coming out," and i just wanted to thank you for writing it. s&mk has been my favorite show pretty much my entire life, but i have become newly obsessed since they started rerunning it this spring. and through the new obsession i found fan fiction. and i have read a lot. and i have not enjoyed most of it. but what i have wanted most of all is a good resolution to the whole secret marriage situation, as any normal person would. i have read many bad resolutions, some that didn't answer all my questions, some that just weren't well written, and some that just weren't true to the characters and style of the show. but you managed to do all those things. you captured the mood and humor and style of the show, your dialogue was very true to each character. the situation made sense, and i loved that lee and amanda decided to tell the truth, as opposed to being caught in a lie. and that not everything came out - not everyone knows that they were already married, her family doesn't know she's a sp never cringed at any of your decisions, and any time that i feared that you were about to get too sappy, you fixed it yourself with humor. and i have to say, i especially loved that you spent time on francine's reaction, and that although you "solved" that, it wasn't artificially warm and fuzzy. all the bad stories i have been reading have made me want to sit down and conclude things myself. but after reading your story, i don't need to. without sounding overwhelmingly melodramatic, you have just put closure on something that somewhere in the back of my mind has been bothering me for 13 years now. thanks.
so, after praising you like that, let me give my one tiny editing issue. i believe it was in section 7, when amanda enters the aparment building, you said that she recognized one of the voices as the man from the sedan. how? she never heard him speak, so how could she recognize his voice?
but that's it.
great story, really. i'm very glad that i read it. and that you wrote it.
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