Fic: Grains of Gold Among the Sand

[jae]

Happy New Year and happy yuletide reveals, everyone! This is the first of what I hope will be a number of post-yuletide fic posts here, because there were a whole bunch of great new stories written for our small-but-mighty fandom in this year's exchange.

Anyway, this year I had the pleasure of fulfilling the request for a The Americans story about Philip and Elizabeth and the kids for our very own sistermagpie (I know, right? How lucky did I get?)!

"Grains of Gold Among the Sand" by Jae Gecko
Summary: Philip Jennings throughout the years, navigating the minefields of marriage and family.
Size: 21159 words
Acknowledgements: To Luna, Minna Leigh, Pene, and Mijra for beta.

And now that I have two out of the three stories posted, let me announce this as well:

The Cost of Silence trilogy

1. (coming in 2014) (Gregory)
2. "Five Points Down" (Elizabeth)
3. "Grains of Gold Among the Sand" (Philip)

Three intersecting pre-canon stories that each deal in different ways with the emotional and interpersonal consequences of the secrets that these people used to keep, not just from the outside world, but from each other.

Comments

[falena]

OMG it was you! I loved that fic,i'd bookmarked it for my recs post and it was one of my favourite this year. I do hope I have left kudos at the very least.

[jae]

You did! I wondered if you knew it was me as you read, and I'm thrilled that you didn't. (I made sure not to comment on any of the other The Americans stories until after reveal because I was afraid it would look just too suspicious to have there be only one story I didn't comment on, and I'm glad to see that tactic worked for someone, at least. *g*)

-J

[sistermagpie]

I suspected! But I also honestly didn't care who wrote it because I just enjoyed it so much! I look forward to reading it through again this weekend. :-) The thing that keeps making me laugh is the "The first man in space was Russian."

[wendelah1]

Yay! I can't wait for part three. I love Gregory so much.

[jae]

Aw! Thank you.

I actually started the Gregory story in the fall, but got stalled on it for a while. I am now very much unstalled. :)

-J

[jae]

Yeah, I figured you'd suspected. Oh well. :)

-J

[sistermagpie]

I can't even really fathom how Gregory must think of the Jennings marriage, or them as a team, or Philip as an individual. Eager to see what you have to say about it!

[tinny]

You actually wrote over 20k words for Yuletide?

This fandom really is exceptional. I haven't gotten around to reading any of them yet (and I doubt I'll have the time in the usual New Year rush at work), but those definitely go on my 'important' list. Yay, more fic!

[jae]

Yay for our exceptional, small-and-mighty fandom! :) And thanks.

And yeah, the mods gave us the full length of time to write this time around, so writing something longer was more possible this time. I was so glad!

-J