I lead a quiet rebellion. by Racketeered, literature
Literature
I lead a quiet rebellion.
When I was five years old, I wanted to be a taxicab driver in the streets of New York City. I dreamt of meeting people from all walks of life, and learning about them as we explored the urban jungle together, if only for a few minutes. Even as a small child, I knew I wanted to help others find their way in the world. Most people spend their entire adolescence figuring out what they want to do with their life, so I wore my decision like a politician's campaign button, and told my dream to anyone who would listen.
A few days later, my mother asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. Instead of a doctor, or a lawyer, or even a fireman, I tol
'Mother, tell me again about the sun.'
She pauses scraping the stretched hide,
thinks. So many images she could give, in words
he wouldn't understand golden, sunrise, light.
Her son was born to cold darkness, has never seen
the sun, animals in clouds, gods in the midnight sky.
Some days, what she misses most is the sky,
more than electricity, than fresh tomatoes, than sun-
shine. The white tails of planes created scenes
of foreign adventure, when only thunderheads could hide
the horizon and the day produced its own light.
Now the horizon chokes on ash and she on useless words.
She never lets him see her cry when her words
One of my fans has made fan art for my series Nippitaty, a Person of Interest fic that takes Harold's bargain with Elias (in the episode "Triggerman") and turns it in a different way. I actually have a series of alternative bargains, but in this case it's a supernatural one: Elias is a vampire, and offers to help John if Harold feeds him.
Lisagarland was quite enamored of this tale, and has created a set of delightfully creepy fan art to go with the series, which she's finally posted on DA here. It works from Harold's mixed emotions that he's trying to hide from John, and some of it plays up the menace of Elias (even though, in my fic, vam
The family-friendly side of my writing is on Fanfiction.net here.
I've got an Archive of Our Own account, where I'm more active (177,000 words, 6400+ views so far, and 11 subscribers), but the material also deals with more mature topics, including rape. If you'd like to know how to find it, you can PM me from fanfiction.net (I'm not on DA much and might not see it right away if you try to message me here, but feel free to try that if you prefer).
I've been writing POI fics since April 2017 -- I joined the fandom after the show was over (thanks to a friend sending me to one particularly good fanfic that drew me in immediately: "Dangerous If