As of June 2011, this author's account is dead, but there are some wonderful Hunger Games one-shots up well worth reading. The style of writing is unique and memorable, and even the crackfic is written in a powerful voice that makes you feel the importance of the subject matter. Here is an excerpt from life a fact above all others, a one-shot about Foxface:
In District Five, this is how the Hunger Games had always been won: by the incisive edge of intellect, by cunning, by calculation, by ruthlessness. Fellow tributes tricked into caverns full of coiled muttated snakes. Long range weapons with enough propulsion to crush ribcages. A scorched-black field full of fried corpses, still smoking. Long-fingered hands cleanly and precisely slipping caustic substances to blue lips of paralyzed, sickened teenagers.
You yourself had wanted Evolution – you're certain you'd have ended up there, in the laboratory only the best were allowed to work: Muttations – you've believed the basic tenet: the strong survive, the rest die out.
Fact: you're capable of all things required of Victors.
Addendum: you can win.
Wow, they sound great. I'm glad even if the account is dead that we can still access the fics!
ReplyDeleteExcellent job, Amata Le Fay :)