recsfest day 7

[norwich36]

Our Clex author for today is teot. I was completely torn in deciding which story of teot's to recommend, so in the end I decided to just recommend two.

The premise of Sleep's Underside is that Clark and Lex both have insomnia, and can only sleep in each other's presence. I love how this story manages to keep Clark and Lex consistent with their season 5 characterizations and yet still capture some of the sweet, dreamy tone of early Clex, as they reluctantly find comfort in being close to each other. I am really appreciative of authors that can find Clex in the later seasons, and teot does a masterful job here. Oh, and the sex is unbelievably HOT, and it has a hopeful ending, which many stories set in the later seasons do not.

I am also completely in love with Good Samaritan, an AU in which Clark is a young reporter for the Daily Planet investigating a series of serial killings of prostitutes, and encounters hooker!Lex. Clark wants to save him, but Lex very definitely does not want to be saved. I absolutely adore Lex as a cynical prostitute (and the plot twist is really interesting), and the story also features shy, practically-virginal Clark, which is another of my favorite tropes.

Comments

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

i'm really enjoying your recs! some of them i've already read, but anything this good deserves rereading. thank you!

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Glad you're enjoying them.

[tasabian.livejournal.com]

"Sleep's Underside" has such a brilliant premise and the hopeful note at the end is very heartening.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I want at least the possibility of a happy ending, you know?

[teot.livejournal.com]

Squee! Thank you so much!

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

With your writing it's never a question of *whether* I'll recommend you; I just have to narrow it down to specific stories. Oh, God, if you were ever moved to write a sequel to (or something set in the same universe as)"Good Samaritan" I would love you forever, just so you know.

[teot.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about--you have no idea how many people bugged me for a sequel after I posted it to the SSA. I don't know, though. I've never written a sequel before. I have this fear that I'll lose touch with the Clark and Lex of Good Samaritan and it'll be a total mess and no one will read it. But I'm still thinking about it. And if I do write it, it'll be after I finish the one I'm working on right now. :-)