As It Fell Upon a Day
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | As It Fell Upon a Day |
| Author(s): | Terri Librande |
| Date(s): | 1992 (print), 16 Jan 1993 (online) |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Quantum Leap |
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As It Fell Upon a Day is a gen Quantum Leap story written by Terri Librande.
It was printed in Play It Again #2 in 1992, and then posted to alt.tv.quantum-leap.creative in 1993.
Summary
Kent State during the Vietnam War ~ two days before the students were shot. Sam doesn't remember what happened and Al won't tell him ~ the Admiral has his own point of view about the events of those days.
Author's Notes
Bibliography: Kent State/May 4: Echoesd Through a Decade, Scott L. Bills, KSU Press, 1982.
Thirteen Seconds, Joe Esterhas and Michael D. Roberts; Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1970
I interviewed several people who had been either at Kent State attending school during the massacre, and others who had been at the rally itself. Also, spent an afternoon prowling the town of Kent and the campus grounds on my own, gathering stuff and things.
This was my first real attempt to write a QL story with a true historical background. It was written in the summer of 1991, before LHO, and Leap Back, so you might find some assumed inconsistancies [sic] in the story. [1]
Parts
- part 1
- part 2
- part 3
- part 4
- part 5
- part 6
- part 7
- part 8
- part 9 (this chapter is a download)
- part 10
- part 11
Reactions and Reviews
Sam leaps into a Dr Barry, a psychology lecturer at Kent State, two days before the massacre in 1970. Can/should Sam change history? Very well written, obviously well researched. I felt Sam's dilemma as he is caught between what he wants to do and what he ought to do. Again, Terri pulls out an Ace. This woman deserves to be published! [2]
In “As It Fell upon a Day,” Terri Librande takes on an emotional subject when she Leaps Sam into Kent State just a couple days before the infamous massacre. Sam wants to prevent the deaths, but Al says he’s there for another reason. Ms. Librande’s subject is complex, and the issues she raises are difficult ones--perhaps too complex for the scope of a short story. While Ms. Librande presents a sensitive, balanced portrait of the events leading to the massacre, I found that I wasn’t entirely convinced that Sam really accomplished anything in this Leap. However, I have to give Ms. Librande a lot of credit for tackling such a difficult issue. In spite of my own misgivings about what Sam does or doesn’t accomplish, it’s still a very good story overall. [3]
References
- ^ from ql-archive
- ^ by Philippa Chapman at Fanfic reviews? (August 19, 1998)
- ^ from The Hologram #12/13 (October 1996)