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Little Lion Man (The Charioteer drabble)
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Little Lion Man |
| Author(s): | toujours_nigel |
| Date(s): | 19 May 2011 |
| Length: | 100 words |
| Genre(s): | drabble, AU |
| Fandom(s): | Mary Renault |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | AO3 |
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"Little Lion Man" is a drabble by toujours_nigel based on Mary Renault's 1953 novel The Charioteer. It provides a terse, bleak AU ending that so nearly might have happened.
The story was written as part of the Unwritten Charioteer Writing Project (Chapter Sixteen), for which the prompt was to provide a speculative (AU even) ending for the novel.
Comments included the following:
- "This made me catch my breath! Well done (and thank heavens it was a different ending)."—comment by fawatson
- "So glad this didn't happen in the book! It would've broken my heart. Simply beautiful, though."—comment by myopichobbit
- "The spareness of this makes it all the more fitting - and painful. Striking. Good to have you writing (even if..)."—comment by my_cnnr
References
The story was originally posted to the maryrenaultfics LiveJournal community in a members-locked post, and later cross-posted to AO3.