Strangers and the Strange Dead

Fanfiction
Title:	Strangers and the Strange Dead
Author(s):	Kipler
Date(s):	2000
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Fandom(s):	The X-Files
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Strangers and the Strange Dead is an X-Files story by Kipler.

It is her most widely recced story.

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Strangers and the Strange Dead by Kipler is a haunting story about abductees who start showing up in the woods one chilly winter. A curious coffee shop worker documents the odd happenings and the pain of lives left unfinished. Kipler's prose is a joy to read, as careful and ponderous as the story itself. The ending is especially moving, and very prescient of Kipler since it was written before the XF episode "Requiem."

I'd been looking for this. I'm so glad I found it again. So -- what is it like, coming back from the dead? This might tell you. Gods know, Chris Carter didn't. <grr>

Dead bodies and shivering strangers disturb the hilltown of Bradenton. bugs says: I made the call in Febuary when this fic was posted, it will be my favorite fic of 2000. Still is. The night 'Requiem' aired, I said this fic was already the best post-ep before any of us could step to the 'puter.

2000

She's back from a too long hiatus with Strangers and the Strange Dead. This is a third person look at a Scully of the future: still searching for something and investigating. In this case the investigation is of the mysterious reappearance of strangers in a small New England town. I love the way this woman writes. She always creates a story that cocoons the readers in her world and gives away just enough.

2014

This story is perfect. It's on my ten best short fics for The X-Files, maybe for fanfiction, period. I really like stories that are told from an outside POV. The opening to this piece still gives me the shivers, the ending still astounds me.

2016

Written right after the fandom found out David Duchovny would not be a lead actor in Season 8, this story is simultaneously about a particular moment in X-Files fandom history and also simply beautiful.