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Wedding Night
- You may be looking for the story "The Wedding Night" by poicale, which is also based on The Charioteer.
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Wedding Night |
| Author(s): | trueriver |
| Date(s): | 13 February 2006 |
| Length: | 1847 words |
| Genre(s): | wedding night story |
| Fandom(s): | Mary Renault |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | archived on LJ |
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"Wedding Night" by trueriver is a short story based on Mary Renault's 1953 novel The Charioteer. It is set at the end of Chapter Twelve, when Laurie and Ralph have returned to the cottage after the wedding reception for Laurie's mother and her new husband, Mr Straike. Renault skips over the details of their first sexual encounter. Fans, of course, want more detail.
Background
According to the author's notes, this story was written for St. Valentine's Day. It should also be noted that it was not written for the original Wedding Night Challenge, which was in July 2004.
Two illustrations accompanied "Wedding Night", added by my_cnnr.
Comments
The story elicited a number of comments, including the following:
- "I love the feeling of being swept along with emotion that you create and keep throughout this story. [...]"—comment by poicale
- "What a lovely Valentine! I liked the whole atmosphere, and Laurie being so charmingly hesitant. And Ralph so at ease in his skin, and putting Laurie more at ease."—comment by cyberducks