#hemlock bay

[birdiebortnik]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

[birdiebortnik]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64641553

It was easy for him to think of himself as the height of grotesque and an absolute unredeemable deviant, that instrict came as naturally to him as breathing. It was well practiced in both the privacy of his darkest thoughts and the in the screaming top of his head like a sloppy and hastily spackled plaster over all his other thoughts, just in case someone could tell what he was thinking about whether it be the person sitting in the other train car or God himself, that he acknowledged himself as a disgusting sinner before they could have the satisfaction of labeling him themselves. _

This is the third installment of the Larch series chronicling the life of and perspective of Edmund Pevensie throughout the years as he grows up as a gay kid in the 1930's-40's England (and Narnia). The last story, Meadow Sweet Fennel, followed him through school and Prince Caspian. This story focuses on Edmund in England, in Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and back to England. Head tags and read safely.

[birdiebortnik]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The drums of change are drowned out by the thunder of what remains.

[birdiebortnik]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64641553/chapters/171483895

Hemlock Bay: Chapter ii, Close Your Eyes

England grates on the youngest Pevensies, and behind blood and bone, they can feel their heart thrumming in a longing rhythm of wild waters and magic stuck under their nailbeds.