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There is indeed a dead bird that gets taken apart in "Notebird". I fully understand apprehensions based on that given your background. As for a deeper meaning, yeah, Notebird, I think, operates on a metaphorical level much mre tthan my other stuff. I like to think it manages to combine language and meaning in adequate ways and not lose the basic storytelling appeal too much... but let's not kid ourselves, it's a lot less story-telling and a lot more something else.

Yeha your comments make sense. When I have time to actually read fic, you know, I do prefer to read things that don't quite ask the hard questions actually. I liked rm's&kali's stuff because it had the hard issues but a lot of fun stuff around it. I like Lifty's IEIT because it kidn of has both. I can't say I dislike reading dark stuff, but I don't think I read much of the kind of stuff I write in my spare time... I adore humor in fics but it's obviously lacking in my stuff because Torchwood is not only the dark shit, because Torchwood is also fun and sexy and possbly occassionally romantic but more me, as a writer, I just want to show the other side of it because I feel there is maybe less of that out there than of the lighter stuff. And by dark side I don't mean people dying or people being raped or you know, people falling into depression because I think stories can be dark and characters and dynamics can be dark without those props and Torchwood IS dark without all that and without even trying. I enjoy delving into that as a writer, but I get enough of it when I write it, so I don't necessarily seek it out as a reader.

I'm in the editing stage with a piece right now that is again more straightforward storytelling, so I'm somewhat curious as to how that will turn out.

Thanks for the discussion. I have a thinkg for talking writing and interpretations, I think.