FemslashREx: 5 over 5k

[hebethen]

Here's a second quintet of FemslashEx 2019 recs, this time for stories exceeding 5k in length! Damn but people really pulled out all the stops for this.


1. spreading wide my narrow hands (6740 words) by lastwingedthing
Fandom: Jane Eyre
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This post-fire Jane Eyre AU, which I originally came across as a rec from letzan, is an impeccably crafted pastiche of the source material. It manages both to give much-needed voice to Bertha Mason and paint a convincing slow burn between Jane and her.


(  + four origfic )

The Red Tree, by Caitlin Kiernan

[rachelmanija]

Absolutely fantastic, terrifying literary horror. Sarah Crowe, a depressed lesbian writer, moves into a spooky house with a spooky tree to recover from her girlfriend's suicide; her roommate is an artist with some odd resemblances to her dead girlfriend...

No happy endings - the entire book is Sarah's journal found after her own suicide - but if you like horror and metafiction, you will love it.

The Red Tree.