Snave, I'm so glad to see you post this!
To the rest of you on these boards, I've sent Snave a few private - and not altogether complimentary - emails about his story East Of the Garden. If you look up that story and then read just a little bit of my recent ranting and raving about deathfic and death-of-Lois fic, I'm sure you'll understand exactly what my objections to EOTG were... even though Lois doesn't stay dead in Snave's story.
But I just
love Snave's first story, Cherub. If some of you haven't read that story already, please do it now! (Okay, I'll not ask Wendy and a few others to read it, since their views on kidfic are well known!
But if you are the least bit interested in what it might be like to be five or six years old, to have recently discovered you have some
very unusual abilities, and to find out it's up to you to try to rescue a big heavy adult man from drowning, you
can't miss Cherub.)
And this new story is about what happens when Lois and Clark find out about their daughter's first super-rescue. As for the WHAM warning you include, Snave, let me just say that the WHAM in this story is the kind I can't get enough of!
(By the way, thanks for teaching me a new English word, newel-post.) I just love the image of Emma falling-flying down the stairs!
And I love how Emma has been keeping her powers a secret from her parents. And I can so totally identify with her reason for doing it, too:
"Please don't be mad at me." She took a deep breath, and then it all began to tumble out. "When you told me you was Superman, you said that when I grew up and got your powers, that I'd hafta be Superman too." A tear began to trickle down one cheek. "An'nen, when I learned to fly, I was scared I'd hafta be Superman right then." She took a deep, quavering breath, and stared at her father with an earnest expression. "Daddy, I didn't know *how* to be Superman!"
Let me tell you, Snave, that if
I had ever been a superpowered child, I would have reacted and reasoned
exactly like Emma does here!
Of course, Clark and Lois understand their daughter so perfectly, and can give her all the reassurance that she needs. I completely love the waffiness here!
I love Emma's little-girl way of speaking, too. "You was", "I'd hafta", "an' nen", "he would 'a drownded if I didn't". And of course, her misunderstanding of the word "Superman", too! And I love it that Lois sees it as her duty to correct her daughter and make her speak grammatically correct English. And I totally love Emma's response to Lois's corrections:
"You're *always* making me say things right!" Emma glanced at her dad, and then back to Lois. "First you want me to be Superman, an' now you want me to be a reporter, too?"
I love it, Snave! Love it, love it. Thank you so much for this story. And - just so the rest of you on these boards know it too - I've been nagging Snave to write a sort of Super-Family story, seeing that the (to me) irksome "East of the Garden" ended with Lois getting superpowers. Wouldn't it just be so much fun to read a Snave story about Superman, Ultra Woman and little Superlady Emma, with even littler Gracie lady waiting in the wings?
Ann
Maybe I'll just take my revenge by posting this to the Archive...
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I thoroughly enjoyed it.