Mourning Becomes Ares

Fanfiction
Title:	Mourning Becomes Ares
Author(s):	Amorette
Date(s):	?
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Genre(s):	gen
Fandom(s):	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
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External Links:	online here
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Mourning Becomes Ares is a Hercules: The Legendary Journeys story by Amorette.

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Amorette's work always surprises me, not least because she writes stories I wouldn't read by most others: lots of gen, het, implied slash, introverted pieces full of speculation and domesticity. Here Ares mourns a dead son, but it's no self-indulgent schmoop-fest; he's angry, sullen, emotionally stunted, just the way he should be, so his grief isn't easy, but has both an impenetrability and translucence that excoriate me when I read it. I always find myself in tears at the close of Amorette's stories; they build incrementally, until I break. It's harsh and physical, without any long navel-gazing indulgence, just intensity and pain. Lovely work. Implied incest between gods, but otherwise gen.