FIC: His Name Is Glitch (Tin Man)

[slyprentice]

Title: His Name Is Glitch
Author: Prentice
Characters, Pairing: Glitch
Rating: G
Summary: His name is Glitch. He remembers that. Mostly, often.
Warning: None.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. If I did I would have expanded so much more on Tin Men and Glitch.
Word Count: 194

His name is Glitch. He remembers that. Mostly, often.

There are so many things he doesn’t remember, though. So many things he doesn’t know. So many things he wishes he knew.

His name – his real name – for instance is like a phantom in his mind and on his tongue. Unbearably close but yet so far it slips through his fingers like the finest grains of sand in the Outer Zone. The thought of it beckons him, sometimes, in his half formed dreams. Someone looking at him, trusting and smiling, affectionate and kind, saying his name like a caress against his skin but he can’t remember. He can’t remember.

There are other things, too. Places and people he knows he should remember but are out of his grasp like shadows in the sun; important things that press at the little left of his mind until he wants to tear his ragged hair out. Bang his balled up fists against his temples in frustration.

Why can’t he remember, even just a little bit? Just enough to help. Just enough to prove that he can. Just enough that…that…

His name is Glitch. He remembers that. Often, mostly. 

Comments

[piss-and-ink.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I like this. Especially the first/last line. It all works out very well, sad.

[blindswandive.livejournal.com]

::hugs:: Oh, poor Glitch...

This was well done! Thank you!

[lindsay-007.livejournal.com]

i love that line "His name is glitch. He remembers that. Often, mostly." It has a rhythm to it.

[jackislove16.livejournal.com]

I like the first and the last couple of lines. Some of the metaphors/similes are cool, too. ^^

[willow-fae-20.livejournal.com]

This was very nice. I loved the repetition of the first line at the end. A wonderful look into this character we really didn't get to know.

[erinm-4600.livejournal.com]

Aww... *squishes Glitch*

[prongs-padfoot.livejournal.com]

Aww..poor Glitch.

:huggles him:

Fantastic little story there. Very Glitch :)

[myjadedhavok.livejournal.com]

Aw... it made me a little sad...

So, yah. I loved it.

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

Poor Glitch. I think you really captured him, and in so few words.

[taskir.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like this so, so very much. I love the echo in the first and last lines.