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heliopausa ([personal profile] heliopausa) wrote in [community profile] gensplosion2015-06-17 09:14 pm

Wimseyverse: Vale, Pater

FANDOM: Lord Peter Wimsey
FIC LINK: Vale, Pater
AUTHOR LINK: constantlearner
RATING/WARNING(S): Gen;
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete; 723
MAIN CHARACTERS: Gerald, Duke of Denver; Jerry Wimsey, Viscount St George

FIC SUMMARY: 1949. Viscount St George died in 1940. Dorothea, his wife for 1 month and widow for 9 years, is soon to remarry. Jerry has visited his cousin, Bredon Wimsey, to speak to him about the matter, and has now decided to visit his father, Gerald Wimsey before giving up his ghostly form for (he hopes) good.

RECCER'S NOTES: Brief and understated ghost story; a poignant evocation of loss, of grief and of how hard it can be to say what's most needing to be said.