10 Works in Tim O'Brien
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How to Tell a True Love Story by shurishen
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
22 May 2025
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War wasn’t all bad. In between the smell of death and blood, there was still two soldiers, shining in the company of each other.
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I don’t even know why I’m writing this. I’m not a poet. I’m not Tim with the emotional shit. Maybe I thought that getting it down on paper would make the voices go quiet. Maybe it won’t, but the nagging in the back of my head tells me that if scared little Timmy got better, that I could too.
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Azar writes a short story after coming back from the war, and he reflects on his own life and how he’s coped with PTSD -
See It and Know What It Means by nitrilecoveredhands
Fandoms: Spiral: From the Book of Saw (Movie), Saw (Movies)
14 Feb 2025
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When boxes from the Spiral killer start showing up again, Zeke and O'Brien expect the games to be starting again. They hadn't been prepared for the Valentine's game that unfolded instead.
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“That’s a bigger box.” O’Brien comments, staring at the box nervously. Zeke doesn’t respond, he grabs a glove from his desk and opens the box carefully, trying to hold in a gag when he sees the contents, “is that a fucking heart?” O’Brien asks incredulous, failing to hold in the gag. Sat nestled amongst white tissues inside the box is a heart, the stench of iron clear in the air and based on the size Zeke assumes it’s probably human.
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and the earth breathes by bittersweetResilience
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
13 Nov 2023
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Some nights were worse than others.
(A retrospective.)
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Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong by RainbowQuartz0
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
14 Apr 2023
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A rewriting/retelling of "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" from Rat Kiley's perspective. Technically chapter 8.5 of my work "What Happened in Dong Lu Trung."
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- Part 3 of What Happened in Dong Lu Trung
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,497
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 6
- Hits:
- 93
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What Happened in Dong Lu Trung by RainbowQuartz0
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
06 Apr 2023
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"Rat Kiley didn’t have as many memories of Curt Lemon as he’d have liked to. Laying in bed, listening to the quiet, shallow breathing of his sleeping wife, he decided to tell himself the story one more time." The full story of how Rat and Curt Lemon fell in love from the perspective of Rat.
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- Part 2 of What Happened in Dong Lu Trung
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The After-Prayer / Addendum by cheekslikewine
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
29 Jul 2021
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Boy. Body. Disciple. Dancer. Soldier. Saint.
Creek-clear heart, upturned palms, beloved mind: Kiowa, who were you? And, God, what if?
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The Spiral's Interlude by Erizee
Fandoms: Saw (Movies), Spiral: From the Book of Saw (Movie)
15 Jun 2021
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“So let me get this straight. Your father was forced to point a gun at the SWAT team by...”
Zeke rubbed his eyes, suppressing the need to groan in frustration. “By William Schenk.”
He'd been in this fucking interrogation room for the past six hours and they still weren't done asking questions he'd already answered a million times before.-
After William escapes, Zeke is interrogated about what happened when suddenly a new Spiral murder is reported.
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Part 1/? of a new series. Lemon, Rat, and O'Brien smoke after an ambush. An excerpt from Lemon and Rat's relationship as told/understood by Tim O'Brien.
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- Part 1 of What Happened in Dong Lu Trung
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Stranger Than Fiction: Metafictional Elements of The Things They Carried by 100indecisions
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
22 Apr 2008
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Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a strange sort of book, at once a novel and a collection of stories, autofiction and complete make-believe, fiction and fact. It contains just barely too much fact to pass as pure storytelling, just barely too much fiction to qualify as memoir that plays a little fast and loose with the details. The book does not quite fit the standard image of metafiction, if such a thing exists, with its inherent experimental nature and oddities that insist the reader take it at something more or less than face value. At the same time, it includes enough of those elements—the recursive sense of writing about writing—to reward a study of what makes its stories something very like metafiction.
Written for an upper-level undergraduate class in English literature. Posted in 2025.
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- Part 22 of Fandom non-fiction
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,176
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 1