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   pam to All   
   Scully POV post-partum depression surpri   
   08 Jul 05 03:46:50   
   
   From: fakeaddress@mindspring.com   
      
   Need help finding a story that was posted here, probably a   
   short one (and possibly dialogue-free), in which Scully has   
   post-partum depression but doesn't realize it.  It would have   
   been posted in the last few years, anytime after "Requiem"   
   (I think the baby was William, but he may not actually be   
   referred to by name in the story.)  The fic is told from   
   Scully's POV, in which a hungry monster has taken over her   
   home, one that always wants to eat and is always demanding   
   her time and always screaming and won't leave her alone.   
   The reader eventually figures out that this "monster" is   
   actually her own baby, but it isn't until the end of the fic   
   that Scully realizes she has a medical problem and needs help.   
   The revelation that the monster is her baby and that the fic   
   is about PPD is a *surprise*, which makes it hard to search   
   for the story, since these facts obviously couldn't be   
   revealed in the summary or keywords.  ;-)  (In fact, the word   
   "baby" may not have appeared anywhere in the fic.)  Help?   
      
   For some reason, searching Google's newsgroup archive for   
   various combinations of "Scully", "home", "apartment",   
   "monster", "hungry", "hunger", etc. is not helping to   
   narrow things down.  I can't imagine why ... ;-J   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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