fic:: a girl wild and unwished for [MASH]

It's almost a year since my lithium experience began, which is A Time and a lot to think about. This is the lithium story I've been talking about on and off - I didn't write it especially to post today but here it is and I feel good about that.

a girl wild and unwished for (15279 words) by raven
Fandom: MASH (TV)
Characters: Hawkeye Pierce, Margaret Houlihan, Sidney Freedman, Daniel Pierce, Lorraine Anderson
Additional Tags: Judaism, Cold War, Post-Canon, Mental Health Issues, Bipolar Disorder, and no one talks about chickens, Post-War, Queer Themes, New York City, Bisexuality, Queer Gen, Hawkeye's canonical tendency to talk about himself as a girl

"I love this whole desperate world, every inch and breath and corpuscle of it, and I don’t want it to be taken from me, and I don’t want to be taken from myself.”

1957, and the first US clinical trial of lithium carbonate has just started at Columbia;

or; Hawkeye, one queer, sultry summer in New York.