Yuletide Recs, Part 3
Don't Need to Know Canon
The Bone Key - Sarah Monette
The pull quote below tells you most of what you need to know. The rest is that the narrator is a shy museum archivist, Ratcliffe is an archaeologist who knew him as a schoolboy, and they had chemistry when they met as adults to investigate a haunting.
The Past Still Lives in Memory. 7738 words.
“I had a lover,” I said. Such a simple, bald-faced truth. It was easier to say than I’d have expected. “Not a man. A—a creature. A demon. He loved me a great deal, I think. He couldn’t help it. He would have consumed me entirely before much longer, but I realized in time what was happening, and I made him go away. And then I forgot him.”
Very touching and realistic aftermath-of-incubus/get together; also very hot.
Worrals - W. E. Johns
All you need to know is that Worrals and Frecks are WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) pilots in WWII.
Sky High! Or, Worrals Gets The Girl. 13,170 words.
13K of Worrals and Frecks having an extremely canon-typical adventure with bonus femslash - so, exciting, funny, plenty of flying and spying and clever twists, but with added kissing.
The books are extremely out of print, but you can download them at The Faded Page
Need to Know Canon
Daniel Blackland series - Greg van Eekhout
Merry Midwinter
A few months after Gabriel pulled Max out of the kennels and changed the course of both their lives, Max wants to know if his new responsibilities come with gift-giving obligations, and Gabriel just wishes people would stop trying to kill him all the time.
A sweet, funny story about two weirdos in love.
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Movie)
Making Nothing. 2597 words.
Joy and Evelyn attempt to make everything bagels the old fashioned way.
Really captures the tone and themes of the movie; funny and weird and heartfelt.
The Lion Hunters - Elizabeth Wein
our hearts like doors. 1020 words.
The journey back to Aksum after Empty Kingdom.
Telemakos and Medraut and Turunesh and Athena and dogs take a trip and do some family bonding and have a good time. That's it, that's the story. If you've read the books you know why I pounced on it like a lion... oh wait, never mind.
The Red Tree - Caitlin R. Kiernan
Time Winds Tight (Like a Rope). 2032 words.
This is a ghost story.
Excerpts of Constance Hopkin's only interview after her experiences with the Red Tree.
Absolutely phenomenal understated horror story, completely in keeping with the novel.
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The Bone Key - Sarah Monette
The pull quote below tells you most of what you need to know. The rest is that the narrator is a shy museum archivist, Ratcliffe is an archaeologist who knew him as a schoolboy, and they had chemistry when they met as adults to investigate a haunting.
The Past Still Lives in Memory. 7738 words.
“I had a lover,” I said. Such a simple, bald-faced truth. It was easier to say than I’d have expected. “Not a man. A—a creature. A demon. He loved me a great deal, I think. He couldn’t help it. He would have consumed me entirely before much longer, but I realized in time what was happening, and I made him go away. And then I forgot him.”
Very touching and realistic aftermath-of-incubus/get together; also very hot.
Worrals - W. E. Johns
All you need to know is that Worrals and Frecks are WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) pilots in WWII.
Sky High! Or, Worrals Gets The Girl. 13,170 words.
13K of Worrals and Frecks having an extremely canon-typical adventure with bonus femslash - so, exciting, funny, plenty of flying and spying and clever twists, but with added kissing.
The books are extremely out of print, but you can download them at The Faded Page
Need to Know Canon
Daniel Blackland series - Greg van Eekhout
Merry Midwinter
A few months after Gabriel pulled Max out of the kennels and changed the course of both their lives, Max wants to know if his new responsibilities come with gift-giving obligations, and Gabriel just wishes people would stop trying to kill him all the time.
A sweet, funny story about two weirdos in love.
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Movie)
Making Nothing. 2597 words.
Joy and Evelyn attempt to make everything bagels the old fashioned way.
Really captures the tone and themes of the movie; funny and weird and heartfelt.
The Lion Hunters - Elizabeth Wein
our hearts like doors. 1020 words.
The journey back to Aksum after Empty Kingdom.
Telemakos and Medraut and Turunesh and Athena and dogs take a trip and do some family bonding and have a good time. That's it, that's the story. If you've read the books you know why I pounced on it like a lion... oh wait, never mind.
The Red Tree - Caitlin R. Kiernan
Time Winds Tight (Like a Rope). 2032 words.
This is a ghost story.
Excerpts of Constance Hopkin's only interview after her experiences with the Red Tree.
Absolutely phenomenal understated horror story, completely in keeping with the novel.
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