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I stayed up late last night and then woke up early in order to read Yuletide stories!
The story I was given was exactly what I wanted: hope blossoming from tragedy, love out of loneliness, people growing into new lives like a plant toward the sun.
From Barbara Hambly's Silent Tower/Silicon Mage books: The Peacetime Weapon
This is probably my favorite of the other stories I've read so far. It's hugely spoilery for the third book in Rosemary Kirstein's Steerswoman series, The Lost Steersman.
This is exactly the sort of thing I love about Yuletide: stories the author would never have written, stories I could never have written or even imagined writing, stories that illuminate their source and are perfect by themselves.
The thoughts on the nature of words and stories reminded me a bit of Jane Yolen, but the precision of language, thought, and observation was absolutely in the spirit of the Kirstein books. Dumb Animals.
This story, from Madeleine L'Engle's Time books, is a long, thoughtful take on Sandy and Dennys after the events of Many Waters. The themes and imagery are perfectly integrated, snow and sand, winter and desert sun, culminating in the perfect last line. I also like that while the themes are very much in line with L'Engle's, the disbelievers in magic and God are neither villains nor stupid.
By the Waves We Left Behind
In this hilarious combination of Chaucer and fanfic meta, the Wife of Bath entertains her friends with a story of two knights, complete with proto-slash and a proto-Mary Sue.
The Seconde Tale of the Wyf of Bath
The story I was given was exactly what I wanted: hope blossoming from tragedy, love out of loneliness, people growing into new lives like a plant toward the sun.
From Barbara Hambly's Silent Tower/Silicon Mage books: The Peacetime Weapon
This is probably my favorite of the other stories I've read so far. It's hugely spoilery for the third book in Rosemary Kirstein's Steerswoman series, The Lost Steersman.
This is exactly the sort of thing I love about Yuletide: stories the author would never have written, stories I could never have written or even imagined writing, stories that illuminate their source and are perfect by themselves.
The thoughts on the nature of words and stories reminded me a bit of Jane Yolen, but the precision of language, thought, and observation was absolutely in the spirit of the Kirstein books. Dumb Animals.
This story, from Madeleine L'Engle's Time books, is a long, thoughtful take on Sandy and Dennys after the events of Many Waters. The themes and imagery are perfectly integrated, snow and sand, winter and desert sun, culminating in the perfect last line. I also like that while the themes are very much in line with L'Engle's, the disbelievers in magic and God are neither villains nor stupid.
By the Waves We Left Behind
In this hilarious combination of Chaucer and fanfic meta, the Wife of Bath entertains her friends with a story of two knights, complete with proto-slash and a proto-Mary Sue.
The Seconde Tale of the Wyf of Bath
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