“night has grown her single horn: / The voices of the souls unborn are half adream with Paradise.”

[larryhammer]

With this year’s Yuletide under way,* a pair of fics from last year that I never got around to reccing:

How to Enter the Five Houses by ellen_fremedon | Always Coming Home - Ursula K. Le Guin

Summary: Three texts on becoming a Five-House Person: by birth, by choice, or both at once.

Additional tags include Worldbuilding, Demographics, and Immigration & Emigration, and the author nails Le Guin’s voice. One of the best ACH fics I’ve read, and that fandom attracts high-quality fics.

True attachment and constancy by ComplicatedLight | Persuasion - Jane Austen

Summary: Anne and Frederick have only been married a few weeks when Napoleon escapes from Elba and the war starts again. Frederick is called back to serve his country, and Anne waits for him, month after wearying month, not knowing whether he is alive or dead.

How Anne deals with the Hundred Days while complicated by a peevish sister.


* Which, alas, I will not participate in—life has gotten in the way.

---L.

Subject quote from Gates of Damascus, James Elroy Flecker.