Trick or Treat gifts
The Trick or Treat Exchange opened on Halloween. (Midday. It seems an odd time; but I suppose the mod wanted people to be able to read their stories on the holiday.) Author reveals aren't until Monday; but I've been feeling guilty not posting here about my gifts.
Yes, gifts. Two of them!
The dates make it clear which was my main present: "Rites of Passage", a Flashpoint story. For those unfamiliar with it, this is a Canadian/US cop show following a fictional SWAT team, the Strategic Response Unit, attached to the Toronto police. I got a really fine fat gift, nearly 5K in length (which would be a good size for Yuletide, and ToT is basically a ficlet exchange).
"Rites of Passage" is set some time after the end of the series; so a major pleasure is getting filled in on the characters' future. It is, as I asked, a Halloween story-starting with a series of petty seasonal calls, which afford a lot of humour, and then shifting to a much more serious case. Actually, the kidnapping of a young trick-or-treater is resolved fairly quickly, since this is more a character piece than an action story. However, there is a common theme of increased maturity (proven through various rites of passage) that ties the case to the cops' personal lives.
This gift is a real treat in so many ways, with many familiar faces (all in character) and shout-outs to a lot of events from canon.
"Rites of Passage" was posted well before the deadline; so for several days I could see that I had one gift waiting for me, and assumed that that was that. Then, unexpectedly at the last minute, someone wrote me a little treat, "Forte".
This is a Charioteer ficlet, focusing on Ralph. One quickly figures out that, sometime after the end of the book, he must have been posted to a ship that was subsequently sunk by the Germans. At any rate, he is in a prisoner-of-war camp. (Whoever wrote this did their homework: I knew naval prisoners were sent to Marlag, but had no idea that the merchant marine had a separate POW camp, abbreviated as Milag.)
Short, sweet, and spooky. Very suitable for Halloween.
(And yes: I wrote a story or so myself. However, that's another matter.)
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Yes, gifts. Two of them!
The dates make it clear which was my main present: "Rites of Passage", a Flashpoint story. For those unfamiliar with it, this is a Canadian/US cop show following a fictional SWAT team, the Strategic Response Unit, attached to the Toronto police. I got a really fine fat gift, nearly 5K in length (which would be a good size for Yuletide, and ToT is basically a ficlet exchange).
"Rites of Passage" is set some time after the end of the series; so a major pleasure is getting filled in on the characters' future. It is, as I asked, a Halloween story-starting with a series of petty seasonal calls, which afford a lot of humour, and then shifting to a much more serious case. Actually, the kidnapping of a young trick-or-treater is resolved fairly quickly, since this is more a character piece than an action story. However, there is a common theme of increased maturity (proven through various rites of passage) that ties the case to the cops' personal lives.
This gift is a real treat in so many ways, with many familiar faces (all in character) and shout-outs to a lot of events from canon.
"Rites of Passage" was posted well before the deadline; so for several days I could see that I had one gift waiting for me, and assumed that that was that. Then, unexpectedly at the last minute, someone wrote me a little treat, "Forte".
This is a Charioteer ficlet, focusing on Ralph. One quickly figures out that, sometime after the end of the book, he must have been posted to a ship that was subsequently sunk by the Germans. At any rate, he is in a prisoner-of-war camp. (Whoever wrote this did their homework: I knew naval prisoners were sent to Marlag, but had no idea that the merchant marine had a separate POW camp, abbreviated as Milag.)
Short, sweet, and spooky. Very suitable for Halloween.
(And yes: I wrote a story or so myself. However, that's another matter.)
This entry was originally posted at http://greerwatson.dreamwidth.org/88616.html. Please comment there using OpenID.