Sorry these are coming so late! I'll try to make up with tempting bits and bits.

If you missed hlh_shortcuts* during the holiday rush, you may want to visit--or revisit--the more than 30 stories posted there, by writers familiar, new, making a rare guest appearance, and generally pulling out the stops. I'll be drawing on them heavily for the rest of this month ( Read more... )

Title: Up Near the Treeline
Author: MacNair
Read this: Up Near the Treeline takes place the first Christmas after Under Color of Authority. Darius is dead, Tessa is dead, Richie has left, and Connor has coerced Duncan, hurting but stoic, into joining him in New York City. Connor and Duncan are fellow clansmen, old friends, and most importantly, ( Read more... )

Title: Christmas Adventure
Author: Mary Ewing; hilandgirl
Pairing: D/M

There's snow, there's the North Pole, there are surprises on surprises beyond. Read this as a latter-day fairy tale starring our boys or as crack!fic of the purest water. Written for the Slash Advent Calendar, 2003.

( a little taste )

Title: The Snow Queen
Author: Killa; killabeez
Pairing: D/M
Crossover: Hans Christian Andersen
Read this: The Snow Queen is in two parts. The first and largest part is a fusion crossover with The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, in which Methos is little Gerda and Duncan is her lost playmate, Kay. (Read it, and you'll find that the integration is ( Read more... )

Title: Lost in the Loving: Coming Home
Author: Carson Kearns
Pairing: D/M
lj: none
website: Lost in the LovingWhy you should read this: Well, this is really a stretch to fit it into the snow theme. But in chapter 9 there's a flashback to a scene of Duncan and Methos in the park in the snow. And I still think of that when it snows. Why yes, I am a ( Read more... )

Title: Great Expectations
Author: MacGeorge
Pairing: D/M
lj: macgeorge1
website: MacGeorge’s MadnessWhy you should read this: It’s a finely crafted MacGeorge piece of writing. The snow is not critical to the story, but it is New Year’s Eve and that’s important. And Mac and Methos are both so insightful about each other. And so afraid to let the other know ( Read more... )

Title: Winter Retreat ( Read more... )

Title: Rum and Ice
Author: Taz; tazlet
Pairing: D/M
Read this: Mac and Methos go ice skating. Methos reflects. Short and sweet.

Rum and Ice

Author's Website: TazWerks. See also Taz' page at the HL Fiction Archive

Title: The Weather Outside is Frightful
Author: Riley Cannon
Pairing: D/M
lj: does anyone know if she’s on lj?
website: Riley’s Cannon Fodder
Why you should read this: It’s fun. Makes you want to play in the snow *g*

( a taste )

Title: Frostbite
Author: Basingstoke; basingstoke
Pairing: D/M
Warning (highlight to read): Major character death.
Read This: ...because it's very tasty: short, yet full of ideas about Immortals, the Gathering, Duncan's character, Methos' history, and the effects of global warming. There's also some charmingly matter-of-fact hurt/comfort going on.

( A little taste... )