Fic Rec - The Seventh Sunday of the Year

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Title: The Seventh Sunday of the Year
Author: Suspect name is not for display on internet - search for "seventh" in ProsLib in the "index to numbered folders", or look in Disc 41
Available: Proslib CD
Link to story: Not online
Zine: Not in a zine

I pulled this story from my big-pile-of-fic-to-read, and was so happy that I did! It's beautifully written, sounds just like the lads, and is just that bit "deeper" than purely mission-based, or relationship-based fic.

It starts out with the lads off to Doyle's mum's for the weekend, and there are some lovely glimpses of them on the way. But the author also shows us the darker side of who they are as well, the possible causes and consequences of this, and how they cope with it. I love the contrast between the grime and grit of one world, and the yellow-lit, church-on-Sunday atmosphere of the other, and how we see both Bodie and Doyle through both.

( And a couple of questions )

Fic Rec: Boxing Day by The Hag

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Title: Boxing Day
Author: The Hag
Link to story: http://hatstand.slashcity.net/hag/boxing.html and it's at the Circuit too.
Genre: Slash
Summary: I know byslantedlight was after lesser known authors, but I came across this again today and reread it for the umpteenth time, realising yet again how brilliant it is. It's as the title says, Boxing Day, and Bodie's in a garage pulling a dusty tarpaulin off a car boot because Doyle wants to 'know things'..

( details and some quotes )