Springtime at CI5?

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It'll no doubt chuck it down snowing again next week if I say this, but... it's been feeling a wee bit spring-ish here for the last few days, and I thought I'd re-do the palelyloitering.com website, and I did Spring stories last year, so I thought maybe I'd go for something else spring-like and post a list of spring cleaning-ish fics... or the closest that we might get... curtain fic? *g* For example...

...my favourite Home Improvement by Brenda K

Does When I'm 54 by Lizzie count as curtain fic?

Or... Discovered in a Furball by the Hag?

Come to think of it, how domestic does a domestic "curtain" fic need to be? Is it just mostly set in a domestic environment, or does it have to be specifically about the domestic situation, I wonder...?

But back to the point - any suggestions for Pros curtain-fic recommendations? *g*

ETA - by the Automated Hatstand's definition: Curtain Hanging: also known as "Curtain Fic", "Buying Curtains", or "Looking for Curtains". Stories with a nesting vibe; ie, a domestic setting or theme, often romantic in the sense of the pair metaphorically--or often literally--setting up house together. Curtain Hanging fic tends to be happy rather than angsty. I've never heard anyone use/of anyone using any of those expressions in Pros except "curtain fic", but the sentiment's all the same!

The Reading Room

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Welcome to the all-new Pros fic club, The Reading Room. 

 

 

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions, but in a completely undemocratic manner I’ve opted for The Reading Room, but was sorely tempted by this inspired contribution, courtesy of earthdogue: 

 

'The New Tricks & Mixed Involvement after the Heat & Private Madness Cools Off from Backtracking Killers, Guns, & Spy Probes and being Hunted, Hijacked, and Discovered in a Graveyard Room.’

The idea, anyway, is that each week we’ll all read a Pros fic and discuss it here. 

 

I’ve recced one of my favourites below, to kick off. Hopefully each week someone different will suggest the fic, and post a rec about it, to start off the discussion.

 

The only condition is that the fic should be online, so everyone can get access to it. Slash (or gen) goes without saying, I hope, in this company. To suggest a rec for next week, please comment to this post, by 8 pm GMT on Tuesday. The first rec received will be the next Pros Fic club choice, which I will post next Thursday. 

 

To start off, then, I am delighted to recommend for your reading pleasure:

Title: Dance While You Can

Author: Alexandra

Links to story:
http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/0/dancewhile.html

 also in print at: 'Close Quarters', Deathless Pros Press (1996)

Pairing: B/D

Black ankle boots, black pants hugging thighs and crotch with little left to the imagination, black silk poloneck, and black leather jacket. Definitely Bodie's best color.  Doyle watched him make his way to the bar, admiring his elegance, his subtle grace.

 

Does any fic need more to recommend it?

 

( Rec with spoilers )

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