Fic Review - Discovered in the Wrong Drawer by Gui Mauve

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I was terribly clever last night and actually did what I thought I should have done a long time ago - put my ProsLib CD onto my memory stick! So my Pros-y post for today is a Randomly Generated ProsLib Fic Review Post - Disc 49, story 5!

Discovered in the Wrong Drawer by Gui Mauve is only 227 words long, but they're 227 rather good words, and they made me go heee at the end - well, actually about halfway through when I realised what was going on, but then it was fun to see just what happened... *g*


(Image from Tauna's Slash Den because it kind of fits... *g*)

(Gui Mauve, I think, is another author who was writing quite some time ago - and... why do I think she might be Australian? Am I remembering something, or misremembering it? ETA - misremembering I suspect, as she's mentioned at Fanlore as being one of the first Small Printers, and that was a UK zine...the sources are provided and seem as though they should be reliable on this, so... *g*)

Reading Room - Theme IV - Older Lads Stories

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Discussion was a bit quiet in the last Themed Reading Room, so I thought we might have a break for a bit - but the next theme on our list (as voted for by you! *g*) was Older Lads Stories.

Can anyone think of stories to add to the list below, and - more importantly - would anyone like to volunteer to rec/review an Older Lads Story one Thursday in June (if you fancy starting tomorrow, it should probably be a very short one!)?

I wonder what we mean by "Older Lads" too - old enough to be retired, from the streets, or from CI5 in general? Then again, there are some "older" CI5 ages quite obviously working the streets (hah! *g*) in the eps, and it's really only our cult of youth that says "younger must be faster, stronger, better and you're no good to anyone after that"... How long could our lads go on, I wonder? Alot of fic has it that they don't expect to live long in CI5 either - again, contrary to evidence from the eps that there are a fair number of older agents still active, and really a relatively low agent body count, considering the number of bullets that fly around, rooves that are scaled and bombs that are defused...

Older Lads Storylist (so far... *g*)
The Acorn Syndrome by Georgina Kirrin
As Perennial as the Grass by Callisto
The Beautiful Year fics by Verlaine
Bodie's Letter by Ellis Ward
The Cards stories by Georginna Kirrin
Careful Cultivation by Bistokidsfan
The Chameleon's Dish by Kitty Fisher
Contretemps by Josey
Devices and Desires by M.Fae Glasgow (second part of Summer's Outing)
Each Day is Valentine's Day by Verlaine
Fire Held High And Far Away by Miriam Heddy
Hold Till the End by PFL
iLads by AngelCI5
Leftovers by HG
A Lovesome Thing by O.Yardley
Old Fears and Temptations by PFL
Old Lions by Verlaine
The Path Not Taken by Meridian
Older Lads and BDSM by Castalia
Quick On The Draw by HG
Rice Pudding Stories by Irene, PFL and Elizabeth O'Shea
Roman Candle by Magenta Blue
The Sentinels by Castalia
Soul Survivor by Lizzie
Still Crazy After All These Years by LilyK
The Story of My Life by PJ
Taking Time by Kitty Fisher
The Tangled Web by Jack Reuben Darcy
Two on a Treasure Island by Slantedlight
Who Caught and Sang the Sun by Slantedlight
With Age Comes a TOG Sticker and When I'm 54 by Lizzie
Zeno's Paradox by Miriam Heddy

What d'you think? Shall we play? *g*