An Advent Calendar of Stories - 14th December 2012

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

I saw an empty spot on the calendar and we just can't have a day without Pro's - so I hope no one minds that I slipped in here...

Shopping Days, or Doyle the Copper Felt Up by M Fae Glasgow

I've recc'd this story before - but it's worth a second look. M Fae Glasgow has a unique style and take on the Professionals. While I don’t always agree with the way she portrays the lads, she does a delicious sarky Ray Doyle. AND HE"S WEARING TIGHTS!!!


…not that the elf viewed it quite the same way. The elf was here on sufferance, extreme sufferance, in his opinion. He was supposed to be undercover, but in this costume he felt more exposed than covered. What a rotten fucking way to spend his first Christmas in CI5! The aggrieved thought soured through his mind. But the Cow had spoken…Keep your eyes peeled, he’d been told. More like keeping his arse peeled in this bloody outfit.

TIGHT TIGHTS!!!

the pristine clarity of the picture that left not a single doubt in the mind of the viewer that here was Raymond Doyle, street rat, former hard-nosed policeman, boxing coach to wild and wooly teenagers, CI5 agent extraordinaire, in his other guise, a.k.a. Mr. Ray the nice elf, done up as the proverbial fairy. Immortalised for all eternity, in glorious colour, photographed from behind, caught in a pose of Betty Grable proportions, straightening the seam on those sodding tights… Doyle wolved off in search of his soon-to-be-late and unlamented partner.

With Doyle’s explosive temper and run away mouth at its worst, a lecherous store manager, a child questioning Ray’s gender and a smirking Bodie we don’t have a warm-hearted, family style Christmas story here! If that’s what you’re looking for, this is not for you! If you’d like to warm some other parts, read on!
(and did I mention the tights??)

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I love this story - fab rec (and deserves to be recced many times!) You made me giggle though with your ass instead of arse in the quote - well, not your arse, obviously... *g* But that's the one thing I don't like about M.Fae Glasgow's stories - they're only in pdf which means you have to re-type rather than copy and paste! Otherwise I generally like everything she does - she writes a very real and grim world, but I like reading about that, too, and it cam make Christmas even sweeter... *g*

Thank you!

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Just no escaping the fact that I am an "Americanism"! An edit is on the way!

[sunray45.livejournal.com]

I love that story. Gives me the giggles every time read it, what with a very stroppy Ray and a knowing Bodie.

This was one of the stories that inspired me to do The Lost Elf (http://discoveredinalj.livejournal.com/2011/12/26/) last year. The thought of Doyle in tight green tights was VERY inspiring. *bg*

Thank you for the rec.

[potztausend.livejournal.com]

M Fae Glasgow was one of the first authors I ever read in Pros fandom. I found (more by accident) at first the oblique-publications.net, with M Fae and Sebastian and Shoshanna and Helen Raven. I was delighted and shocked at the same time... great and intense stories.

This one is really funny, it gets better from page to page, with Ray Doyle and his blue balls. Yet there is emotion and intensity too, no superficiality, and with more layers than one. I am glad you recced it!

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Thank you for reccing that one - I haven't read it before and I was grinning and giggling all the way through - Doyle is at his gloriously poisonous best, and the thought of him in tights makes me very happy, in a bad way *g*