November 22nd, 2010 
12:10 pm Rocks and Water by vanitashaze (PG13/Green Cortina)
Fandom: LIFE ON MARS
Pairing: Joni Newton, Mrs Newton
Length: 1,430
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] vanitashaze
Author Website: LJ fics
Why this must be read: This was a ficathon offering a couple of years ago so I'm reneging on my rule to only include fics from the very early days of the Mars fandom, but it's so good that I can't resist. We're in an AU where Joni survives, where she and her mum do take that trip to Mexico, but where even then, even that far away, Joni cannot escape her past. The closing twist is guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine, and it'll probably be the final straw for Sam's sanity...

All of Warren's people - his rent-boys, rent-girls, bouncers and bent cops and toys - they all dreamed of a better life. A family, they would say, or an honest job, or a lover who wouldn't leave twenties with the bloke at the door. When you stop fucking people over for money, they said, everything changes. It gets better.

Rocks and Water
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04:39 pm Older, Too by prettify (NC-17)
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Sam/Castiel/Dean
Length: ~6,200
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] prettify
Author Website: Tags

I've read quite a few threesome fics now, but this one...this one sells me on the trio. It's different. The sparse style is lovely and truly adds to the ambiance of the fic; the lost feeling, the sadness, the hope and love. The interaction between Dean and Cas is wonderful and in character. And the emotions...gorgeous. I don't want to say that Sam doesn't matter in this fic, because that's not true at all. Dean makes it very clear he does when he asks Cas if he can come to love Sam, too. But the raw love and tenderness, the desire between Dean and Cas breaks me every time.

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Older, Too
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05:48 pm King of the Castle by Nicci_Mac
FANDOM:  DUE SOUTH
Pairing:  Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Length: multi-chapter
Author on LJ: flocked
Author website:  http://www.nexus-99.net/home.htm

Why this must be read:

This story feels like an episode of the show, which is saying something, considering it is an AU in which Fraser inherits a castle in Scotland and treks there in order to settle business, taking Ray along, who is being targeted by a mobster.  This story is a real standout, with great dialogue, humor, excellent plot, a nice role for Dief, and the mental images of Fraser and Ray in kilts.


King of the Castle
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06:14 pm The Rest in Peace Affair by Rose Burkette (G)
Fandom: MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
Pairing: None
Length: about 2900 words
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: http://file40.net/file40g/rose_stories.html
Why this must be read:

Let me start out by saying this is not a death fic, at least not one the way people usually mean that. Yes, someone dies in this story, but it isn't any of the main characters from the MFU universe. Now with that firmly out of the way...

Napoleon undoubtedly had many jobs as CEA that he found difficult and trying. Informing relatives about the death of a fellow enforcement agent was surely one of those. And when the agent in question had been a friend and one he himself had recruited into the fold of the organization and whose death he somewhat blamed on himself, well...

This tale is gentle and moving, even as it reflects the often hard world of U.N.C.L.E. as a whole and Napoleon's uncompromising administrative place within it. Though this writer's stories are often too scattered for me, this one I found soft and sweet and simply affecting.

It's short, so no excerpt, simply read and enjoy.

The Rest in Peace Affair
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07:51 pm Office Strange Love, by dollsome (PG)
Fandom: THE OFFICE (US)
Pairing: Dwight/Angela
Length: 3,543 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] dollsome
Author Website:
Why this must be read:

Oh, Dwight and Angela. I adore their wacky funhouse version of romance. This story cracked me up and provided a backstory that I'm surprised I almost never see. But that's ok, because I couldn't ask for anything better than this. It's perfectly in character and filled with all the same type of little odd quirks that give the source material such life.

Office Strange Love
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