The Gray Gale

Story: The Curious Case of the Mysteriously Missing Lady-in-Waiting In Training
Author: lionille
Rating: PG
Author's summary: None provided.
Characters/pairing: Wyatt/Glitch
Warnings: None, really - though if you're seriously uncertain and don't mind being totally SPOILED, you may ask below and I can give you the one possible warning.

Recced because: As always, there is no better way to end a week of fantastic stories than to point you toward another incredibly imaginitive, beautiful, heartbreaking story by lionille. She's got a gift - as our lovely mod kseda likes to say, Nillie is this fandom's "Raw," having the special ability to get right into the deepest, most sensitive part of our emotions and remind us that they are there. This story is a mystery, with Wyatt involving himself in a very important investigation to figure out, at Glitch's request, whatever happened to Ambrose's missing past. The results are like nothing anyone expected, but not unwelcome.

Story: Intangible Spaces
Author: kseda
Rating:PG-13
Author's summary: None given (written for tinman100 challenge #20 - "stick").
Characters/pairing: DG/Cain. Also DG/Glitch, DG/Raw, and the guys/each other. YEAH!
Warnings: none

Recced because: If there's one thing the world needs more of, is TEAM LOVE. This is a series of short scenes showing how DG could get involved with each of the guys, until finally we see how it *really* how it is and how it should be - the four of them together, perfectly balanced and blended and in love. What gets me about this story, the line that just nails everything I love and is memorable about it is this:

And some days she'd spy Glitch shaking sawdust from his coat, and some days Raw would be too slow covering a yawn to conceal a wine-blackened tongue, and some days she'd find Cain contemplating a yellow birch leaf.

'Nuff said.

Story: We're Not Together (Al interlude)
Author: koslorollo
Rating: PG-13/Teen
Author's summary: Glitch and Cain are not together, make no mistake about it. Even if, somehow, not being together seems necessary to being together. Takes place in the time just after the Eclipse (literally) and through the first few chapters of An Ageless Light (aka "Al").
Characters/pairing: Glitch/Wyatt UST
Warnings: none

Recced because: "An Ageless Light" is a 'verse I just can't get enough of. I loved every minute of it. So when this interlude came out, filling in a bit of the back story of Glitch and Wyatt as they circled around each other dizzyingly...it was perfect. It's all about how they're "not together" for the whole story, then suddenly they are in the end. It's touching; so full of everything good and wonderful about "Al" that I'm so thrilled that it was gifted upon us readers.

Story: The Twelve-Day Mystery Of Cain’s Living Room (and eventually the whole apartment)
Author: luchia13
Rating: PG-13 in the way that Revenge Of The Sith was PG-13.
Author's summary:The Plague of The Twelve Days Of Christmas infects Cain's living room. The perpetrator thinks he's being sweet and festive, and Cain thinks the world has gone insane.
Characters/pairing: Glitch/Cain, DG, and lots of other things.
Warnings: (as provided by author) Warnings for utter crack in the strangest way possible, DRAMA resulting from said crack because a Tin Man can't take crack like that sitting down, and...yeah.

Recced because: I've read a lot of fic. I mean, a LOT of fic. For almost ten years, in a dozen different fandoms. Yet very few stories have stuck with me the way this one has. I've read it a number of times over the last year; it was one of the first stories I read in Tin Man (perhaps the first ever, but I can't remember...). It...is just the best thing EVER. Brilliant, hysterically funny, imaginative, and worth reading many, many times. There's no better story to recommend for Christmas Day than this one. Read it now. Or the swans will find you and eat your shoes. *sage nod*

Story: Jamais Vu Joyeux Noel (translation: Never Seen Joyful Christmas
Author: camelonajourney
Rating: PG-13
Author's summary: Christmas, angst, slash, and oh so yummy fluff. I think I got a little stuck in my throat.
Characters/pairing: Glitch/Cain, implied Jeb/Az.
Warnings: none

Recced because: More BALLS!!! This time, a Winter Gala, with dancing and angst and Glitch blending into the wallpaper again. And just a wee touch of hurt/comfort, something I am always a sucker for.


Story: Les Decorations d'Arbre et Des Cadeaux
Author: camelonajourney
Rating: PG-13
Author's summary: none provided. A sequel to the previous story above, "Jamais Vu Joyeux Noel."
Characters/pairing: Glitch/Cain, DG, Jeb.
Warnings: none

Recced because: It has one of the most memorable images, one that has stuck in my head for the last year. Let's just say Glitch gets a little confused about the process of decorating for Christmas. And the result is *adorable*. Plus the whole fandom tradition of coming up with the most appropriate, meaningful gifts for them to exchange is included!