So my awesome Yuletide stories, all about the undisguised metaphors for sex, were by Jenn Abiding (Brilliance of a Heart, Vampire Knight) and Olivia Circe (Allegory, Revengers Tragedy).
I only wrote my assigned story this year:
Title: Cigarettes in Five Hands
Fandom: Maggie Helwig's Between Mountains
Recipient:
therealjae
Summary: Two years and all he can make out in Cyrillic is curses and Beware, sniper.
Notes:
Much thanks to
loligo for research help and general encouragement. Any errors are, of course, my own. The conceit is stolen from Marguerite Yourcenar's A Coin in Nine Hands.
This story is set in Sarajevo, December 24-25, 1994. Sources included:
I only wrote my assigned story this year:
Title: Cigarettes in Five Hands
Fandom: Maggie Helwig's Between Mountains
Recipient:
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Summary: Two years and all he can make out in Cyrillic is curses and Beware, sniper.
Notes:
Much thanks to
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This story is set in Sarajevo, December 24-25, 1994. Sources included:
- a lot of newspaper articles
- Peter Andreas, Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo
- Tom Gjelten, Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege
- Tim Judah, Kosovo
- Antony Loyd, My War Gone By, I Miss It So: So completely NOT RECOMMENDED I had to write letters to
loligo and
springgreen about how much I hated it and wanted to stab its author with MANY KNIVES. DO NOT READ.