Discovered in a Christmas Card - 21st December - First post

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Hopefully I have a wee series of posts for you today, for this shortest day of the year (in the lads' world *g*), little bright Pros lights to keep the dark at bay.

And for everyone in the southern hemisphere - happy longest day of the year, and please have some sparks of Pros to celebrate! *g*

My first post is sharing a story that was sent to me for Pros FandomCards 2016, written especially for the solstice by the lovely Mizelle, who is not on livejournal, but will hopefully see any comments you care to leave her below - I'll pass them all on to her as well, in case she doesn't. *g* It was so kind of her to write a special fic, and I couldn't resist typing up the magic for everyone else to read!


Ordinary Magic
A Tale of the Winter Solstice
by Mizelle
A chill winter wind was blowing, tumbling a crumpled piece of paper and a couple of dried leaves across the sidewalk and into the gutter in front of CI5 headquarters. Bodie shivered in spite of his heavy winter coat, and hurried through the rapidly darkening night toward his Capri. The bare limbs of nearby trees scraped against one another, their noise a coarse counterpart to the cadence of his footsteps.

( Hey, Bodie! )

Discovered in a Christmas Card - 21st December - Second post

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I'm hoping this might be a post that everyone can join in!

This morning I posted a winter solstice fic by Mizelle, and it got me thinking - I know I've written a solstice-based fic or two, but there must be more out there (winter or summer solstice). Have you written a story that involves (or even mentions?!) the winter or summer solstice? Can you remember someone who has?

Will you help me make a list? Both solstices of course, because Pros fans do it in both hemispheres. *g*

Winter Solstice
Cat Tales by Fanny Adams
In Hot Water: An Idyll by JM
The Longest Shortest Day by Slantedlight
Perfect Alignment by Slantedlight
Poison Apples by Pamela Rose
Winter Solstice - A Tale of Ordinary Magic by Mizelle

(Image by empty_mirrors, way back in December 2006 - wow! Ten years ago!)

Summer Solstice
Breaking Cover by Ellis Ward
Solstice Heat by LoxleyPrince (art)

Solstice Heat by LoxleyPrince (link above)

Discovered in a Christmas Card - 21st December - Third post

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Almost a disaster again - I came to post this, and lj was down for planned maintenance! I missed the memo about the schedule, obviously, but luckily it didn't take too long. So here is a final wee thing for the solstice, which is also a wee thing for milomaus, because it is from her picture prompt a few weeks ago, for which I promised fic... *g*


The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep
by Slantedlight

You could do a lot in three hours. You could get down the gym and work out, have a long hot bath afterwards to wind down. You could blast your way through the gun range, and go for a couple of pints with the lads. You could even take a bird out for a meal, then take her home and still have a good hour left for doing what came naturally. Trouble was, when you were stuck in the middle of bloody nowhere, none of those things were an option. Mind you, the way Bodie felt, as if his eyes were on matchsticks but his body hadn’t caught up yet, still singing on the tension he needed to spot Villiers and his cronies and then act in a second, he couldn’t have concentrated on any of them anyway.

( Cowley had no doubt... )