Date: 2008-05-14 02:13 Subject: Snarry Games: Team Dragon Fic Security: Public Mots clés snarry games 2008

Title: Vigil
Author: belleamante
Summary: The Veil was cold.

This is a ficlet about what happens when grief doesn't resolve. A short series of snapshots of Harry as he lingers on this side of the Veil, and what Snape, on the other side, has to do to help him.

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Date: 2008-05-14 02:41 Subject: FIC REC: "Bound Skerry" (H/D from hds_beltane fest) Security: Public Mots clés rec, slash

Title: Bound Skerry
Author: Anonymous
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Rating: R
Word Count: 2300
Warnings: see story header
Summary: Harry has a secret hidden away on the remotest of the Shetland Islands.

All right, flist, I know, I know, this is a Harry/Draco. You won't see many of those rec-ed on my LJ, mostly because I don't read many. But I'm caught up on the snarry_games, and since I have a fic of my own (you can guess at the pairing--cough, cough) in hds_beltane, I've been trying to read everything, which isn't too much of a hardship, given that the protagonists are Snape, Harry and Draco in any combination/permutation.

This fic. Forget that it's Harry/Draco. You could very well put Snape in Draco's place and I don't think it would change the stunning impact of the story. And there isn't even that much of a story, just the bare-bones outline of it. Draco's been banished to a Shetland Island after the war, and Harry comes to him most years at Beltane--at first as the dark victor, but things change over the years. There's a hint of breathplay and bondage, imagery that made me want to cry, and a bond between the two of them that's both poignant and powerful, although at the end, it's no longer a matter of who's the victor, but an unstated agreement between the two of them, to dominate and submit.

There's also some companion art interspersed in the story, but really, the author paints her narrative so beautifully that I have to wonder which gives the reader the more vivid picture.

If you're one of the Snarry purists on my flist--take a chance, walk on the wild side (snerk), expand your horizons for the space of 2300 little words. You'll be glad you did. Have I ever led you down the primrose path??

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