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For the fourth day, one of my original short stories.

This was my first published short story. It's in Hot & Bothered 2, edited by Karen X Tulchinsky, which is an anthology of lesbian erotica short-shorts (limit of 1,000 words). Somewhere in a box is a tape of me at the book launch in Vancouver, reading to an audience for the very first time. I was absolutely terrified.

The rights to the story reverted to me along time ago, and I don't have any intention of trying to submit it anywhere else. So, here's a little shot of lesbian erotica to cheer up your Monday.

Title: Lonely Doesn't Always Mean Alone
Author: Leela (leela_cat)
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~990

Current Mood: sick

For the third day, some of my favourite dessert recipes. I don't bake very much these days (or at all), but these are recipes that I've made many times over the years.

All but one of these recipes came from family and friends and are handwritten on yellowed, stained, and bent recipe cards that I've owned for a long time.

Current Mood: content

Before I dive into the recs, two small fests have started posting on livejournal:

• 3fan_holidays, which includes drabbles and short pieces (no more than 2k) in Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and/or Pirates of the Caribbean. It just started posting today.


• severus_lucius, which is hosting the Severus/Lucius Romance Fest and is posting one story twice a week. Two have posted so far.

Current Mood: grateful

For this second day, I'm posting an article I wrote several years ago (shortly after I met batdina) that was published in Bad Subjects in an issue called Alien Languages.

It's called Learning Myself, and there's a lot about myself in it. In some ways, this is an appropriate gift because I talk so little about myself these days. I seem to have lost the talent for it at some point, perhaps because I couldn't talk about myself for so long during the whole visa/green card process.

I live with batdina now and a lot has changed in my life, but those are merely details.

( Learning Myself )

This article was originally published under the name 'Sarah bat Avraham' here: http://bad.eserver.org/issues/1997/31/avraham.html

Current Mood: contemplative

Some Hanukah recipes, courtesy of a little booklet of recipe cards filled with old home recipes that I inherited from my mother-in-law. The booklet was created to raise money for the building fund of the Jewish fellowship in the town where they lived. All of the recipes are family favourites from those who contributed; some of them have been cooked by family members for generations.

None of these recipes are healthy, but they're all traditional Hanukah recipes.

( Potato Latkes (apple sauce and sour cream not included) )

Current Mood: hopeful

For those of you who don't know, Hanukah starts tonight. For the eight days of the festival, I plan to post small things - virtual gifts - that you are free to take for yourselves and use as you wish.

Each night for the eight days, I'll be posting some recipes, possibly some icons, and at least one fanfic story (HP gen) on the theme of Hanukah.

Happy Hanukah. And for those of you who light candles, enjoy the flames and the warmth of friends, family, and the possibility of miracles.

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Current Mood: happy

I was looking through the photographs on my computer and found this one. I was sitting on a bench on the Canadian side of the US/Canada border with my grandmother when it was taken.

Separation and connections of this kind, created by others, have impacted so much of my life that it seemed like a thing to share this morning.

For no particular reason, except that I wanted to share something.

( cut-tagged for those who simply want to scroll on by )

Current Mood: contemplative

Two gifts have posted for me in the past week, and I've been horribly remiss in remembering to crow about them.

My snarry_holidays gift!fic is Of Hope Restored. It's a story that goes AU after OotP and gives us just over 20,000 words of forced bonding and de-aged Snape. And it's one of those stories that I will be rereading come January.

And iulia_linnea wrote me a sweet and lovely gen ficlet titled Seeing Fairies. Aunt Luna gives Lily Luna a new perspective after big brother James teases her into tears.

Go read them both and leave comments for the authors, they totally deserve them.

Current Mood: grateful

The cars outside are iced over, and I'm feeling the distinct lack of an ice scraper this morning.

On very very rare occasions, I've needed one before. Not needing one is one of the distinct pleasures of living here, after all.

Damn. It's going to be a 'warm up the car before driving to work' morning. And I really really haven't missed those in the years since I moved here from places north.

Oh, and can someone tell my giggling, laughing, finger-pointing inner Canadian to STFU.

Title: Acceptable
Author: Leela (leela_cat)
Pairing: Severus/Vernon
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Erm... the boys are... well... a bit worse for wear.
Word Count: 100
Prompt: snape100's Challenge #310: "The Unwritten Pairing"
Summary: It's the first school holidays after what Severus calls The Mudblood Incident, and he finds himself commiserating with Vernon Dursley of all people.
Beta: eeyore9990
A/N: I was barely caffeinated and barely awake this morning when the idea came to me. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.

Current Mood: cranky