Yuletide stories and 31 flavors rec

[gwyn]

My Yuletide entries this year:

This Much Is True (14650 words) by gwyneth rhys
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Political Animals, Push (2009)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thomas "T. J." Hammond/Nick Gant
Characters: Thomas "T. J." Hammond, Nick Gant, Cassie Holmes, Douglas Hammond, Elaine Barrish
Additional Tags: Crossover Pairings, References to Suicide Attempt, References to Addiction, Deception, It Wasn't All a Lie, soft boys in love, TJ gets his shit together
Summary:

He’d always hated the soft needy creature that lived inside him, that wanted to matter more than politics or a public image. That craved nothing more than to be the center of someone’s world.

I got assigned TJ Hammond, but there was a note in the letter mentioning that if there was a way to bring Nick Gant from Push together with TJ, they'd be thrilled, so...challenge accepted!

Present Tense (1244 words) by gwyneth rhys
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Catch and Release (2006)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fritz Messing/Gray Wheeler
Characters: Fritz Messing, Gray Wheeler
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, remembering, Talking, Falling In Love, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

There was an ache that ran between them shaped like that river.

This is a minuscule fandom that barely exists as one, so now at least there's one fic that meets Yuletide minimum requirements.

And today's 31 Flavors rec is:

Fetch by misura, Hawkeye Comics
Summary: [a very short poem]

This is a very tiny rec to start out with, but it's very rare that something in text makes me laugh out loud, and this did. It helps if you're familiar with a certain famous poem about plums, though.