Yuletide author reveals!

[regshoe]

My Flight of the Heron gift Other Such Mysteries was by friendofthejabberwock, whose authorship I did not guess! But I am delighted to see it was you :D And my two Jill gifts, To Stay in Service and An Affair of the Heart, were respectively by luzula and edwardianspinsteraunt, whom I did successfully guess :) Aah, thank you all, they are some lovely gifts.

As for my own writing—dr_zook introduced me to the excellent nineteenth-century horror story 'The Horla' shortly before the start of Yuletide, and I was very pleased to end up matching on it! Here is the result, written to dr_zook's wonderful prompt for an interpretation where the horror of the canon is all just the result of the titular supernatural creature's misguided attempts at courtship:

A thousand things deceive a man (6148 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Le Horla - Guy de Maupassant
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Horla/Narrator (Le Horla)
Characters: Le Horla (Character), Le Narrateur (Le Horla)
Additional Tags: Crack Treated Seriously, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Misunderstandings
Summary:

Five courtship attempts that didn't work—and one more successful.

While I had great fun with this fic, I am slightly disappointed not to have written any treats. I think next Yuletide I will try not to be in the middle of a longfic WIP throughout the exchange! But it's been a good time anyway :)

Comments

[friendofthejabberwock]

:D :D I thought it was about time I wrote some Flight of the Heron fic. And oooh - I haven't read that particular story, I don't think, but I've really enjoyed what else I've read of de Maupassant's work. I may give it a read.

[regshoe]

I'm very glad you did! :D And yes, I highly recommend 'The Horla', it's a great story (and available here, if you haven't got a copy already).