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

[edwardianspinsteraunt]

:D I really enjoyed reading this fic, and having now skimmed through the original story, I can say that it's a totally plausible interpretation of canon-- the Horla is clearly just in love, and definitely has no murderous intentions at all ;)

[regshoe]

XD Totally, right?

[dr_zook]

I'm so relieved I didn't make up these vibes, haha. ♥