Yuletide Recs #2

 Allow me to rec one full-length story I missed, and only found through someone else's rec post:

 Sorrows Bring Heaven (Anne of Green Gables) - This is a missing scene type deal for Anne's House of Dreams, after baby Joyce is born and dies.  It's very powerful, and very real, and sadness giving way to hope, and it has one moment that I felt was actually missing from the book, but would spoil you if I told.  Just go read it.

 Yuletide Madness recs are:

 1. The Long Wait (Vorkosigan Saga) - a small look in Duv Galeni's head while he's sitting in the cell in Memory.  Short but good.

 2. This Script Called for Liars; You Played The Lead (Honor Harrington series) - Some missing scene stuff with Scotty Tremaine and Harkness after Harkness' fake defection in In Enemy Hands.  As I said in my comment to the story, it did a good job with the human element that Weber so often gives us tantalizing hints of, and then leaves to write a 300-page battle scene where thousands die. 

 3. Full of Yearning and Need (Anne of Green Gables) - A short look in Walter's head when it comes to Una.  Very worth reading.

 4. The Walled Garden (Heyer/Venetia) - A nicely romantic and sensual short featuring a married-with-children Venetia and Damerel, and their walled garden where privacy is very strictly enforced.  Very nice and real.

 And last but not least, a Madness gift fic for me, based on my Heyer prompt!

 5. On The Road to London (Heyer/A Civil Contract) - A short look inside the Deveril coach as they head to London for the oldest daughter's season.  So glad we don't live in the Regency and travel by coach.  Nice and snappy.

 DV