fics by Erin Ptah

Title: A Colbert Carol, Stanza IV: The Last of the Spirits
Series: TCR
Rating: G
Genre: Uplifting Christmas tale!

Summary: Years after Jon's death, Stephen is still celebrating Christmas with extravagant and overblown decorations, but he doesn't truly understand the spirit of the season until a succession of ghosts arrives to show him.

( The eagle knocker was on the door—Colbert spared it a quick glance, to be sure of its form—but when he went to a window and looked in, he saw furniture that was not his, and as he watched a man passed by whom he did not recognize.  )

Title: A Colbert Carol, Stanza II: The First of the Three Spirits
Series: TCR
Rating: G
Genre: Uplifting Christmas tale!

Summary: Years after Jon's death, Stephen is still celebrating Christmas with extravagant and overblown decorations, but he doesn't truly understand the spirit of the season until a succession of ghosts arrives to show him.

I wrote this story in '06, and rewrote it in '07. In between, TCR got Eliza, who is so quintessentially Dickensian that I would have rewritten it just to include her.

( 'OXFAM,' he repeated to himself. 'They sound familiar. Are they affiliated with NAMBLA?' )