REC: Djet and Neheh (Neville/Bill)

Title: Djet and Neheh
Author: Primrose Peedkocke - prim_peedkocke
Primary Pairing: Bill/Neville
Rating: Adult
Length: 12,500 words
Summary: Hot sun, cold beer, snapping tea roses and ridiculous hats. With danger and romance, for kicks.

cjmarlowe wrote this for reversathon last year, and it's a perfect read for a hot summer's day (it's 85 F where I am, and will likely reach above 90 F after noon). Competent!Neville is one of my great post-War loves, and this story is both subtle and wonderful in its details (including its nod to his friendship with Luna and a quiet toast to Snape).

( An excerpt )

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Still out of sorts: last night's nightmares featured knitting supplies instead of office doodads. Although I rate this as a sort of improvement, rest-enhancing they were not.

Am amused by el_christador's comment at rezendi's regarding "the seething, unknowable depths of the brain."

(No, I don't actually believe in "fundamental dichotomies," but it's still good grist for the mental mill.)

It's been less than a stellar week professionally (three rejections). Slog, slog, slog. On the happy side, my contributor's copy of Rhymes for Adults arrived yesterday. Three excerpts:


...But my full-lipped mouth
Loves aileron, chandelle, empennage.
So while I file the flapper's smoke-stained nails,
I practice aerodrome and fuselage.

- from Patricia Valdata's poem about Bessie Coleman

"No 'gator love for me tonight"
sighs saurian Horatio,
"No change of lizard lewd delight
or crocodile fellatio..."

- F.J. Bergmann's "ode to endagered species everywhere"

Not one of them was born a fool---
They measure stars and isotopes--
But not one looks the least bit cool
To Hooters girls beyond the ropes
and might as well be lycanthropes...

- from Mike Snider's "When Worlds Collide (Optical Systems Group at the Hooters Swimsuit Shoot)"