ST: Freeze and ThawStar Trek Secret Santa for kcscribbler.Non-slash Kirk and Spock.Rated: UDecember was a dull month. Even on the Starship Enterprise, without the natural cycles of weather or the tilt of the earth creating shorter, darker, colder days, December was still a dull month this year. Perhaps for some of the crew it was to do with being away from home at Christmas. Perhaps for others it was because the ship was coming towards the end of a gruesomely long haul of relentless to-ing and fro-ing across this sector of the galaxy.For James Kirk pinning down the reason why was not difficult at all. Only a few weeks ago he had lost his wife, and he ha
It Is Christmas...It is Christmas.It is Christmas, and the silence presses on the house like the viscous inside of a snowglobe. It is Christmas, and snowflakes fall like plankton in Arctic waters. It is Christmas, and the graves in the graveyard are still beneath their soft blankets and the birds do not sing, and there are tracks in the snow but no creatures moving.Inside the house the silence expands like warm air. The fire cracks as flames take hold of yielding wood. The tree is still, unstirred by wind, baubles suspended with the grace of fossils in amber. The lights are fireflies. The lights are the petrified echoes of fireworks, magnesium and copper,