SG-1 Fic 'Early Riser' Jack/Daniel NC17

It's the splendiferously sparkly green_grrl's birthday today (hurray!).

Here's a tiny 450 word J/D fic for you, sweetie; hope you like it and I hope you have a truly wonderful birthday :;much love and squishes::

( Early Riser )

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Patrick Dennis

I just checked the calendar and I'm a week overdue after being early for months now. Oooookay. That might explain why my mood is set on 'grouchy' with a side order of 'fist of death'.

Sorry ::is penitent::

I cheered myself up with a bowl of chocolate ice cream, half an episode of TS and a few chapters of The Joyous Season with Talisker purring on my lap.

That worked pretty well :-)

Does anyone know Patrick Dennis who write The Joyous Season? He's best known for Auntie Mame which I devoured at the age of ten and found pretty spicy. He was well regarded, rich, and famous (three books on the best seller list simultaneously) and then dropped into obscurity and -- incredibly -- became a butler a few years before his early death from pancreatic cancer, buttling for, amongst other people, the founder of MacDonalds.

My mother and I both loved his books, and have managed, over the years and many library sales, to build up a complete set for Mum and a nearly so one for me. Finding First Lady in a tiny used book store on a remote country lane on my honeymoon in Canada was a huge thrill. I picked up his biography, Uncle Mame by Eric Myers, a few years ago which was a little sad to read. Not an easy life.

Dennis, who was bisexual, was pretty much the king of camp and his books are hilarious, incisive and often dark. He exposes the racist, the snobbish, the pretentious and does it without much mercy. Definitely one of my formative literary influences.

And, ooh, I just checked Amazon and quite a few of his books are back in print including The Joyous Season.

Okay, now I really do feel happier :-)