JIM GORDON! Plus a Pushing Daisies rec and a Reaper rec!

I got Jim Gordon! I got Jim Gordon! Lodestone, a very dark and wonderful story about, well, what it is to be Jim Gordon in Gotham City. I had to post and direct people to it even before I commented on it! It's harsh and violent and oh...

On this day, the breeze disgorges a thing. A mass of torn black cloth, buffeted and streaming.

Or a great bucket of black paint thrown ragged through the air.

It's a guy.

"Storm's coming," the guy says. He's hanging upside down.

Gordon barely understands what they say to each other. Part of him is too aware that's he's bodily standing between this man and the hallway, and at the end of the hallway, the open door and the yellow light spilling out of the kitchen.

What is the guy even wearing? Black leather? Tire rubber? This never becomes apparent.

Not till later that night does Gordon's mind even put the images together, and say, the guy was a bat. That was the bat.

EEEEEEEEE!!

AND my first rec of a story that wasn't written expressly for me: Twice Upon a Time, a Pushing Daisies piece that is absolutely pitch-perfect in voice and atmosphere. Sweet and melancholy and full of pie, exactly the way Pushing Daisies is and should be -- but based on a twist to DIE FOR. I mean - YAY!

AND another rec--this one for a Reaper story. Holiday Spirit, a perfect little sourball of a Devil's Christmas. AWESOME!

GO READ THESE STORIES! AND MORE!