SPN fic: "Hard as Iron, Standing like a Stone"

[fannishliss]

This is a prose poem. No specific spoilers.  No warnings. PG. 427 words.
The title is suggested by the poem, "In the Bleak Midwinter" by Christina Rossetti.

"Hard as Iron, Standing like a Stone"

Comments

[cherrymmm]

Wow. Just wow. You have done an amazing job. You created a palpable feeling beyond despair, beyond hopeless. Just...this was so well done I have no words. You are my new hero!

[fannishliss]

thanks so much, I'm so glad you liked it!

[monicawoe]

Oooh nice. This makes me think of the Snow Queen :D

An excellent theory about what happened to Sam too!

[fannishliss]

thanks! I was totally going for that Snow Queen thing.

The alternate title was "Boy King in Winter" :P

[borgmama1of5]

Damn! First time I've come across a poem that accomplishes what an enire fic would need thousands of words to tell!

Just brilliant explanation of Sam as he is now!

[fannishliss]

Thanks so very much.

With a prose poem like this, it's basically a story that ends up becoming so much about the imagery and the language that it starts to break up into lines.... every extraneous word has to be excised.

So I'm really glad it worked for you!

[fannishliss]

I just get the impression that Hell was really really different for Sam ... Dean was the focus of so much intentional torture... but Sam is hidden inside the cage with Lucifer where he can't even be seen. It's heartbreaking to contemplate what that could possibly have been like.

thanks so much for commenting, and I'm so glad you're back! :)

[fannishliss]

sorry, shmoopy fic not forthcoming!

even Lisa has abandoned the shmoopy. After this most recent ep she loaded Ben onto a plane and took off to stay with her mom in Florida for a few days. :(