[fic] missyjack: Mazes in Higher Dimensions
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Title: Mazes in Higher Dimensions
Writer: missyjack
Alternate Links: the writer's LJ
Status of work: complete
Characters: Sam, Dean
Rating: pG
Warnings, kinks & contents: [Click to read](clowns, metaphors
Length: ~1200 words
Summary: Sam and Dean get lost in a maze.
Reccer's notes: I adore the pure language of this, but also its resonance with the Winchesters, the applicability of the italicized texts to the explicitly Winchester portions of the story. Beautiful is the only appropriate word--and the MAZE, the maze. I want to roll around in this story, its artistry just as much as its concept, forever and ever. It's not nearly often enough you come across a fic that is such a writerly gem.
[Short excerpt]
The Theseus approach utilises the assistance of a friend who has a long ball of string.
Sam and Dean have visited the world's largest ball of twine in Darwin, Minnesota thirteen times. Sam once tied one end of the twine to the back of Dean's jean's, figuring if he ever got lost he'd find his way back to Minnesota. Unbeknownst to Sam, Dean has done the same thing to his brother.
When they are separated from each other, by multidimensional space-time barriers, stubbornness and anger, they each follow the piece of string tied to their jeans, and find themselves back, not to Darwin, Minnesota, but to each other.