[fic] candle_beck: The Land of the Blind
[ Sam/Dean ]
Title: The Land of the Blind
Writer: candle_beck
Alternate links: AO3
Status of work: Complete
Characters and/or pairings: Sam/Dean
Rating: PG-13
Warnings, kinks & contents: None[Click to read]None
Length: 12,922
Summary: Even the post-apocalypse looks good in certain lights
Reccer's notes: Typical of candle_beck s writing, this story has the most beautiful use of language. It washes over you in waves, gentle and all encompassing. The details of the post apocalyptic world are fuzzy and blurred out at the edges, the focus on the boys isolated in their cottage by the unmoving sea. There is a melancholy, lost feeling to this story that I quite adore as Sam tries to heal and Dean tries to be everything his brother needs.
[Short excerpt]The ocean never moves anymore.
Sam is sitting in the blue chair, paint peeling from the salt in the air, book pages going soft in his hands. He's about ten feet from the place where the ocean starts, and the line doesn't move, no surf, no rocking white-tipped waves. No tide.
It's unbelievably quiet. Sam sighs just to hear the rushing sound of it, listens to his heart's steady thump. He's tired today, having trouble concentrating on his book (some lesser Heinlein that Dean got for him, another space alien book taking place on a different planet), and he keeps dozing, nodding off. His leg hurts, deep and slow.