491, for crowroad3

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Title: 491
Recipient: crowroad3
Rating: PG-13
Word Count or Media: ~2600
Warnings: off-screen character death, suicidal ideation
Author's Notes: For the prompt: Dean's favorite highway, and Sam's favorite ghost.

Summary: The Rattlesnake 24-Hour Dine-In isn't in Rattlesnake or Shiprock or anywhere, really. It just sits on the highway, sinking on its far

Comments

[firesign10]

*speechless and tearful*

So so beautifully done.

[fufaraw]

Oh.

First thing when I sit down with my coffee and LJ. My day is colored with it.

Aside from the creep and the tears, your summary staggered me with how simply and effortlessly it evoked place, and it was important to do that early, because the rest of the story needed that sense of place--the echoing emptiness and unchanging repetitiveness--to settle and open up to the reader. Really powerful telling of a small but deeply-felt story.

And now I go look for more tissues.

[amberdreams]

I was all ready to tell you how I loved the descriptions of the desert and how melancholy good the boys interactions were but then this happened. From "This place is too far gone to save. He thinks, privately, that maybe he is, too." my impending sorrow built up and ah god, Sammy, you made me cry.

[bratfarrar]

OW. Cut my heart out with a (beautiful) rusty spoon, why don't you?

But really, this is fab. Devastating, but fab.

[tabaqui]

Oh, oh, oh. Oh, Sam.
*sobs a little*

Oh, that was gorgeous and just utterly heartrending.
Lovely.