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[essenceofmeanin]

Title: Long Way to Get There
Author: essenceofmeanin
Rating/WC: Mature, gen, 1,800
A/N: This is for the wonderful (and patient!) smilla02 for her Sweet Charity contribution. Her prompt was amnesia, and I’ve written two versions of this idea. One is traditional, one is a little different. This is a riff on the Yellow Woman myth, in which the narrator is kidnapped into

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[tabaqui]

Your 'one is traditional' link up there is a 404.
Sorry that this is your first comment here. I'll do better shortly!!
:)

[tabaqui]

Ah, man. Dude. That's.....creepy. And just...so damn lock-step-dead, no contact, no people, no life.

And Sam, all weird and wild and Bobby, hey, crazy-skeery....
*shivers*

I like it as much as i don't like it, and i don't even know if i should take the end for good or for more of the same. Heh.

Dean slides away, shoves his hands in his pockets and doesn’t look back. There’s a junkie drag or two left in his cigarette but not enough to help. He’s late for work even though he runs the rest of the way feeling like the coward that he is.

Oh, Dean....

[essenceofmeanin]

yeah -- i'm really not sure where this one came from! originally they were gonna be wandering around in the woods together with sam all possessed by some spirit, but i guess something got lost in translation. or rather, i decided that that was too close to the winchester version of the real world. :)

would it be weird to say that i'm stoked to have creeped you out?

[tabaqui]

Heeeeee.
It *is* strange, as an author, to have glee when someone is all fraught or creeped or whatever. But it's cool, too.
:)

[innie_darling]

This is so creepy.

[essenceofmeanin]

i try my best. :) thanks for reading!

[fleshflutter]

Oh wow, this is wonderfully unsettling! You really know how to use seemingly insignificant detail to evoke atmosphere. Loved this very much, and off to read the other version! <3

[essenceofmeanin]

oh, it was all about the minutiae of this story! *grin* i'm so happy that you liked it, and thanks so much for reading!

[smilla02]

Oh you! ♥ Where do I start? By weeping, probably. Argh! This feels so claustrophobic and oppressive. Dean reads as already faded, fading away. Now that I think of it, all in this reality seems faded out, like all the vibrant colors of Dean's life (and Sam's and Bobby's!!!) are bleeding out in the maddening routines of the bus rides.
I love this take on amnesia! I love that by the end I don't even know if this was a nightmare where Sam and Bobby were trying to get Dean to come back, to get out! Get. Out! or just more of this life.

I know that I love it a lot and a lot!

Darling, thank you! I quite adore you.
*goes to read the other one*

[essenceofmeanin]

i am SO HAPPY that you liked this! i adore your writing and wanted to give you something that was just as atmospheric and wonderful. i loved making it ambiguous too, hee! i have no answers for any of those questions. well, maybe just a little but it's always good to leave things open ended. ;) i've always been drawn to creepy, noirish writing styles and so it was really fun to play with that. thank you for giving me the muse!
*HUGS*

[smilla02]

i loved making it ambiguous too, hee! i have no answers for any of those questions

That's all right. This is the best kind of fic because it just gets me on thinking, imagining, filling the gaps. It all becomes like a net with so many ramifications and just... *flails*. Hon, there's so much going on here I can't even!
*twirls you*

[essenceofmeanin]

heh, i actually think i'm gonna write MORE of this story. i had so much fun writing it, and i'm intrigued what these damaged versions of sam and dean would do with each other on the road. any ideas? ;)

oh -- i just remembered something, too. i feel a little shy self-pimping, but you said you liked dean smoking (which ended up being the in that i needed for the story, which rocked and thank you) -- but anyway, did you ever read my first story that i ever wrote for SPN? it's actually all about the boys smoking: Five Cigarettes that Sam Smoked. thought you might like it. :D