It's a gorgeous day -- one on which a teenage boy just can't be expected to face responsibility.  You know... unless his dad is John Winchester, and he's supposed to be keeping an eye on Sam.

(NB:  If you've never seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, you're going to be... well, what are you even doing here?  Go!  Watch the movie ( Read more... )

I've run polls a bunch of times, asking you guys what you'd like to see -- this situation is a little different.  I've put together Chapter 1 of a multi-chap, with some OCs I really like.  Heck, I really like all of Chapter 1.  But I have absolutely no idea where to go with it.  I've shown it to the Muse over and over again, but her reaction has ( Read more... )

This right here? Is my FIVE HUNDREDTH Supernatural story.

In honor of the occasion, I invited my most faithful commenter, irismay42, to set up the whats and wherefores. She asked for the boys and John, post-AVSC -- a John who's run afoul of something fugly, leaving his boys to figure out (a) that something's not right, and (b) how to fix the problem. Here ( Read more... )

This right here?  Is my FIVE HUNDREDTH Supernatural story.

In honor of the occasion, I invited my most faithful commenter, irismay42, to set up the whats and wherefores.  She asked for the boys and John, post-AVSC -- a John who's run afoul of something fugly, leaving his boys to figure out (a) that something's not right, and (b) how to fix the problem.  Here ( Read more... )

He's not focused, they say.  Doesn't care enough about his schoolwork.  Doesn't care about the long term, about his future.  But he's got his future all laid out -- and he's made the right choice.

Hasn't he?

CHARACTERS:  Dean (age 17), Bobby
GENRE:  Gen
RATING:  PG
SPOILERS:  None
LENGTH:  500 words

( Crossroads )

How long he's been sitting over there in the dark, she doesn't know.  He blends in with the night, like a cat.  Like that long black car he tends so lovingly.

CHARACTERS:  Dean (age 19), OFC
GENRE:  Het (Outsider POV)
RATING:  PG
SPOILERS:  None
LENGTH:  1000 words

( Heat )

Sam's got a request, now that Dean's got his driver's license.  No: make that a demand.  And it's more complicated than it sounds.

CHARACTERS:  Dean (age 16), Sam (age 12)
GENRE:  Gen
RATING:  PG
SPOILERS:  None
LENGTH:  312 words

( Road Warrior )

There are extra-curricular activities...and then there's this craziness. His brother, playing a dead kid. In a stupid thing called Our Town.

Like that makes any kind of sense at all.

CHARACTERS:  Dean (age 20) and Sam (age 16)
GENRE:  Gen
RATING:  PG
SPOILERS:  None
LENGTH:  500 words

( Well-Rounded )

You might be familiar with a movie called The Day After -- a little end-of-the-world scenario that involves the nuking of Lawrence, Kansas ( Read more... )

I've been watching Justified recently, and I'm intrigued by its portrayal of backwoods Kentucky -- of that hardscrabble existence that boils things down to their essence.  Particularly, what that might mean for a kid who, if he or she lived anywhere outside the Holler, might simply be in middle school, inching toward adulthood one small step at a ( Read more... )