Comments | honeylocusttree: Fic: Bag of Bones, Vagabond

honeylocusttree

Fic: Bag of Bones, Vagabond

Sep 29, 2010 21:50

A writing exercise, approx.1500 words. I wrote this just this evening, mostly to see if I could produce anything this brief in such a short time. Heh.

Bag of Bones, Vagabond

Summary: Sam POV, pre-series (wee!chesters?). A monster in the dark.

Warnings: Language, creepiness.

( Bag of Bones, Vagabond )

spn, writing exercise, fic

Comments 8

jennierenee September 30 2010, 02:41:01 UTC

Wonderful and creepy as hell.

honeylocusttree September 30 2010, 02:42:29 UTC

Glad to hear it! *is relieved*

It got to the point where I couldn't stand looking at it and just had to let it go, with whatever problems there happened to be. So glad it worked anyway. Thanks!

hokuton_punch September 30 2010, 03:21:47 UTC

Holy fuck that is gloriously creepy. o.o SO CREEPY AND GORGEOUS, I am struck speechless. *ADORES ALL OVER*

honeylocusttree September 30 2010, 16:47:20 UTC

It might also help explain why I couldn't remember what number comes after '10' last night....

Glad you enjoyed this! It's strangely compelling, isn't it? It doesn't seem like it should be--nothing in it is even remotely original. Yet somehow...it works. (I re-read it this morning and my first thought was, "Fuck, that really is creepy." Hee.)

Plus, icon love. X3

salty_catfish September 30 2010, 21:44:01 UTC

I'll have to re-read this to get what is going on, but it is so wonderfully horrific. Very dream-like and you have a knack for this very sensual, visceral prose. Now I really want another spn ep set in the woods.

honeylocusttree September 30 2010, 22:16:08 UTC

Well don't feel too bad if this doesn't make a huge amount of sense--I was pretty burned out and a little disoriented by the time I finished it, and there's very little quality control on it, so I'm a little amazed that it's as coherent as it is, actually.

I'm glad you enjoyed the creepiness and, yes, I am more than a little interested in more wilderness-Winchesters myself. The show spends a lot of time marking that line between the world of people and the world of the weird, and the wilderness is a great stand-in for just that aspect of reality. The human realm is so small and cloistered and sanitized for our protection, and it's this tiny little enclave surrounded by a vast terrifying wild universe where the laws are hidden and our desires and wants have no bearing at all. It's terrifying and awesome and it's the place, I think, where we imagine monsters and terrible unnatural things emerging most clearly. It reminds us of our frailty. I wish they'd do more with that.

borgmama1of5 October 20 2010, 20:04:04 UTC

WOW!

Very effectively creepy!

honeylocusttree October 21 2010, 13:58:51 UTC

Nyahaha.

Put the blame for this at least partially on Tom Waits and his creepy soundtrack to a creepy German play. Brrr.