and all the long drives

[sobrellevar]

 
this is a mini-surprise for sonstoodstammer, who is, very factually and with absolute certitude, everything in the entirety of the whole wide world to me.

we_are_cities, feb 03 07, 825 words:

the world owes us nothing (we owe each other the world)
pete/patrick: something about nothing turning into everything.

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Comments

[joyfulseeker]

Oh, this was so lovely. I think I'm going to fail completely at expressing why I loved this, but I'm going to try anyway, because it was beautiful and profound and full of little details that said so much without needing a lot of words. For instance, Joe helping Andy wrap his knuckles. That has been incorporated into my own personal canon, I'll have you know, and it makes me think of rituals of intimacy and all the little mundane gestures (automatic and unremarked upon) that make up a group of friends living together.

There were so many excellent sentences and amazing paragraphs in this, but I think this one was where my breath caught:

they didn’t quite know what they wanted, every single goddamn starlit night of their lives, but now -- with all the awe and urgency and momentous wordlessness those three letters will ever carry, now -- they have it.

Really, wonderful job, thank you so much for this.

[omgimnaked]

This made me cry a little. The part with Joe and Andy, the whole *thing*...just wow. I emailed it to my girlfriend as a "good morning sorry you got your wisdom teeth out and i can't be there with you to snuggle the pain away" present.

[sobrellevar]

oh gosh, i've totally been there, in the 'wisdom teeth out, pain pain pain' situation! i wish your girlfriend all the best. and you are so thoughtful!

i never expected this little thing to get such responses, so your comment means a lot. thank you :)

[fobxfaerie]

You write some of the most emotionally charged fic out there!
This is much tamer that what I usually read *winkawinka* but it hit me harder and I think this is one that I won't have to put in memories to remember (but I'll do it, just incase my mind fails me someday :) )

[lafeelivresque]

That... was so. Just, so. So everything. So tiny, so grand, so beautiful and some tragic all at once.
This story reminded me why I love this community, and this community reminds me why I love bing alive.

Commenting from a less soppy perspective, I really do like what you're trying to say with this, and I especially like that you've set it down in somewhat less grandiose terms than a lot of stories sometimes do. That's not to say I don't love the sophistication and grandiosity. I do. But this gives me a much more grounded feel. Almost of frustration.

Excellent job.

[provetheworst]

so this is lovely; big beautiful things on a small scale &c;

i'd say it's lyrical but it's still unsung. the big wide open of the road as a metaphor? of course, that's what the road is best for. and vans and tired boys and circumnavigation, of course.