Title: Witness
Author: xaara
Recipient: 22by7
Characters: Castiel, Uriel
Rating: R
Warnings: Violence, death of a child. Biblical plagues.
Timeline: Egypt. The reign of Pepi II. Also, Exodus.
Length: 1900 words
Summary: We’ve been friends for a long time, Uriel. Fought by each other’s sides, served together away from home. For what seems like forever. ( Read more... )

Title: Drink Up, Dreamers (The Jaded Underworld Remix)
Author: xaara
Rating: PG-13, gen
Timeline: between 5.05 and 5.06
Characters: Dean, Sam, Castiel
Summary: Dean can't find words, Sam has all the wrong ones, and Castiel might very well be them. Or: sometime between 5.05 and 5.06, Sam and Dean take a detour to investigate strange happenings in Iowa.
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Title: A Pathless Land
Author: xaara
Rating: G, gen
Timeline: post-5.16 (vague spoilers)
Characters: Castiel (Dean, Sam)
Summary: From this distance, the earth curves like a solitary marble, rolled into a corner and forgotten.

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It's not winter any more in Wisconsin, which means it's spider season. While I love my semi-rural adopted state with all its corn fields and lakes and cranberries, I could do without the daily spider patrol. Of course, the cat helps out, but then I have to be worried that she'll eat something poisonous, and overall it's not so fun ( Read more... )

Back in the day, I was talking to my poetry professor. (It was one of the conversations we had that was actually about poetry instead of gardening, which turned out to be our other shared passion.) I told him that I couldn't hear my prose. I thought it was okay, but I wasn't ever sureThat's because you're a poet, he said, and shrugged, and we ( Read more... )

I started writing a few days ago, and, well, this happened.

Title: The Word
Author: xaara
Rating: R (violence & language), gen
Timeline: sometime mid-season 3 through 4.18
Characters: Chuck, Sera, OCs
Summary: All he can do is write.
A/N: I think some explanation of characters is in order. First, although I don't remember hearing a name for her, that ( Read more... )

I posted here a while back-a looong while back-saying I was abandoning this journal for a lot of reasons. At the time, it was true. I fully intended to leave and not to return ( Read more... )

Title: Yesterday, and Days Before
Author: xaara
Rating: G, gen
Timeline: pre-series & pilot
Characters: Dean, Sam
Summary: He’s not going to write a book.
Notes: This was originally written for my little sister’s birthday. When I pulled it out to give to her, it decided it was incomplete and would not be ignored. So here you go, miliani_2000. A few days late, ( Read more... )

Title: Like This
Author: xaara
Rating/Pairing: PG, gen, crossover
Timeline: Stanford-era Dean, post-1.08 Tim. Yes, I realize these don't quite line up. Work with me here.
Characters: Dean Winchester, Tim Riggins
Summary: He's good at that, the not thinking. He sleeps carefully and forgets his dreams.
A/N:Remember how I said I wanted to either write ( Read more... )

Title: Sing to the Sea
Author: xaara
Rating: PG-13, gen
Timeline: Sometime loosely post-2.03.
Characters: Sam, Dean
Summary: A rash of disappearing babies in northern Wisconsin sends the Winchesters on the trail of an ancient cursed creature.
Disclaimer: Don’t own ‘em, yadda yadda. No small towns in northern Wisconsin were harmed during the writing of ( Read more... )