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Long Way To Get There by [livejournal.com profile] essenceofmeanin. Gen.

I read this story a little while back and have been reading it again and again since then. It's an amnesic!fic, Dean in world so ordinary that it's extraordinary. It's quiet and dreamlike, and quite unsettling. And despite having read it repeatedly, I still find it fascinating, finding new meanings to each and every line, and I still am not sure that I've got the interpretation right. And as with all of [livejournal.com profile] essenceofmeanin's works, this one is rich with details, and I found myself remembering snippets of it from time to time - Dean going to work, an ordinary work in an ordinary office and going back to his ordinary apartment with its empty walls. Dean riding the bus with the floppy-haired stranger looking and looking at him, them having cigarretes together. Quiet, beautiful moments that stay with me long after I finished reading it.

Every day, Dean Winchester wakes up and goes to work. Dean works in an office and it doesn’t occur to him to dislike it. His office squats hidden in an industrial park of similar buildings. He walked into three wrong buildings his first day before he found the job he was fifteen minutes late for. He’s been there two weeks now. He comes ten minutes early every morning so he can have time for one last cigarette before the day begins, ten minutes to breathe in the damp smell of the asphalt and a faint touch of the ocean far away. It’s never sunny where his office is.

Speaking of amnesic!fics, here is one more. And don't you just love it when different authors give different twists to what is basically the same storyline, namely Dean or Sam or both of them losing their memories, but with their own trademarks and flavours, making each story unique and memorable?


What Remains by [livejournal.com profile] walkawayslowly. Wrtten for last year's Big-Bang, this one had me crying out for MORE. And again, it's Dean who loses his memory, and Sam has to adapt to being around a man who has no idea that he used to be Sam's brother. A Must Read if you haven't already!

Date: 2009-03-16 09:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janinelearner.livejournal.com
they sound familiar but I want to go back and look at them again, they sound really good. but, is the second link (Memories of Me) correct? I just get an error message for that one.

Date: 2009-03-16 09:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com
You can try this link if that one couldn't open for you.

http://www.corplink.com.au/~gillianm/Memories_of_Me_01.htm

She's one of the first writers that I read in this fandom and her stories are all lovely!!!!

Date: 2009-03-16 09:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janinelearner.livejournal.com
awesome, thank you hon. I'm pretty sure I've read them all before, but I never have a problem with re-reading awesome stories, thank you.

Date: 2009-03-16 09:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com
You're welcome!! :)

Date: 2009-03-16 11:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com
Have you read [livejournal.com profile] essenceofmeanin's A Quiet Evening At Home (http://essenceofmeanin.livejournal.com/14063.html#cutid1)? It's absolutely exquisite ...

Date: 2009-03-16 11:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janinelearner.livejournal.com
no I haven't, I'll take a look, thanks for the rec. I tend not to read Gen fics cos I have so little time to read them I just tend to read R and NC17 which means I miss out on a lot of good stuff I know.

Date: 2009-03-17 08:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chloe-amethyst.livejournal.com
I love [livejournal.com profile] essenceofmeanin's fics though I haven't yet read that one. :-)

Date: 2009-03-18 12:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com
She and [livejournal.com profile] hansbekhart both. I love it when they write something together. Isn't it awesome, having a twin you can enjoy slash and wincest with?

Date: 2009-03-18 04:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hansbekhart.livejournal.com
Personally speaking, it is ;). Thank you on my sister's behalf!

Date: 2009-03-18 04:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com
HEEEEEEEEE!!! *jumps you*

And you and your sis should write more Sam/Dean, oh how I miss your Sam/Dean!!!!

Date: 2009-03-19 06:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] essenceofmeanin.livejournal.com
HEY. you're gonna give me the biggest ego, i swear. *blush* [livejournal.com profile] hansbekhart pointed me in your direction and said 'she is awesome!' and so you are! thank you so so much for the amazing rec, i'm so incredibly flattered to hear that its stayed with you like that. :):) i had so much fun writing that story that there's actually another part in the works. (and it's prolly gonna be sam/dean!) here's a snippet as a thank you present:

The sun is setting but he doesn’t watch it, just squints into the failing light until Sam come back panting with salt water dripping from his hair. Sam dries himself with his tee shirt, slumps bare-chested next to Dean and they share a cigarette as the sun drops red behind the horizon. Sam flicks the butt into the sand, sighs long and loud. He says, “I don’t think it worked.”

After that, Dean drives.

Date: 2009-03-19 07:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com
***EPIC FLAIL***

Omg squeeeeeee!! Thank you so much, that is such a gorgeous imagery!!! And Sam/Dean ***DIES***

*hugshugshugs*

Date: 2009-03-21 12:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] essenceofmeanin.livejournal.com
it's my pleasure! ;)

*HUGS*

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