Missing LJ and a fic rec.

[layne67]

So, last Friday ( the 13th! ) LJ went MIA. I was without it for almost the whole day and I thought that it had suddenly been blocked in my country, except that my KL friends said that it was fine there ( and everywhere else apparently ). I was halfway through this story the day before, and it was driving me nuts because I was dying to know what happened next. Thank you ala_tariel for coming to my rescue!

Anyways. This is the story - a really excellent, spine-chilling, old-fashioned ghost story, and it's one of those that I wish my non-SPN flist will give a try, too, because it's great and engrossing and genuinelyly scary with amazingly written original characters.

Cross Creek by zoemathemata. SPN, gen, PG-13, 48000 words.

Summary : The Winchesters check in at the haunted Cross Creek Hotel to purge its ghostly guests. Thrill-seeking tourists came to experience the supernatural, but as far as the Winchesters are concerned, there’s no such thing as a happy haunted hotel.

Fay and Ollie are twins in charge of Cross Creek Hotel. Only it's not just the hotel and the resident ghosts that they're in charged of. Something darker is about to wake up, and It is waiting for Sam Winchester. Great writing, wonderful story-telling, incredible characterisations. I love the parallels between the two pairs of siblings, Fay and Ollie, Sam and Dean, and how they'd do anything to save the other.

”There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile, he found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse. And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”

That children's rhyme will stay in my head for a long, long time.

Comments

[shirebound]

I'm so glad you didn't lose LJ!!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I was so lonely without you guys last Friday! *snuggles*

[ala-tariel.livejournal.com]

No problem. I'm glad LJ is back. I thought they banned LJ in Malaysia. *bites nails*
Turned out it's not.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that it wasn't so! Btw, your sms regarding the above fic, it's cut halfway through so I only received half your message :/

[ala-tariel.livejournal.com]

Oh no! wonder what's wrong. But I only said that it's too bad that the girl had to die.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Aha! I hope the ghost from Cross Creek has not gotten into the message and ate at it!

[ala-tariel.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

But those ghosts are really cool!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I know, right? Quite Casper-like. Except for That One. Now that was really, really scary. It has been quite some time since I was this freaked out from reading fanfics!

And I'm glad neither Sam nor Dean fell for the girl heheh. Not that I don't like Fay, I love her, but a love side-plot would have spoiled the story :)

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

I read that but I'm not finished yet. :D But yes, it's thrilling.

Sorry for not helping you with pdf's dear. I was quite occupied at that time.

[ala-tariel.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, That One was scary! Can't imagine what is it exactly.

If one of the boys fell for the girl, I won't read the fic. :D

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Which part are you at?

Oh that's alright, sweetie. Your sis sent me the fic and I was able to finish it that day itself!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Fay must have been quite intimidating for Dean not to hit on her at all! Or maybe because Ollie was there lol.

[ala-tariel.livejournal.com]

Either that or Dean didn't want to deal with another Sammy. :D

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

I think it's the first time Dean meets the one scary ghost. I read it in my cell and it was off, running out of battery. When I turned it on again, I was compelled to read the one where Jared is some kind of Robin Hood. The fic title is Sherwood. :)

[suzy-74.livejournal.com]

OMG! It would be terrible if you lost LJ!!! *clings*

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I know! I really thought I had lost you guys! *clings right back*

There was Dreamwidth but my reading page there is quite short :/

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

I'm going to bookmark this one. It sounds like something I'd like.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

The author's not familiar to me. What sold the story for me was what she said about her Mum in her author's notes lol, and you know, anything that has a mother's stamp of approval on it must be good!

But Mum aside, it's really a wonderful story, spine-chilling in a very good way!

[chloe-amethyst.livejournal.com]

I want to read that! My mother and I used to sing that song together all the time. Was always fun but a little creepy, lol. Plus I love haunted old house stories. Right now I'm reading "Hover Through the Fog and Filthy Air" by chiiyo86. Very good so far.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I've only just googled it up on YouTube ( I'm not familiar with that song ) and yes, it's creepy, and especially taken in context with that story. Cross Creek raised my goosebumps, and that hasn't happened for a long time with me, with fanfics that is.

The one by Chiiyo86 is on my Bing Bang To Read List, which is getting longer and longer each day lol.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I've started on Chiiyo86's. Omg it's good!! Thanks for the heads-up!