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Stereoscopes (Gen)
Rating: PG-13 (disturbing imagery)
Pairing: slight Sam/Jess
Spoilers: S2 In My Time of Dying
Word Count: Each drabble is a little over 130 words.
Summary: He knits his father up and lets the needle slip. 2 drabbles featuring five double images.
Author’s Notes: Inspired by Monica Youn’s poem Stereoscopes, which can be found in her book of poetry, Barter.



Stereoscopes I (double sided boy)

1.

The boy Winchester pressed down on his torn sole, gluing the sneaker shut.

The girl could not see the forest for the trees. She never got him to ask her out.

2.

He knits his father up and lets the needle slip. His brother takes over.

A rough cotton shirt, care of the Salvation Army, is a poor bandage.

3.

You will be loved and then you will burn. There’ll be no apologies.

He will kiss your mouth until the argument’s out and will say to you, I love you.


4.

The Colt fits too easily. His father demands to end it all. Shoot him. Now.

His mother bleeds over her boy as the tearing starts. She can’t scream anymore.

5.

The troubles of you, boy with double vision, won’t matter. Listen to Dean.

They destroyed everything. Except one thing. You’d better be ready when your brother’s gone.





*


Stereoscopes II (son and brother)

1.

He won’t look at you the way he used to. It’s shame perfected.

Sam started asking why you never questioned this life. You won’t answer.

2.

He sprouts up so fast you think he may be part weed or giant.

Dad asks why you’d waste sixty bucks on new jeans for Sammy.

3.

Dad will reveal nothing about the fairer sex so you’ll discover them alone.

They’ll fall apart so beautifully. You will tell Sam, oh it’s freaking worth it.

4.

Starve a fever, feed a cold or maybe it’s the other way around.

Pop a pill, quit your bitching. The pain fades away or it doesn’t. Deal.

5.

If you wanted something better maybe you should have said something.

You said, let me do this, wrapping Dad in the shroud and you lied. He said nothing.


end

Date: 2007-03-15 12:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kita0610.livejournal.com
This is beautiful.

I love the flow, and the almost rhyme of it. It's like really dark poetry. So lovely.

Thanks for sharing this.

(Second fic, part 4- 'way' should be away?)

Date: 2007-03-19 03:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] regala-electra.livejournal.com
Thank you for the feedback, Kita. And goodness, I can't believe I missed the "way/away." It's "away." D'oh.

The poetry feel is very intentional. I couldn't get the formatting style I wanted so I changed it a bit and it does have a purposeful tense sound of a rhyme to it.

Date: 2007-03-15 01:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ejayye.livejournal.com
They destroyed everything. Except one thing. You’d better be ready when your brother’s gone
Lovely, just lovely.

Date: 2007-03-19 03:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] regala-electra.livejournal.com
Thank you so much. Oh these boys just kill me in the vey good way.

Date: 2007-03-15 01:50 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] netweight
Dude. WORDS FAIL, OKAY?!!! The symmetry, oh jesus fuck, Reg. With Sam as destroyer and Dean as caretaker in #4 and the jeans and the Salvation Army shirt and .... OH REG!!!

I don't even know what to say. Just... I love this. Love it. You continue to be the best, woman.

Date: 2007-03-19 03:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] regala-electra.livejournal.com
Hi, Sofia!

I love you.

Dean takes care (but like, please don't let people know, because he's wearing his Badass Boots today) and Sam's gotta be the one to end it.

This show portrays like a thousand of my characterization kinks in JUST two characters.

*smooches you*

Date: 2007-03-15 05:43 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] redbrickrose.livejournal.com
That's just gorgeous. You convey so much with so few words. It reads like poetry.

Date: 2007-03-19 03:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] regala-electra.livejournal.com
Thank you so much. I've always been fascinated by this way of contrasting two separate "images" or moments that have to be read together to find the story in the middle.

Date: 2007-03-15 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com
This is beautiful, more poetry than fic. Just painful.

1.

He won’t look at you the way he used to. It’s shame perfected.

Sam started asking why you never questioned this life. You won’t answer.


oh, yes.

Date: 2007-03-19 03:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] regala-electra.livejournal.com
Thank you so much. And yep, it's very much poetry just turned into a prose format. Ah Dean. The things that make him tick also make him ever so fucked up.

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