life in the subjunctive mode

My baby, it is finished. I will probably tweak things, I'm giving it to a friend to read and I'm hoping I can get some more critiques out of her, but this is the third draft and it is now completed. It's far from perfect, and there's always room for improvement, but this story makes me happy in a way that I can't quite explain. It is the way I want it to be, and it says the things I want it to say, and I love the characters and I love what they do and I loved writing them.

Title: Running Before the Wind
Length: 7.7K
Rating: PG
Summary: "Simon, this is my girlfriend Karen, she rents from that lovely older couple, what’s the name, the ones who lives on Plattekill Avenue? Karen, this is Simon, he’s my boyfriend and he makes the best pierogis you will ever eat — there, that’s a good introduction, right? We’re all friends now?"

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( First, a selection of Metric lyrics )

( Poly Story Thoughts )

( Bridging the Rubicon muttering )

I'm doing August Wrimo by means of writing four different things at once, and tallying up how much I write in an unnecessarily complicated spreadsheet. I've got my kink bingo stories, my stupid rule 63'd Supernatural story, a story about Noah's Ark that takes place in a canoe, and the Untitled Novel of Doom. It's ... uh ... going well

Yes, Metric is a fandom. It's a fannish thing, and that's how it shows up in my head.

EDIT:

( Yet More Rubicon Muttering plus conversation between Dean and Deanna )