Canaan Falls

Canaan Falls is a story written by Tsukizubon Saruko and illustrated by wredwrat. It ran in Issue 12 at http://s2b2.livejournal.com/60769.html, and is mirrored at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/canaan-falls/ and AO3.

Summary

From http://scribewraithrec.livejournal.com/173423.html: "When Bobby Leonard returns to Canaan Falls to deal with the haunted house, he also comes back to Pete."

From pinboard.in: "Two men, old friends, come together again to face a fear from their childhood."

"There's no such things as real haunted houses. Probably just somebody went in to smoke some grass or Do It one time and scared a cat or something, and told everybody about the scary ghost he saw." I laughed, dutifully, but also for real: it was a relief, to hear Dave dismiss the idea of real haunted houses with such authority. If there was ever going to be a real one, after all, it was the one out on Glentree Road.

External Reviews

• http://scribewraithrec.livejournal.com/173423.html
• http://the-slash-pile.livejournal.com/13542.html:

One of my all time Bang Bang favorites, Canaan Falls is the story of two childhood friends who have spent their lives trying to forget each other and the darkness they found one dusty summer, at the heart of their small town. But now, years later, it seems Canaan Falls hasn't forgotten them.

This short story is nothing if not powerful. Beautifully written and full of terribly realistic characters- Canaan Falls could be your own home town and it will remind you of that time when you knew the dark was full of monsters. Monsters that knew your name.

• http://demoerin.livejournal.com/26896.html: "If Stephen King wrote tender loving man-on-man action".