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Major props to my beta's for helping me with the mess of getting my tenses in the right order when I decided I needed to rewrite the whole thing from present to past tense. | Major props to my beta's for helping me with the mess of getting my tenses in the right order when I decided I needed to rewrite the whole thing from present to past tense. | ||
Revision as of 21:57, 22 February 2015
Five Hours to Chicago is a story written by Kimyō Tabibito. It ran in Issue 53 at http://s2b2.livejournal.com/, and will be mirrored on Wednesday at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/.
Summary
Two anxious queer kids, a 20 year old Astrovan, and a rest stop somewhere in Michigan.
Weird, the things we'd do for the people we loved. Like hop in a rusting blue bucket and drive a thousand miles to try and get them home for an emergency, so they didn't have to fly, so they didn't need to take the meds they hated so much to be calm enough to handle the plane.
Author Notes
Five Hours to Chicago came out of nowhere on a Saturday afternoon and it felt like it would find a good home in S2B2. The working title was Anxious Queer Kid Roadtrip, and I came perilously close to just keeping that as the title. Francis, the van, is a true depiction of my very first car, he was a good van, and there are times I miss him (he was great to camp in, and make out in the back of). The rest stop they stop at is...actually on the wrong side of the road on I-69, just outside of Swartz Creek (which is right next door to Flint). I took some artistic liberties and moved it to the the other side of the freeway.
A Mini Playlist
The Kids Aren't Alright - Fall Out Boy
A Beginning Song - The Decemberists (Imagine this was the song playing as they pulled out of the rest stop)
Major props to my beta's for helping me with the mess of getting my tenses in the right order when I decided I needed to rewrite the whole thing from present to past tense.
