[fic]: i'm your house

[tekuates]

Title: i'm your house (ao3)
Fandom: American Gods
Rating: R
Pairing(s): none
Summary: Shadow dreams of the bone orchard, and the bone orchard dreams of Shadow.
Word Count: 1005
Author's Note: Written for Yuletide 2015!

There is no memory of how the orchard began, or if it was planted, which is not to say that it wasn’t. What is known is this:

Comments

[kalliel]

This is gorgeous. <33 I almost scrolled past it, because while I've read American Gods, I haven't in over a decade, and I don't often read fic out of fandom, your summary was irresistible.

There are so many lines here that I want to let roll on my tongue and savor. I won't quote them all back at you, but I adore the line about Shadow and the plastic bag. And this, I felt necessitated pause and reflection before continuing onward:

Sometimes it would hear from a god, or two. They would always say the same thing: This is not the way things are meant to be.

Look, said the orchard, the words whispering through the leaves that were not leaves. Look how fine this is. Look at my great branches, and the little seedlings below. And a slender limb reached up to let the light caress it. I am the way I mean to be.

Just beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

This is the kind of fic that reminds me I actually like words. <333 Thank you for this!
Absolutely wonderful.

[tekuates]

Somehow I didn't see this until now, whoops.

Thank you so much for this comment (and your rec!!) , it was a lovely thing to see to start off my day! <3