PSA

I interrupt this regularly scheduled SPN rec post to bring you this special announcement. Instead of recommending a variety of stories, I want to rec an author. I discovered ink_stain not long ago when I was fiending for Ellen-centric fic and was completely floored by her talent. She writes the most perfect Ellen I've seen anywhere, and she even has one hell of a way with John Winchester. To borrow a borrowed phrase, her stories are "deceptively simple". They are generally not very long but they are amazingly well-written and her characterizations are spot-on. She absolutely gets these characters, particularly Ellen, which is definitely not that easy to do. ink_stain is SO damn good, in fact, that she can actually make me buy a pairing that I normally would think is insane, namely Sam/Ellen. Yeah, I know. It's crazy.

So, go read her stuff. She has an LJ specifically dedicated to her fiction at coffee_in_bed. If you are trying to find a place to start, here are a few of her stories that especially wowed me ( ... )

So, there you have it. Go read her stories ASAP. She's amazing.