Goodwill / by Mummyluvr (PG-15)

Title: Goodwill
Author: Mummyluvr 
Fandom: Supernatural
Genre: General, Family, Hurt/Comfort
Length: Short (Words: 10,508)
Warning: Bullying, Psych problems, OC Character Death, Downer ending

Author's Summary:
The boys head to a small town in Iowa that they spent two years of their childhood in. Unfortunately, it was the worst two years of Dean's life, and the past has come back to haunt him. Better summary inside.

Review:
A little heartbreaking and a lot heartwarming.  There are a lot of class issues that aren't dealt with in Supernatural (not that I think this particular canon can actually handle any more angst) and that's sort of where this story comes from.  I admire Dean for his strength in this one and love Sam for his loyalty.

Goodwill (on ff.net)

We Built This City / by helarctos (PG-15)

Title: We Built This City
Author: helarctos 
Fandom: Caprica
Genre: General, AU
Length: Short (Words: 7,171)

Author's Summary:
Tamara is no one's sidekick.

Review:
Note:  This fic requires knowledge of canon which I consider unfortunate since this is such a small fandom.  How much knowledge?  Meh.  I wouldn't consider myself really a Caprica fan (meaning I've only seen it once and don't have a burning desire to re-watch) - I do love the feel of the story'verse though - and I could follow fine. 

This fic really takes on the best qualities of the Caprica 'verse - that it is very dark but at the same time, it's beautiful and exquisitely detailed and this is a story'verse that throughly dwarfs its characters, even those characters who are driven to do big heroic/villainous things.   I like that in this fic, you really get the sense of Tamara's not-quite-but-kind-of-actually-helplessness about a lot of things while she's also such a strong character with a drive to make things happen.  Plus, this fic takes place inside the canon virtual reality, which is very cool in itself.

We Built This City (on AO3)