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I would not have predicted that a gen story centered on Ellen Harvelle could have affected me so profoundly, but half an hour after I finished Homing (SPN, author not yet revealed), I am still sitting here staring at my computer screen with my mouth open in awe. One of the best character pieces I've ever read--it seamlessly weaves what we know of Ellen from canon with a backstory for how she got into hunting, looking at three pivotal time periods in her life. And even though the reader knows the outcome of at least two of these events, it's still amazingly suspenseful, not to mention very insightful about how people deal with loss, and how it shapes who we become. I cannot recommend this highly enough to anyone who likes Supernatural.