Hooray!  Good news finally!  I have gotten so far behind following this story!  I just started over and read from the beginning.  What a great job you are doing!  Loving it!

Author's Response: Oh thank you so much!

Good day for Sam!  I like that he's recovering, even if it's very slowly.

Hmmm!  Now we have a cause!  Very interesting critters, I hope I never ever run into them because I can't STAND being cold.  Reading this makes me want to go grab another sweater!  Thank you for the story, I'm enjoying it very much!

Author's Response: Thank you very much!  I'm really happy to hear you're liking this story.  Makes my day...

This was a comparison I hadn't thought of before.  It fits perfectly.  It gives me a lot to think about in just 100 words!

Author's Response:

Thanks, I do love writing drabbles!

Professional story teller, huh? That haas to be about the coolest job I've ever heard of :)

I decided to wait and read it all at once to get the big picture rather than continue piece by piece.  I really liked what was going on in real life while Sam was off in the spirit world.  The drama in the hospital made it more intense, and the scene when Sam started waking up was great.  You managed to capture the weirdness of the Spirit world, and made it feel very much like a surreal trip down the rabbit hole.  I'm sorry that the other kids died.  I wish that Sam could have found a way to save them. 

I think that Spirited Away is a very difficult thing to try a crossover with.  Miyazaki's imagery is so strange, and his blend of Japanese folklore and just his own weird made up folklore sometimes make it hard to relate to.  I think that you managed to do a good job of it.  There may have been a few awkward spots, but you were true to both worlds, and made a good story out of it at the same time.  Good job!

Chickens have NEVER been scarier.  I love it that what seems really silly at first turns out to be SO VERY SCARY! *shudder*

Ohh!  Poor Sam!  I'm all sniffly right now!  I was wondering how you'd handle this Thanksgiving.  It was wonderful, and I look forward to seeing Dean's side of things.  Something else that tickled me...Sam spent his day researching Appalachian folklore, and so did I today!  Happy coincidences.

Author's Response:

LOL That IS a coincidence. I've spent a lot of time reading up on Appalachian folklore, so I snuck that in there for me, too. LOL

I'm so glad you came back to read and review this chapter. It means a lot to me to hear what you think. I went ahead and posted the Dean POV piece. I hope you enjoy! :)

This was the Thanksgiving I was most anxious to read about.  It didn't disappoint!  Poor Sam, grieving, and Dean trying hard to make things right.  How fitting that they had to share a piece of pie. 

Author's Response:

Hey there! Thanks so much for coming back to read this chapter, I appreciate it!

 I'm so happy you liked this one, them together for the first time after Stanford. I worked really hard to show Sam's grieving in a realistic way, but also to show the flip side of that--that Dean brought comfort, and hope. I'm so glad you liked it!

The next chapter should go up sometime next week. Hope to see you back here then! :)

I'm wondering if you're going to add on to this when we find out what Thanksgiving will be like in season 5! 

So, let's see.  We've had pumpkin pie soda, and now pumpkin pie CANDY.  How many more ways can you do pumpkin pie?  oo!  Gum.  I'll be somewhere there's pumpkin pie gum.  And chapstick. 

We know what Dean's last Christmas was like.  I was glad to see Thanksgiving too.  Glad that Sam woke up and still had time to fix things.  I will be sad to see these stories come to an end. 

I don't think my review on this chapter counts.  It's clearly for another chapter, and I clicked on something wrong.  In fact, if I remember right, I didn't even start reading this story until you had gotten several chapters into it.  So I wouldn't have reviewed the first chapter in the first place.  Well, here's to fixing it.  I remember this chapter, actually.  It's normal.  It's sweet, and a little painful when you think of everything that comes after. 

I'm trying to decide if I would still have Thanksgiving after a big family tragedy.  I think I would be the type who would cook EVERYTHING even if I didn't feel like I could do it.  It sounds awful to tell it, but the day my father-in-law died I had a show booked at the local library for a bunch of toddlers.  I showed up at my in-laws with my witch costume in tow, and waited for the coroner with the family with my witch hat complete with dangling spiders on my head.  I did the show- 73 toddlers there- even though the librarians said it would be fine if I cancelled.  I just felt like he would have been really mad at me if I hadn't performed for those kids, and I'm willing to bet he was there to see it.  I cried when the show was done. 

That was probably more than you needed to know!  This means you did a good job.  We all have our stories of dealing with loss, and I can't help thinking of those times when I read this. 

I love how you make every version of Thanksgiving unique.  I never had the blue hair Thanksgiving, except with my own grandma- I DID have a few Christmases at a trailer park that turned out like that....

I like this one.  It reminds us that for all his flaws, John loves his boys.  It's a good moment.  It's fun going back and reviewing after the fact.  I'm reading things all over again!