Title: Tomorrow, when the apricots are ripe
Fandom: Supernatural RPS
Pairing: Jared/Jensen (Jared/OMC)
Categories: AU, BDSM, dark, hurt/comfort, slave
Length: Long (~25,000 words)
Warnings: violence, pre-story abuse (possibly sexual), some light dub-con, heavy amounts of bondage, make sure to check out the author’s warnings as this is an unusual subject matter (there is not any actual bestiality)

Author on LJ: tryfanstone
Author Website: jay tryfanstone fiction

Review:
Jared can’t wait to see the new stallion. It’s not every day that Eric gets a new breeder with the credentials this one has. But there are reasons why this stallion was easy to come by as he was. And when Jared first lays eyes on Jensen he can’t help but be shocked by the obvious abuse the animal’s been put through.

This is a truly unusual alternate universe. As far as I can tell, this ‘verse veers off from our history around the Great Depression (although it could begin decades to either side; this is the time in our history that makes the most sense as a possibility, though). In this alternate timeline, people who were in too great of debt sold themselves as ‘horses’ to the court system.

Because of this ‘horse’ parallel the slaves in this ‘verse seem to generally be treated better than most slave fics. They are maintained as well as any animal for show might be maintained—with the single caveat that the vocal chords are burned out before the slave is sold.

The writing in this is superb. I love an author who can write an alternate universe and not make their sole focus the alternate universe. This story is the tale of an unusual relationship developing under unusual circumstances with unusual histories for each of the characters, key word here being relationship. It’s also a story of healing and self-discovery. This could use a little editing, but it may be one of those cases of too many cooks in the kitchen.

Tomorrow, when the apricots are ripe