The Shortest Distance

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Art Title: The Shortest Distance
Prompt Number: R2005
Artist: cybel

Fic Title: The Shortest Distance
Author: oobydooby67
Fandom/Genre: RPS
Pairing(s): J2
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 23k
Warnings: Natural disaster, Dust Bowl, graphic imagery, implied/referenced suicide, implied/referenced murder, implied/referenced death of minor characters, explicit sex, heavy angst.
Summary: The year is 1935 and the Great Plains are hurting. Beaten down, dirt and dust-laden, the people of these Plains live in a constant haze. Jared is twenty years old and struggling to keep his adoptive family alive and cared for. When his husband Cole died, much of the faith in this land died with him, though they have stayed because this is their land. They stay because they belong here. Cole’s cousin arrives in from Montana two years too late, seeking to uproot his kin and change their lives. With nature against man and man against nature, no one remains the same.

Art Link(s): LJ | AO3
Fic Link(s): AO3

(Thanks to my artist, my beta Melacreature, and the mods for all their help!)