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1. 500 Miles Home by hersundream

   Fandoms: Carol (2015), The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   29 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Carol Aird & Therese Belivet
   • Carol Aird/Therese Belivet
   • Carol Aird
   • Therese Belivet
   • Angst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Melancholy
   • Bittersweet Ending
   • Slow Burn
   • Emotional Hurt
   • Canon Divergence
   • Post-Canon
   • One Shot
   • wlw
   • Lesbian Relationship
   • Period Piece
   • 1950s
   • Historical
   • queer fiction
   • Slow Romance
   • Restrained Romance
   • Unresolved Sexual Tension
   • emotional tension
   • Longing
   • Distance
   • Separation
   • Reunion
   • temporary reunion
   • Road Trip Echoes
   • Motherhood
   • Custody Issues
   • Social ruin
   • Shame
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Class Difference
   • Photography
   • Darkroom
   • Trains
   • Winter Setting
   • Snow
   • Atmospheric
   • Character Study
   • Introspection
   • Grief
   • Acceptance
   • Bittersweet
   • Tender Sex
   • Grief-Tinged Intimacy
   • no happy ending
   • Open Ending
   • ambiguous ending
   • Symbolism
   • Train Whistles
   • Empty Tracks
   • Forgotten Gloves
   • long exposure - Freeform
   • Blurred Negative
   • Inspired by Music
   • 500 Miles - Peter Paul and Mary 1962

   Summary

   In the bitter January of 1953, a woman drives six hundred miles through snow to a furnished room above the railroad yards in Cincinnati. For one night only, two lives that were broken apart by scandal and a child’s custody converge again in a small space lit by a red safelight and the passing freight trains. Nothing is resolved. Everything is remembered.

   Some distances are measured in miles. Others are measured in the exact shape a hollow place takes when the person who once filled it stands three feet away and says it is cold.

   Language:

   English

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