April Challenges

2010

Choice 1: Include the IRS in your story. They've been around since 1862, according to their Wikipedia entry. You could make the guys IRS agents, make the IRS be (rightly or wrongly) after one of them for tax fraud, or include the IRS in the action plot.

Choice 2: Timed Challenge: "I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date!"
You don't need to use the line, but see what kind of messes the guys can get into when they're running behind. But make it quick, and try for a half an hour.

2009

Choice 1: Write a sensual scene (can be graphic or not) where the guys are not at the same point in their romantic journey and where the scene brings them closer, yet may leave them pulling apart in greater conflict. Show us what happens when communication isn't always clear, and love isn't perfect.

Choice 2: Photo challenge This iconic photo of Hernandez, New Mexico was shot in 1941, but it could equally belong in the Old West, or in ATF and post-apocolyptic AUs. When did the guys arrive in this tiny town? Where are the inhabitants? Who is buried in all those graves? The image is here: Moonrise

Las Almas by Stan Lee
Choice 2: This iconic photo of Hernandez, New Mexico was shot in 1941, but it could equally belong in the Old West, or in ATF and post-apocolyptic AUs. When did the guys arrive in this tiny town? Where are the inhabitants? Who is buried in all those graves?
C/B; OW; FRM

Crying in the Wilderness by Farad
Choice 1: Write a sensual scene (can be graphic or not) where the guys are not at the same point in their romantic journey and where the scene brings them closer, yet may leave them pulling apart in greater conflict. Show us what happens when communication isn't always clear, and love isn't perfect.
J/V; Firefly Fusion AU; FRAO

2008

Choice 1: One day in the life of one character, told completely from that character's point of view.

Choice 2: Two words and a phrase, turn them into a story: "leather", "dawn" and "How'd he get into my bed?" (alternately "What the hell is he doing in my bed?") Work them into the story verbatim.

Birthday in the Life by Charlotte C. Hill
A day in the life, with a side of dawn, leather, and what's he doing in my -oh.
C/B; ATF; FRAO

Three Can Keep a Secret, if Two of Them Are Dead by Evil Jacquie
A Day in the life of Eli Joe
OW; FRT

O'Dark Thirty by Bone
Author's Note: I've been inspired to adapt this series of stories for professional publication. If the submission isn't accepted, I'll return the series to the archive promptly!

Escalation by Ashlyn
Dawn, leather, I don't know how he got in my bed. Transition scene for an Escorts/Spenser story
E/V; Escorts; FRM

In Plain Sight by Artisan447
A day in the life. What the hell was Vin doing with that broom in his hand in the Pilot?
Vin-Chris; OW; FRC

How Chris Larabee Spent the Longest Day of the Year by Zeke Black
A day in the life drabble
C/E; OW; FRT

Settling by Farad
A day in the life of Vin and Chanu, before Vin meets Chris and Buck, with a touch of dawn, leather and what's he doing in my bed
Vin/Chanu (implied); Skip Trace; FRT

Maybe by Kim
For the prompts: "What the hell is he doing in my bed? Leather and Dawn"
C/V; ATF; FRT

Maybe Not by Kim
Companion piece to Maybe
C/V; ATF; FRT

Skinning the Cat by Ashlyn
A day in the life: Chris, Vin, a cougar, a creek, some sex
C/V; OW; FRAO

Casting a Shadow by Tarlan
A day in the life; leather, dawn, what's he doing in my bed: Six weeks after learning of Ella's obsession, Chris starts to get back on with his life, with a friend's help
C/V; OW; FRAO

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