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Reed '03: Costume Challenge: Write a story with your favorite couple (or grouping, whatever) in costume for any reason.

Elder '02: Whatever universe or pairings you desire, write something short under 3500 words, let the boys have some fun with their relationship a bit on the eye brow waggling naughty side.

  • No Limit
  • Universe: ATF
  • Pairing: E/V
  • Rating: PG-13

Elder '03: Write a story involving any couple of your choosing that involves them dealing with living together. You can make it riddled with angst or funny. There is a wide range of things that one has to rethink when you go from being single to 'married'. I want stories that showcase those life adjustments, good or bad, I leave it to you to decide.

Elder '04: I want is a story that incorporates a non-traditional version of some ghost, spirit, divine entity or what have you that isn't about making everything right. No waving wands, no midnight conversions, no being terrified into changing your ways, no artificial happy little family. Give me some irony. Give me some grit. A little divinity that isn't quite what we expect it to be. Lucifer used to be an angel, and Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving man fire. Feel free to incorporate any religion, any god/goddess, any type of spirit, angel or devil.

  • Push Fit
  • Universe: OW
  • Pairing: C/B
  • Rating: PG-13

Birch '05: Make the setting central to your story. I don't care if it's inside or out of doors, seasonal, local or foreign climes - just spend a bit of time helping us to really *see* and *feel* where we and the boys are - and bonus points for making the place pivotal to the plot.

Rowan '04: This challenge comes with physical instructions. Here we go:
1) Go to your music collection (for the sake of arguement we will call it your cd collection; however, feel free to replace cd with cassette, album, 8-track, or fluglehorn if you so prefer).
2) Select, at random and without forethought, ten cds of vocal artists.
3) Shuffle the cds into a random and unplanned order without looking at them.
4) Pick a number between one and ten.
5) Pick another number, between one and thirteen.
6) The first number is your cd. The second is the song on the cd (if you pick a cd with less songs than the number you selected, the last song on the cd is your song).
7) Listen to that song.
8) Write a story based on the ideas that come to your mind while listening to that song.
RULES: You cannot quote the song during the story, and you cannot have any character listen to that song, or mention it in any way. I'm looking for an 'inspired by' rather than a songfic. However, you should list what song you picked and who it is performed by, so the rest of us know. You can do it at the beginning, or at the end of the story. You can list the lyrics at the end if you want to, but you don't have to.

  • Automaton
  • Universe: ATF
  • Pairing: C/E
  • Rating: PG

Rowan '05: Again another "this challenge comes with physical instructions." Here we go: 1) Go to your bookshelf. 2) Close your eyes and grab a book and flip it open to any page. 3) Point finger. 4) That sentence, whatever it is, is your inspiration. You need not necessarily include the "inspiration sentence" in your story, but it's what gives you your idea. You can tell us the line you got and from what book and author either at the beginning or end, however you wish.

Ash '05: The challenge is to write the boys of your choice participating in, practicing for, or going to a rodeo. Short or long, present day or Old West, let's see and hear 'em.

  • Untitled
  • Universe: ATF
  • Pairing: B/C
  • Rating: R

Alder '03: A bit of misdirection. For this challenge, write a fic with a twist. Lead the dear reader astray, then set things a right at the end. A mystery perhaps? Or the misidentification of impassioned prose [either in whom it was intended for, or who the speaker was]? A set up that just doesn't bode well - only to find how innocuous it all really is? Can be humorous, can be suspenseful, playful or devious. However you choose. Just make certain all is not what it seems ;}.

  • Angels
  • Universe: ATF
  • Pairing: B/OCs
  • Rating: NC-17

Alder '05: "All in a day's work" is how I think of this one. There is plenty enough drama in the daily ups and downs of 'normal' life. life isn't a soap opera; there's enough that's dramatic in the day-in, day-out struggle that more than suffices. Write about everyday drama - in any variety. As a clarification this doesn't at all mean the "mundane" is drudgery, boring, tedious, etc. If you want them grocery shopping then tallying the monthly budget that would work, but a manhunt in the old west with lots of action and travel can fit as well -- it's more in the treatment than the subject. That casual, daily life feel of 'eh, it's what we do, what we are' mentality.

  • Untitled
  • Universe: ATF
  • Pairing: E/N
  • Rating: PG

Willow '03: To be caught literally or figuratively with ones pants down; whether it is good or bad is entirely up to y'all.

Willow '06: File-Open-Select challenge. Sift through your files and pick a story that's never been finished. Share your favorite paragraph(s). Consider it a tantalizing glimpse in the form of a ficlet.

Hawthorn '03: Okay, here is the challenge that I call the "Satin, Silk and Leather challenge". If you could use all three materials and/or the song "Black Velvet" in your story extra bonus points. With the song you can have it in the background while they dance, or one of the guys singing to another ... whatever your heart desires.

  • Masquerade
  • Universe: ATF
  • Pairing: E/V
  • Rating: PG-13

Oak '03: Pick any couple or pairing. One member plans to celebrate a day of significance to them...could be first kiss, first glance, first year together...whatever. The celebration can't go off as planned in part because the rest of the team doesn't realize the couple you choose is in fact a couple and have committed the frustrated paramour to being elsewhere.

Holly '04: Make dancing the central theme of the story.

Hazel '03: Write a fic that has a lie/an untruth as a central or pivotal point in the story.

  • Pretense
  • Universe: OW
  • Pairing: C/B
  • Rating: R

Vine '03: Write a fic that revolves around an 'outing'. Who gets 'outed', by whom, whether it happens deliberately, accidentally or maliciously and what the consequences are - is up to you.

Ivy '03: Write an honest to god PWP; all action, no plot, short, sweet and definitely sweaty.

Ivy '06: Drabble challenge. A drabble is 100 words. Make it Old West on a hot day. From there it's up to you.

Mistletoe '04: Holiday/winter drabble, on the romantic side.