Thanks to St. William of Levittown (Rush Limborg) for the great November challenge, and to Gul Re’jal for the fierce competition. And now, the challenge for December:
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Everyone, no matter how they’ve lived their lives, seems to have one or more skeletons in their proverbial – or literal, if you’re feeling particularly gruesome – closets. A place, a time, a person, or a thing; there’s something in their past that they want, with varying degrees of desperation, to avoid. The challenge this month is to tell a story of the characters’ efforts to run from, hide from, evade, or escape whatever is haunting them. While not a holiday-themed challenge, it certainly may be a holiday-related event that’s the thing being avoided. I’d like to see stories focus on the efforts to avoid the ‘skeleton(s)’ rather than any resolution of said issues, or at least focus more on the avoidance until and/or unless the characters get cornered and/or can’t run any more. So let the race begin, and remember: Don't. Look. Back!
And now, The Rules:
Allons-y!!
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Everyone, no matter how they’ve lived their lives, seems to have one or more skeletons in their proverbial – or literal, if you’re feeling particularly gruesome – closets. A place, a time, a person, or a thing; there’s something in their past that they want, with varying degrees of desperation, to avoid. The challenge this month is to tell a story of the characters’ efforts to run from, hide from, evade, or escape whatever is haunting them. While not a holiday-themed challenge, it certainly may be a holiday-related event that’s the thing being avoided. I’d like to see stories focus on the efforts to avoid the ‘skeleton(s)’ rather than any resolution of said issues, or at least focus more on the avoidance until and/or unless the characters get cornered and/or can’t run any more. So let the race begin, and remember: Don't. Look. Back!
And now, The Rules:
- Word limit: 10,000 words max, with a little wiggle room above or below. I'm hoping the theme generates some really meaty stories.
- Story must be original for this month’s challenge, nothing posted here before please.
- Let’s keep the challenge in the Trek arena, canon or your personal fic.
- Only complete stories will be eligible; finishing the story before posting it is a good idea.
- Post a link to your entry in this thread when you’re done.
- Contest to run until midnight (US Eastern Standard Time) December 29th, with voting to follow from Dec. 30th to January 2nd 2012.
Allons-y!!
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I'd rather concentrate on my story plot than if I could write the minimum and check the word count with each paragraph 
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