RULES





There are only a few to remember…

1. This is a community for ficlets and fics of any length, be as long or as short as you want to be.

2. ficlet_zone is a monthly challenge community. There will be a new prompt posted on or around the fifteenth of every month. Challenges will remain open at all times; there are no deadlines, so dip into any challenge that strikes your fancy. Obviously this means there’s no need for Amnesty weeks.

3. You must be a member of the community to post here, but there is no limit to the number of fics and ficlets you can post for each challenge. Post your fics as entries to the community, NOT as comments to the challenge posts. You can either post direct to the community, or to your own journal wherever it happens to be, with just a header and link posted to the community.

4. Please post ficlets one to a post if posting direct to the community. If you’re linking from elsewhere you can put several in a post, each with its own header if they’re all in the same fandom. When posting direct, please put the body of the post under a cut so that only the header visible.

5. Please include at least Title, Fandom, Author, Rating, Challenge, and a short summary in your headers. Include Warnings and Spoilers if you feel they’re needed.

6. You DO NOT need to use your prompt word or phrase in your fic. How you use a prompt is entirely up to you. Please note in your header which song or episode title you're using as your prompt though.

7. Please play nice; be polite to fellow writers and the mod.

8. Questions and suggestions for future challenges are welcome on the Questions & Suggestions post. Requests for fandom or other tags can be left on the Tag Request post.


Tagging


Please tag your entry with any tags that apply. These should include at least challenge, rating, and fandom. For crossovers, please use the crossover tag as well as tags for the fandoms used. For RPF, use the rpf tag and one or more fandom tags. I'll be adding fandom tags as needed, so if there's no tag for your fandom, please ask at the 'Tag Requests' post. There is no limit to the number of fandom tags you can request.

There will also be tags for slash, femslash, het, and gen, under the ‘type’ heading, and for alternate universe, crossover, rpf, and original fic, under the ‘category’ heading. If I'm missing anything essential, please ask at the 'Tag Requests' post.




Challenges


There will be two kinds of challenge, which I hope to alternate.


Song Title Challenges

This is where a singer or band will be selected and the titles of any of their songs can be used as the prompt for your fic.


Reverse Fandom Challenges

This is where a fandom is selected and the titles of any of its episodes can be used as the prompt for your fic. Your fics can be in any fandom, you don’t have to write in the challenge fandom - unless you want to. (I hope that makes sense.)


Come in and have fun; everybody, and every fandom, is welcome!

Title: Duplicity of the Dead
Author: brumeier
Challenge: #101 k.d. lang - I Confess
Fandom(s): Stargate Atlantis/The Sentinel
Series: Madison Miller Talks With the Dead
Pairing(s): Madison Miller/OMC, Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg
Wordcount: 7,879
Warning(s): murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, speaking with corpses

Summary: Things are about to get a lot more dangerous than Madison bargained for. In a time before state-issued photo IDs, social security numbers, and national crime-fighting databases, people had to be taken at their word when it came to their identity. Easy, then, for someone to come in and give false information. Madison isn't sure what she and the Cascade police are dealing with when a dead body doesn't seem to know their own identity. I am he. He is me.

Title: The Rose Garden
Fandom: Spooks (MI5)
Author: smallhobbit
Rating: G
Challenge: #101 - k d lang - Rose Garden
Spoilers: None
Summary: Miss Marple and Dolly Bantry are visiting a rose garden

The Rose Garden

Title: Highs and Lows
Author: enchanted_jae
Fandom: Original
Characters: A woman and her husband
Rating: PG
Warning(s): Angst (off-screen death)
Word count: 335
Written for:
♦ Birthday gift for theirgrammy with a prompt of My Life
♦ ficlet_zone Prompt 100 – Castle. I chose A Death in the Family
♦ dove_drabbles Prompt 154 - Don’t let the hard days win
Summary: Life is comprised of highs and lows.

Highs and Lows

Title: Five Times The Werewolf Put His Nose In Where It Wasn't Wanted and Once
Fandom: Spooks (MI5)
Author: smallhobbit
Rating: G
Challenge: #100 - Castle - The Nose
Spoilers: None
Summary: The werewolf is being a nuisance, until he isn't

Five Times The Werewolf Put His Nose In Where It Wasn't Wanted and Once on AO3

Title: 'Eighties Mall'
Fandom: Original Poetry
Author: but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Challenge: #69: Gwen Stefani Song Titles ('Almost Blue'/'Bubble Pop Electric'/'Fluorescent')
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to genprompt_bingo

Summary: Give me an Eighties mall, any day

( Eighties Mall )

Title: 'Every Midnight'
Fandom: Original Poetry
Author: but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: PG
Challenge: #37: Imagine Dragons Song Titles ('Dream'/'Every Night'/'It's Time'/'Friction'/'Demons'/'Darkness'/'Levitate'/'Lost Cause'/'The Unknown'/'Unseen')
Warnings: Implied violence
Notes: Crossposted to genprompt_bingo

Summary: Defeating the darkness is child's play for him

( Every Midnight )

Title: 'What a Fate'
Fandom: Original Poetry
Author: but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: PG
Challenge: #31: The Moody Blues Song Titles ('A Simple Game'/'In the Beginning'/'Meanwhile'/'Your Wildest Dreams'/'Steppin' in a Slide Zone'/'Twilight Time'/'The Other Side of Life/'Sitting at the Wheel'/'So Deep Within You'/'The Land of Make-Believe'/'Driftwood'/'(Evening) Time to Get Away'/'Floating'/'Isn't Life Strange')
Warnings: Slightly disturbing concepts
Notes: Crossposted to genprompt_bingo

Summary: At the wheel you might sit

( What a Fate )

Title: 'Terrible Idea'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Author: but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Challenge: #74: Reverse Fandom: Suits ('Back on the Map'/'Scenic Route'/'Thunder Away')
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to genprompt_bingo

Summary: "Yeah, that was what we agreed on."

( Terrible Idea )

Title: 'The Logic of Your Dreams'
Fandom: Original Poetry
Author: but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Challenge: #48: Reverse Fandom: Fringe ('Back to Where You've Never Been'/'In Absentia'/'The Dreamscape'/'Bad Dreams'/'Dream Logic'/'Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There'/'Forced Perspective'/'Everything in Its Right Place'/'Neither Here Nor There')
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to genprompt_bingo

Summary: Into strange places nonexistent you pass

( The Logic of Your Dreams )

Title: 'Pandora'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Author: but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: PG-13
Challenge: #68: Reverse Fandom: Alias ('The Nemesis'/'Echoes'/'A Man of His Word'/'Mirage'/'Mea Culpa'/'Authorized Personnel Only (Part 1)'/'Authorized Personnel Only (Part 2)'/'Ice'/'The Descent'/'No Hard Feelings'/'Breaking Point'/'Façade'/'Passage (Part 1)'/'Passage (Part 2)'/'A Dark Turn'/'A Missing Link'/'The Solution'/'The Enemy Walks In'/'So It Begins'/'The Confession'/'Cipher'/'Salvation'/'The Box (Part 1)'/'The Box (Part 2)'/'Page 47'/'Masquerade'/'Doppelgänger'/'Time Will Tell')
Warnings: Disturbing concepts; mentions of mental tampering
Notes: Crossposted to genprompt_bingo

Summary: The usual solutions were applied: Memory wipes. Reprogramming. Reassignment.

( Pandora )

Title: Heart-bound
Fandom: Uprooted - Naomi Novik
Author: Zdenka
Rating: T
Challenge: #100, reverse fandom: Castle ("Fidelis Ad Mortem" [faithful unto death], "Under the Influence," and "When the Bough Breaks")
Characters: Agnieszka/Kasia; brief appearances of the Dragon, the Falcon, and Prince Marek
Warnings: non-graphic violence
Word Count: 1223 words
Notes: Also written for a prompt from femslashfete.
Summary: If Agnieszka was going back into the Wood with Prince Marek, Kasia would follow her.

Here on AO3

This month's challenge is:





Click on the challenge, pick any episode title, or more than one, as inspiration, and start writing!


Reminder of Rules

Entries can be any length you like. You can post as many entries to each challenge as you're inspired to write.
If posting direct to the community, please place the body of your entry behind a cut.
Tag with the appropriate Category, Challenge, Fandom, Type, and Ratings tags. If a tag for your fandom doesn't exist, leave a request on the Tag Request post and I'll create the tags you need. You can request as many fandom tags as you want.
You don't need to use the challenge word or phrase in your fic, though you can if you like. Please include the song or episode title you use in your header.
Suggestions for future challenges are welcome on the Questions & Suggestions post.
There is no deadline for entries.

Have fun!

Title: Retro 70’s
Author: enchanted_jae
Characters/Pairing: Dee/Ryo
Rating: PG
Word count: 100
Written for: ficlet_zone Prompt No. 99 – Rod Stewart songs. I chose: Do Ya Think I’m Sexy.
Warnings: None
Summary: Time to disco the night away!
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of Sanami Matoh, et al. This drabble/fic was written for fun, not for profit.

Retro 70’s

Title: Correspondence from the Edge
Author: brumeier
Challenge(s): #99 Rod Stewart - Passion
Fandom(s): Stargate Atlantis/The Sentinel
Series: Madison Miller Talks With the Dead
Wordcount: 1,169
Warning(s): none

Summary: Madison receives an unexpected letter from her missing Uncle Meredith.

Title: Cricket Season Again
Fandom: Hamlet/Macbeth
Author: smallhobbit
Rating: G
Challenge: #99 - Rod Stewart - I don't want to talk about it
Spoilers: None
Summary: We return to the Elsinore Village Cricket Team, who have again lost a match

Cricket Season Again

Title: 'Secretive Guy'
Fandom: Original Poetry
Author: but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Challenge: #61: Tina Turner Song Titles ('Foreign Affair'/'On Silent Wings')
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to genprompt_bingo

Summary: A real secretive guy

( Secretive Guy )

Title: 'Old Photographs'
Fandom: Original Poetry
Author: but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Challenge: #35: Charley Pride Song Titles ('Wonder Could I Live There Anymore'/'I Miss My Home'/'Resting Place'/'Guess Things Happen That Way'/'You Can't Sit Still'/'Old Photographs'/'Streets of Gold'/'(In My World) You Don't Belong'/'The Grand Tour')
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to genprompt_bingo

Summary: But things do happen thus, perhaps

( Old Photographs )

This month's challenge is:






Click on the challenge, pick any song title, or more than one, as inspiration, and start writing!


Reminder of Rules

Entries can be any length you like. You can post as many entries to each challenge as you're inspired to write.
If posting direct to the community, please place the body of your entry behind a cut.
Tag with the appropriate Category, Challenge, Fandom, Type, and Ratings tags. If a tag for your fandom doesn't exist, leave a request on the Tag Request post and I'll create the tags you need. You can request as many fandom tags as you want.
You don't need to use the challenge word or phrase in your fic, though you can if you like. Please include the song or episode title you use in your header.
Suggestions for future challenges are welcome on the Questions & Suggestions post.
There is no deadline for entries.

Have fun!