TEAM ROMANCE: Day 9, "Like Bacon and Axle Grease"

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Title: Like Bacon and Axle Grease
Author: dessert_first
Team: Romance
Prompt: “Like toothpaste and orange juice — two great tastes that don't go together at all.”
Pairing(s): Fraser/Kowalski
Length: 4,400 words
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None
Summary: Ray is getting ready for the cluelessness Olympics.

Once you've read the story, please take a moment to vote in the poll below. Ratings go from 1 (low) to 9 (high), so all you need to do is enter a single number in that range into each text entry box. You'll be able to see the Prompt and Team (Genre) information in the header above.

More details about the voting procedure can be found here.

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Guess the writers for the prompt: Day 9, 'Like toothpaste and orange juice..."

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Want to take a shot at guessing who wrote today's stories, with the prompt "Like toothpaste and orange juice – two great tastes that don’t go together at all"? Here's the place to do it.

For Team Romance, Like Bacon and Axle Grease.

And for Team Angst we have At the Time of Writing.

Good luck, and happy guessing!

ADMIN: DS Match info post - timeline, end-of-fest details

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We are now halfway through posting the DS Match stories (woohooo!), so it's probably time we explained how the end-of-match stuff is going to work.

Saturday 10th November -- The stories for the final prompt are posted.

Friday 16th November -- Voting closes on all stories, the Masterlist is posted, and the author names and beta notes are edited into the individual posts on this community. The mods gaze in terror at the massive number of votes they have to turn into results. *g*

Monday 19th November -- Time to break out the champagne! The results are announced and teams are able to collect their Winner/Runner-up banners and icons!


As you can see, we're allowing nearly a week for catching up on stories you haven't read yet, and registering your votes. So don't panic if you're behind -- there's plenty of time!


But wait, there's more!

Any players or backup writers who either wrote a backup story that didn't end up being posted as part of the official team effort, or who had to drop out of the fest because they couldn't meet their deadline but still managed to finish their story, or who wrote any extra stories for their prompt -- we'd love you to post your stories on the community between the 16th and 19th of November (during the vote tallying period). We'll add them to the Masterlist in that case.

Note: I know we said we'd post them anonymously for you, but it makes more sense to save them until after the catch-up period, and by then, authors' names will have already been revealed.


Want to join in the fun? There's still a chance!

After the winners have been announced and the Match is wrapped up, the next challenge on ds_flashfiction will be the full list of prompts used for DS Match, giving you the chance to write your own Due South stories from the prompts. \o/

Any questions or problems please just ask, but in the meantime -- read, enjoy, vote!


Note: All times and dates are Chicago CDT/CST.
Credit: This post was shamelessly adapted from its sister post on mcshep_match.

TEAM ANGST: Day 10, "One Two Three Two One"

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Title: One Two Three Two One
Author: spuffyduds
Team: Angst
Prompt: "You’re crossing a line."
Pairing(s): Fraser/Kowalski/Vecchio
Length: 7600 words
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: isiscolo did a gigantically helpful last-minute beta, and nos4a2no9 held my hand and told me it didn't suck.
Summary: "It's hard to start a new life. But it's not really any easier to restart the old one."

Once you've read the story, please take a moment to vote in the poll below. Ratings go from 1 (low) to 9 (high), so all you need to do is enter a single number in that range into each text entry box. You'll be able to see the Prompt and Team (Genre) information in the header above.

More details about the voting procedure can be found here.

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