TEAM REALITY: Day 1, "The Harder They Fall"

[sage]

Title: The Harder They Fall
Author: secretlybronte
Team: Team Reality
Prompt: "I can't feel my elbows."
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 22,500 words
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: Sincerest thanks to my betas, nos4a2no9 and qe2, neither of whom had nearly enough time to work on this story. Nos4a2no9 listened to my incessant whining and existential angst as only the best kind of friend would; I could not be more grateful. I don't know what I'd do without you. Qe2 was, quite literally, a cheerleader to the very end. Having her to joke with helped me to dial it back when panic set in. You are both such wonderful friends. All remaining mistakes are entirely mine.
Summary: "Ray spent a decade watching Fraser jump; he never prepared himself for what it would mean to watch Fraser fall."

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ADMIN

[china_shop]

The Bullet challenge has shot through. You can find the 7 challenge entries here.

New challenge coming right up!

ADMIN: Original CotW Shooting Script (OCotWSS) challenge

[china_shop]

We'll be posting DS Match stories from tomorrow later today, but that's no reason not to run one of our regularly scheduled flashfic challenges at the same time, right? The more fic, the better! \o/

So. You may have seen lipstickcat's post of the last few pages of the original Call of the Wild shooting script. Your challenge is to write a story based on or inspired by that ending. How would things have turned out? Who would get with who, how and why? Wacky happy endings or tears? What do you think?

It's August 28. I'll leave this challenge open for a full four weeks while DS Match plays out, so stories are due by midnight, September 25, Chicago time. Have at it! :-)

ADMIN: And now the bit you've been waiting for...

[china_shop]

Posting starts today!


Yes, in about ten hours we'll be kicking off the posting for DS Match 2008 with the first two stories.

Each person in our two teams – Team Whimsy and Team Reality – was assigned one of the 14 prompts in the fest, and we'll be posting the resulting stories in pairs each day. Once you've read a story, please vote in the poll at the end of the post, which asks you to rate it on how well it fits the team genre (which you'll see in the header) and on how good you think the story is.

Ratings go from 9 (amazingly) to 1 (not so much), so all you need to do is enter a single number in that range into each text entry box. Anything other than one of those digits will be ignored in terms of votes, but possibly boggled at in passing.

Please note that only the mod making each post will be able to see the poll results, and will not be sharing them with the teams or non-participants in any way, so please don't ask how your team is doing! More importantly, this means that participants have no way of knowing how much you liked their story if you don't comment.

Participants are not allowed to vote in any of the DS Match polls. This applies even if you are a backup writer or have dropped out. Team members are more than welcome to point, prod or push their friends over to read and vote, however, and should feel free to pimp their team's efforts as madly as they like. *g*

Once all stories have been posted, the mods will take the average scores for each fic on their team and from those work out the averages for each team. The total of the final two scores will determine the winning team!

Your mods,

sageness (posting for Team Reality), china_shop (posting for Team Whimsy), and brynnmck (working behind the scenes to keep things ticking over)