ADMIN POST: Hourglass Challenge

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Like sands through the hourglass, so go the days of our lives...

The Hourglass Challenge.

Write a Due South flashfiction that's in two scenes which are at least five years apart. (Yes, it can be more than that by however much you want--six years, ten years, fifty years, even two-thousand for you sci-fi types) but it can't be fewer than five years. The goal is to extend beyond the parameters of the series in some meaningful imaginative way.)

Today's Tuesday by my watch--stories are due before midnight next Tuesday. Release the hounds! (and thanks to Julad for the challenge!)

Comments

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

I just want to say that Julad's story in the Canadian Shack Challenge was beautiful and sad. I thnk it was number 11.

Sorry, carry on with the challenge.

[midwinterthaw.livejournal.com]

Okay. Question. Can it be ... more than two scenes? Like, maybe three scenes? Sort of a sandwich deal -- later stuff, early stuff, then later stuff again?

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

What's posted are the minimum requirements. As a woman who just posted a 1,500 word story, I don't think I'm in any position to arbitrate maximum requirments. *g*

[midwinterthaw.livejournal.com]

Greatness :) Thanks!

Challenge suggestion.

[halimede.livejournal.com]

Excuse the pre-amble, challenge suggestion will become apparent, I promise:

Way back in the mists of time, someone informed a DS mailing list that in researching a fic, she had found lots of lovely recipes for pasta putanesca, and she'd happily send them to anyone who asked. I asked, and also asked if I could read the story (it was a no-fic type list). She said, 'uhm, yes, if you're okay with slash'. That story was the first slash story I ever read. This gave me the idea for a recipe/food challenge. Maybe a story that takes place in the time it takes to prepare one meal or dish? (And if you still have to dry your own meat for your homemade pemmican, that's not a painfully short time.)