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This one started out when I had some insomnia and wrote about 700 words in the middle of the night -- a shade too late for the Keys Challenge. Threw them all out, tried a couple times since, and finally decided to make one last stab at getting this done.

My sincerest thanks to the glorious heuradys who did some really helpful last minute beta!

( Lock Pick )

With a title like this, you might think crossover, but you would be wrong. I still like the title though, because it works in a couple different ways....

About 1996 words, some of them even necessary.

( The Fellowship Goes South )

Hey, I'm still working on that Body Switch story I started back here weeks ago. It just occurred to me this morning that I had an excerptable scene that fits the challenge... because who knows more about lying than an undercover guy in the ultimate undercover role, right?

All the setup you need for the story is: much to his surprise Ray woke up in Fraser's bed. Unlike how he'd always pictured it, Fraser isn't there, because he's across town, waking up in Ray's bed... in Ray's body. Hilarity ensues (or so the author hopes) and Ray learns that being Canadian is not as easy as it appears....

( Chicago Transit )

A friend alerted me this morning to the The Do-It-Yourself Middle Earth Mary Sue Generator, which asks you a series of fill-in-the-blanks and adds them into the pre-generated text to produce a humorous result. It didn't take more than two tries to produce the following by figuring out which noun or verb or color adjective goes where. I therefore take very little credit -- it was the original author who came up with the majority of the prose... still, it's right on track for the Cliche challenge (I count at least two of the major cliches), and might make you smile....

1010 words, very few of which are actually mine....

( From The Do-It-Yourself Mary Sue Generator )

You wanted a switch, you get a switch....

Okay, it's 1227 words or thereabout. Considering that I cut it down from nearly 1600 on the first draft, that's pretty reasonable, right?

( 180 Degrees )

If I say it took me a while to get a handle on this challenge, will anyone laugh?

It's a smidge over 900 words.

( Stella's Toy )

Okay, so it's a little bit over -- 1117 words, but if you squint really hard and round down really severely, it's very nearly under the limit, right? (Also, I understand that the sales tax is 15% in Nova Scotia.)

I blame some of this on shrift, who has been tormenting me with her evil, enticing, evil, evil, evil (and did I mention enticing?) painted Ray icons. The rest I blame on one of my favorite Australian movies, which seems to have come unstuck in time and place, and gone through a bit of a change of cast and location as well. There's probably a whole movie's worth of plot out there somewhere, you'll just have to make do with the section presented here....

( The Adventures of Regina, Queen of Manitoba: Part XI Regina Revolts )