PicFic Tuesday prompt for February 4th

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Picfic got off to a great start for the month of January! Thanks to all who participated.  Let's keep that ball rolling!

Stories for the PicFic are due tomorrow Tuesday the 4th. The challenge is to come up with a piece of MFU fiction within the roughly 24 hour turn around time.(basically see prompt today, post fic sometime tomorrow)

Statistical stuff: Stories should be a minimum of 500 words (no drabbles) with no set maximum. Must fit into the overall concepts of this community, i.e. contain NO EXPLICIT OR ADULT MATERIAL and reflect the 1960s series in style and content.

Please include in your subject header the phrase "For the PicFic Tuesday Challenge", the due date, and of course the title of your story! Remember to use the tag Picfic.

Posting is due on the date indicated with the prompt, but if for some reason you're unable to do it in time for tomorrow, you can post your fic the following Tuesday. Just remember to follow all the statistical requirements.

Here's your new prompt:


                                         

SNAPSHOTS~ "Grandmother's lessons"

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An appropriate story given many of us on the east coast U.S. are being snowed upon again...


     

The young blond child watched with unusually calm and patient blue eyes, looking out his bedroom window as he leaned his arms on the sill. Though the glass panes were of uneven thinknesss, distorting the images of the trees and the simple dirt road that passed their dacha; he could see well enough.

The skies were cloudy but not threatening, perhaps he could go outside to play today if it was not too cold; though it didn't bother him too much. His mother always worried about him catching a chill and getting sick, since there was no money for medicine...not that there was a doctor readily available. There was one in the city but that was far enough away by foot, the only way people could travel now days.

He went downstairs, being beconned to the back steps of the house by his grandmother. There was a lesson to be taught.

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A time to live, a time to die

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Whoops, this is a day late, but hope it's going to be okay.  As you can see, it's probably the beginning of a much longer story.  Would appreciate comments about whether this might be worth doing.

Illya looks back on a difficult season ....( Read more... )

It's almost time for those Valentine Cards...

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Another reminder that the mfu_gallery Valentine's Day Artist Trading Card Event is drawing near... no pun intended, honestly.  You can find the original post regarding the how and why of it HERE.  Remember, this is not a challenge, it's just a fun opportunity to express yourself, whether it be original art or the time honored cut and paste method, as in this example.