WRITER'S CHOICE! It's back to normal again.

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After a great week of successful postings for the Writer's Choice: 7 Days of Halloween, it's time to get back to basics. Writer's Choice gives writers an opportunity to post links to their stories so that readers can enjoy them again or for the first time. Yes, it's self-promotion but nothing wrong with that as it allows people to read some great stories they might have missed!

So readers, post links to your favorite stories too!   It's all about promoting the Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the stories we love about our handsome and brave Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin!

It's a rainy day here, but there's reports of snow falling farther south....eeek!

        

           

Writer's Choice! "The left hand of darkness affair"

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Originally posted for Carabele's HOWDOWE challenge for 'international left-handers day'...who'da thought such a holiday existed?  This story finds Napoleon and Illya baby sitting the future bride of a distant relation to the Prince consort to the queen of the Netherlands.  Unexpected aggravation and surprises ensue.
This particular story led to some interesting research, and those of you familiar with my stories know I love to add that touch of realism to my stories by using history as the backdrop.  Here I stretch things a wee bit.  Hope you enjoy reading or re-reading the story.  Comments are most welcome here!


https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8428188/1/The-Left-Hand-of-Darkness-Affair

or if you prefer:

http://section7mfu.livejournal.com/97271.html

                                                         

                                                            "The Left Hand of Darkness Affair"

                                                                         

"That niggling feeling" ~ for the Mood-Y # 5 Challenge

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Though Halloween has passed, today is Samhain and significant in the Celtic calendar. It is the time when the veil between the world of the living and the dead is at its thinnest... it is from Samhain that Halloween has its origins.

Challenge: Mood-Y # 5

Prompt: spooked

Title: “That niggling feeling”

Author: mrua7

Word Count: Approx. 1,100
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.~ Titus Lucretius Carus.

   

Napoleon Solo, like his Russian partner, was a man who remained cool and calm under the most dire of circumstances. Together or alone they faced death and destruction all too often, but today was a...different circumstance.

Today it was nothing but a retrieval at a dead drop; a milk run as the American liked to call it. It was simple assignment for a change and as they reached the end of the little traveled dirt road in their silver convertible, Solo pulled to a slow stop; studying their new surroundings.

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Writers Choice-Another Reason for Illya Not to Like Bats byWendieZ

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Not a Halloween tale exactly but episode related. Angst and Hurt/Comfort. Illya has just saved Europe from THRUSH's "Operation Night Flight". However, not revealing the radar setting to Count Zark may cost him dearly. Sequel to "The Bat Cave Affair"

The link takes you to Fanfiction.net

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5517106/1/Another-Reason-for-Illya-Not-to-Like-Bats

Writer's Choice: Match Up

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Match Up

Mark Slate meets his new partner.  The link takes you to AO3.
Word Length: 673

WRITER'S CHOICE - The Siren's Song Affair by PACTNMMT

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I'm still working my way through all the available fic out there. Between writing my own stuff and real life, it's going to take me a while.

Anyway, I recently came across this wonderful story by pactnmmt. I have a voracious appetite for angst-laden tales, and this one has it in spades. Napoleon has a difficult choice to make.

The Link takes you to FF.net

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9657725/1/The-Siren-s-Song-Affair

More Illya of the Opera

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Never fully content with her excellent work, loxleyprince has provided another rendition of Illya with a darker background. I'm certainly not going to complain about more Illya to look at and I'm willing to share the bounty.

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