Weekly Calendar For Section VII

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'Short Affair' PROMPTS

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Here we are at Monday again. The stories from this prompt will be the last 'Short Affairs' of the year and, rather wonderfully, one of the words is quite apt.

As always, the prompts and rules can e found under the cut.

Have fun with it.
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"The Green Opal Dragon" for the Short Affair

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Challenge: The Short Affair

-Prompt Word #1 - Pendant

-Prompt Colour – Brown

Author: mrua7

Title: The Green Opal Dragon

Word count: Approx. 2000 OOPS sorry I blew the maximum word count of 1000. I couldn't help myself.Blame it on Illya and the angst...

Napoleon and Illya were scurrying along a hill, the landscape of which was bereft of any fresh growth as there’d been a severe drought in the area.  What that area was, they had no idea, having been taken captive and transported to the place in the middle of the night during a mission that had gone bad. With Christmas fast approaching, that cast a pall over what had already happened.

Things didn't look good for either of them making it out alive, much less home for the holidays, but one could always hope. That was the thought the eternal optimist Napoleon maintained, though he said nothing to his partner.

At the moment, they were scrambling along amidst the dry brush, helping to support each other. Their short term goal was making it to a mountain not far off in the distance; there surrounded by pines, they could at least lose themselves until they came up with a plan.

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Final PicFic Tuesday Prompt for 2014

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A huge thank you to everyone who participated in the PicFic challenge throughout 2014.  This is the final prompt for the year and would love to have you all join in one last time.  PicFic will continue in 2015 and I hope in advance that you enjoy the stories that will be coming down the pike!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from

Should auld aquaintance be forgot in days of auld lang syne... Here's your final PicFic prompt:

                 

Feast Days - 'Short Affair' Challenge - Dec 22nd

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Prompts – Intake/Brown
Word Count (approx.) – 600


I’m not sure of the history of the name of the food item mentioned in this story (though the thing itself has been around for centuries), so I may be taking a hugely inaccurate liberty.

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To Illya Kuryakin, the way the Waverly home had been decorated for Christmas reminded him of something out of Dickens. His wonderment at the sumptuous opulence was at war with the outraged communist in him. However, the Russian’s respect and admiration for his boss allowed him to accept his surroundings.

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The 'Correspondence' Affair #44 - June 23, 1914 (Millicent to Alexander)

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From : Thun, Switzerland

June 23, 1914

My dearest Alexander,

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