The Great Episode Challenge Bonus Edition: Delusions of Grandeur

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In Season Two's "The Bat Cave Affair," Count Zark is infuriated to realize that Illya Kuryakin is unfamiliar with him.  "I have fantasies of UNCLE giving orders: 'Get Zark at any price!' and here you've never even heard of me!"

The challenge is: Write a story that explains why Zark felt he was, or should have been, one of UNCLE's most wanted.

( The story... )

The Great Episode Challenge Bonus Round - Man of Mystery

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In Season Two's "The Bat Cave Affair," Count Zark is infuriated to realize that Illya Kuryakin is unfamiliar with him. "I have fantasies of UNCLE giving orders: 'Get Zark at any price!' and here you've never even heard of me!"

The challenge is: Write a story that explains why Zark felt he was, or should have been, one of UNCLE's most wanted.


( Clearly I was sleep-deprived when I wrote this... )

What's My Line?

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Today is the day for posting the Halloween edition of What's My Line?; the prompt was Liar, Liar Pants on Fire!

artwork by Jennie Fillius

Post tomorrow and through the weekend, and that goes for anything else you've written for the week of willies we've enjoyed here on Section VII.  If you missed a date just go ahead and post it, we want to read your stories!

Bonus Great Episode Challenge for Day 5 of the 7 Days of Halloween!

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"The legend of Count Zark"~ for the bonus Great Episode Challenge.

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Challenge: The Bonus Great Episode Challenge

Title: “The legend of Count Zark

Author: mrua7

Word Count: 710

Rating: Gen

The prompt:

Write a story that explains why Zark felt he was, or should have been, one of UNCLE's most wanted.

“Cassius Clay was wrong when he uttered he was the greatest!” A man pounded his fist on the heavy oak table in his great hall within his palatial mansion.

“It is I, Count Ladislaus Zark who should have the honor of that title! No one out there has the style and panache that I possess, nor the cleverness.” He dramatically whipped his purple lined opera cape about himself as he strode towards the window.

It overlooked his gardens, vast and grandiose. Within them a maze made  of thorny bushes.

“That,” he pointed, “is where I should have sent that runt of an UNCLE agent Kuryakin, instead of letting my darlings feed upon him. There he would have surely languished and died and not have been able to touch my control panels, recalling my bats and ruining my plans.”

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But It's Not Halloween - Great Episode Challenge Bonus Round

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Joining THRUSH had been a good decision, Zark thought on reflection. It was good to be surrounded with like-minded people who saw the cowering masses were calling out for true leadership, to be ruled by the new aristocracy. Not to mention the funding for his research was very nice indeed.

For the moment it did mean he had to put up with the occasional interloper peering over his shoulder, or with periodic summons to explain his work or be given some new tasks to complete, but he could live with that for now at least. One day soon he would be in charge of THRUSH and all would leap to do his bidding. Finally, he was building his reputation among the hierarchy. How often now had he met some new THRUSH comrade-in-arms and heard the same refrain? “Oh, you're Zark...I've heard of you.” Already he was infamous.

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