Pumpkin Pie! Do You Love It or Hate It? Whipped Cream on Top or Plain?

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"One for the road" for PicFic Tuesday Challenge 11/22

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The prompt:

It was quarter to three in the morning when a bedraggled Napoleon Solo sat alone at the bar in P.J. Clarke’s located on Third Avenue on the northeast corner of East 55th Street. This particular drinking establishment went way back as it was a good old fashioned saloon established in the late 1800’s.

The bar was once owned by a Patrick J. Clarke, an Irish emigrant who was hired in the early 1900s by a Mr. Duneen who ran the saloon. After about ten years working for him, Clarke bought the bar and changed the name and it had been in business under that name ever since.

Besides being open for such a long time, it had another claim to fame and that was that Nat King Cole once proclaimed in the late ‘50s that his P.J. Clarke's bacon cheeseburger was "the Cadillac of burgers!"

Whether that was true or not was immaterial to Solo at the moment; he wasn’t there to eat. All he wanted was another drink.

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Calling All Writers! Calling All Writers!

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You asked for it...a Christmas Round Robin.
Now's the time to sign up for
"T'was the U.N.C.L.E. Round Robin"

The prompt is a poem composed by our
fearless leader glennagirl and will
give lots of wiggle room to write.

Same parameters as last time,
minimum 100 word chapters
with no maximum.

The number of writers who sign up will determine the length
and the December start time for the challenge.

Comment on this post to sign up!

Our Halloween Round Robin was a huge success, and
we hope all the writers who joined in will be back again!


Writers on board:

ssclassof56, pfrye, avirra, katb357,  jantojones, alynwa, sidhe_uaine42, mrua7 and glennagirl.
We'd like to hit at least a dozen writers again for this round robin so there'll be
only one chapter each.

So don't forget to sign up!

Requiem of Spirit (non-challenge fic)

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My first of two presents for Roberts's birthday...

Title: Requiem of Spirit
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~4000
Author: Rose of Pollux

(Cross-posted to fanfiction.net and AO3, if you prefer reading there. This is an "early days" fic, the sequel to the "Nocturne of Shadow" I posted in September--and the conclusion (yes, we've reached the end!) of the "Baron of THRUSH" arc.

( Requiem of Spirit )

For the Man Who has Everything [for Robert Vaughn; Picfic Tuesday 11/22]

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I, too, decided to turn today's picfic into a Robert Vaughn birthday tribute...

Picfic 11/22
Prompt:

Title: For the Man Who has Everything
Author: Rose of Pollux
Word Count: ~3500

Also available on fanfiction.net and AO3 if you prefer reading there.

( For the Man Who has Everything )

The Gift of a More Exciting Future - Pic fic Tuesday - Nov 22nd

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Written in honour of Robert Vaughn, on what would have been his 84th birthday.

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So look at your life, who do you want to be before you die?
Look at your life, and what do you want to do.
So look at your life, who do you want to be before you die?
Look at your life, you haven't got forever.

And tell me what really matters, is it the money and the fame?
Or how many people might eventually know your name?
But maybe you touch one life, and the world becomes a better place to be.
Maybe you give their dreams another day, another chance to be free.

“Birthday” – The Cruxshadows

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His stint in the army had ended and now it was time for Napoleon Solo to decide what he was going to do with the rest of his life. His father wanted him to take a government job, but Napoleon had no desire to get stuck behind a desk. He was a man of action, and in the army he’d always felt as though he was actively helping to keep the world safe. There was a big part of him which wanted to keep a hold of that. As he stood in front of his bedroom mirror, preparing for the birthday party his parents were throwing for him, he heard a light tapping on the door.

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