a heads up

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Kuryakin File #38 is actively seeking gen stories. Hope to publish before end of December, 2017. Also in need of cover art and inside art.

Send manuscript and questions to Lisa Madden, Publisher/Editor at below address.

lemadden52@gmail.com

Sort of an Impromptu Challenge...

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

laurose8 had a suggestion for a challenge, and I'm passing it on to everyone.  Her idea was to write a story based on the upcoming St. Martin's Day.  St. Martin of Tours is the patron saint of horses, and is the patron saint of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, which has a medal in his name.
The idea is to write a story based around a lot of horses, one horse, or anything that can point us in the direction of a horse.
St. Martin's Day is November 11, which is this coming Sunday.  You can write something original, or post a story that has been around for awhile.  We might also use this as a scavenger hunt, just to see how many horse/MFU stories are out there.
I leave it to you. There are no real rules here, just horses.

"A gift horse" for the Impromptu Horse Challenge.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

This is horse-related but not the way you'd expect.  Posting just to get this impromptu challenge off to a start... Thanks to Laurose for the prompt.

"A Gift Horse"

It was a sweltering summer night, with the temperature somewhere in the nineties...which meant it felt even hotter because of the high in humidity.

It was weather such at this that Illya Kuryakin found almost torturous. His Slavic blood preferred it much cooler but alas, coolness was not in the cards for him.

He sat on his fire escaped dressed only in a pair of black gym shorts, a cigarette balanced motionless between his fingers.

The ash had burned quite long and was hanging there. Finally he moved, tapping the butt with his finger, sending the ash fluttering away in the hot breeze.

He swore the city was noisier than usual tonight, perhaps it was the atmospheric pressure affecting the acoustics….after all, the speed of sound in air varies depending on several factors, including humidity.

He took a drag on his cigarette, exhaling the smoke slowly, watching it dissipate in the moisture laden air.

There was a meteor shower tonight; the Perseids were supposed to peak but with the cloud cover and the lights from the city, that would make them difficult to see.

“Illya?” Napoleon called from the fire escape outside his bedroom window; his apartment was on the floor above Kuryakin’s.

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PicFic Tuesday Prompt!

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We are going to a twice monthly schedule for the PicFic Challenge in order to alternate with the new challenge called "The Once Upon a Time Affair."

The first prompt for PicFic this month posts today November 7th, the second posts on the 21st. You'll have the following week to publish your responses.

As always, you can still post anytime for PicFic challenges that you might have missed in the past, as open posting remains.

For those of you new to the challenge, the rules are as follows:

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Here's your prompt:

Crossing into the dark

[hypatia_66]

What is real, who’s that? Who’s writing this stuff? A disorientation for Halloween ...

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"To the rescue!" for the impromptu horse challenge

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I have a fair number of horse related stories, so much that I surprised even myself.

In the old Western movies the cavalry comes to the rescue and sometimes even for an U.N.C.L.E. agent. a vignette, just for fun.

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“To the Rescue!”

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Napoleon Solo knelt on the ground, covered in dirt and muck and hissed as he felt the burning sting from a of cactus spine jabbing his calf.

The Thrushman, Cal Washburn, pushed against the middle of Solo's back, sending the U.N.C.L.E. agent forward onto his face. Then pressing his boot onto the side of Napoleon’s head, he dangled his razor sharp spur dangerously close the the man’s handsome chin.

“Say your prayers you U.N.C.L.E. Yankee, yer about to meet yer maker.” The man spoke with a heavy Texas drawl.

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