Happy HODOWE!

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HODOWE posting is open now through Friday, July 26th.

This month we're celebrating National Ice Cream Day . Full information about the prompt is here.

Let the festivities begin!

WRITER'S AND READER'S CHOICE!

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Tired of seeing the same authors rec'd over and over.  Why not do a little recommending of your own? The WRITER'S AND READER'S CHOICE gives you, the writers and readers of MFU fanfiction, the opportunity to post your personal picks,
be it your own stories or those of your favorite author.

Dig up your faves from way back when and revive them here, or rec a more recently written story. Post a link to them here in section7mfu

Just remember this is a gen site, however that being said, you may rec stories of a gen-mature nature that contain violence, torture, or mild het.

Please use the subject header and tag: writers and readers choice and the tags gen or gen-mature, section vii

We're looking forward to reading your recs!

Just a reminder:
Writing challenges now in progress:

NEW! The Long Story Challenge: where to post and when- TBA

The Short Affair: posts every Monday
current prompts/stories due July 22nd

Pic Fic Tuesday Challenge: prompt posts first Tuesday
of the month, stories due last Tuesday or end of month.

HOWDOWE: Hoildays of dubious origins writing challenge
on now, posts July 20th - July 26th

A Little Drabble do Ya: Weekly drabble challenges
post every Wednesday

Song Story Challenge: posts monthly, prompts
coming soon.

"Ground Control to Major Tom" by mrua7 for THE WRITER'S AND READER'S CHOICE!

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I first posted this story in 2014 as an homage to the early NASA space program, but given it's the 50th anniversary of the first men landing on the moon, I thought it a good story to repost.  It involves a certain blond Russian who becomes an unwilling participant in the NASA program.

“This is Houston, what is your status Mercury 10?”

Static filled air in the command center for several minutes.

“I say again this is Capcom calling Mercury 10, what is your status, Brotherhood 7?”

“This is (cough) Illya Kuryakin; I inadvertently became locked inside the capsule while trying to subdue an impostor who was planning to blow up...well, sabotage your mission.”

In the struggle that ensued Illya killed the saboteur, however, the door to the capsule closed on him, and was locked by the ground crew, not knowing what had taken place inside.

It was too late as the ignition sequence had begin. Illya, quickly thinking, stripped the dead man of his space suit and buckled himself in place as the Atlas rocket ignited and took off, sending them hurtling into the stratosphere.

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'Oranges and Lemons' for the Writer's and Reader's Choice!

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This was a chapter from an ABC Affair challenge a few years ago, in this case each chapter corresponding to a letter of the English alpabet was a stand alone.  This was for the letter 'O'.

Oranges and Lemons by mrua7

‘Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. Clement's.’

That was what the note said, as well as an addendum that read, “Follow the instructions if you want to see your partner alive.’  That meant going to each church in order.

Kuryakin knew the traditional  English nursery rhyme that was being referenced here all too well, traditionally it referred to the bells of several churches, all within or close to the city of London.

He was directed to go to the next church, St. Peter’s and there he’d receive further information.

Illya had spent three years stationed in the London office and then Berlin before transferring to U.N.C.L.E. headquarters in New York, so he knew his way around the London town like a native.

He suspected the person who had kidnapped Napoleon was unaware that he, being a Russian, possessed such knowledge, especially since they were using an older version of the rhyme ‘Oranges and Lemons…’

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Writer's choice: Did you say UNCLE?

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In a case of mistaken identity, an innocent is caught up in an operation to destroy a Thrush stronghold 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15137720

Illya watching from the car