Short Affair PROMPTS for October 14th

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You'll find the prompts for October 7th down below the cut. For stories due today, simply follow this link.

https://section7mfu.livejournal.com/2636636.html

Don't forget, you can now chose to use one of the prompt words, or to use both in your story (not forgetting the colour element), remembering to state which combination of prompts you are using.

Remember, Section VII is a Gen site, but stories which are Het, Long-term Romance or AU can be posted in mfu_map_room.

You can post directly to Section VII or, if you wish, you can post your story elsewhere and provide a link. Please say where the link leads as a lot of people are unwilling to go to certain sites. Don't forget, Section VII and the Map Room are both available on Dreamwidth, for those of you who can figure it out (Just let us know if you posted there).

Have fun.

-Prompt Word 1 - Midnight

-Prompt Word 2 – Boy

-Prompt Colour – Silver

-Due Date – 14th October 2019

Challenge Rules

-Your story can be built around one or both of the prompt words plus the colour. I.E.- Word 1/Colour, Word 2/Colour, or Word 1/Word 2/Colour.

-Word Count - must be between 300 and 1000.

-All stories should be headed with ‘Short Affair’ Challenge, the due date and your title.

-Please state at the top of your post which prompt combination you are using.

-Tags - please use short_affair, gen or gen-mature.

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The Seven Days of Halloween Challenge PROMPTS!

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The prompts for the 7 Days of Halloween Challege!

Thanks to Glennagirl for suggesting these!

Statistical stuff: minumum words as little as a few sentences, no maximum word count.

Subject Matter: Write a stand alone or wip using each prompt.

Posting here should fit into the GENeral concepts of the section7mfu community, contain nothing explicit and reflects the 1960's series in style and content, and featuring our brave Men from U.N.C.L.E. This year's challenge is being expanded to include the Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

There is a GEN-mature tag option for stories that contain violence, torture, angst or very mild het. So if your story falls under one of these categories, please use the appropriate tag.

Where to post: Gen stories, gen-mature post in section7mfu
  
Rules: Stories are due on each date indicated and in the order the prompts were given.
Please include your story title and prompt in the subject header. One prompt/one story per day for each of the 7 days.

"Wild Thing" for The Short Affair Challenge 10/7/19

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Challenge: The Short Affair

-Prompt Word 1 - Feral

-Prompt Colour – White

Title:” Wild Thing”

Author: mrua7

Word Count: Approx. 1000

It was a situation with which Napoleon Solo had never dealt before.

Crouched in front of him, hissing and snarling was a curled up ball of filth, its hair matted and full of leaves and bits of twigs.

“Easy there,” he spoke gently. “I’m not going to hurt you.”

He inched closer to it ever so slowly; the last thing he wanted was to get bitten. He had it cornered as its back was to the rear wall of the shed, though having closed the door, Napoleon had cut off its means of escape.

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Word of the Day

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Did you think I forgot?

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7

Masticate

[mas-tə-kayt]Part of speech: verb

Origin: middle english, 17th century

• To chew food
• To crush into pulp

Examples of Masticate in a sentence

• His injured jaw left him unable to masticate his meals.
• Rhinos have a unique way of masticating the leaves and branches they eat throughout their lives.

About Masticate

Where did chewing, or masticating, come from? We owe the process by which we eat nearly all foods to mammalian herbivores. In fact, carnivorous animals actually hardly chew at all. Their jaws are designed to rip food free and swallow it whole. This explains the origin of the phrase "wolfing it down."

Did you Know?

They don't sound exactly the same, but masticate shares its roots with another fancy-sounding word relating to the teeth — mandible.

Putting A Face On It...

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I couldn't decide if it belongs here or in the MFU Gallery.  I decided here works just fine.

On Watch - Short Affair - October 7th

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Prompts - Insert/White
Word Count - 443

You can find the story below the cut, or you can follow the link to go to AO3. (Can't post a picture, because I still can't get them to work)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20940020

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