Thanks to everyone who participated in the Beauty Challenge. You can find all entries here, or by clicking on the appropriate tag.

TITLE: Sleeping Beauty
AUTHOR: Andromeda
FANDOM: Life on Mars
SUMMARY: Life on Mars in less than a thousand words, as retold by The Brothers Grimm
SPOILERS: All episodes. AU.
RATING: White Cortina (it's a fairytale, folks)
WARNINGS CRACK!
WORD COUNT: 990 words
EMAIL: fiandyfic@livejournal.com
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Do I need an excuse or just a ( Read more... )

Title: In The Eye of The Beholder
Author: liquorishflame
Rating: Blue Cortina for character death and angst.
Summary: Beauty blinds us sometimes...
A/N: Written hurriedly for the Beauty Challenge, posted in the nick of time! Thanks muchly to vicfarmer, who beated this whilst on vacation. Muchas gracias :)

( Beauty is truth, truth beauty,- that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. )

Title: I Want To Make You Feel Beautiful
Author: talkingtothesky
Rating: White Cortina
Word Count: 451
Notes: Sam/Annie. Title, summary and cut text from Maroon 5's She Will Be Loved. Spoilers for series finale.
Summary: It's not always rainbows and butterflies, it's compromise, it moves us along.

He’s travelled an impossibly long way to be here. Thirty ( Read more... )

Title: "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"
Rating: Blue Cortina
Word Count: 858 words.
Notes: Sam/Maya, Sam/Gene
Summary: The more things change, the more they stay the same.

( plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose )

Title: Connection
Author: Vic
Rating: White Cortina, suitable for all
Word count: approx 250 words
Pairing: Gene and surprise
Spoilers: none
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Gene remembers the day he first saw her…….
Notes: am just about to go on holiday (woohoo!) but had a quick burst of inspiration for the Life on Mars Flashfiction challenge. ( Read more... )

Title: Brave New World
Pairing: Gene/OMC, Gene/Sam
Rating: Blue Cortina
Words: ~2,250
Notes: When I saw this week's challenge, another bunny for Gene's backstory hit me. This could but does not have to be a sequel to Make Do and Mend.
Summary:  'How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in't' (Miranda, The Tempest, V, i)

“You look ( Read more... )

Title: Five Times Annie is told she's beautiful.
Author: totallywow
Rating: Green Cortina
Pairing: Annie/OMC, Sam/Annie
Word count: 527 words.
Disclaimer: Not mine, dammit.
Summary: Five times Annie is told she's beautiful.
A/N: Un-beta'd, so if you see a mistake.. please tell me! I think I got the rating ok. There is a small sex scene but definitely not ( Read more... )

God damn right, it's a beautiful day.

Not always. Not even often, in the Life on Mars world. Our heroes deal with ugly situations, with deformed methods. But sometimes, when the light is catching the green of Gene's eye, or Sam's shirt is open, or Annie smiles, or Ray and Chris are playing with their torches like young teens --- there's beauty ( Read more... )