1st Place:

she'll never be a story i make up by bob5fic

2nd Place:

gravitational theory for chumps by frozenmolasses

3rd Place:

is I can't come to terms (settle for something less) by slimybunny

Congrats to all the winners! And thank you to everybody who participated in this challenge.
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Title: whatever a moon has always meant
Characters:Lily (Owen, Rufus)
Rating/Word Count: PG-13, 1,068
One-Line Excerpt: Lily hides out on the beach, for months, taking pictures of the surfers and the skyline every morning before attending the required number of classes to keep her mother out of her life.
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Title: is I can't come to terms (settle for somethign less)
Characters: Chuck and Dan
Rating/Word Count: PG/2213
One Line Excerpt: Boy meets boy and they fall in something more than love. There's no metaphor for that.
 ( It's different from every story Dan's ever written. )

Title: open up my hands (and find out they're empty)
Characters: Lily, Lily/Owen.
Rating/Word Count: G / 940.
One-Line Excerpt: Is this the part where you fall in love with me?

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Title:What's My Name
Characters: Chuck & Blair
Rating/Word Count: M/1,105
One-Line Excerpt: “When will you ever learn that every time I say that, it turns into the biggest lie I’ve ever told?”

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Title: who needs sleep when we've got love
Characters: Nate/Serena
Rating/Word Count: PG/1480
One-Line Excerpt: Serena listens to his voice, lets it seep through the phone and settle onto her skin, can't ignore the tingly feeling she gets whenever anything Nate comes up.

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Title: Inescapable
Characters: Blair/Nate/Serena
Rating/Word Count: T/636
One Line Excerpt: Nate couldn’t escape Blair, any less than he could escape Serena. His girls.

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Title: gravitational theory for chumps
Characters: Carter, Nate, Chuck
Rating/Word Count: R / 1022
One-Line Excerpt: Now, once again, he's landed in this city, the one that looks so great from a bird's-eye-view, but once your feet hit it, they stick to gum-spotted sidewalks and everything starts to smell like afternoon trash.

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Title: with your heartbeat next to mine
Characters: Nate/Serena
Rating/Word Count: pg / 555
One-Line Excerpt: Don't go don't go don't go, he thinks.

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