Title: "The Time Will Come"
Author: brightknightie
Beta-Reader: batdina
Recipient: Sharpest_asp | Merfilly
Prompt: Gen. Janette. "The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
Length: 2,513 words
Rating/warnings: G. No warnings apply.

"The Time Will Come"

No surprise: I've played in all six past FKFicFest games, and I'm playing again this year. :-) Thank you all for playing with me!

Who: brightknightie |
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Title: "Wake the Morning After"
Author: brightknightie
Beta-reader: LastScorpion
Recipient: gnosticdiva
Prompt: Nick/Natalie. "Please don't argue. You have to leave right now-you're not safe here."
Length: 14,967 words
Rating/warnings: PG-13. Highlight to view: * My recipient in this game affiliates as a "Dark N&Ner," so this story runs "darker" (more disturbing ( Read more... )

No surprise: I've played in all five past FKFicFest games, and I'm playing again this year. :-) Thank you so much for playing with me!

Who: brightknightie |
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Title: Missing Persons
Author: brightknightie
Recipient: greerwatson
Beta-reader: skieswideopen
Prompt: Nick, his partner, their captain, other cops from canon. From a perspective other than Nick's: a "police plot" with "vampire complications" kept "strictly on the side."
Length: 8,449 words
Rating/Warnings: PG. Highlight to view: * grief/mourning; mistakenly believed major ( Read more... )

And, finally, there's me, of course. :-) Thank you all so very much for having me!

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Title: Closer to the Renaissance
Author: Amy R. (Brightknightie)
Beta-Readers: Skieswideopen, Sholio, Natmerc
Recipient: Batdina
Prompt: "a moment from that century in Italy of which we saw a brief taste at the end of 'Partners of the Month.'"
Characters: Nick/Janette, Lacroix, Original Female Character, cameo by Leonardo da Vinci
Length: ~4,400 words
Rating/Warnings: PG-13. Highlight to view ( Read more... )

My thanks to everyone who played in this year's game!  Whether you wrote, beta'd or read, your energy, enthusiasm and camaraderie shone across the community.  You made this so much fun!  Thank you most of all, from the bottom of my (not still, not cold) heart, for loving our unmatchable vampire-homicide-cop show and sharing that love with us all ( Read more... )

Title: "Chante à Nouveau"
Author: brightknightie
Beta-Readers: batdina, wiliqueen, skieswideopen
Recipient: hearts_blood
Prompt: “'You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.' - A. Porchia. There is a connection between what Lacroix feels for Urs and what he once felt for Fleur.”
Length: 10,090 words
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 / Highlight to view: * Vampire Behavior, Sexual ( Read more... )

Our thanks to everyone who played in this ficathon game!  Thank you for sharing your energy and enthusiasm, whether as a writer, beta-reader or reader.  Thank you for still loving our dear vampire-homicide-cop show, and for sharing that love with this community.  (Thank you for braving this week’s recurring site outages, too.)  We’ve had a ( Read more... )