In the wake of the Strikethrough drama - which I'm sure everyone knows more than enough about - there are at least six challenges running right now that I know of. So we're opting to wait to run our Father's Day challenge in late June instead. We'll post the list for claiming around then. In the meantime, you can still post to our List of Father ( Read more... )

Stories and authors are linked below! This post will be edited as late stories come in. If there's no link, then the author hasn't (yet) turned in their story! If you want to read it, you have modly permission (not that you need it) to go whine to the author who claimed them.

Keep a look out for claims to open for Father's Day!

( Master List of Fic for the Mother's Day Challenge 2007 )

The results are in!

rejeneration, oraclejenn & thebratqueen, please respond with which LJ account you would like the 2 months credit applied to ( Read more... )

The Deadline is now past! If you have late stories, you are by ALL MEANS encouraged to post them anyways! Let the reading and the joy and the motherly affection begin. We've had 14 authors submit 15 stories with promises of a few more coming in after the deadline! That is a GREAT response for a random seed of an idea, I think ( Read more... )

Title: Pearls
Author: Hobsonphile
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Character: Edna O’Reilly
Summary: A mother makes a choice.
Rating: Corporal (G)
Word Count: 587

( My mother croons me songs all soft and low... )

Title: This Woman's Work
Author: freneticfloetry
Fandom: Grey's Anatomy
Characters: Miranda Bailey (cast mentions)
Summary: The nature of sacrifice… No one ever said being the breadwinner was easy.
Word Count: 1586
Rating: PG

( Sometimes she misses being pregnant. )

Title: Rain Child
Author: melayneseahawk
Fandom: Eureka
Characters: Allison Blake, Kevin Blake
Summary: The hardest part of raising an autistic savant isn’t the silent spells, or the days when he talks and talks and she can’t understand a word.
Rating: G

Fic's a little short, but the mods said it was ok. My second one should be up tomorrow.

(Rain Child | G | ( Read more... )

Series: Lois McMaster Bujold's "Vorkosigan Saga"
Rating: G
Disclaimer: The Vorbarras and the rest of the Vorkosoverse belong to LMB.
Notes: Thank you to avariecaita for being a great beta on a short deadline! And to Patricia Polacco for writing Thunder Cake and inspiring my own family's tradition.
Warnings: Spoilers for Shards of Honor. Also, it makes a heck ( Read more... )

title: now it's the devil i love
author: acidquill
disclaimer: don't own em.
fandom: Supernatural
characters: Mary Winchester, mentions of the rest of the family
rating: pg-13
warnings: vague SPOILERS for 2x21. & a dark-ish tint overall.
word count: 682
notes: this is my attempt at explaining a few things about Mama Winchester post AHBL. thanks ( Read more... )

Title: Creed
Author: eyesdelight
Fandom: Heroes
Characters: Angela Petrelli, Nathan, Peter, mention of Claire & Bennet
Summary: A mother must believe in many things.
Rating: PG/PG-13 for one word
Word Count: 1015

( A mother keeps secrets. )