The "Halloween" challenge is now CLOSED. Thanks very much to those of you who participated! You are now free to post your stories in other communities, archives, etc.
As always, you can find all responses to past challenges in the community memories, sorted by challenge name.
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Your new challenge is:
AU (Alternate Universe)
Take one or more -- or all -- of our characters, and make them anything other than what they are.
Put them all on a baseball team. Make Tony and Abby dance instructors and the others their clients. Make Madame Director a real madame pimping out high-class escorts... DiNozzo as rentboy, anyone? Abby hooker!fic? Or go for an academic AU and show us Ducky and McGee and Abby as college professors; who would be the football coach, do you think? Put them all in the White House or Parliament or Buckingham Palace, make them prison inmates or astronauts or newspaper reporters or put them on a starship. You're limited only by your imagination.
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You have two weeks to post your responses. This challenge will close at midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday, November 21st.
Remember, your contributions are to be posted only to this community for the duration of the challenge. For the convenience of your moderators, please don't forget to format your subject line [title] by [author].
Have fun!
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HEADS UP: On November 21 we will begin our six-week Amnesty Challenge during which you will be able to post fics for any of the previously posted challenges. So if you want to start thinking about it now, you can peruse the past challenges
in the community Memories.