This list is simply an unsorted list of all the stories on the archive, the newest stories are at the top, and the challenge the story meets is in parentheses after the title
The Devils You Know
(October 2009) by Charlotte C. Hill
Choice 1: The Sporting Challenge: Write a story where two or more of the guys are participating in a sport or sporting challenge. They could be a baseball team, a cycling team, a basketball team getting ready for a big game (and yes, I *did* just go to a "high school" type story!). They could be getting ready for the intra-teams ATF competition, and fully prepared to breeze along on Vin's shooting skills. They could be playing a pick-up game after work. Note: one of them could accept a challenge and the other(s) could support, bet, etc."
C/B; ATF; FRAOJD Dunne's Awful Horrible Very Bad Day (July 2009) by Kim
Choice 2: Write a story that consists entirely of written materials such as letters, telegrams, diary entries, (modern day text messages/email,) etc.
ATF; FRTLas Almas (April 2009) by Stan Lee
Choice 2: This iconic photo of Hernandez, New Mexico was shot in 1941, but it could equally belong in the Old West, or in ATF and post-apocolyptic AUs. When did the guys arrive in this tiny town? Where are the inhabitants? Who is buried in all those graves?
C/B; OW; FRMStories in the Skin
(July 2009) by Farad
Universe: Drifterverse (Artisan447's wonderful universe!)
Choice 1: The Take-their-boots-off Challenge! Any situation that requires one (or more) of the Seven to remove the boots of another.
Note: This is an out-take from a longer story that explains a lot more about what's going on, but I needed a minute of Josiah's perspective to set it in my head. So - this is that.
Vin/Chanu, hints of Josiah/Vin; AU - Drifter; FRMEndo (February 2009) by Farad
February 2009 Choice 2: Write a kissing scene. There are several here, actually.
Universe: Tour de Seven (See Charlotte's founding story Shifting Gears) This is what happened to Vin in Belgium.
J/V; Tour de Seven; FRAOCold Grey Dawn (February 2009) by Farad
February: Choice 1: One of the boys has to bleed. Warnings: Deathfic (of a sort). Author's notes: I recently had the great angsty pleasure of reading Zeke Black's Clear Blue Sky which is about as emotionally intense as it's possible to be. This is my own version of what the epilogue should have been, and yes, Zeke has not only read it, but suffered beta-ing it for me twice!
C/E; Old West; FRMInterlude 1 (December 2008) by Ashlyn
For Farad, who asked for wet Vin, and December 2008, write a story with no dialog
E/V; ATF; FRAOZephyr (June 2008) by Tarlan
Summary: Chris and Vin find some shade from the heat of a high noon
Choice 1: Write a story where the weather plays an important part in how the plot develops
C/V; OW; FRAOA Game of Chance (May 2008) by Tarlan
Summary: Sometimes weeks would pass before they felt it was safe enough to spend time alone together
Choice 1: Tell a story that includes a backstory of how one of the seven acquired an item that we associate with him. I've chosen a pack of playing cards
C/E; OW; FRAOFortalezan Fortal (November, December 2008; February, March 2009) by Farad
March: Choice 2: Write something out of your comfort zone. For example, Stan (I think it was Stan) nailed me on glossing over dark details, because they make me uncomfortable. In my Sons of Anarchy-M7 crossover, I gave minimal details in the gang bang scene; February: Choice 2: Smooching challenge - a kissing scene. December: Choice 2: Write a story using NO DIALOG, just all narrative. November: Choice 1: Write a "scene you'd like to see" -- In other words, using any episode, rewrite an existing scene the way you would have liked to see it had you had the control.
V; Old West; FRMSweets in Every Fold (September 2008 and August 2008) by Farad
From September, Choice 1: take one of your least favorite fannish cliches and write it into a story, debunking it AND from August: Choice 2: Length challenge: 500 words (or thereabouts) on one of the following themes: friendship
B-V; Old West; FRTSalt-Laden Whispers in the Wounds of Night (October 2008) by Farad
Warnings: Dark themes, suggestions of sorts of torture. Write a story that begins with the following sentence: "The Pacific Ocean, he mused, was damned big."
C/V/B; AU-Shadow Riders; FRAOThe Bachelor Party (March 2009) by Evil Jacquie
Write about a situation where two of the seven have to agree to disagree. Something comes up that they cannot agree on no matter how much they fight about or discuss it. In the end, they disagree. Hopefully there is lots of manly cussing before they come to that understanding.
C-B; ATF; FRMCasting a Shadow (April 2008) by Tarlan
A day in the life; leather, dawn, what's he doing in my bed: Six weeks after learning of Ella's obsession, Chris starts to get back on with his life, with a friend's help
C/V; OW; FRAOPray for a Win (December 2008) by Kim
Write a story with no dialog
ATF; FRTSkinning the Cat (April 2008) by Ashlyn
A day in the life: Chris, Vin, a cougar, a creek, some sex
C/V; OW; FRAOMessy (August 2008) by Charlotte C. Hill
The differences between the genders
C/B; Any modern AU; FRAOAnd This is the Apple (November 2008) by Farad
Warnings: discussions of a religious nature: Seven Deadly Sins
Write a "scene you'd like to see" -- I didn't rewrite the scene so much as add to it.
N-J; OW; FRTTesting the Waters (October 2008) by Ashlyn
What happens when your old employers still have their hands on your career?
E/V; ATF; FRAOBefriended by the Moon (a Not Quite Challenge story) by Farad and Artisan447
More in the Drifter AU, and it is set before the founding story Drifter. The title is from a Crow (Native American Indian) story.
Vin/Chanu; AU-Drifter; FRAOHis Own Laws (August 2008) by Farad
For the timed challenge: Set aside 30 minutes. Write. When the timer goes off, reset for 10 minutes and finish whatever it is you wrote in the last 30 minutes. Where you see the "+_+_+_ " symbols is where the timer went off, but I was on a roll, so I kept going.
C/B, C/V, implied B/JD; OW; FRMDrift Currents (a Not Quite Challenge story) by Artisan477 and Farad
Another piece of the Drifter AU
J/V; AU-Drifter; FRAOIts Own Place (June 2008) by Farad
Write a story where the weather plays an important part in how the plot develops
C/V; OW; FRAOOnly This (September 2008) by Stan Lee
Use these in a story: “throw a punch” “meaner than a snake” and “velvet”
C/B; OW; FRAOHolding My Own (August 2008) by Kim
30 minute timed challenge
C/V; ATF; FRTMaybe (April 2008) by Kim
For the prompts: "What the hell is he doing in my bed? Leather and Dawn"
C/V; ATF; FRTMaybe Not (April 2008) by Kim
Companion piece to Maybe
C/V; ATF; FRTDrifter (August 2008) by Artisan447
30 minute timed challenge
Ezra Standish had never really thought about what it meant to be Andarchic, but meeting Vin Tanner forced him to consider what it must be like to be excluded from almost all aspects of society and technology.
E/V; AU-Drifter; FRTThe Lay of the Land (August 2008) by Stan Lee
30 minute timed challenge
Note: I cheated a little. I took a snippet from my WIP file and used the thirty minutes to finally finish it off.
C/B; Old West; FRAOJunctures (May 2008) by Farad
Tell a story that includes a backstory of how one of the seven acquired an item that we associate with him (Vin's harmonica or Ezra's flash or ring or gold tooth, Chris' guns or spurs or duster, Nathan's knives or the scabbard, Josiah's Bible or serape - et cetera...);
and: Write a story using the following words and phrase: 'map', 'wagon', and 'I'm not kidding..."
Crossover with Deadwood
J/V, Trixie/Sol; OW; FRAOMornings (August 2008) by Charlotte C. Hill
30-minute timed writing challenge
C/B; Any modern AU; FRMTorques (July 2008) by Farad
In response to challenge ideas from Sam and Sprite, and for the WEC July challenge - take a fandom cliché and make it work. This one is a variation on "I love my rapist".
Josiah/Vin, Chris/Buck; Escorts; FRAOHomecoming (May 2008) by Evil Jacquie
"Write a story using the following words and phrase: map, wagon, and I'm not kidding...."
C/B; Any modern AU; FRMAsterism (May 2008) by Zeke Black
Write a story using the following words and phrase: "map, wagon, and I'm not kidding...." (except I used "wain" instead of "wagon" and altered the phrase to "I ain't kidding")
C/E; OW; FRAORaising the Ante (May 2008) by Charlotte C. Hill and Farad
"Write a story using the following words and phrase: map, wagon, and I'm not kidding...."
Note: This is a sort of founding story for the version of the Escorts universe that Charlotte and Stan Lee did where Chris and Buck are together. This takes place before JD comes in (those stories were written by Stan Lee and are on the DnF site), and basically explains how the other six got there, even though it's mostly Ezra who is coming in.
C/B, J/V; Escorts; FRAOBirthday in the Life (April 2008) by Charlotte C. Hill
A day in the life, with a side of dawn, leather, and what's he doing in my -oh.
C/B; ATF; FRAOThree Can Keep a Secret, if Two of Them Are Dead (April 2008) by Evil Jacquie
A Day in the life of Eli Joe
OW; FRTO'Dark Thirty (April 2008) by Bone
Author's Note: I've been inspired to adapt this series of stories for professional publication. If the submission isn't accepted, I'll return the series to the archive promptly!Escalation (April 2008) by Ashlyn
Dawn, leather, I don't know how he got in my bed. Transition scene for an Escorts/Spenser story
E/V; Escorts; FRMIn Plain Sight (April 2008) by Artisan447
A day in the life. What the hell was Vin doing with that broom in his hand in the Pilot?
Vin-Chris; OW; FRCHow Chris Larabee Spent the Longest Day of the Year (April 2008) by Zeke Black
A day in the life drabble
C/E; OW; FRTSettling (April 2008) by Farad
A day in the life of Vin and Chanu, before Vin meets Chris and Buck, with a touch of dawn, leather and what's he doing in my bed
Vin/Chanu (implied); Skip Trace; FRTFighting Smoke (a Not Quite Challenge story) by Farad and Charlotte C. Hill.
First story posted to the list, and used as an example for sending feedback to authors
C/B/V; Skip Trace; FRM
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