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elrhiarhodan ([personal profile] elrhiarhodan) wrote2011-11-07 01:12 pm

White Collar Single Sentence Challenge II is Now Opened

Single Sentence Challenge Promptfest is BACK

Think you can’t write fanfic? Think again, because Sentence!Fest is a fun way to get your feet wet. Basically, the challenge is to tell a complete story using one sentence only.

Sounds easy, but perhaps it is not. How would you tell your story if you only had the space of one sentence? Would you use dialogue? Action? Emotion? Observation? Would it be haunting? Poetic? Sexy? Tragic?

The rules are simple: Tell a story using one sentence. It can be as long as you want it to be, but it must make sense (imaginary points will be deducted). It can be as short as you want it to be, but make those words count. Tell a story that will provoke the imagination of your readers – one they will demand to have the beginning, middle and end of from you – that is the ultimate goal. Here is an example:

Neal and Peter have the sex.

Here is a better one:

When Peter finally opened his eyes, it was to see his lover's rapt face as Neal rode him, the rising sun forming a perfect golden halo around his dark head; his savior, his angel.

Capice?

This particular ‘fest will operate like any other. Take a prompt, fill a prompt, leave a prompt. There are no limits – multiple folks can fill any and all prompts. Use them to craft a narrative if you like, but each entry must convey an entire scene within that narrative. All subject matter is fair game, so RPF/RPS is allowed. This fest is unlocked and opened to everyone who would like to write.

Cuz Sentencefest can be a little overwhelming, it will be co-moderated by myself, [livejournal.com profile] coffeethyme4me and [livejournal.com profile] rabidchild67 .

Prompts will be found in the first comments below - let the games begin.

Neal - Comfort food

[identity profile] ursula4x.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
They were barely in the door of Neal's apartment when Neal dropped to his knees, unzipped Peter, and swallowed his cock with a neediness that shook Peter to his core and when it was over, Neal said, "Thanks, I needed that. You're my favorite comfort food."

Neal/Kate, Peter,/El -- Spark

[identity profile] sheenianni.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The day when Neal Caffrey is cleared of all charges and let off without even a slap on a wrist, he laughs and celebrates and then takes Kate to the park and finally proposes; the night after Peter comes home from the court, he is withdrawn, his eyes are dull, and Elizabeth is afraid, but she holds him when he quietly speaks about his job and duty, and when Peter finally falls asleep, she hates Neal Caffrey, hates him for abusing the system and getting off despite his crimes, hates him for taking three years of their lives, hates him for making Peter loose that much of his faith in the system, hates him for killing that spark that makes Peter Peter, even if it’s hopefully only for a few weeks or months, and she hates him for making Peter think about giving up his badge.

Need to Know

[identity profile] ursula4x.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, Peter Burke, boy detective, had to keep poking until he found Moz's birth family; still, Neal had to admit that he had never seen Moz happier than he was with his two fathers, Gomez and Fester Addamns, and his step mother, the ever lovely Morticia, even if Moz didn't much like his older half brother, Pugsley, who took him and abandoned him because he feared that Moz, the offspring of male pregnancy and brotherly love, would totally displace him in the family.

Lauren Cruz -- Power play

[identity profile] sheenianni.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
„Shoot him, then I’ll have you on murder too,“ says Lauren Cruz with a small smirk – and then there is a loud bang, a second bang accompanied with a shocked yell, and before her brain even fully registers what has happened, she has a crime scene with two potentially dead bodies on the ground.

Re: Lauren Cruz -- Power play

[identity profile] ursula4x.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Which is why Lauren got only half the dressing down she deserved.

stork

[identity profile] ursula4x.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Satchmo was sleepy during the day because he spent most of the night chasing away storks that Mommy and Daddy kept summoning; the only time he really slept at night was when Neal and Daddy played the stork game because storks wouldn't come with babies to supplant him for that.

Re: stork

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
*giggles and can't stop*

Actually, I can see this as the beginning of the greatest mpreg crackfic in history.
Edited 2011-11-14 17:35 (UTC)

Re: stork

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com - 2011-11-14 18:10 (UTC) - Expand

Re: stork

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com - 2011-11-14 18:24 (UTC) - Expand

Re: stork

[identity profile] ursula4x.livejournal.com - 2011-11-15 02:43 (UTC) - Expand

Vital Signs

[identity profile] ursula4x.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Peter meant to assure himself that Neal really was still breathing when he bent over him, but instead he kissed him and those blue eyes opened, Neal smiled, and Peter started to believe in magic kisses and fairy tales right at that moment.

Sara/Neal, Mozzie - Spider

[identity profile] sheenianni.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Mozzie is Neal’s very close friend, so Sara is really patient when he barges in on them uninvited or when he acts like she is stupid and oh-so inconspicuously hides things from her; she even stays reasonably calm when Mozzie puts a spider in her underwear, but when he interrupts them for maybe the fifth time in row despite Neal’s annoyed protests, she decides enough is enough and starts plotting revenge.

Neal, Mozzie -- Ghosts

[identity profile] surreal-44.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
After he was able to switch out the paintings, Neal fled with Mozzie, and they lived the high life off the money they made from the treasure, but soon they both started to see Peter and Elizabeth, sometimes together, sometimes separately, but if they looked too closely they'd vanish...finally after four months, Neal called the one person he knew he could trust, and Alex sadly informed him that Keller had kidnapped and killed the Burkes for the submarine treasure he'd run off with, and as Neal hung up the phone, he saw his two friends standing at the corner watching him, and he didn't know if they came to accuse or to forgive -- and he wasn't sure which he wanted.

(( Thank you, Elr, for not grading us on sentence structure! ))
Edited 2011-11-14 19:21 (UTC)
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Re: Neal, Mozzie -- Ghosts

[personal profile] greyminerva 2011-11-14 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
AAaaaaah! Nooooo! You broke me! *sobs*
This is so f*ing painful and terrible and possible, and I can't bear it.
*sniffles*

Well done, though. ;)

Peter, Neal -- Need to know

[identity profile] sheenianni.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
„I need you… I need you t’know… m’sorry…“ wheezes Neal with a weak cough, but Peter snaps: “Shut up!” and roars “Man down!” and “Get an ambulance here!”, and then he presses both his hands into the huge bleeding wound in Neal’s neck, and he can’t see over the tears in his eyes as he begs Neal to stay with him, as he tells his that it doesn’t matter, as he lies to him that everything be all right while Neal’s life is fading away through his fingers.

Re: Peter, Neal -- Need to know

[identity profile] surreal-44.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Ack!!!!! -flail- Ack!!!! Nooooooooooo.

But also, yes! :D

Elizabeth/Peter -- Dreams

[identity profile] surreal-44.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
The night after Peter shoots Adler, he comes home and doesn't sleep, and in the morning he's gone earlier than usual, and works later than normal; so the cycle goes for another two days before he finally sinks onto the edge of their bed, exhausted and heartsick, and she finally convinces him to lay back in her arms and let her protect him from the nightmares he's so afraid of facing.

Diana -- Join

[identity profile] surreal-44.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Continued from Mozzie -- Sleep (http://elrhiarhodan.livejournal.com/218920.html?thread=6699560#t6699560)

"I don't know what you two have done, but I won't let you break his heart again, so we're going to work together, and we're not going to sacrifice anyone...and if either of you think that your noble idiocy is what Peter wants, then you don't know him at all," Diana says firmly as she tucks a blanket around her unconscious boss and gives Neal and Mozzie the full extent of her glare, as protective of Peter as she's ever been -- even from them.

Peter -- Dreams Two Sentences

[identity profile] surreal-44.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I. He dreams often of Neal, of Elizabeth, of his team, even Mozzie or Alex sometimes, and all the things that could happen to them because of the job, or because of their lifestyles, and he dreams about shooting Adler and Fowler, and of Kate...Kate blowing to pieces right in front of him, and there are some nights when the torments of his own mind won't let him rest.

II. He's embarrassed to admit that his worst dream revolves around himself -- the poison working through his body, his heart slowing, a terrible pain in his chest as he struggles for air, an icy cold stealing the life from his body and he knows he's dying...and when he wakes from that dream, he shivers, and holds Elizabeth just a little tighter to remind himself that he's still alive.

Neal/Keller -- Sky

[identity profile] sheenianni.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Not even Mozzie knows that there was a time when Neal loved Matthew more than anyone else in the world; at sixteen, they were two lost souls who had finally found each other, and then Matty explained to Neal how to run the basic cons and helped him discover his gift for art while Neal taught Matt how to shoot and showed him the names of stars on the sky; two years later, Neal felt like the third man’s death was his own fault, and though he changed his own name and he and Keller became bitter enemies, Neal can never quite forget that it was him who first put the gun into Keller’s hands.

Re: Neal/Keller -- Sky

[identity profile] coffeethyme4me.livejournal.com 2011-11-16 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, this is AWESOME.

Lauren Cruz - Cloud

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
When she walked into the office, it was like she carried a dark little cloud with her, that would settle over the rest of them and make them lie when she asked them what was wrong, because she had done her thesis on Neal Caffrey, and she watched him when they wouldn't, and there was only so much she could take of the sudden silences before she put in her transfer papers.

Diana/Christie - Stark

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
The shadows and streetlights streamed in through the cracks in the blinds, to land on Diana's body under the covers, and on her face in stark, heavy lines, and Christie swallowed and put her head on Diana's chest, already missing DC, even if they didn't leave until tomorrow.

Neal - As You Were

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
It only struck Neal as Peter unlocked his anklet for the last time that even if he ran tomorrow and Peter chased after him, things could never go back to the way they were.
Edited 2011-11-15 02:33 (UTC)

Re: Neal - As You Were

[identity profile] coffeethyme4me.livejournal.com 2011-11-16 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Nice.

Neal, Sara/Moz - Spurn

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
"And I can't even blame it on the whole criminal thing," he sighed, "I mean, she left me for Mozzie."

Re: Neal, Sara/Moz - Spurn

[identity profile] coffeethyme4me.livejournal.com 2011-11-16 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
LOL!!! Awesome! :-)

Kate - Mountain

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Behind Fowler was a mountain of dark possibilities with Vincent Adler at its summit, and Kate wondered if she had forgotten how to climb mountains and slay dragons, or if she had never known.

Re: Kate - Mountain

[identity profile] veleda-k.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
I like this. It has a tragic bite to it.

Neal, Peter, and the Harvard crew

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
"I can't believe you talked me into this, Peter," he muttered, "this isn't a Martha Stewart episode," but he raised his voice for the rest of the class, "and that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how you forge an Atlantic Partners savings bond."
Edited 2011-11-15 03:40 (UTC)
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Re: Neal, Peter, and the Harvard crew

[personal profile] greyminerva 2011-11-16 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
*snark*
I LIKE this! I always love it when Neal shows off, (even when he doesn't really want to), and Peter stands next to him looking proud (and sometimes like he's having indigestion ;) ), and I can just SEE this scene in my head! :)

Kate - You can't tell me where to go or what or who to be

[identity profile] veleda-k.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
Kate knows what they see when they look at her, knows that they see her only as an extension of Neal, dismissing her as "Caffery's woman," and she smiles prettily as the anger curdles within her, and she swears she'll never give up, never back down, never rest until she's shown them all exactly what she's made of and exactly what she can do.



Fowler- Penance

Re: Kate - You can't tell me where to go or what or who to be

[identity profile] coffeethyme4me.livejournal.com 2011-11-16 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
This is great! Thanks for making her so three-dimensional!

Peter, Neal -- What happens in Burma

[identity profile] sheenianni.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
“I didn’t do it,” lies Caffrey desperately, and then he begs – truly, literally begs – “please, Peter, please get me home” – and Peter sees the bruises on his body, his dirty clothes, his thinned frame and the haunted look in his eyes, and though he has always wanted to catch Caffrey, he has never imagines it this way; he says “You couldn’t have simply stuck to the bonds and art, could you?”, and when Caffrey whispers once more: “Please, Peter, just get me home”, he answers: “We’re trying to get you extradited to the US”, and then Neal whispers a hoarse “Thank you” and slídes down against the wall, and suddenly Peter hopes, really hopes the Burmese don’t have enough evidence to connect Neal to the stolen gems.

Re: Peter, Neal -- What happens in Burma

[identity profile] nevcolleil.livejournal.com 2011-12-06 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! This is just so lush! And what a story...

Peter, Neal -- Bad judgement

[identity profile] sheenianni.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
“So you say there is no reason for us to believe that Mr. Caffrey had anything to do with the treasure theft,” and carefully not looking at Neal, Peter lies through his teeth and says: “No, Your Honor, absolutely no reason”, because despite Neal’s crimes and his sheer stupidity, there’s no way in hell Peter will let his family be torn apart when he finally got them all back safe together, and if he has to forego his morals to protect his friend and brother, if he feels like he has just lost a piece of himself, if he thinks he’s just become the world’s greatest hypocrite, then he will simply have to learn to live with that prize.
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Neal/Peter - Threads, Bad Judgment

[personal profile] greyminerva 2011-11-15 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Neal hates this, hates kneeling on the bedroom floor, bindfolded and handcuffed, hates the feeling of helplessness that threads its way through his gut - but what he hates even more is the fact that he needs it, that he needs Peter's firm commands, Peter's rules and consequences and punishments - because his whole life is one bad judgment after another, and sometimes he needs someone to make all the decisions for him.

Re: Neal/Peter - Threads, Bad Judgment

[identity profile] doctor-fangeek.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this, in all it's stark, elegant simplicity. Beautiful.
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Diana, Jones -- You're sick, Twistedbad! AU

[personal profile] greyminerva 2011-11-15 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're sick, Jones", she says, but she still can't look away, can't pretend she's not fascinated by the way Caffrey manages to take all of Agent Jones' not inconsiderable length and girth into his throat, and Clinton just chuckles as he leans back and tugs on Neal's head a little harder; cause van-duty is fucking boring, and it's not like Burke is going to say anything; they have a nice thing going here.

(Yes, several semi-colons were abused in the making of this sentence. ;) )

Re: Diana, Jones -- You're sick, Twistedbad! AU

[identity profile] coffeethyme4me.livejournal.com 2011-11-16 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
AWESOME.
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Neal/Jones - single-user restroom, Twistedbad!AU

[personal profile] greyminerva 2011-11-15 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
And sometimes Jones would make sure they had the time to stop by a restroom together, so he could bend Caffrey over, pull down his pants and just fuck him up against the wall or over the sink - these days, he was prepped and lubed all the time, clever lad didn't take long before he got smart - because nice as the blowjobs in the van or stake-out cars were, they didn't really give him the chance to get as rough as he liked, and while Burke didn't mind sharing, sometimes he got all possessive when Jones just needed a little stress relief.

Re: Neal/Jones - single-user restroom, Twistedbad!AU

[identity profile] coffeethyme4me.livejournal.com 2011-11-16 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
You rule.

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