Title: Flicker of a Dream
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 200 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set shortly before S7.
Summary: Buffy is having recurring nightmares about girls being chased down and killed. But this one has something different.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: Amnesty #80 + #260 Cave, #314 Nightmare, #356 Spark

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Title: Dark Cave
( Dark Cave )

Title: All That Glitters
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons series
Rating: G
Length: 937 words
Content notes: set at the end of Pigeon Post.
Author notes: Cave made me think of mining, which led to Pigeon Post - I just couldn't quite get it done in time. Also for the Fortune square of my bingo card.
Summary: “Are you very disappointed it wasn’t gold?” Peggy had seen her sister’s face as Dick gave the news, and she’d rarely seen Nancy look so miserable.

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The Cave challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

The Mystery of the Red House: Fanfic: Interesting Times, by smallhobbit
Guardian: Fanfic: The Moon and All the Stars, by green
Adventure Time: Fanfiction: Last Night I Felt Real Arms Around Me, by infinitum_noctem
Guardian: picspam: A Dog's Den, by teaotter
Torchwood: Fanfic: Huddling Place, by badly_knitted
Slings & Arrows: Fanfic: the baseless fabric of this vision, by clarasteam
Shazam!: Fanfic: lair, by smallredboy
The Magicians: Fanfiction: both her terror and her gentleness, by templemarker
The Vampire Diaries: Fanfic: i'm faking glory, by elasticella
Ghost Rider: Fanfic: It's A Trap, by rokhal
Batman - Fan Fic - Succumbing to the Lies, by katyastarling
Guardian: fanfiction: all I need to know, by china_shop
No Fandom: Wallpaper: Light at the End of the Tunnel, by jordannamorgan
no fandom : icons : spelunking opportunities, by highlander_ii
Star Wars: Fanfic: Peace and Truth, by drabblewriter
Guardian: fanfiction: Once Upon a Time in Dixing, by china_shop
Torchwood: Fanfic: Stalled negotiations, by m_findlow
The Little Mermaid: Fanfic: Unequal Exchange, by clarasteam
Silmarillion: Poetry: Riddle of Caves, by lferion
The Libertines: Fic: Stuck, by caveat_lector
Magic Knight Rayearth: Fanfic: A small proposition, by down
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Fic: A Moment's Rest, by jordannamorgan


Also, congratulations to those who earned name tags and achievement badges this round:

badly_knitted, who earned The Stalwart
elasticella, who earned The Governor of Gendom
elen_nare, who earned The Babysitter, SBIGTTS: Writing (GOLD), The Time Turner
lferion, who earned a Bingo!


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Thank you to everyone who participated! You're now free to post your entries to your journal or wherever else you'd like. If you're archiving on AO3, you can add your work to our fan_flashworks collection there.

New challenge coming right up!

Title: A Moment’s Rest
Author: jordannamorgan
Fandom: Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Characters: Ikoma and Takumi.
Setting: During episode six.
Rating: G.
Length: 640 words.
Summary: A brief moment of respite after the cave rescue at Yashiro Station.
Notes: This is also for the prompt of "That Incident In Detail" at genprompt_bingo.

( A Moment’s Rest )

Title: A small proposition
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Rating: General
Length: 1500ish words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Stand-alone but set after the Presea/Hikaru pre-relationship thing I posted a couple of rounds ago here. For cave, also for generous for ffwks bingo.
Summary: Hikaru was always so generous with everything - her time, her belongings, her heart - that it made it decidedly hard for Presea to ask a favour of her. Because she knew Hikaru would likely say yes whether she wanted to take part or not in whatever venture Presea was proposing.

( A small proposition )

Title: Stuck
Fandom: The Libertines
Characters: Carl Barât, Peter Doherty
Rating: Mature
Length: 200
Notes: All takes place in one minute
Content notes: None

( Stuck )

Title: Riddle of Caves
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Challenge: Cave
Bingo prompt: Mending
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & all the lovely Silmarillion writers for inspiration and encouragement.
In Bunn's Return To Aman series, Bilbo and Fingon are having a long-running, friendly game of riddles. Maglor is not playing (aside from suggesting increasingly arcane rules), but I think he wrote this one.
Summary: A somewhat etymological riddle involving caves and stars.

( Riddle of Caves )

Title: Unequal Exchange
Fandom: The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen)
Length: 100
Content notes: choose not to warn
Rating: G
Author note: also a fill for the Scales square on my bingo card.
Summary: In the cave of the sea witch, you sign away your voice in pursuit of a vision.

( Unequal Exchange )

Title: Stalled negotiations

Title: Once Upon a Time in Dixing
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G
Length: ~5,900 words
Notes: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan. Dixing is basically just one big cave, right? Caper fic, identity porn, handwaving Dixing’s corrosive effects, canon divergence AU set during ep 6, spoilers to ep 40. Also for the FFW Bingo prompt Wire and solo's prompt of Shen Wei, "There's an app for that." Much much thanks to mergatrude for hand-holding and trobadora for beta. <3 <3 <3 No warnings apply.
Summary: “Chief Zhao.” Shen Wei turns to the man who was and will one day be again his indomitable brother in arms, his lover and his friend. “I need you to stage a jailbreak.”

( Once Upon a Time in Dixing )

Title: spelunking opportunities
Fandom: no fandom
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of random caves - images found via google image search


( spelunking opportunities )

Title: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Fandom: None.
Rating: G.
Summary: Desktop wallpaper, 1366x768 resolution.
Content Notes: A sunset view from a coastal cave.

( Light at the End of the Tunnel )

Title: all I need to know
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: PG? (references to sex, but no actual sex)
Length: ~700 words
Notes: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, established relationship, secrets, no spoilers. Also for the FFW Bingo prompt, Floating, and kiezh's prompt of Shen Wei, "No. I won't." No warnings apply.
Summary: Three months of mutually investigating each other, occasionally crossing over into actual B&E and/or stalking, and Shen Wei decides to enforce his boundaries now, when they’re finally together?

( all I need to know )

Title: Succumbing to the Lies
Author: Katya Starling
Fandom: Batman
Character/Pairing: Batman/Catwoman 
Rating: PG-13/T
Challenge/Prompt: Ficlets 17: Nonsense and Fan-FlashWorks 260: Cave
Warning(s): None
Word Count: 1,000
Date Written: 15 April 2019
Summary: She knows she shouldn't be here, but she can't seem to help it.
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to DC Comics, not the author, and are used without permission.






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Title: It’s a Trap
Fandom: Ghost Rider (comics)
Characters: Robbie Reyes (Ghost Rider 2015), Eli Morrow (The ghost from Ghost Rider 2015), Noble Kale (The ghost from Ghost Rider 1990, who got his own body at the end of his series), Black Rose (Roxanne Simpson-Blaze, who was resurrected as a demon at the end of Ghost Rider 1990)
Rating: PG-15
Length: 4k
Content notes: Canon-typical violence (means: a lot). Bomb. Whump.
Author notes: For the fan-flashworks prompt Cave and my Birthday Bingo prompt Whistle.
Summary: Robbie, Noble, and Black Rose lure a white nationalist biker gang into a trap at the leader’s cattle ranch. Noble puts the Penance Stare on them. Robbie discovers that flaming skulls and improvised explosives don't mix.
 

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Title: i'm faking glory
Fandom: tvd
Rating: teen
Length: ~1000 words
Author notes: s5e12 au, petrova gen, title from lorde's bravado

If Katherine had gone into Nadia’s body, this would be a very different story. But she has been preparing to become Elena Gilbert for years, can have everything she ever wanted. Everything the precious Elena was handed.

( (Alternatively: The passenger spell is altered by their doppelganger status.) )

Title: both her terror and her gentleness
Author: templemarker
Fandom: The Magicians
Rating: Mature
Length: 1700 words
Content notes: No warnings apply.
Author notes: Takes place during 4x12 "The Secret Sea", during the scene where Alice, Penny, Quentin, and Plover are in the Drowned Garden. I wanted to dig into Alice's perspective on, well, everything in the episode. For fan_flashworks challenge #260 - Cave, and my fan_flashworks bingo card square "step".

Summary: On her better days, Alice can believe that she once understood the world, enough to live in it like a person, a person with a soul. The person she was before she was a Niffin, before she cursed her friends to obscurity and herself to the Library's imperfect incarceration.


( both her terror and her gentleness )

Title: lair
Fandom: Shazam! (2019 Movie)
Rating: PG
Length: 500 words
Content notes: Small instance of ableist language. Apart from that, n/a.
Author notes: For the square 'Chosen Family' in my trope_bingo card, and also for the 'Teamwork' square in my FFW bingo card. Also my first fic for Shazam!.
Summary: Billy and Freddy unwind.

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