slodwick: *****I’m proposing a Stephen King Title

run edward, the foxes are coming! (

slodwick) wrote,
@ 2002-09-23 00:45:00

*****
I’m proposing a Stephen King Title Challenge for Smallville.

I mean, damn, there are just *so* many titles that would work. I was amazed when I actually sat and looked at them all.

I don’t have a place to host submissions as of yet (I'm working on that, I swear), but I’m tossing this out to get any interested parties started. Eventually, I hope to have a centralized location to archive all submissions... until then, feel free to leave links in the comments section here, or email me.

I’m not really putting a lot of restrictions on submissions. All stories should be at least 1,000 words. Any rating, any pairing, gen/het/slash... it’s all good. Any questions, feel free to contact me.

[Edited: You know what? Screw the word count... just gimme what you got, baby! ;)]

Below is a list of possible titles. Good luck!

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Apt Pupil

Autopsy Room Four

Bag of Bones

Battleground

Big Wheels

Black House

Blood & Smoke

Brooklyn August

Cain Rose Up

Chattery Teeth

Children of the Corn

Creepshow

Crouch End

Cujo

Dedication

Desperation

Different Seasons

Dreamcatcher

Everything’s Eventual

Firestarter

Four Past Midnight

Graveyard Shift

Gray Matter

Head Down

Hearts in Atlantis

Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling

Here There Be Tygers

Home Delivery

I Am the Doorway

I Know What You Need

In the Deathroom

Insomnia

It

It Grows on You

Low Men in Yellow Coats

Lucky Quarter

Lunch at the Gotham Café

Misery

Morning Deliveries

My Pretty Pony

Needful Things

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

One for the Road

Paranoid: A Chant

Rage

Rainy Season

Riding the Bullet

Roadwork

Secret Window, Secret Garden

Skeleton Crew

Sneakers

Sometimes They Come Back

Sorry, Right Number

Storm of the Century

Strawberry Spring

Suffer the Little Children

Survivor Type

That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French

The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet

The Body

The Boogeyman

The Breathing Method

The Cat From Hell

The Crate

The Dark Half

The Dead Zone

The Doctor's Case

The Drawing of Three

The End of the Whole Mess

The Eyes of the Dragon

The Fifth Quarter

The Gunslinger

The House on Maple Street

The Jaunt

The Last Rung on the Ladder

The Ledge

The Long Walk

The Man in the Black Suit

The Man Who Loved Flowers

The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands

The Mangler

The Mist

The Moving Finger

The Night Flier

The Night of the Tiger

The Plant

The Reach

The Reaper’s Image

The Regulators

The Running Man

The Shining

The Stand

The Sun Dog

The Talisman

The Ten O'Clock People

The Waste Lands

The Way Station

The Wedding Gig

The Woman in the Room

Thinner

Trucks

Wizard and Glass

You Know They Got a Hell of a Band

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	lexcorp_hope 2002-09-22 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	Hmmmmmm... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: slodwick 2002-09-22 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	Hmmmmmm... Hmmmmm? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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lexcorp_hope, 2002-09-23 08:48 am UTC (Expand)

	psychoticmuse 2002-09-23 04:01 pm UTC (link)
	So, wait, what exactly do we have to do? Write a story using the title and basic plot of one of Stephan King's books? I'm very confuzzled. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: slodwick 2002-09-23 09:04 pm UTC (link)
	You write a Smallville story, and use a Stephen King title. Period. The plot is up to you! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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psychoticmuse, 2002-09-24 04:34 pm UTC (Expand)

	karra 2002-09-23 10:44 pm UTC (link)
	I'm going to do this. Don't let me forget. G (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: slodwick 2002-09-23 11:21 pm UTC (link)
	makes note in big black book ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	hackthis 2002-09-24 09:24 am UTC (link)
	oh. can i get in on the party too? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: slodwick 2002-09-24 03:17 pm UTC (link)
	Yes!! Please! I would love to have you write something! You rock. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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slodwick, 2002-09-30 12:10 pm UTC (Expand)

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hackthis, 2002-09-30 12:22 pm UTC (Expand)

	andariell 2002-09-25 11:58 am UTC (link)
	Great challenge, slod! It's rather sad that I couldn't manage to meet the single requirement you had -- this is only 700 words. sigh But... you inspired me anyway, so I figured I'd post the link for your perusal g The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet And yes, I am very strange giggle (Reply to this)

nerodi's dirty pony
(Anonymous)
2002-09-25 01:59 pm UTC (link)

Slod-- Great challenge. And, Miss Slodwick, I am laughing pretty damn hard at the fact that one of the titles is "Pretty Pony". Now, Missy, I'm pretty sure I remember you promising me a story called Nerodi's Dirty Pony. I'm still waiting, but my patience is running out. Please write a pretty pony story, complete with Nerodi's Dirty Pony references. My birthday's coming up.

Nerodi.

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	Re: nerodi's dirty pony slodwick 2002-09-25 09:14 pm UTC (link)
	Hee! You said "coming". (Reply to this) (Parent)

	I found this in Andy's LJ (Anonymous) 2002-09-26 07:07 am UTC (link)
	I love Stephen King!!! running off to find a title she can work with Oh! One thing! Can it be other SK titles than the ones you listed? Cuz I think you missed a few... not sure though. DebC (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: I found this in Andy's LJ slodwick 2002-09-26 10:11 am UTC (link)
	Can it be other SK titles than the ones you listed? Sure! I left a few off the list because I really didn't see how some of them would work, like "Christine", but if you can work one in, more power to you! I'm just happy people are responding. I was so excited when I saw the list of titles, and saw how many actually just scream to be SV fics. ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

Re: I found this in Andy's LJ - (Anonymous), 2002-09-26 12:37 pm UTC (Expand)

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slodwick, 2002-09-26 01:33 pm UTC (Expand)

Re: I found this in Andy's LJ - (Anonymous), 2002-09-26 08:39 pm UTC (Expand)

Well, I'll post 'em both anyway! -

debc, 2002-09-27 10:09 am UTC (Expand)

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slodwick, 2002-09-27 10:22 am UTC (Expand)

	fic for you! taraljc 2002-09-27 05:33 pm UTC (link)
	Eyes of the Dragon (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: fic for you! slodwick 2002-09-27 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, with the bittersweet lovlies. Lex stories are a good way to score points. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thisworldishard 2002-09-27 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	I'm planning on using the following: The woman in the Room Blood and Smoke Black Room and Misery great idea by the way ;) (Reply to this)

	I think Stephen King would be proud (Anonymous) 2002-09-27 09:10 pm UTC (link)
	Here's my contribution, slod: Autopsy Room Four (http://www.geocities.com/teaphile/room) C./Teaphile (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: I think Stephen King would be proud slodwick 2002-09-27 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	Holy shit. Wow. I'm not sure how to respond to that, honey... but, damn. I love how it's got that cold and clinical feeling until the last paragraph. Thanks! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	The Woman in the Room thisworldishard 2002-09-27 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=thisworldishard&itemid=8832#cutid1 "The Woman in the Room" I whipped it up in a flurry so it's not exactly polished and perfected; I don't think. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: The Woman in the Room slodwick 2002-09-27 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	Dude... what the hell? First "Autopsy Room Four" and now this... what's up with all the angst right before I go to bed? I guess I should have anticipated a Stephen King challenge would garner angsty results. Silly me! Thanks for this, hon! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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debc, 2002-09-28 09:36 am UTC (Expand)

	Rats. vissy 2002-09-29 03:48 am UTC (link)
	Someone's already done 'The Woman in the Room'. Oh well, here's mine anyhow. (Reply to this) (Thread)

Re: Rats.

slodwick
2002-09-29 11:47 pm UTC (link)

Still no sound emerges, but she is so close she can feel the small puff of breath that comes with the 'w'. His tongue is not moving, so she draws his finger very gently between her teeth. "Water," she says once more, letting him feel the dash of her tongue against his fingertip, and an expression of sweet toddler cunning crosses his face. "Wuh-tah," he whispers. Then he is crowing, his hand slipping from her face to slap at the bathwater between them. "Water, water, water."

Dude!! This is freaking adorable! I *love* the baby!fic... and you did a beautiful job. Just absolutely lovely.

Thank you!

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slodwick, 2002-09-30 10:04 am UTC (Expand)

	pennyproud 2002-09-29 08:51 am UTC (link)
	Oh!! Oh!!! You are a genius. I'm finishing up a Pete-Clark friendship thing sans title, and "It Grows On You" is perfect. Are you going to allow multiple fics with the same name or should I "claim" that title now? Hee. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: slodwick 2002-09-29 07:09 pm UTC (link)
	I'm thinking multiples would be fine. Use it with my blessing, girlie. ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	I give you... debc 2002-10-01 06:29 am UTC (link)
	... another one from me... only 5 more to go before I'm out of SK titles that call to me. Lunch at the Gotham Café (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: I give you... slodwick 2002-10-01 08:59 am UTC (link)
	gasp Who revealed my secret 'ship?! ;) Thanks! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	clari_clyde 2002-10-01 11:28 am UTC (link)
	Is there a deadline for this challenge. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: slodwick 2002-10-01 01:39 pm UTC (link)
	Hmmm... that's a good question. I think I'll probably keep it going officially through October, although I'd be willing to get entries longer. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Um thawrecka 2002-10-01 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	Bag of Bones I was inspired. Though I am sure someone must have slipped drugs into my tea. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Um slodwick 2002-10-01 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	Oh my god. Oh my god. That? I loved. Eeeeevil!! :) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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thawrecka, 2002-10-02 07:14 am UTC (Expand)

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slodwick, 2002-10-02 08:12 am UTC (Expand)

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slodwick, 2002-10-02 10:02 am UTC (Expand)

liviapenn
2002-10-02 01:15 pm UTC (link)

I don’t have a place to host submissions as of yet (I'm working on that, I swear), but I’m tossing this out to get any interested parties started. Eventually, I hope to have a centralized location to archive all submissions... until then, feel free to leave links in the comments section here, or email me.

As a temporary measure, how about a new LJ entry, with links to all the stories so far? You could just keep editing it to add new stories when people write them. Then when you finally find space, all you have to do is copy&paste the links into a web page and you're set. :)

*still eyeing the list of titles*

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	Re: slodwick 2002-10-02 01:45 pm UTC (link)
	Dude... kicking ass with the smartness. Thanks! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Here's another one laurina 2002-10-02 04:55 pm UTC (link)
	Love what I've read so far, so I wanted to toss a short piece into the arena. The Talisman (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Here's another one laurina 2002-10-02 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	Grrr, darn formatting! Here's the URL since it doesn't seem to want to work: http://smallville.slashdom.com/archive/12/thetalisman.html (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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slodwick, 2002-10-02 07:16 pm UTC (Expand)

	And yet another... (Anonymous) 2002-10-04 12:00 pm UTC (link)
	Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling http://www.geocities.com/kirsten_sea2000/shelter/heavenly.htm It's very short. And... totally not polished. Um. Sorry 'bout that. Very cool challenge, though! kirsten (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: And yet another... slodwick 2002-10-04 12:36 pm UTC (link)
	""Clark's face is illuminated by moonlight and starlight, and somehow it's wrong to see him like this. Clark is the sun, bright and strong with life... Oh, darling... I really liked that a lot! Thank you so much! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

Re: And yet another... - (Anonymous), 2002-10-10 01:16 pm UTC (Expand)

	Another Entry mlleelizabeth 2002-10-12 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	And then, after I emailed it, I figured out that I am supposed to link to it. Duh! Sorry! It A little Clex Halloween silliness. (Reply to this)

	thawrecka 2002-10-20 06:23 am UTC (link)
	'nother entry. Children of the Corn (Reply to this)

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