July Challenge: Lazy Summer Fixed-Length-Ficlets

[dreamflower]

Here are the links to the July 2012 Lazy Summer Fixed-Length-Ficlet Challenge stories! For this challenge each author chose a number between 101 and 400 to be the exact word count for the story. The theme was "lazy summer", inspired by this quotation:(from Sam Keen): "Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."

We have seven stories so far! And we anticipate a few late stories for this challenge as well.

In the Cove by DreamflowerYoung Frodo has an important task: teaching his little cousin Merry to swim...
Clarity: A Fishing Story by ErulisseArwen reviews a lifesaving choice while fly fishing.
Keeping Cool by Linda Hoyland On a hot summer afternoon, Aragorn and Faramir are nowhere to be found.
Deep Summer by The Mad Hobbit Frodo fends off his eager serving lad on a hot day in Buckland.
A Catch Along the Brandywine by LarnerAt least one individual made a big catch along the Brandywine that lazy summer day!
As Unkind as Summer by Paranoidangel Elrond teaches Estel a lesson about hot summer days.
Week Without Thranduil 2/? by Sivan Shimesh Summary and Warning could be found in 1st chapter.


Thank you all for participating! And I hope everyone will come and check out the stories!

Authors: please upload your stories to Many Paths to Tread if you have the chance within the next few days; it will make life easier for your poor hard-working mods! Thanks!

Comments

[arwen75]

Mine will be late - real life and various other things got in the way.....

[dreamflower]

That's all right! We are remarkably laid back about late entries!

[armarielrozita.livejournal.com]

Well, I was writing one, but it got much too long for this....LOL

Am enjoying these so far, however...........

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

oooh! I loved this!!! You know I adore any fic that explores hobbits and men and how they interact with one another! And Halbarad!

[dreamflower]

And I enjoy showing hobbits interacting with the others, as well! It was interesting to try and do the prompt without going AU!

[shirebound]

These Men was good folks, polite and well-spoken. Sometimes he thought that mayhap there was more to them than there looked.

Strider and Rover! That's really marvelous. Yay for Ranger TLC.

[dreamflower]

Rangers need a little TLC, too! And who better to provide it than hobbits--I could just imagine Mr. Mugwort and his wife spending a couple of weeks trying to feed up their large guest!

[lily-the-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was great!

[dreamflower]

Thank you! 8-)

[mumstheword54.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is just wonderful! I love the details of the surgical instruments, the "busy hands are happy hands" picture of RoverHalbarad, the very useful payment that StriderAragorn had brought, and the viewpoint of Mr. Mugwort.

Can you tell me who the Mugworts are? "Near Archet in the Bree-lands." Hmm ... I feel that I should remember.

[dreamflower]

I'm so glad you liked it! It was fun to picture what Halbarad might be doing during his convalescence, and figure out a nickname for him! And I figured that perhaps any surgical instruments Aragorn might carry would be a gift of his foster-father.

Well, really, they are new. I chose Archet because of it's vicinity to the Chetwood, and I chose Mugwort as a last name, since JRRT told us Mugworts were "plentiful" in Bree! But I'm rather fond of Mr. Mugwort, so he might make another appearance one day.

[gamgeefest.livejournal.com]

SoA appears to be down. :(

I'm glad to see that not everyone in Bree thinks ill of the Rangers and understands their value, if only on a personal level.

And thanks for clearing up the setting for the Bathing Boromir one. I just automatically think Gondor when I read about communal baths. I don't think I've come across that concept in a Rivendell fic before, so I was confused. :D

[dreamflower]

Maybe they are having to fix things for the early DST tomorrow. *sigh* I guess we have to, too. *grumble*

I'm sure that over the years, at least a *few* of the inhabitants would have been intelligent enough to see that the Rangers were not something sinister.

That's quite all right! 8-)