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Title: Popsicle Soup
Author: Krys Yuy
Category: Smallville
Prompt: #36/popsicles
Rating: R/T (mild)
Word Count: 3,428
Summary: It’s summertime and Clark comes up with a mischievous way to cool down. Or heat up, as the case may be. Shameless fluff. Set in or post-Season 9. Free Fall universe compatible.
Pairing/Characters: Clark/Lois
Spoilers: None.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters used. This fic is purely for entertainment purposes only.
Author’s Notes: Written for the Summer Food Challenge at 12days_of_clois. Set in the Free Fall universe, but can be read as a Smallville standalone. You need no knowledge of the FF universe to enjoy this story. However, FF readers may read this to get something more out of the Free Fall universe and the relationship between Clark and Lois. This is just a simple piece of fluff for readers to enjoy. I don’t know what it is about 12days_of_clois, but my muse really loves their prompts. Please read, review and enjoy~!

Please note that the following is Rated R, though it is very mild and is more likely PG-13.
( Crap, why did you bring out so many? Of course they’re going to melt in this heat! )

Crossposted to 12days_of_clois, clois, cloisfic, Divine Intervention.

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There is one week left to nominate for the 2009 Superman Movieverse Fanfiction Awards!

We are now up to thirteen nominators -- but make sure you put yours in, if you have some! We are particularly light on these categories:

• Original Character Romance


• Kiss


• Love Scene


• Villain


• Original Character

Please consider adding these!

Nominations close on June 29, 2009, 11:59pm EST.

THE RULES:

1. Pick a food prompt and go with it. :) Wherever it leads you. It's food! It's summertime! Have fun! (Thanks to ancarett for the food challenge idea, btw. She's the one who brainstormed for me a while back and came up with it. I just ran with her suggestion and grabbed the prompts we needed!)

2. Fics for this challenge must be at least 500 words, and can be no more than 6,000 words. There is no rating limit, but if your story is rated higher than PG-13, you must post a visible content warning. Any variation of the Clois 'ship can be used in your submission for this challenge...this includes Clois from the Movieverse, TV, comics and books.

3. Stories must be posted @ our community under a LJ cut. No fake cuts, please! I ask this because 12days_of_clois is a community. By definition, a community is a group of people in one location, sharing similar interests and a fellowship. If an author leads readers away from the community to read his/her story, we will lose this!

4. There are no specific deadlines for fics, aside from the ultimate goal of finishing all fics by 11:59 EST on JULY 15, 2009...AND NO LATER. What does this mean for you, as an author? Well, it basically means, when you're finished with your story, post it! No dates will be assigned this time around. Authors may begin posting stories at midnight EST on JULY 1, 2009...BUT NO SOONER.

( PROMPTS. )

( CLAIMING A PROMPT. )

( POSTING PROTOCOL. )

THE DEADLINE HAS ARRIVED!!

Sorry that a few of you weren't able to make the deadline. :( I understand how it goes, but I'm going ahead and closing the 'Somewhere in Metropolis' Challenge.

And I'm hoping to post details about the next challenge tomorrow! *fingers crossed that it all comes together by the afternoon* ;) See you then, everyone!

Title: Jumpline
Author: htbthomas
Category: Smallville, post-Season 8
Prompt: #17/news stand
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,097 words
Spoilers: for Smallville Season 8.

Author’s Note: Finished in the nick of time!

~o~o~o~



( When the bright light and nauseating spinning sensation ended, Lois found herself on the floor of an empty office. She sat up, blinking, and tried to figure out where the hell she was. How the hell she got here could wait for later. )

Title: Must Be Tuesday
Author: brdwaybebe 
Category: VERY loose movie-verse
Prompt: #24 - Train Station Platform
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3115 Oh thats right, I broke 3000. Woot!
Summary: Lois finds herself in trouble. Again.
Spoilers: None
Author's Notes: Look Bisty! Look!  I made it with hours to spare!  WOO HOO!!  Thanks as always for being splendiferous!  Originally this was going to be a much more serious prompt, but as it unfolded it got lighter. Much lighter. Maybe even too light lol. Normally it's one of my peeves how Lois is always getting into trouble and risking her life counting on Superman to ALWAYS save her. Just because for some reason I tend to side with Clark on this particular issue.  But apparently the muse was setting all that aside for today and have a little fun with it. This is a very loosely canoned fic.  No identities revealed, their relationship is definitely not all business and there is a definite flirty vibe goin on.  Anyway!  I hope you like!

  

( Read; Must Be Tuesday )

Title: Behind a Closed Door
Author: ancarett
Category: Smallville
Prompt: #08 -- copy room
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2022
Summary: Lois needs to make copies. Frustration ensues.
Spoilers: Set in the first half of Season 8.
Author's Notes: Got this one in under the wire. Thanks to bistyboo1974 for setting a fun challenge!



( 'Copy boy,' Lois carolled )

Title: Little Secrets Snapshots: The Glow of Embers After
Author: anissa7118 and kalalanekent
Category: Movieverse/Little Secrets 'verse
Prompt: #07 - coffee shop
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,042
Beta: saavikam77
Summary: It's been six weeks since the Zod Squad nearly took over the world and Kal-El betrayed Lois with a kiss. And for all the nobility of his choice, he's finding it harder to live with his decision than he thought.
Spoilers: Superman II and the other Snapshots entries.
Author's Notes: Wow, that was a close call. After thinking that the deadline was ten days later than it was, we squeaked this one in just in time. Thanks, bistyboo1974 for posting that warning post. :D And the events that occurred between All I Want For Christmas and this fic were written in throughout Little Secrets.

( Snapshots: The Glow of Embers After )

Title: Boys’ Night Out: Lights and Sirens
Author: dandello 
Category: SR/Shadows
Prompt: #02/Basement
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,131
Copyright: June 9, 2009
Summary: It should have been a simple boys’ night out. But what boys can resist the lure of lights and sirens?
Spoilers: Not really
Author's Notes: Set in the Shadows Universe, some months after Crystal Dreams.
( Boy's Night Out )

Title: Benched
Author: magpieinthesky  
Category: Smallville
Prompt: City Park
Rating: PG
Word Count: 700
Summary: Seven short scenes of Clark's life where Centennial Park's lovely benches take center stage.
Spoilers: Through season 4 of Smallville, I suppose. Beyond that is sort of AU future-ish.
Author's Notes: Unbeta'd, so concrit is most welcome and appreciated! 

Title: When You Call
Author: repmetsyrrah
Category: Movieverse
Prompt: #01 Balcony
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,900
Summary: Lois finds herself in a unfortunate situation and is forced to call upon the one man she’s been avoiding, but did she really call him for just a lift?
Spoilers: SR (if that even still counts :P)
Author's Notes: Gah, this took ages! (and not just because I got called into work three extra times this week) it just seems my muse wasn’t co-operating but I‘ve never dropped a challenge and I was determined not to do it this time either. So I don’t care if this is crap, this is it! No more! Not only is there practically no time but I couldn’t put up with it anymore either. No beta either, sorry.

--
( I will come, when you call me... )

To the thirteen authors out there still working on stories...YOUR DEADLINE FOR POSTING IS FAST-APPROACHING!! Not to stress you out or anything. ;) But seriously!

ALL FICS MUST BE POSTED BY 11:59 EST ON JUNE 20, 2009!! There will be no extensions granted this time, no matter how good the excuse. I want to get a new challenge rolling after this one expires, so that's that.

Good luck and happy last-minute writing! *blows kisses*

Title: Crisis Averted
Author: alphielj 
Category: Movieverse/Superman Returns
Prompt: #10/elevator
Rating: PG-13 for language
Word Count: 4.855
Summary: “I can’t do this anymore, Lois,” I admitted.  “I can’t keep fighting with you.”
Spoilers:  SR and all of my own Shadowverse
Author's Notes:  First - thanks to htbthomas  and Eviefan for the beta read.  I know it’s been years since I started this AU, but it still eats at my brain.  I’ve hinted at a moment in another fic where Lois sees Clark holding a baby.  Well, this is that moment.  It’s also the moment when things start to shift for Lois in the way she eventually forgives Clark.  I really debated between showing Lois’ PoV or Clark’s for the fact that I really wanted to tap into how things change when he eventually speaks up for himself.  So keep that in mind when you get to that moment.

For those of you unfamiliar with my AU, this story takes place just after Jason’s son, Eric, has been born.  After 20 years of not knowing the truth, Lois knows the full truth now and is very angry at Clark. 

( Crisis Averted )

Title: Clark and Mobsters Prefer Pink
Author: starrylites
Category: Movieverse - REEVEverse omg
Prompt: #11 - fitting room
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2000
Summary: Lois needs to go shopping, apparently for work. Clark, naturally, is picked to be the guinea pig that goes with her.
Spoilers: Well, if you haven't watched Superman II and know nothing about the Niagara Falls incident, I guess maybe?
Author's Notes: My title has something to do with it being far too late for me to be posting this...but it's growing on me. It's amusing. This is my very first attempt at writing Reeveverse, so be nice, hah. It's Post-Superman II, and it fits in with III and IV, I guess. It's really just meant to come a number of months after II.



( Shopping with Lois, Clark realized, took more bravery and stamina than rescuing her from a falling helicopter, or from being buried alive by an earthquake, or from an Eiffel Tower about to blow up, or from cascading over Niagara Falls… )

There are two weeks left to nominate for the 2009 Superman Movieverse Fanfiction Awards!

Nominations have been received from only two people so far -- don't be left out if you would like a say!

Title: 4th and Main
Author: katshakespeare
Category: Smallville
Prompt: 19 - Phonebooth
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,209
Spoilers: For Doomsday. So, basically, everything Smallville is game.
Author's Note: This goes on the assumption that Lois didn't disappear into thin air by touching the Legion ring in Doomsday.

( All things considered, Lois was amazed it was still standing.  )

Title: I'll Be There for You
Author: Babette babettew54
Category: TV-verse/Smallville
Prompt: #5/City Marina
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,483
Summary: Lois and Clark look forward to a quiet afternoon on the water, or so they thought!
Spoilers: None
Author's Notes: This is my very first post here, and I’m really nervous. This piece picks up right after my first fan fic, A Lot to Talk About, ended. You don’t need to read that to know what’s going on here. Thank you hanaktfor giving this the once over. You’re the best! *hugs* So, on with the story..!!:D

 

( I'll Be There for You )