Hello Caryl fans & Nine Lives family! As you are all aware, July has been All About AUs here at the Nine Lives Archive. As part of our theme, we’ve been presenting the incredibly popular Awesome AU Featured Stories every week. We received almost 200 total nominations for this event! (You broke FM’s inbox!) We’ve proved without question the AU is a die-hard staple of fanfiction and of the Caryl fandom. Way to go, everyone!

As July, and All About AU month, comes to a close, we present the final master list of all the stories featured for the Awesome AU event:

Week One

• When the Levee Breaks by Haitus80
• To Never Get To Know You by lovesdaryl
• The Sunny Side of You and Me by Stephtron312

Week Two

• Gator Babies by wndrw8
• When Carol Met Daryl by Liddym2113
• Whiskey Heat by EnglishPoet18
• Contrapposto by darylsdiva1

Week Three

• Shotgun Messiah by Argent Gale
• Mad City by Fairies Masquerade
• Sweet Junction by ramblinrose
• Out of the Ashes by Starfur733
• Arcus by The Readers Muse

Week Four

• Snake by Axelrocks
• Ain’t No Paradise in Eden by clare009
• Cuckoo for Carol by jaibhagwan
• Love Hurts by PixieGrunger
• Little Do You Know by Sweet Little Bullet

If you haven’t read an AU before, or are looking for something new, this is the place to start! So Caryl on, my friends, and happy reading!