Hey, hey party animals! To celebrate the first year of Nine Live's existence, the girls and I decided to throw a little FANFIC CHALLENGE at y'all. 

This one is open to Caryl and McReedus stories alike! The theme of the challenge: Anniversary. The trick with anniversaries is that they can be joyful or angsty. There is always something remembered, which gives you a wide open field to play with.

Here are the challenge details:

• THE PROMPT: Your entry must revolve around the theme Anniversary. It can be Caryl or McReedus, happy, sad, ridiculously silly or horribly angst-ridden. Rock on with it, peeps.

• It must be at least 100 words.

• THE DEADLINE: All entries are due on February 6, 10pm MST. Everything will be posted on February 7.

• THE RULES: Here is how you enter the challenge:

• Send a PM to Fairies Masquerade, Ikkleosu or subversivegrrl stating that you’re going to enter the challenge. This is very important! If we don’t get a PM, you won’t be on the list. 

• Write your fic!!

• DO NOT UPLOAD IT YET!! Wait until February 6 to upload your fic – we will be suspending automatic validation for that day for all authors who enter the challenge.

• Submission Day is February 6 post your fic. It will not appear on the website, but will enter our validation queue. Make sure you submit it under the Nine Lives Challenge category!

• Posting Day is February 7 – We will post the Master List and post all of the challenge entries so everything shows up at once. That way, we’re all surprised by what we get to read! Any challenge fics that are posted before February 7 will be deleted.

That's it, my friends! Drop a comment or PM us if you have any questions. Happy writing!