A Writeoff Menagerie

Well, I'm back to being behind.  I spent most of the weekend rushing to get a story done for the There Is Magic In Everything Writeoff, and then far more time than I intended over the last few days reviewing all the entries.  This was the first time I'd done a three-day, 2000+ word writeoff, and... well, that is not the speed I normally work at.  The end result has a few glaring, painful mistakes (I don't think I'm giving anything away by saying that; most of the entries have a dumb slip-up or three.  Par for the course with a time crunch, I guess), and needs some polish before I'll be happy with it... but I think I'll end up being able to turn it into a new fic, so I'm counting that as a plus!

Now, normally this is where I'd tell you to go read those stories and review them in the thread I linked above and/or vote on them, but 90,000 words by Sunday is a pretty tall order.  So instead, I've grouped all the stories into broad categories below!  Some are genres, some are stylistic similarities... basically, I tried to put three fics which all shared some significant features into each category.  If 23 stories is too much, consider seeing if one or two of the categories below appeals to you, and sample from those!  Or read all the fics in one category and see how they compare.  Do whatever you like with them, really; I'm just trying to provide some more manageable chunks for people who'd like to read some fanfic, but aren't interested in committing to tackling the whole list.  Check out my story groups, below the break.

Mythic/Old Stories

Love Call

Homecoming

The Sweetest Water

Pure Silliness

Magic in the Earth, Magic in the Air

Applejack Goes To Magic School For Some Reason

Tumbling Down the Slippery Slope

Something Is Amiss...

Stallion Whose Name I Forgot

Three and a Half Seconds

Daring Do and the Jade Songbird

Human/Sci-Fi

Waiting

And Yet...

Mark of Destiny

What a Twist!

Friendship is not Magic.

Parental Attachment

Darker Fare

Just One More

Oubliette 

The Color and the Silence

Celestia Time

A Light in the Dark

Dawn

For the Best

It's Magic, I Ain't Gotta Explain... It

Negotiations

Farsighted

Feel

Are those categories often arbitrary and maybe not the single best descriptor of the fic?  Probably!  But hopefully this setup makes it a little less intimidating to try a couple, if you're interested.