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Waverly Earp cracked her knuckles as she sat down to her ancient, but serviceable, Remington typewriter. She'd decided to eschew using her laptop to compose her entry this year, theorizing that was just too easy to get distracted by all of the easily accessible social media apps and wikis online. No, this year she was going "old school".
She glanced to the print out on the table to her left and quickly re-read the instructions:
"Authors submit a Wynonna Earp fanfiction story based on the single-word prompt “strain” by June 25th, 2023 at 11:59PM PT
Post stories to AO3 and include the tag 'EFA Fic Challenge 2023'
Stories must not exceed 4000 words and a “T” Rating*.
Stories may not violate the EFA FAQ (visit - http://efapodcast.com/about)
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As a fun OPTIONAL bonus, please include an appearance from a character of The Purgatory Report on CPRG. (This could range from a background cameo to a featured or even full role in your story, it’s up to you!) Visit http://ghostriverradio.com for the full archive of episodes so far.
EFA will pare down initial entries to sixteen finalist fics that will then enter a bracketed “vote-off”, beginning the week of July 24th, which will last over four weeks until a final winner is determined. (If we have fewer than 16 entries to start off, we will start with the next nearest even number and go from there).
The winner’s story will be recorded as an audiobook and played on an upcoming episode, PLUS the winning author will be interviewed for the show!
*For the purposes of this competition, the rating limitation of ‘T’ means that there should be little to no swearing, minimal violence and references to nudity and/or sex acts and no explicit descriptions of sex acts. All “love scenes” should ‘fade to black’."
"Okay," Waverly said to the air around her. "This is it, this is the year I make it into the Top 16. Let's do this."
She paused and then looked up into the space directly ahead of her, as though capturing someone else's gaze with her own. Taking a breath she asked, "Care to join me?"