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The Scavenger Hunt Challenge!

by Ana Cristina

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This very ficlet marks my 600th. But I’m proudest of my amount of comments – I recently got to 1400. Thanks to the supremely awesome League of Awesomeness for inspiring us to be as prolific in our commenting as we are in our ficleting.

Hmm, what momentous challenge can I construct for you ficleteers? It feels like everything’s been done already, so coming up with challenges nowadays is, well … challenging. :D

So here’s my challenge: You must write 1 ficlet that includes the following ten facts about yourself:

1.) Year you were born.
2.) Name of your first pet.
3.) Name of the city in which you were born.
4.) Name of your best friend.
5.) Title of your favorite book.
6.) Lyric/title from one of your favorite songs.
7.) Your favorite number.
8.) Your nickname.
9.) Subject you love(d) the most in school.
10.) Title of your favorite sitcom.

The ten facts can used in any order, but DO NOT bold them. The task of your readers is to see if they can find the clues.

Your deadline is July 1st. Happy ficleting!

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Ana Cristina
Posted 2 months ago

Attached to this challenge is my example of what your ficlet should look like when you’ve liberally sprinkled your clues throughout your story. See if you can guess my clues! (I think it’s kinda easy :D)
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Blusparrow
Posted 2 months ago

oh wow! I am totally doing this! Great challenge Ana!
LoA
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THX 0477
Posted 2 months ago

Wow, neat variation on the ‘fit these things into a ficlet’ challenge. I’ll have to think about this one to answer the questions and then fit them in a story.
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THX 0477
Posted 2 months ago

Whee, that was fun to fit it all in! thanks for a fun challenge. There is no way anyone will be able to pick the stuff out though.
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John Perkins
Posted 2 months ago

Congratulations on another landmark achievement. And what an awesome challenge to go with it. I’ll definitely be entering.
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Mistress Elsha Hawk
Posted 2 months ago

I have entered! Congrats on 600! I have hidden my answers like easter eggs, some are obvious and some are barely showing. :)
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Jenunique
Posted 2 months ago

Congrats on the numbers! Now… this could get very very interesting. ;D
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JMSquire
Posted 2 months ago

Congratulations on 600, that is an epic achievement for certain!
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John Perkins
Posted 2 months ago

Posted my entry. Very difficult to really hide it all into a plausible, stand-alone ficlet. Incredibly fun to write though, and it’s a blast reading all the others that have been posted. Again, great challenge.
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thebetweenspace
Posted 2 months ago

Great challenge as all your challenges have been! I finally entered and congrats not only on 600 but on all those great comments you leave us too!
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invisibility_disability
Posted 2 months ago

entered!!! some of my facts are little bit obvious and others are really difficult to figure out.
great challenge and congrats!
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Melia
Posted 2 months ago

That was fun! Awesome challenge and congrats on all the ficlets and comments! And great job on all the entries! Wonderful reading and trying to guess the clues :)
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Ana Cristina
Posted 2 months ago

Thanks, guys, for making this challenge so fun. I’m having a blast trying to guess the clues in all your entries!
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PantherStar10
Posted 2 months ago

Wow that sounds fun but hard at the same time. I would love to do the whole challenge thing but I’m not allowed to write some of the clues you put down like my year or the city i was born in! Thumbs up though!!
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g2 (la pianista irlandesa)
Posted 2 months ago

Sheesh, talk about a challenge! shakes head I’m gonna give it a fair shot, gosh-darnit!
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Freedom
Posted 2 months ago

This sounds like an ahhmazing challenge. I’m going to try it, but I can’t be sure of anything good. But still, great idea!
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penguincaptain18
Posted 2 months ago

Cool challenge. I might have to enter this one. Congrats on 600! Incredible. 1400 comments?! That’s crazy. Congrats all around! :)
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Mistress Elsha Hawk
Posted 2 months ago

I don’t know how you’re going to judge all these!!! I’m enjoying learning who’s older and who’s younger than I am…hee hee… :)
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Ana Cristina
Posted 2 months ago

I have no friggin’ clue, either, Mistress Elsha! In fact, if anyone wants to help me judge, LET ME KNOW !
Oh, and I like learning who’s younger and older, too. ;-)
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PyroPunk 51 (PPP LoA)
Posted 2 months ago

looks like you will have your work cut out for you, grading all these!
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Eckhouse
Posted 2 months ago

I’m just glad I’m not the oldest. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Bicentennialism rocks!
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John Perkins
Posted 2 months ago

@Ana, I do not envy you having to try and judge these. I’d love to help, but I think I’m going to be overwhelmed by my own challenge. It’s nice to have so many entries, but it’s also a curse.
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Ana Cristina
Posted 2 months ago

I totally get you, JP.
Well, I’ve finally judged! Click on the prequel to see the winners. Thanks to everyone who posted entries. They were all fun to read and decipher. :)
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XxjerseyxgirlxX
Posted 2 months ago

Wait, so we have to look at every story’s comments to see who won? You could have wrote a sequal saying who the winner was. Not to be cranky…)
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Ana Cristina
Posted 2 months ago

As I wrote above, click on the prequel to see the winners.
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KDSfo'life♥♥♥
Posted 2 months ago

ik that im late but im doing it for fun!

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About the author

Ana Cristina

In the currently rain-drenched Miami.

I blog, therefore I am.

I won’t be on as much for a while (sniff, sniff) because the school year just began again plus I’m scrambling to finish my thesis on top of grading mountains of papers. I’ll still drop in from time to time, though. :D

Reading and writing are my life, both in my profession as a Language Arts teacher and in my studies in English Lit. as a grad. student. I like many different literary genres, but I most love fairy tales, fantasy, and historical fiction.

When I’m not being a slave to my muse or grading papers, I’m either:
a.) on my DS (currently: FF3)
b.) reading the Twilight series for the umpteenth time
c.) watching “Ghost Hunters” (shivers)
d.) all of the above.

I’m a proud member of the League of Awesomeness, and I strive to be as active in my commenting as I am in my ficleting. To learn more about LoA, please visit THX 0477’s profile at: http://ficlets.com/authors/thx_0477

And to see the list of all-star authors (of which I am now one, yay! :p), go here:
http://ficlets.com/authors

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A Sampling of My Wares

Collaborations:
1. There’s Something About Jodi: 25398
-Working with thebetweenspace and uselessness on this (completed).

2. Debut: 28741
- Working with THX 0477 on this (ongoing).

3. The Idiot’s Guide to Dating: 30287
- Working with thebetweenspace on this (ongoing).

4. Death and the City: 37683
- Working with Eckhouse, SKermitgorf, Laine P. Grey, and whoever else wants to join! (ongoing).

Flying Solo:
1. Emily & Sebastian: 24549 (completed)

2. Henry’s Wives: 22566 (completed)

3. Epilogue: Breaking Dawn: 36233 (completed)

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I ♥ comments! Please feel free to provide comments and/or critique my writing. I welcome any chance to improve and grow as a writer. In addition, I don’t mind at all if you want to prequel/sequel any of my ficlets. If anything I would love the chance to collaborate with you. Though if you do prequel/sequel any of my ficlets, please write me a note so that I can read it!

If you’re going to take the time to rate a ficlet, please take the time to provide a comment. I welcome both your ratings and comments! =)

Favorite quotes
“My heart is like the ocean/ It gets in the way.”
- Tori Amos

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Writers I admire
Poetry: Sylvia Plath, e. e. cummings, Ezra Pound, T.S. Elliot, Anne Sexton, Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez.

Fiction: Michael Ondaatje, Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Frank McCourt, Amy Tan, Jhumpa Lahiri, Gregory Macguire, Stephenie Meyer, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Orson Scott Card, Paolo Coelho, Patricia Veryan, Toni Morrison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde.

Nonfiction: Diane Ackerman, Anthony Bourdain, Joan Didion, Alice Walker (though her fiction rocks, too).

What I’m currently reading
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver.

What I can’t stop re-reading
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
(Oh yeah, it’s an obsession. I even made my own website: http://thedangermagnet.blogspot.com)

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Published on June 17, 2008.

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