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- All I Do Each Night Is Rehearse The Pray Routine
- Appendicitis
- An Act Of Un-Remembrance
- Beginnings
- Better Than Today - Kylie Minogue
- Black
- Breathe Out
- Christmas Shopping
- Choreography
- Dancers
- Dangling
- Days
- Default Settings/Do You Love Me? [Part One]
- Displacement Theory [Blue]
- DJ (I Could Be Dancing) - Alphabeat
- Enchanted
- Ends (Loose And Otherwise) [Ends]
- Enemies
- Family
- Fine Time To Lose Your Mind - Jack McManus
- Fireworks
- Flat Tyres And Palm Prints [Birth]
- Flu
- Friends: A Dictionary [Friends]
- From Angels To The Moon/The Soup
- Green Light [Green]
- Hell Raisers
- Home Invasion
- Hours
- In My Veins
- Insides
- It Was The Death Of Something [Death]
- Just Like Children [Children]
- Kiss And Make Up
- The Last Time
- Lonely At Christmas
- Love Songs
- Lovers
- Middles
- Midnight Sun
- Mistletoe
- Months Go By [Months]
- More Important Than Fear
- Muddied Stars [Brown]
- Not Enough
- Of Peacocks
- On The Subject Of Angels [Orange]
- Playing House [Parents]
- The Price Of Friendship
- The Prize
- Post-Match Analysis
- Puddles
- Red
- Secret Admirer
- Secret Agent Owen
- Shades
- Shine - Skies Of America
- Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
- Snap
- So Good To See You
- Stage Fright
- Stay (Oh Darlin')
- Study In Motion
- Summertime Feeling - S Club 7
- Sunrise
- Sunset
- Teammates
- That Night In Amsterdam/Do You Love Me? [Part Two]
- This
- Three Sets Of Three
- Twenty-Nine (And A Half)
- Under A Colourless Sky [Colourless]
- We Found Something That Belongs To You [Outsides]
- We Were Strangers Once [Strangers]
- Weeks
- What Did You Say This Time?
- What Will The Papers Say? [Purple]
- White Out [White]
- The Wordsmith/Breathe In
- Years
- Yellow
- Yesterday's Promise
- 3-0 Defeats
- Barlow's Music Shop Series
- Fanfiction Challenges
- The Postcard Prompts
- OT3, OT4 & OT5
- Stories By Band Member
- Stories By Ship
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Fanfiction Challenges
Word Prompts Challenge...
100 Stories for 100 Prompts: 95 one-word prompts + 5 Writer's Choice.
1/100: BeginningsSometimes all it takes is a last-minute baby-sitting request and suddenly, before they know it, Take That all find themselves - one by one - coming together at just the right time for yet another new beginning...
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2/100: mIDDLES
Mark has always known that - no matter what - if he turns up on Jason's doorstep in the middle of the night with a problem, Jason will listen.
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3/100: eNDS (lOOSE aND oTHERWISE) [eNDS]
Howard isn't good with ends, even loose ones, and there is nothing he
hates more than a goodbye - so his bandmates come together at the end of
The Circus tour to help him cheer up, at least a little.
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4/100: Insides
It's no secret that Jason isn't so fond of flying. But his bandmates can never resist a tease.
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5/100: We Found Something That Belongs To You [Outsides]
A tea shortage strikes the Beautiful World tour, so Mark takes matters into his own hands and ventures out in search of a shop, despite his bandmates' reservations.
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6/100: Hours
Mark was too ill to make it to the awards. So his bandmates brought the fun to him instead.
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7/100: dAYS
Gary reflects on the ways the days pass by so easily in the company of his three best friends.
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8/100: Weeks
Those weeks just after the band split, Howard nearly went crazy, waiting for everyone to turn around and tell him they didn't mean it. Then Jason makes a well-timed phone call which Howard stays grateful for forever.
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9/100: Months gO bY [mONTHS]
The seasons change, but Mark still always shows up in Gary's life just the same.
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10/100: Years
Jason's given up measuring their friendship in years; now he measures it in Gary's microphone stands, Howard's bad jokes and Mark's laughter...
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11/100: Red
Gary finds himself being styled for a night out by Mark. Jason and Howard are called on to referee.
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12/100: On The Subject Of Angels [Orange]
Mark contemplates godparents, angels and his bandmates.
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13/100: Yellow
It's a big band night out, and Mark and Gary take a tipsy moment to bond over Coldplay.
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14/100: Green Light [Green]
When the band start to worry about Jason, Howard makes it his mission to be there for him.
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15/100: Displacement Theory [Blue]
Robbie reflects on his first time being back in the company of the four men he was once in a band with, before things got ugly and fell apart. It's blue and beautiful...but it's not the same...
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16/100: What Will The Papers Say? [Purple]
None of them will ever forget the day Mark Owen accidentally knocked himself out on a door...
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17/100: Muddied Stars [Brown]
Gary can't help but think that, logically speaking, gold is really just
another shade of brown. The rest of the band are keen to reassure him
that he's come a long way since he was down in the mud, and they won't
let him fall there again.
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18/100: Black
What next? - it's a question Howard has asked Jason before, and though the answer has changed over the years, Howard knows there is no one else who can so effectively ease his fear of the unknown.
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19/100: White Out [White]
Gary reflects on his past mistakes and on how his relationships with his bandmates have changed for the better over time.
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20/100: Under A Colourless SKY [Colourless]
It's Mark's wedding day and, despite the ominously colourless sky, his bandmates are determined to brighten things with a spot of banter.
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21/100: Friends: A Dictionary [Friends]
TT4's friendship comes with its own, distinctive language that sometimes needs translating.
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22/100: Enemies
They've all grown up far too much to be enemies anymore, and they can't stay angry at each other for long - especially not in the email age, when Jason can be there to make peace with a few simple clicks of a mouse...
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23/100: Lovers
Mark wanders the set of the Patience video shoot as he starts to remember what being in a band was really always all about.
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24/100: Family
When an interviewer asks the lads what the secret to their comeback's success is, she gets four very different answers which are surprisingly similar at their core...
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25/100: We Were Strangers Once [Strangers]
Sometimes it's difficult to remember that they were strangers once, thrown together by random happen-stance - it just seems to fit too well to have been down to chance.
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26/100: Teammates
Only the best teammates refuse to let you be ill in peace - or at least, that's what Jason is choosing to believe.
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27/100: Playing House [Parents]
Howard has come to accept that Jason is the real boss of his house and his family.
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28/100: Just Like Children [Children]
Mark starts to question if he's really cut out to command a stage by himself as a solo artist, but one of his old bandmates shows up just in time to offer some perspective.
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29/100: Flat Tyres And Palm prints [Birth]
They both know what it's like to fall down, to roll around in the grass, even to hold hands - Howard and Jason always find themselves drifting in and out of each others lives, always picking up where they left off as if no time has passed at all, no matter what the circumstances are.
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30/100: iT wAS tHE dEATH oF sOMETHING [Death]
Mark and Jason, making peace and daisy chains after a rough few weeks of newspaper headlines.
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31/100: Sunrise
Gary often finds himself seeking Jason out at sunrise.
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32/100: Sunset
Howard can't stand when things are over - but he's worried the only relationship he's ever stuck at might finally be about to see a sunset, and Jason is one goodbye he's not sure he would be able to survive.
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33/100: Not Enough
A year since Jason decided to make his leaving official, the remaining three lads reflect on what the real sadness of the whole thing actually is.
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34/100: Too Much
Coming soon.
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iTunes Shuffle Challenge...
Put iTunes on shuffle & write a drabble for each of the first five songs which come up. Try to write the story within the time it takes for the song to play.*
Better Than Today - Kylie Minogue
Howard is let down by Jason, so Mark tries to cheer him up.
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DJ (I Could Be Dancing) - Alphabeat
Jason just wants to dance. Howard just wants to indulge him.
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Enchanted - Taylor Swift
When Mark meets a man named Jason at a party, he is under his spell immediately and cannot stop thinking about their brief, chance encounter. But he can't help but wonder: is Jason thinking about it too? And what about Howard - are he and Jason more than just friends?
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fINE tIME tO lOSE yOUR mIND - jACK mCmANUS
Mark can't seem to do anything right, and his bad mood seems to be rubbing off on everyone around him. And yet, somehow, Jason Orange is still happy to spare him some time out of his day.
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In My Veins - Andrew Belle
Nothing lasts - it's the shared principal their entire relationship was formed on. Jason wants to disappear and forget. Howard tries to persuade him to break all his rules. [Companion piece: Stay (Oh Darlin')]
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Shine - Skies Of America
Gary catches Jason at an unguarded moment and take the chance to think over just how much he admires him.
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Slow Dancing In A Burning Room - John Mayer
Everyone knows it's over between Mark and Jason - especially Mark and Jason. But there is time for one more dance as Mark wonders to himself where Jason might go - and who with - next.
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sUMMERtime Feeling - S Club 7
It's a hot day in the studio, so Howard tries to persuade Gary to take a break and go for ice cream.
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* Enchanted - Taylor Swift, In My Veins - Andrew Belle and Slow Dancing In A Burning Room - John Mayer were songs which originally came up first on occasions when I intended to do this challenge. Inspiration for something longer struck on these three occasions and I stopped the songs, switched off iTunes and wrote fully-formed stories instead.
Numbers Challenges...
Randomly generated number-related prompts which ranged from "List 5 things your character hates and why" to simply "10 and a 1/2" - I chose to write for "3 lists of 3" and "A peculiar number and a fraction".
Three Sets Of Three
Jason's fears, guilty pleasures...and his inability to stay mad at Howard Donald.
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Twenty-nINE (aND a hALF)
Jason can think of twenty-nine (and a half) reasons why he's sure he doesn't care if Howard Donald has really gone for good.
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