Bradbury Title Challenge

The Bradbury Title Challenge (also The Ray Bradbury Title Challenge) was a one-off fanfic challenge, posted by Liviapenn in June 2002 to her livejournal. The challenge was, simply, to write a piece of Smallville fanfic, using the title of a Ray Bradbury story or novel.Liviapenn, posts tagged sv: bradbury title challenge on dreamwidth; posts & associated comments were originally made to/hosted on livejournal: 
It was an extremely successful challenge, perhaps because it was riding on the success of the previous X-Title Challenge, and perhaps because, like the X-Title Challenge, the guidelines were extremely loose; there was no deadline, no pairing or genre restrictions, and no required word count. More than one person could write a story using a certain title if they were so inspired, and several authors wrote multiple stories.
Stories were posted in various places: to the Level Three Record Room, the Smallville Slash Archive, to livejournal or fanfiction.net, or to authors' personal websites. An index page of all the stories was created on debchan.com, but disappeared when that domain expired, but based on three posts in Dreamwidth about the challenge it was possible to expand the list of works.
==Challenge Rules==
==Stories==
fanfic title 	fanwriter 	
A Final Sceptre, A Lasting Crown / crossposting at SSA 	RaeC 	
A Little Journey 	Hope 	
A Medicine for Melancholy 	Meret 	
A Scent of Sarsparilla 	Janet F. Caires-Lesgold	
A Sound of Thunder 	Jayne Leitch 	
All Summer In A Day 	Victoria P. 	
Almost to the End of the World 	seperis 	
And Dark Our Celebration Was 	Hth 	
And the Sailor, Home from the Sea 	Jack 	
At Midnight, In the Month of June 	Hope 	
[August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains] 	Kiren 	
Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! 	Julad 	
Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! 	Kitty Fisher 	
Come Into My Cellar 	HYPERFocused 	
[Dandelion Wine] 	bonibaru 	
Dandelion Wine 	dossier 	
Darling Adolf 	DebC 	
Drunk, And In Charge of a Bicycle 	Jayne Leitch 	
Graveyard for Lunatics 	EA Karras 	
Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You 	Lydia 	
In a Season of Calm Weather 	Hope 	
[In a Season of Calm Weather] 	Linda 	
Interval in Sunlight 	valentine 	
Kaleidoscope 	Pearl-o 	
King of the Gray Spaces 	Te 	
Long After Midnight 	Edie 	
Long After Midnight 	eleanorb 	
Long After Midnight 	Jules 	
Night Call, Collect 	Sarah T. 	
No Particular Night or Morning 	The Spike 	
[No Particular Night or Morning] 	Wendi 	
Rain King 	Juanita Dark 	
Some Live Like Lazarus 	Rana Eros 	
Something Wicked This Way Comes 	keelywolfe 	
The Autumn People 	seperis 	
[The Best of All Possible Worlds] 	Kiren 	
The Black Ferris 	HYPERFocused 	
The Blue Bottle 	Jules 	
The Day It Rained Forever 	keelywolfe 	
The Dragon Dances at Midnight 	Amanda 	
The End of the Beginning / crossposting at SSA and Elegant Slumming Archive	Pablo 	
[The Fire Balloons] 	That Nashvegas Chick 	
The Great Collision of Monday Last 	Amanda 	
The Great Wide World Over There 	Criss Moody 	
The Leave-Taking 	HYPERFocused 	
The Naming of Names 	seperis 	
The Next In Line 	Pearl-o 	
The Off Season 	Livia 	
The One Who Waits 	BlueJade 	
The Small Assassin 	Amanda 	
The Small Assassin 	Sarah T. 	
The Sound of Summer Running 	Zahra 	
The Thing That Goes by Night: The Self That Lazes Sun 	Ilexa 	
The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Place 	Zahra 	
The Town Where Nobody Got Off / crossposting at AO3 	Brighid 	
There Will Come Soft Rains 	Laura Kaye 	
Uncle Einar 	Shrift 	
Wake for the Living 	yavannauk 	
What I Do Is Me - For That I Came 	Te and seperis 	
Yes, We'll Gather At The River / crossposting at AO3 	Treacy PurpleSage 	
 	 	
==References==
Category:Fiction WritingCategory:DC Challenges
Category:Smallville
Category:2002 Challenges