#ms2sl 2018

[katnissdoesnotfollowback]

9000 R.P.M. - MS2SL Preview

Stuck in a dead end town and a dead end job, Katniss takes a gamble with the one thing she got out of her divorce -- a beat up sports car turned racer. She was always the better driver anyways. With a little help from a mechanic with blue eyes and golden hands, she turns that gamble into a chance for a better life for her and her daughter. But racing is still a boys' club and the road is never easy for a single mom.

WARNINGS: RATED E for underage sex (as in all involved parties are between 16 and 19 at the time of the dirty deeds, explicit sexual content, explicit language, unprotected sex, accidental pregnancy (use condoms people!), teen pregnancy, minor character death, infidelity, road rage (or I guess track tempers???), and a shit ton of misogynistic assholes.

Pairings: Minor on the Everthorne, Major on the Everlark ;-)

A quick sneak peek at what I’ve been working on for @mores2sl 2018! For more information on how to donate and read, and what this charity is all about, you can also visit ms2sl.com

Those of you familiar with my writing know that it is massively driven by musical influence. As part of this preview, here are twelve songs that are basically on repeat right now as part of the soundtrack for this story. You may notice a pattern here...this playlist is heavy on the Joan Jett (& the Blackhearts), Melissa Etheridge, Heart, Vixen, Shania, and Martina. In other words, chick rock. Deal with it, beyotches.

1. Vixen - Anyway

2. Melissa Etheridge - Will You Still Love Me

3. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Fun, Fun, Fun

4. Ciara - Paint It, Black

5. Heart - One Word

6. Shania Twain - I’m Gonna Getcha Good

7. Melissa Etheridge - This Moment

8. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - You Got a Problem

9. Vixen - It Wouldn’t Be Love

10. Martina McBride - When God-Fearin’ Women Get the Blues

11. Heart - Magic Man

12. Melissa Etheridge - Rock Me Baby

And now, the snippet. Enjoy!

“Good luck, Mommy!”

They stand there, awkwardly getting Katniss ready.

“I’ll um, see if I’ve got an extra headset to protect her ears,” Peeta says. Katniss nods. She climbs in the car and Peeta reaches through to help her strap in. They move through their routine as though nothing out of the ordinary just happened. She’s putting on her gloves, taking a last glimpse at her black nails that match her car when Peeta tugs on the end of her braid. “Kick some ass.”

“Peeta,” she says, grabbing his arm as he retreats. “I’m sorry.”

“For what?”

“The car...she really does look amazing. I just wanted you to know before they...they’re gonna to be gunning for me tonight. They’re gonna...knock the shit out of her and all your hard work...” her words fade beneath more loud cheers from the stands. The sounds churn in the muggy night and she shakes her head, unable to convey the regret she feels for what she fears is about to happen.

“Lucky for you, your mechanic spent four years working on cars that are built to take a beating.” He grabs the window net, pauses then smiles at her. “Knock back. Alimony can take it.”

The net is up before she can respond and the call comes to start engines. Fast spurts and barks fill the air. Alimony roars to life, her sounds lost in the crowd, but Katniss can still feel the vibrations. The purr beneath her. She adjusts the mirror and checks her belts. Takes a deep breath and waits for the flags. Her fingers tap on the wheel as the flag raises. The world freezes. The flag drops and deafening roars shake the earth.

Someone hits her right out of the gate. Then another. She’s jostled back and forth and glares at the bumper in front of her. He’s going too slow. Keeping her penned in and trapped.She gnashes her teeth, and waits for her opening. They’re tearing her car to the frame, one hit at a time. Not enough to get themselves warnings or tossed off the track. Just enough to send her a message.

It hasn’t rained in days and puffs of red clay obscure most of the track. It’ll be hard to see a thing. She waits for a thick cloud of the stuff to hide her and floors it. Rams into the car in front of her and pushes her way free. The dust clears and she backs off, veers right to go around. A bright flash warns her and she lets off, jerks back left and watches a car smash into the one she just pushed. Up into the wall.

[mores2sl]

Biiiiiiiig announcement time!

We had a couple of late submissions. So, since we didn’t want to get in the way of a perfect author submission record this round, we compiled it.

WHAT THE HECK DOES THAT MEAN?

Well, if you are reading online, you now have two new stories. (Thank you, @florence68blog, and @titaniasfics!)

If you have a DOWNLOADED copy, you’ll want to re-download. 

This puts this year’s total page count at 1378. 

You have now created a collection that surpasses all of our past years by 30%.

[xerxia31]

2018 ms2sl sneak peek

I missed the weekend of sneak peeks for @mores2sl, but wanted to share just a little snippet of what I’ve written for ms2sl in the hopes of encouraging everyone to support Hope for Caroline, or your favourite children’s charity. A ten dollar donation gives you access to this story, as well and a dozen other incredible stories and works of art, and a $20 donation lets you access THREE full rounds of ms2sl - what a steal!

Without further ado, a snippet of Not Real...

Commander Katniss Everdeen stood in front of Trident Hyperrealism Industries, housed in a glossy candy-coloured glass building that stretched up to the sky, and wondered for the hundredth time what she was doing. This was definitely not her district, not her scene at all. But she’d made a promise, and Katniss always kept her word. Clenching her jaw, she pushed through the doors.

Her perfectly polished uniform boots clattered on the slick marble flooring, echoing through the massive, opulent lobby. Vases of tropical blooms perfumed the carefully climate controlled air, contributing to the feeling of decadence. Everything about the space, the building, the whole damned city, was an affront to Katniss. Too shiny, too gaudy, too fake.

Though this was Earth, this was her planet, the Capitol was as different from her home district of Twelve as any of the outer rim planets she’d visited in her two plus years in command of the starship Mockingjay had been. Foreign and loud, filled with people who had more in common with exotic birds than with Katniss herself, the Capitol might as well be in the delta quadrant instead of nestled in the Rocky Mountains only a fifteen second teleport from home.

Katniss shook her head. She had to stop thinking that way. The Capitol was her home now. District Twelve was no more than a memory.

[gabzep]

In Time

@mores2sl sneak peak 2nd submission. I big thank you to @sunsetsrmydreams for the lovely banner!

Synopsis: From the Red Light AU.  Inspired by Darius Rucker ‘I Hope They Get To Me in Time’

It was just his luck that she had moved back to Panem the same day Leevy decided to break up with him, at a red light of all places.  Within three months they were dating. Three months after that they were engaged and then married before the year had marked her return.  Some called it a whirlwind romance. He likes to think that, it would have happened anyway.

Red Light AU     AO3 / FFN / tumblr

To read this and more please donate to MS2SL!

[florence68blog]

MoreS2SL 2018 cover - I have been here before

This is a cover  for my upcoming story (Everlark fanfic) for MoreS2SL 2018, a charity which raised money for childhood cancer. Donations are welcome & appreciated!

For more information please visit mS2SL Website or Blog!

I have been here before

The only path I shouldn’t be taking is memory lane. However, it is impossible to avoid that on the day of the celebration of our ten-year high school graduation anniversary...

[mores2sl]

Page Count by Story

I don’t know about you, but sometimes it’s handy for me to know how long stories are. That way, when I’m standing in line at the grocery store, I know what I have time to read. So....

Here you go! Listed in order they appear in the collection, alphabetical by title.

Story Pages Foreward      1 9000 R.P.M. by katnissdoesnotfollowback      223 Can't Keep My Hands to Myself by SavvyLark     3 Dark Arrow by Alliswell     68 Fifty Year's Worth by justajjfan      18 For Every Season by hutchhitched      42 In Each Other's Arms by SavvyLark    3 In the Blood by sunsetsrmydreams      37 In The Hollow Of His Hands by MTK4FUN      29 In Time by Gabzep      10 The Lake House by sohypothetically      32 A Marriage That Was Never Meant To Be – Outtake by Gabzep      16 Namely You by FamousFremus      16 Not Real by xerxia      19 The Seam Cobbler by Mega-Aulover      51 Stay, Peeta by Neverstopwhileyoureahead      23 The Storm by Mega-Aulover      253 Taking the Plunge by thegirlfromoverthepond      11 Transcendence by norbertsmom     30 Twisted: the Birth of Jonathan Mellark by chele20035      33 When a Lady overlooks by kdlovehg      57

[katnissdoesnotfollowback]

Still time to donate...

There is still time to donate to @mores2sl ! Visit ms2sl.com to register and learn about how to donate. You get access to some awesome stories, including this one. Here’s a snippet from my contribution this year.

Stuck in a dead end town and a dead end job, Katniss takes a gamble with the one thing she got out of her divorce -- a beat up sports car turned racer. She was always the better driver anyways. With a little help from a mechanic with blue eyes and golden hands, she turns that gamble into a chance for a better life for her and her daughter. But racing is still a boys' club and the road is never easy for a single mom.

WARNINGS: RATED E for underage sex (as in all involved parties are between 16 and 19 at the time of the dirty deeds), explicit sexual content, explicit language, unprotected sex, accidental pregnancy (use condoms people!), teen pregnancy, minor character death, infidelity, road rage (or I guess track tempers???), and a shit ton of misogynistic assholes.

Pairings: Minor on the Everthorne, Major on the Everlark ;-)

He finishes reading and they’re still waiting. Anxiety departed about ten minutes ago and annoyance is firmly in its place.

“What kind of lawyer is this uncle of yours again?” Katniss asks as Raven lays on the floor with a few of her favorite toy cars, driving them over the thick carpet.

“Not exactly sure. All I know is he represents about half of the Atlanta Falcons.”

“You’d think he’d be better at time management then,” Katniss grumbles.

“And I’d think some upstart hillbilly race car driver would be more appreciative that I managed to find ten minutes for her sorry ass,” a voice growls from the doorway as a man in a suit lumbers past them.

Peeta stands and smiles. “Haymitch. Good to see you again.”

“Cut the crap, kid.”

They stand there, gaping as Haymitch tries the door to his office and sighs. “Effie!”

“Sorry Mr. Abernathy,” the petite receptionist they spoke to earlier races to the door and fumbles with a set of keys while Haymitch calmly sips his coffee.

“I thought her name was Susan?” Katniss whispers and Peeta shakes his head.

“Alright let’s get this over with,” Haymitch says as soon as the door is open and he barges through. They hesitate as Susan hurries back to her desk. “Today, hillbillies!”

[mores2sl]

Hello! Where can we donate? I'm very excited for the collection!

So many choices! 

Our primary charity: http://hopeforcaroline.org/Donate.html

If you’d like to donate somewhere else, that’s fine. Not sure where? Here’s a post of some of our past charities:

https://ms2sl.com/#!/news/post/8

This list shows a fairly wide range of local and large charities. It should jump start the possibilities.

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Once you’ve donated, there are two ways to get us your receipt:

1. Login to ms2sl.com and go to “Upload Receipt”.

2. Email it to us at [email protected]. We’ll need you ms2sl.com username as well in order to “credit” your account. 

Thank you! 

The More Team