Happy December everyone. Welcome to the long, cold, seemingly endless days of hiatus. Looking for some fannish way to fill some time? Think short.

Inspired by this Times of London twitfic competition (and probably too many hours on Twitter) I thought it might be interesting to try a challenge in microfic writing.

So I present the TwitFanFic challenge.

The rules (such as they are) are few. So are the characters available in this challenge: 140. This is about condensing a moment, an emotion, a story in a few words -- boiling it all down. See what you can do with the 140 character limit that Twitter imposes. There are no winners or losers. This is just for fun.

About that 140 character limit. Twitter's count includes punctuation and spaces. You can shoot for that strict interpretation, or play it loose. (I'm certainly not going to be counting everyone's TwitFanFics.)

This challenge is open to one and all. Feel free to link or pimp, if you want. Just post your TwitFanFic in the comments here (or link to your LJ, if you prefer).

One example from the Times' contest of a TwitFic to whet your appetite: Tried to write a story with 140 characters. I only had two. Pete and Antonio. It was a hell of a tale. Long story short, Pete did it