September Challenge: Jumble Sale
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Twenty years of SWG challenges has seen all kinds of use of the prompts that (mostly) moderators cook up each month to tempt and torment our challenge creators. Some challenges are worn thin with love. Others lie, untouched and growing dusty, in the attic of the SWG Challenge page. This month, in honor of twenty years of challenges, we are upcycling our old challenges and dusting them off for a second chance at life.
Jumble Sale prompts are created by SWG members using past challenges and prompts. For this challenge, you can choose your prompt from the list below. Each prompt is indicated by a "For Sale" and may include multiple elements. As always, we welcome creative interpretations of prompts and use of any part of the prompt.
Make sure to tag all challenges included in the prompt if you would like the stamps for them. Challenges from before 2017 do not have stamps, but there is a special stamp for creators who venture into the deepest, dustiest recesses of the SWG attic by creating for a prompt that uses a challenge from prior to 2017!
If you'd like to create prompts of your own but missed the original call, you're not too late! Submit Jumble Sale prompts here. Allow us forty-eight hours to update the website before querying.
Thank you to Varda delle Stelle for this month's stamps!
In order to receive a stamp for your fanwork, your response must be posted to the archive on or before 15 October 2025. For complete challenge guidelines, see the Challenges page on our website.
The Bitter Bite, by Himring
Sep. 14th, 2025 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Title: The Bitter Bite
Characters: Grithnir (Edain), Beleg (with a glimpse of Turin)
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: Triple drabble
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin
Rating: Teens
Warnings: canonical character death implied
Word Count: 300 words
Summary: After they had reached Menegroth, age and sickness came upon Grithnir. He stayed beside Turin until he died. But before that he made a request.
Author notes: This was written in two stages, for different prompts, respectively challenges. As the word count adds up to a multiple of 30 together, I am claiming it as fill for the September challenge also.
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Only for a Moment, and Never Again, by StarSpray
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Author notes: Written for the SWG Kids These Days prompt: Terrible Manners; and also for the August prompt here: swinging constellations bright. I also tried for a multiple of 30 wordcount but couldn't quite manage it.