Family Summer Vacation Challenge
This summer, your challenge is to send an XF family on a vacation. Mix and match the following elements and then pen your tale.
Requirements:
A. Choose one of the following families to send on a vacation:
- Mulder, Scully, Emily, William-Jackson and/or their new addition (including or substituting child original characters is also allowed)
- Doggett, Reyes, Skinner, Marita, Krycek, Fowley, the LGM, Spender or Gibson - or any combination of them - and their child/ren
- The Mulders or the Scullys, when Mulder and/or Scully and their siblings were children
- At least one XF character, their adult child(ren) and their grandchild(ren)
And
B. Pick a location
- the woods and/or mountains
- the beach or a lake/river and/or an island
- an amusement/theme park or museum or aquarium or zoo
- a cave system/caverns
- a multi-day concert series
- another country or an out-of-state US destination
- a wedding
- a family reunion
- a cruise ship
- college tour(s) or a graduation
And
C. Select at least one complication
- car trouble or a plane or train with minor to massive issues
- a missed train/plane/bus
- a child takes ill or is injured
- someone goes into labor
- the vacation spot is allegedly haunted
- a child gets lost (or kidnapped!)
- there's a severe weather emergency
- the family is stranded at their vacation spot
- an area-appropriate mythical creature is sighted
- the adult XF character/s is drawn into an unoffical-to-them case
- someone spots their doppleganger or a long-lost friend or relative
- a mascot or animatronics creature is...decidedly unfriendly
- wild card: something other than the possibilities above threatens the vacation
We await seeing how you combine your choices for A, B, and C and into a summer vacation for us to read about :)
Please submit your story or the link to it to nurseryfiles@mulderscreek.com or post in on our submisssions Tumblr by September 30th