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I noticed that

bluespirit_star posted that the SCREWZ award winners had been posted, so I figured I'd amble over and check 'em out. And found out that I actually managed to win two of the crazy things, one for my U.N.C.L.E. story, Prodigal's Return (in Relative Secrecy 7) and one for my Wild Wild West story, The Night of the Opium Den (in Gentlemen Never Tell 7) For those keeping score, both also won Fan Qs this year.

Here's the interesting thing. Prodigal's Return has no sex in it, not even a hint. There are thousands of miles between Illya and Napoleon in the story, physically and emotionally. Though it's part of an ongoing series where they will, eventually, end up together, they're certainly not together in this story. And yet it's winning slash awards. Interesting. (I'm sure this is also part of the reason why I'm accused by certain people of writing so-called "genslash". To which I would respond that while I don't always feel the need to write sex scenes, sometimes I have a great deal of fun with them.)

Anyway, for those wanting to see the full list of winners, you can find them here:
http://www.itak.slashcity.net/screwz/win/2004.htm

Congrats to

bluespirit_star, for her win for Pros Artwork,

stormheller for her win for Due South novella, and

walfox for her win for Miscellaneous (X-Files) Story. Not to mention

graculus for both U.N.C.L.E. and Wild Wild West novella.