Random*Fandom is proud to present the 'Against the Clock' challenge!

Cinderella had to leave the ball before Midnight, Johnny Depp had 90 minutes to complete a task in ‘Nick of Time’, Bruce Willis only had a small amount of time to save the world in ‘Armageddon’, there was an iconic episode of Angel where he and Buffy only had 24 hours together with him as a human, Roger Bannister breaking the 4 minute mile has also been immortalised on celluloid. How many times have you been gripped by a scene with a ticking time-bomb or almost fallen off the edge of your seat when your team wins the game in last 30 seconds of play or touched by a holiday romance with a one week expiry?

All of these have something in common – they were racing against the clock.

We’re very pleased to bring you our new fanfiction writing challenge prompted by this theme. As always, this challenge is multi-fandom (which also means that cross-over fics are welcome) and is open to all manner of genres. Entries will be scored by a team of judges on a number of categories (technical writing, content, plot flow etc.), the story with the highest score wins. If the situation arises that two or more entries have the same number of points, the final winner will be decided by a public poll. For a full list of rules, entry information and important dates go to our contest pages at http://

As Random*Fandom is a multi-fandom community, all of our challenges will be open to every fandom (including crossovers).

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