Over the past eighteen months, I've participated in fkficfest three times. I wrote "Gone Where the Goblins Go" in 2018, "Know Why I Cry" in 2019, and "Knight of the Rose" in 2020.

FK Fic Fest was originally created as a gift exchange; and "Gone Where the Goblins Go" was written for purselover2 to the prompt, "Gen Request, Natalie and Nick, celebrating something". I decided to write about Natalie's relationship with her grandmother, Nana Tash, whose ghost appeared to her in the third season episode, "Dead of Night", in which we learn that Natalie refused to visit her in hospital. Although by the time of the episode, Natalie has had time to regret this, it takes quite a lot of rancour to refuse to visit someone who is dying. So I thought that, however perverse it might seem to an outsider, she might actually have felt that her Nana's death was worth celebrating.

This proved to be a difficult story to write: hard enough, in fact, that I had to ask for a brief extension. I framed "Gone Where the Goblins Go" around Natalie's visiting Nana Tash's lawyer and the reading of the will; and used her inheritance to explain her change of apartments between Season One and Season Two. However, my own mother died in late 2015; and, as the family member still living in the same city, I perforce was the one who had to deal with much of the wind-up of the estate—sorting personal and household things, in particular. As I wrote, some scenes (such as the one in the lawyer's office) brought this all back too keenly; and I kept having to stop for a bit.

I had no particular theme in mind for the webpage, save that the colour scheme should be fairly neutral. For the main background, I therefore chose a tile from Ambographics Art that is in light beige and grey shades with a complex geometric pattern; and used a compatible square button from the same source for decoration. The border around the story panel picks up similar tones, with a slight added glitz from a narrow band featuring an abalone shell tile from Heather's Animations.

Although originally a gift exchange, in 2019, FK Fic Fest wa run as a prompt challenge. In honour of its tenth anniversary, the prompt was "ten years".

My original intention was to use the freedom of not having a specific recipient to write a story that I have had in mind since 2010. While it did not directly involve "ten years", I was sure I could work the words in somewhere. So I spent quite a bit of time hunting out and sorting a large number of newspaper clippings that I had kept. However, as in the previous year, I had trouble getting down to actual writing. This time, it was because the events I wished to work into the story had been hard to live through, for I had been contiguous to them, even though they had not impacted me personally. In the end, I simply ran out of time to complete a story of the length I envisaged. Instead, at the last minute, I brainstormed a different plot while walking home from my weekly singing lesson, whipped straight into writing it, and posted just before the deadline.

"Know Why I Cry" is a postscript to the Season One episode, "Only the Lonely", very popular with fans since its flashback describes how Nick and Natalie first meet. The main plot involves a serial killer who finally targets Natalie; and, as so often happens in TV shows, the climax is her rescue. In real life, of course, things could never simply end at that point. Natalie would be a witness—indeed, the key witness—in the subsequent prosecution. However, the show was old-fashioned even for its day: there was little continuity; so each episode was independent, meaning there was no follow-up. "Know Why I Cry" picks up, therefore, some months later on the eve of the trial, and deals with the lingering effect on Natalie, who is obviously suffering some measure of PTSD,

To reflect her depression, I decided to use dark neutral tones in the webpage. The main background tile is one of the many variants that I have made from GRSites' brown128.jpg, this time in shades of charcoal/brown/tan feathered with a dull cool grey. The border arround the central panel picks up these shades, with bands of warm brown marble and dark teal, edged with lines of copper. One of the teal graphics comes from Absolute Cross; and there is a decorative button from Ambographics Art.