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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Too Sexy
Author: Slim, Kittenfic
Characters: AJ, Brian, et al.
Prompt: 29 Oops.
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium.
Brief summary: In which AJ is way too sexy for Brian. A wonderful story, both funny and heartfelt, that is guaranteed to make you smile.
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Link to the story: Too Sexy


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: And Everything After
Author: Zoicite, Commoner's Tales and [livejournal.com profile] zoicite
Characters: Howie, Brian, et al.
Prompt: 21 Epiphany.
Rating: PG-13
Length: Long.
Brief summary: Howie finally gets what he isn't expecting. The great characterizations and the careful development makes this story an absolute favorite in my book. It's delightfully quirky, and you can't help but love Howie for taking such a long time to finally understand what is going on around him.
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Link to the story: And Everything After
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Just Touch Me Again
Author: Saabira, Dreams, Broken
Characters: AJ, Howie.
Prompt: 37 Make-up.
Rating: PG-13.
Length: Medium.
Brief summary: Howie and AJ work things out. Wonderful fluff that'll make your toes curl. Everything is described very well, and it plays to all your senses.
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Link to the story: Just Touch Me Again


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Tattoo Tattoo Tattoo
Author: Lucy, [livejournal.com profile] lucy_fic
Characters: AJ, Brian.
Prompt: 08 Friendship.
Rating: PG.
Length: Short.
Brief summary: An adorable little piece, mostly dialogue, where AJ tries to get a little influence on Brian's son. Guaranteed to make you smile.
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Link to the story: Tattoo Tattoo Tattoo
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Spanish Harlem
Author: Chandrah, Speaking in Tongues
Characters: AJ, Howie.
Prompt: 01 First Time.
Rating: NC-17.
Length: Epic.
Brief summary: An incredibly sensual and warm story about AJ helping Howie admit who he really is. The obvious way in which the characters care about each other is shown through AJ's patience and Howie's struggle to admit what he wants, and the careful exploration of new things is just brilliantly done. A long-time favorite of mine.
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Link to the story: Spanish Harlem, Part I and Part II


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: O Bla Dee, O Bla Da
Author: Arsenic Jade, Every Rose Has A Thorn
Characters: Howie, Brian, et al.
Prompt: 23 Time.
Rating: NC-17.
Length: Long.
Brief summary: This is an amazing story that follows Howie and Brian's relationship, from the beginning and many years ahead. It's fluffy without being suffocating, and occasionally it's absolutely tragic. A lot of ups and downs, which only makes the read that much better.
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Link to the story: O Bla Dee, O Bla Da
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Untitled
Author: Loey, Deliciously and [livejournal.com profile] thisisthestory
Characters: Nick, Brian.
Prompt: 30 Seduction.
Rating: PG-13.
Length: Short.
Brief summary: Brian does what he does best to make Nick feel better. Just - ngah. This is one of the most wonderfully sensual stories I think I've ever read. Brilliant characterization, delightfully playful, and the build-up is exactly right. This one left me feeling like a wee puddle of mush.
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Link to the story: Untitled


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Eyes to Grow Old
Author: Zoicite, Commoner's Tales and [livejournal.com profile] zoicite
Characters: All, Leighanne.
Prompt: 31 Discovery.
Rating: PG-13.
Length: Long.
Brief summary: Brian is a family man with two families. This remains one of my favorite Backstreet stories to date. It's full of self-discovery, fear, acceptance, but most of all, love. It focuses mainly on Brian, and it's done brilliantly. If you haven't read it already, I would urge you to do so immediately.
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Link to the story: Eyes to Grow Old
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I managed to finish all 50 recs this round too, something I never thought I would.

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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: The Campy Camp Con Job
Author: Crystal Rose, at Falling Like Rain and [livejournal.com profile] funnypandachick
Characters: BSB and Nsync, girlfriends and wives
Prompt: 42 Holiday
Rating: PG-13
Length: medium
Brief summary: Imagine all the guys as councellours at a holiday camp for kids. With Kevin as the director. Poor Nick does not have an easy time of it this summer and Kevin gets his share of trouble too. This is such a fun and silly story.
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Link to the story: The Campy Camp Con Job, or here


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Only When
Author: Alexandria Brown, at Fiction by Alexandria Brown and [livejournal.com profile] alexandriabrown
Characters: AJ, Kevin
Prompt: 50 Reccer's Choice
Rating: PG
Length: short/medium
Brief summary: This is such a happy story, filled with sunlight, early morning coffe, playing with the dog, and a new tattoo.
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Link to the story: Only When
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Shift
Author: Pet, at Bury Me Deep and [livejournal.com profile] apetslife
Characters: BSB,
Prompt: 22 UST
Rating: sex
Length: medium
Brief summary: Howie is nice and fun to spend time with now that Brian is completely wrapped up in Leighanne. He and Nick are friends, that's all, even if Howie has the prettiest smile and kind of sparkle... A very sweet story about the growing closeness between Nick and Howie.
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Link to the story: Shift


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Silence
Author: Lucy, at [livejournal.com profile] lucy_fic
Characters: BSB
Prompt: 37 Make-up
Rating: sex
Length: medium
Brief summary: This is a story about AJ in rehab and after, trying to put his life back together. The rest of the Boys are there for him, but from Nick there is only silence. A first-class AJ characterisation story.
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Link to the story: Silence
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: No Gravity To Fall
Author: Patchwork Dragon, at Patchwork Dragon and [livejournal.com profile] patchworkdragon
Characters: Howie, Nick, AJ, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass
Prompt: 24 Future Fic
Rating: explicit sex
Length: long
Brief summary: A future fic in another sense than usually meant, this is science fiction with Howie as the spaceship captain looking forward to retiring and Nick as the ship's AI computer soon to be downloaded into his own human body. It starts off as an adventure story with the ship picking up two fugitives from Transcon, but the real center of the story is the relationship between Howie and Nick and the question of what it really means to be human.
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Link to the story: No Gravity To Fall, or here


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: My In-Laws Have Cooties
Author: Lennie, at Entendre Intended and [livejournal.com profile] thebitchtrolls
Characters: Brian, AJ, Chris Kirkpatrick, Justin Timberlake
Prompt: 49 Reccer's Choice
Rating: -
Length: short
Brief summary: This is one of my absolute favourite cheer-me-up stories. It's short, well-written, and hilariously funny. To quote the writer's own summary: Since they're practically in-laws, AJ, Brian, Chris and Justin bond over golf. Well, they call it golf. Millions wouldn't. This is definitely a must-read story, for both Nsync and Backstreet Boys fans.
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Link to the story: My In-Laws Have Cooties
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Martyr
Author: Georgina, at boys like that and [livejournal.com profile] eponymous
Characters: BSB, sundry stage hands, assistants, journalists, and photographers
Prompt: 16 Teamwork
Rating: -
Length: medium
Brief summary: Brian finally figures out what it is AJ does for the rest of the Boys. A well-written, funny, and insightsful story about the early days.
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Link to the story: Martyr


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Bite Marks
Author: Coreopsis, at *Nsnicker and [livejournal.com profile] coreopsis
Characters: AJ, Nick
Prompt: 48 Reccer's Choice
Rating: NC-17
Length: short
Brief summary: Two Boys, a car, some new music, what more could anyone want? And there is hot sex too.
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Link to the story: Bite Marks
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Down So Long
Author: Zoicite, at zoicite and [livejournal.com profile] zoicite
Characters: BSB, Sarah, Denise
Prompt: 36 Family
Rating: -
Length: medium
Brief summary: This is a very typical Zoicite story - it has everything: good characterisation, wonderful interaction among the Boys, introspection and angst as well as jokes and warmth. It is the closeness among the Boys and the way they are always there for each other which I like best in this story and which made me choose it for this prompt.
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Link to the story: Down So Long

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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Looking for Satellites
Author: Rachel, at Last Night and [livejournal.com profile] visionshadows
Characters: Nick, AJ, Kevin
Prompt: 47 Reccer's Choice
Rating: -
Length: short
Brief summary: A young Nick and AJ look at the stars in this strangely captivating little story full of vivid imagery.
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Link to the story: Looking for Satellites
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Intense
Author: Coreopsis, at *Nsnicker and [livejournal.com profile] coreopsis
Characters: Kevin
Prompt: 44 Mask
Rating: -
Length: very short (less than 500 words)
Brief summary: A wonderful glimpse into Kevin's head during one too many photoshoots.
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Link to the story: Intense


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Any and Every
Author: Zoicite, at zoicite and [livejournal.com profile] zoicite
Characters: BSB, Justin Timberlake, sundry wives and bodyguards and plastic surgeons
Prompt: 46 Reccer's Choice
Rating: NC-17?
Length: long
Brief summary: This is a wonderfully long and satisfying story, filled with great interactions between the Boys, superb dialogue, and lovely characterisations. It's Nick's story and though he makes you feel alternatingly exasperated, fond, angry, distressed, and, at the end, glad, you cannot help but love him. In fact, you can't help but love everyone in this story - they all have their foibles and quirks but they're all equally lovable.
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Link to the story: Any and Every
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Matters of Style
Author: Jain, at A Wild Surmise and [livejournal.com profile] jain
Characters: AJ, Howie, Lance, JC
Prompt: 29 Oops
Rating: -
Length: short/medium
Brief summary: This is one of the sweetest and quietly funny stories I know. Seen through AJ's jaded but kind eyes the courtship of Howie and JC is a joy to watch - from their bonding over pastel dildos, over the "ooops" happenings in the dressing room, to AJ's gigantic sacrifice to smooth the way of the new relationship. The second thread of the story, the snarky banter and the development of something between the equally bored AJ and Lance, is an added bonus to an already delightful tale.
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Link to the story: Matters of Style


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: In The Still Of The Night
Author: JM, at [livejournal.com profile] alldaylong
Characters: Kevin, AJ
Prompt: 40 Confession
Rating: PG
Length: short
Brief summary: This is a wonderfully atmospheric little story, filled with the stillness of the night, the growing closeness between the characters, and the expected-but-perhaps-not-like-that confessions.
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Link to the story: In The Still Of The Night
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Dark-Haired Men
Author: Mercutio, at Mercutio's Stories and [livejournal.com profile] bard_mercutio
Characters: Nick, Adam, AJ
Prompt: 33 Crossover
Rating: -
Length: short/medium
Brief summary: Nick is having a great time, alone and anonymous in Paris, and one evening he meets a fascinating, dark-haired, green-eyed man at a bar. A funny little story about Nick's meeting with Methos, with some nice insights into Nick's character, and a great cameo by AJ.
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Link to the story: Dark-Haired Men or here


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Pretty, Pretty Princess
Author: Patchwork Dragon, at Patchwork Dragon and [livejournal.com profile] patchworkdragon
Characters: BSB, Leighanne, Baylee
Prompt: 39 Break-up
Rating: -
Length: short/medium
Brief summary: A very sweet and funny story about the spectacular break-up of the Littrell marriage.
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Link to the story: Pretty, Pretty Princess
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Ink
Author: Lucy, at [livejournal.com profile] lucy_fic
Characters: Kevin, AJ
Prompt: 31 Discovery
Rating: sex
Length: short
Brief summary: A very hot little story wherein Kevin discovers one of AJ's kinks.
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Link to the story: Ink


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Untitled ficlet for KC
Author: Raven, at [livejournal.com profile] ravenfic
Characters: Aaron, Nick, Howie
Prompt: 32 Secrets
Rating: -
Length: very short (less than 500 words)
Brief summary: Sentence by sentence, almost word by word, the reader gets to discover Nick's secret as Aaron walks through the house. One of the few stories written in second person that I really like.
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Link to the story: Untitled ficlet for KC
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Titles: Choice & Insatiable
Author: Lucy, at [livejournal.com profile] lucy_fic
Characters: BSB
Prompt: 05 Sex
Rating: explicit sex
Length: medium & medium
Brief summary: Lucy has written so many incredibly hot stories I knew I wanted to use one of them for this prompt. Which one to choose wasn't that easy though and in the end I settled on both of these, since they form a coherent whole and neither can really be read without the other. They tell the story of how AJ and Howie got together and how Nick ended up involved too. Not only full of scorchingly hot sex, they also have great dialogue and characterisation. And they are funny too!
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Link to the stories: Choice & Insatiable


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Post-Show
Author: nafs, at Idle Dreams and [livejournal.com profile] nafs
Characters: Nick, AJ, the rest of BSB
Prompt: 13 Established Relationship
Rating: -
Length: short
Brief summary:A very warm glimpse into Nick's and AJ's relationship on the Never Gone tour.
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Link to the story: Post-Show
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Patriotic Duty
Author: Alexandria Brown, at Fiction by Alexandria Brown and [livejournal.com profile] alexandriabrown
Characters: AJ, Kevin
Prompt: 12 Humor
Rating: PG13
Length: short
Brief summary: AJ has an idea, Kevin is afraid. A very fluffy and funny little story.
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Link to the story: Patriotic Duty


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: The Saga of Godboy and the Freak
Author: Allecto, at The Wall and [livejournal.com profile] allecto
Characters: BSB and Nsync
Prompt: 15 Crack!Fic
Rating: -
Length: medium
Brief summary: This is an absolutely hilariously cracked-out story about Chris and Brian hooking up and how their respective bands dealt with it. Incredibly well-written, with wonderful dialogues and an irresistible underlying sweetness. The characterisations are exactly the right amount of larger-than-life for this type of story and both bands get equal time in the spotlight. A story to read and re-read for years to come.
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Link to the story: The Saga of Godboy and the Freak
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Perfect
Author: Georgina, at juppy.org and [livejournal.com profile] eponymous
Characters: BSB, Howie's boyfriend, Kristen, Leighanne, Baylee, asorted bodyguards
Prompt: 08 Friendship
Rating: -
Length: medium
Brief summary: I love on-tour stories and this is an unusually fine example. The characterisations are superb and the dialogue and interaction between the guys feels spot-on. This is much more a story about the friendship between the Boys than it is about the budding love between Nick and Howie. It's a story that makes me happy to read.
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Link to the story: Perfect


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Peace
Author: Lucy, at [livejournal.com profile] lucy_fic
Characters: BSB
Prompt: 20 Fight
Rating: explicit sex
Length: short/medium
Brief summary: A sweet story about Howie the peacemaker. And it got some really hot sex too. A good example of Lucy at her finest.
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Link to the story: Peace
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: How Could He!?
Author: Heidi, at Cover Me With Dreams and [livejournal.com profile] cvrmewithdreams
Characters: Nick, Kevin
Prompt: 03 Angst
Rating: R
Length: short
Brief summary: With AJ gone into rehab Nick feels his life crumbling around him. An interesting little story offering us a view into Nick's mixed-up fears and angers.
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Link to the story: How Could He!?, or here.


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Of Why the Sea is Boiling Hot
Author: Patchwork Dragon, at Patchwork Dragon and [livejournal.com profile] patchworkdragon
Characters: AJ, Howie, Nick, Kevin
Prompt: 34 Vacation
Rating: -
Length: medium
Brief summary: The Boys are on vacation together. While Howie and AJ is out shopping Nick is freaking out because Kevin is sunbathing. Naked. A well-written story with great characterisations and fun dialogues. Howie in sex kitten mode is definitely not to be missed!
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Link to the story: Of Why the Sea is Boiling Hot
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Sexual Dead Things
Author: Kate & Nic, at [livejournal.com profile] sirkate & [livejournal.com profile] xoverau
Characters: AJ, Kevin
Prompt: 19 Dark
Rating: explicit sex
Length: long/epic, episodic
Brief summary: I've choosen the prompt Dark for this story because it's there everything starts: at night, in the dark club where AJ, the college student and method actor doing research, meets Kevin, the cross-dressing punk/goth singer doing a gig. The first chapters bristles with the tension between them, and while later installments may lack this they more than makes up for it with hot sex and interesting character development. This AJ and especially this Kevin are very different from how they usually are portrayed in fanfic, and it definitely adds to the appeal of this wonderfully unusual story.
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Link to the story: Sexual Dead Things


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Canticle
Author: Nic, at [livejournal.com profile] xoverau
Characters: BSB
Prompt: 26 Death
Rating: -
Length: medium
Brief summary: This is an enormously powerful and gripping story about Fae and mortals, creativity and music, love and death. The language matches the story, beautiful and haunting and not letting you go even at the end.
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Link to the story: Canticle
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: A Slow Tempo
Author: Mercutio, at Mercutio's Stories and [livejournal.com profile] bard_mercutio
Characters: Kevin, AJ, Howie
Prompt: 28 Dream
Rating: -
Length: short
Brief summary: Kevin is tired, AJ is in danger of losing his life, and Howie is helpful, but Kevin surely must have dreamt that last thing he said. A sweet and funny little story with a wonderful, larger-than-life AJ.
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Link to the story: A Slow Tempo or here


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: AJ/Nick drabble
Author: topaz, at Just For Fun and [livejournal.com profile] t_fic
Characters: Aj, Nick
Prompt: 41 Drabble
Rating: sex
Length: 100 words
Brief summary: I had a hard time finding a real drabble (i.e. 100 words, no more, no less) that I liked enough to rec until I remembered this one by topaz. It has the sort of self-contained solidity that a really good drabble can have, and that is even more rare in longer stories. A very satisfying read.
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Link to the story: AJ/Nick drabble (now part of Second Chances - third from the top)
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Hours
Author: Becky, at BsB Miscellania and [livejournal.com profile] beckyo
Characters: Nick, Kevin
Prompt: 06 Anger
Rating: R
Length: short
Brief summary: Nick loves Kevin deeply and even if he's feeling both angry and hurt he's damn well going to make Kevin feel better. I love Nick's voice in this story, so matter-of-fact and straightforward and not the least bit refined.
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Link to the story: Hours or here.


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Slumber Party
Author: Lucy, at [livejournal.com profile] lucy_fic
Characters: AJ, Nick, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, the rest of BSB and Nsync
Prompt: 10 Fandom Cliche
Rating: gropings
Length: short
Brief summary: It's the early days in Europe and AJ gets left behind with the other babies when the rest of the guys go to a club. Lucy effectively uses all the cliches about the early days to produce a hilariously funny little story with wonderful dialogue and some great characterisation.
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Link to the story: Slumber Party