Well, it was a true marathon of posting... five and a half straight hours of it. But all 41 stories written for the artwork created in the first phase of the "Challenge in Two Parts" are now posted.
And thanks to the amazing authors of this fandom, we have at least one, and often more than one, story for every single banner submitted. I pretty much can't believe it.
I'm going to be honest, given that it's almost 4 in the morning, it's entirely possible that I made a mistake somewhere. If I failed to post your story, or got the banner image wrong, or did something else amazingly stupid, please do two things:
1. Tell me, so I can fix it in the morning.
2. Forgive me.
I was going to actually embed the banners themselves into the master list, but I realized that would be unbelievably huge for anyone on dial-up or using an older computer. So instead, I'll simply link to the stories, grouped by banner number.
All authors and artists will be revealed on Thursday. Until then, we ask that they not claim their work, reply to comments on it, or cross-post it.
Thank you to everyone who participated: artists, authors, and betas. Thanks also to _alicesprings for allowing me to host this challenge in her community, and for all her help.
I'd also like to thank vamphile for compiling all the stories and banners into a database and then patiently explaining to me how to read the database and then realizing I can't read a database and just telling me what I needed to know.