The caged bird doesn't sing: it weeps. For a gilded cage is still a cage, no matter how beautiful it is. Welcome to the 88th Hunger Games. SYOT closed, readers always welcome :)

Desde aquel día, el momento en que escuchó el anuncio, ella sabía que algo así ocurriría. Que tarde o temprano la obsesión, tanto de ella como de su padre, por despertar alguna emoción sincera en su rostro, tendría consecuencias. Pero incluso así no estaba dispuesta a rendirse.

Over the course of 75 years, 75 teenagers survived the arena. The best and brightest of Panem, these teenagers made it through what could only be described as a horror. These are their stories.

A story chronicling the life of Finnick Odair, Panem's golden boy and the youngest victor in the history of the Hunger Games

"We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin." Five years have passed since the last Hunger Games. As Panem teeters on the edge of inescapable chaos, there is one final solution to turn to: bring back the Games. Will twenty three lives be enough to bring peace to Panem? [Sequel SYOT to Crown of Thorns]

As the 74th Hunger Games approach, the idea of a free Panem is mere wishful thinking, but there are some who wonder how a country can recover from so many years of brutal dictatorship. Sooner than they ever dared to hope, they will turn their plans into reality and put a regime on trial, but the path to getting justice for an entire nation will be long and difficult. IPOAL prequel.

Come this 76th Annual Hunger Games, Zenobia Rivendell will become judge, jury and executioner. (AU)

"What right do you have to determine what their lives are worth? What right do you have to label them, to kill them, to write them off as meaningless criminals, lost causes and basket cases? What right, Coriolanus? Tell me!" Part III of Dealing With Devils.

This year, the only weapons in the Cornucopia are spiked maces that the tributes have to bludgeon each other with. Follow three tributes - the crafty Aurora Underwood of District 1, the conflicted Athens Prescott of District 8, and the protective Hampshire Fairway of District 10 - as they navigate the catacombs of the 66th Annual Hunger Games. A Victor Exchange with fiona11303

It had taken much longer than expected, but like how a Phoenix always arises from the ashes, the capitol and its rightful power over the districts had been born anew. With the fear fresh and the capitol citizens starved for justice, the games are beginning once more- and this time no mockingjay was going to be there to stop it. (SYOT CLOSED)

The 173rd Hunger Games loom as a blood moon rises. When chaos reigns and change hides behind the horizon, what is left of Gods and kings? A child bargains with higher powers. A prince seeks vengeance from the smoldering embers of a once-mighty flame. An architect builds ever higher, the heavens in her eyes and Babel in her shadow. It is the time of Gods, and tribute must be made.

Roselyn Larson won her Games five years ago, and her life has since then become a never-ending trial. Forced into the dark underbelly of Capitol society, she doesn't have much to live for. Until, that is, she meets Cato Hadley, the newest Victor who is pleasantly naïve about the horrors of the Capitol. Cato/OC

There's always more to the game than merely playing by the rules; that's why Career districts win the Hunger Games so often. Even for them, however, nothing is ever guaranteed. [Part I of New Friends, New Enemies]

The rebellion is over, and the Nation of Panem struggles to restore order to the country. Twenty-four tributes, one male and one female from each district, will be offered up to the Capitol as a tribute and be forced to fight to the death in a publicized event known as the Hunger Games. The tributes of these games would be reaped from the children of mayors and high-ranking rebels.

The 54th Games was the beginning of the end. [Or, an exploration of hope, change, and despair.] [DISR Prequel, Part 4.]

The Capitol has fallen and President Coin is dead. Now is the time for Panem to decide what it wants to become.

To die is a privilege—the largest suffering in this world is living. Welcome to the 100th Hunger Games. SYOT.

The woman was born in a world of velvety white. Her world was a finite thing. Four walls of padded fabric that was oh so soft under her fingertips, a cold hard floor and a ceiling too high to touch. It was silent in her world. (hayffie, effie centric, canon divergence)

Victor. Mentor. Pawn. These are identities Ceres Rhythe, Victor of the 68th annual Hunger Games, has familiarized herself with in order to survive. But something is changing, a flame rises where there were once bones. From ashes begins conversion. Let the 74th annual Hunger Games begin. Finnick/OC, mild Seneca/OC

"Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it." As Panem prepares for the death of the only president most of its citizens have ever known, both the tributes in the Games and the officials running them must take care to learn from the past - lest the same mistakes come back to haunt Panem's future. A rewrite of my first SYOT.

Peeta would wait a lifetime for his hijacked love to return to him. No matter how much she hates him or how broken her mind is. Because his love is unconditional, and he will stay with her Always and Forever. Mockingjay Role Reversal AU with a twist. Please R&R!

I'm doing my first SYOT! I'll do my best please don't be too harsh

Born in a lab; mutated human for the Hunger Games; that's all Effie Trinket has known until the Heavensbees rescue and raise her under their roof for her own safety. Beautiful quarters, best fashion, makeup and consumables, she is given the chance live a content Capitol life. But when an exchange trip to Canada goes astray, Effie goes undercover in all the Districts as a spy.

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago...had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." Partial SYOT closed.

73 children entered the Hunger Games and came out alive before Peeta and Katniss. They were all shaped by the Games they experienced, and in turn they shaped the world around them. This is all of their stories; the Victors that the Games produced. To The Victor, the Spoils. [34/75].