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 :)

SYOT Closed. 24 children marked for the reaper, running from inevitability, because what they should really fear is what's already inside of them.

"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.

Peeta Mellark realizes he isn't happy giving up his dreams of having his own family. He is at odds with himself, longing to have a child with the love of his life, Katniss Everdeen.

This is where I will post my Seasons of Everlark/Everlark Fic Exchange drabbles :) (Most of these will be rated K-T but there will be some "M" ones. I will post a disclaimer at the top. :)

To be another perfect rose among a beautiful bouquet is hard; even more so when a deadly pageant is the crowning factor of if you're fit to behold the name and celebrate fame or be relegated to obscurity.

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

He's the perfect Career: athletic, heartless, and trained to kill. She's a nameless District 8 orphan; weak, starving, yet stunningly clever. When the two tributes are inescapably linked through the Gamemakers' newest twist in the Games, their strategies fly out the window. Will Rochelle and August find a way to survive this new twist, or will they be lost to history?

Hestia Olympia, Victor of the 146th Hunger Games, overhears the Head Gamemaker talking about this year's arena. Now certain that 2 will get its long deserved next Victory, Hestia sits down to strategize. That's when she realizes she has no idea what a Disneyland is. SYOT closed.

"Maybe there's a beast. Maybe it's only us." - The Lord of The Flies. Evil is within us all. And The Hunger Games brings that out for everyone to see. (Closed SYOT. New readers are welcome though :) !)

The Hunger Games' Victors: what do we really know about them? Is there more to the stories we're told? Their life, their deeds and... their secrets. Ptolemy Everlock, the newest academic researcher at the Great University of Panem's Studies, has conquered his place among the scholars by writing a doctoral thesis that aims to give his readers all the answers they wish to receive.

There's something about the golden-haired, green-eyed girl from District One, something dazzling, something that makes Elvera's heart ache.

It has been five years since Julius Nepos took hold of the Capitol and reigned as its President. In that five years he had catapulted the Games to newer levels, thanks in part to his Head Gamemaker and now he focuses his grip on the Victors, controlling what they do and say, using them as his play things, eagerly waiting for his next play thing to come out. OPEN SYOT

The 'Flower of Panem' or 'Angel of Mercy', Seraphine Reza is the jewel and pride of Panem. One of their most treasured victors in the history of the Hunger Games and a favorite of President Snow. While she smiles, comforts and plays her part every time the games start again, in her mind, her own game never ended. She keeps her enemies close and plays the part of the perfect victor.

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.

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.

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

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

Twenty-four tributes compete in the 35th Annual Hunger Games. They all want to win. Only one will.

"They call us all; from here, from there, from everywhere." Two individuals with power over time and space investigate a mysterious occurrence in the Capitol and quickly realise that they're no longer the ones playing God. The problem? The longer they take, the more fragile their world becomes. [Volume I of the Echo Verse]

Inspired by The Victor’s Project by Oisin55 and Tales of the Hunger Games by Christian Blanco, The Hunger Games:Victors Retold tells the stories of all 75 victors of the Hunger Games, both canon and non-canon. Most chapters are around 500 words, which is perfect for any Hunger Games fans looking for a quick look into the archives of Panem.

Olive Navin Cresta felt lost. Everyone told her that she would get better. That she would remember everything at some point. But those were only empty words, promising a future that could never be granted to her. "I feel like I'm losing myself, and there's nothing anyone can do to help me. Not even you, Finnick."