So, this week’s Flash Fiction Challenge over at terribleminds (in honor of Mr. Wendig’s Star Wars novel, Aftermath) was to come up one’s own space opera. Mine lacks some action, but I feel set ups the possibility of some space epic-ness, so I give y’all “The Conversation”:
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Flash Fiction Challenge: Your Very Own Space Opera
Posted: September 18, 2015 in Fiction, Flash Fiction ChallengeTags: fiction, Flash Fiction
Flash Fiction Challenge: Six Random Titles
Posted: July 8, 2015 in Fiction, Flash Fiction ChallengeTags: fiction, Flash Fiction
Hey, everybody! I know it’s been close to a month since my last post, but I’ve been unbelievably busy with the day job. Anyway, this week’s challenge over at terribleminds was to use a random title generator to come up with a title for your piece and go from there. I chose the title “The Whispering of the Lights” (because it sounded perfectly creepy and Lovecraftian) and pounded out the following:
Flash Fiction Challenge: The Dead Body
Posted: June 13, 2015 in Fiction, Flash Fiction ChallengeTags: fiction, Flash Fiction
The only stipulation in this week’s challenge over at terribleminds was to introduce a dead body in the first paragraph of the story. I’d already had an idea for the continuing story of Gavrin the Mountain and Drayos the thief, so it didn’t take me long to cobble together “For a Glittering Gem”:
Flash Fiction Challenge: Random Photo Challenge
Posted: May 29, 2015 in Fiction, Flash Fiction ChallengeTags: fiction, Flash Fiction
This week’s FFC over at terribleminds involves using a randomizing feature at Flickr called “Interestingness” to find a picture to serve as a prompt. I came across a picture titled “Kermit needs to cross” and found it just odd enough to get my brain spinning in a vaguely Lovecraftian direction. So, I present “It’s Not Easy”:
Flash Fiction Challenge: The Subgenre Boogie
Posted: May 15, 2015 in Fiction, Flash Fiction ChallengeTags: fiction, Flash Fiction
Ah…”Roll a d20 and combine two things to create the basis for your story.” Honestly, this has become one of my favorite types of FFC that Chuck Wendig does. The freedom inherent to it is nigh-unbounded and the possible “ingredients” are always so fresh and interesting. This time around, I rolled “Grimdark Fantasy” (think “Low Fantasy, George R.R. Martin-style”) and “Parallel Universe.” I took my best stab and came up with “The Basket”:
Flash Fiction Challenge: Share an Image, Write a Story
Posted: April 10, 2015 in Fiction, Flash Fiction ChallengeTags: fiction, Flash Fiction
The challenge over at terribleminds this week was to use an image (either provided by El Wendigo himself or by someone else in the comments) and write a story based on it. I decided to use the image provided by Wendig (of a business’ sign proclaiming OBERON IS HERE) and came up with “Private Party”:
Flash Fiction Challenge: 100 Words Only
Posted: March 27, 2015 in Fiction, Flash Fiction ChallengeTags: 100 words, fiction, Flash Fiction