Seems like it’s been ages since I’ve participated in a Flash Fiction Challenge, and, actually, it has been a couple of months. I apologize for this. I have noticed that with two children, you have significantly less time on your hands than with just one…...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #48: Five Titles Make a Challenge
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Our flash fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to either use one of these five titles (below) or to create our own title using words of these titles, but NO EXTRA words. “The Monkey’s Pageant.” “Dead-Clock’s Revenge.” “The Black Lighthouse.” “Bright Stars Gone...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #47: The Epic Game of Aspects Redux
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Our flash fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was another game of aspects, so basically had to randomly choose (from a random number generator) a subgenre, a conflict, and an element to include. I got magic realism, haunted by the past, and hologram. Strange...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #46: A Novice Revenges the Rhythm
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Our Flash Fiction challenge at Terrible Minds this week was to use this sentence “A novice revenges the rhythm” somewhere in our story. A little longer than the 1000 words. Hope you enjoy. Kinda creeps me out and I wrote it… I a Novice “I...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #45: A Second Game of Aspects
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Been a while since I participated in a flash fiction challenge, what with having another kid and all, but I’m back. This was kind of a difficult challenge to take on because it required us to choose from a genre, a setting, and an element...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #44: Must Love Time Travel
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Our flash fiction challenge this week from Terrible Minds was 1000 word short story somehow featuring time travel. Part of this is loosely based on true events, but what parts, I’ll let you figure out… Enjoy. Time Travel in a Peterbilt “I think I’m going...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #43: The Android and the Wondering Chamber
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‘m back for some flash fiction. Chuck at Terrible Minds used a random sentence generator that produced this: “The noticed android walks past a wondering chamber.” Therefore, that became our challenge. We had to use the sentence as the opening sentence, and write whatever came...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #42: One Random Sentence
Our Flash Fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to procure a randomly generated sentence and use it as the first or last sentence of the story. I got “The owner dines next to the observer”. So… this is what I created from that....
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #41: The Paint Colour Title Scheme
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Our Flash Fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to use one of ten paint colours Chuck found as the title of our story, bonus credit if we make the colour the star of the story somehow. Cap was 1000 words, but I couldn’t...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #40: Over the Top Pulp Insanity
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Our Flash Fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to write some ‘pulp craziness’… I haven’t really written much pulp, but judging by this story, my mind can be a little crazy, so at least I can put that to paper… Enjoy. Hope it’s...
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