Our Flash Fiction Challenge this week was to generate a title using a random military-operation name generator. Some of them were pretty damned funny. This is what I ended up with: Operation “Narcoleptic Frenzy”. Hence, that is the title to my story, although the story...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #38: Death is on the Table
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Our flash fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to write a story in which death is featured. Featured. Not just a part, but featured. So, I did. 1000 word cap, and I was actually just under this week. Imagine that. Enjoy. A Fatal...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #37: Choose Your Own Setting
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Our flash fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to choose one of five settings and use it for a short story, trying not to deviate from the setting at all, and keeping under 1000 words. The setting I chose was “Abandoned Amusement Park”,...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #36: “The Fire of the Gods”
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Our Flash Fiction challenge this week was to write a story using the title “The Fire of the Gods”. That was the only criteria, besides the 1000 word cap. Hope you enjoy. The Fire of the Gods We called them the gods, because, to us,...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #35: Song Shuffle, Part II
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This week’s flash fiction challenge at Terrible Minds was to click “shuffle” on your music player and use the song name as your title (and possibly as inspiration) for your story. 1000 words, as usual. I got All Apologies by Nirvana. So, I hope you...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #34: Making a Sandwich
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So, our Flash Fiction challenge at Terrible Minds this week was to write a gripping short story all while the main character made a sandwich, to prove that even in a mundane scene, you could still advance a story along and make it interesting. Since...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #33: The Unlikable Protagonist
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Our flash fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds is just as it sounds: we had to write a 1000 word short story about a protagonist that you wouldn’t necessarily like but wanted to keep reading anyway. I hope this fit the bill! An Old...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #32: Three Sentences for Bear71
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The flash fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was a little different. We were to choose of a list of wild animals and write a three sentence story in the perspective (humanlike or not) of that animal. Winners of the contest could have their...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #31: Song Shuffle Stories
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So, I’m back for some flash fiction! It’s been almost a month since posting, and while I’ve done a few of the challenges, I didn’t post them because I didn’t like them enough. You know the holidays, can get busy, and it seems there’s always...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #30: “An Affliction of Alliteration”
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Well, our Flash Fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to write a title that uses alliteration, like “Sally Sold Seashells by the Seashore”, and then a corresponding story. 1000 words, any genre but vampires. Now, let me start off by saying I had...
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