This sounds like a righteous challenge, and my other writing projects are done for the moment. I’ll give it a shot.

I don’t think it’s true that nothing new is being brought to the table. I have written a novel called The Lothgoliar, which reached online bookstores in February, and it is, if not unique, definitely not overdone.

Therefore, I’ve chosen 1000 words in the “in the middle of ending”. You don’t have to include me in the prizes because I didn’t actually write anything new.

Anyway, here’s the link: http://lindsaymawson.blogspot.com/2011/07/flash-fiction-challenge-17-uncharted.html

Enjoy.

Excellent. I’m giving this a go right now. It’s not very good, but I’m giving it a go.

I think Douglas Adams would trump any idea anyone here came up with. That man is dearly missed.

[...] http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/07/15/flash-fiction-challenge-an-uncharted-apocalypse/ [...]

Here is my offering. It’s original, sort of.

http://darlene.underdahl.net/?p=73

Beat me again, Lindsay (grin).

Dinosaurs vs robots

http://porte.livejournal.com/405708.html

Challenge Accepted.

Why do I have the urge to incorporate Twinkies into this challenge?

I swear, even if there wasn’t a prize, I’d totally do this.

I have a story idea I want to try out…

Hi Chuck, I wanted to ad a link to your ebook but couldn’t find it. Maybe you can add that somewhere in your post so we can find it.`

These #flashfriday get quicker everytime.

Here mine story:
999 words

“Italian Apocalypse”

http://brooksbymemoirs.blogspot.com/2011/07/italian-apocalypse-fridayflash-fiction.html

Alright, I gave it a go this round! It’s my first time at one of these, so… you know… be gentle?

http://samanthajmathis.tumblr.com/post/7670809842/candy-coated-chaos

Uh. Don’t know if this qualifies. It’s an old contest entry of mine. Didn’t place. It might work. Take a look? http://ajhayes2.wordpress.com/2010/05/09...

[...] with the Rapture and 2012 and Chuck Wendig’s friday flash fiction challenge to reinvent the ‘end of the world’ idea – here’s a small piece of farce [...]

The end of the world comes about as most disasters do – the intern screws up.

http://epicureaninkblot.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/an-unconventional-apocalypse/

E. Blot (hey that’s a great hip-hop name) points out that the addy for my story is a bit whonky. Here’s a better try: http://ajhayes2.wordpress.com/2010/05/09
Thanks Blot.
Your story rocks the house BTW.

Samantha, your story is easily my favourite so far. Brilliant stuff.

Mine’s nearly finished – I’ll probably upload it tonight.

Ah, what the hell. You can have it now. Here’s mine: Christmas Every Day.

http://jameshamilton.posterous.com/short-storyflash-fiction-the-end-of-the-world

[...] has their favorite, right? To see more and to check out the other entries, go shopping here: Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge: An uncharted Apocalypse I wrote this story many years ago–in fact the original appears elsewhere on this blog. This [...]

Hi Everyone.

Here’s my story http://wp.me/p1BAlV-J The Last Goodbye

My version of wordpress doesn’t offer ariel, so my story is in Times New Roman.

I may write another one–there’s an idea I have. But this is one of my favorite stories that I wrote several years ago. Cutting down to a thousand words is brutal. Dare I say it’s an apocalypse of words…

Whatever Happened to Mesopotamia?

Just had to say Samantha’s flash put me in mind of two of my very favorite stories . Robert Rankin’s riotously funny novel, The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Of The Apocalypse and Henry Kuttner’s brilliant short story, Nothing But Gingerbread Left. Both guys I think would have been off their chairs and barking like seals in delight as they read Samantha’s tale of slogans dreadfully gone wrong.

I read everyone’s story, and left a comment if the site alowed.
Very enjoyable stories. An incredible collection of talent!

Thanks for the lovely comments, guys!

“Under Construction”– hard SF

http://downrange-impact.blogspot.com/2011/07/under-construction.html

This is my first ever submission for Friday Flash Fiction Challenge, and also the first ever story I’ve given to people I didn’t even know. So be nice. Please? Anyway, end of the world as delivered by Nazi Bees. I hope you enjoy it!

http://persagax-braindrops.blogspot.com/2011/07/zzzzzzeig-heil.html

@Samantha J. Mathis and other people with Tumblr accounts – we non-Tumblr people can’t tell you if your story rocks, is there something you can do? Using a generic discussion plugin like Disqus or something?

I love the community created by Chuck’s Friday Flashes (does that sound like a seedy bar to anyone else?). And for those of us whose writing is seeing the light of day for the first time here, it’s the bestest.

Working my way through everyone else’s, but I wanted to stop and give a special note to Samantha J. Mathis (Since I can’t comment directly): That was awesome. Dark and silly is a hard line to walk, and you stayed on true! I’m reminded of Killer Klowns From Outer Space.

EI–(Epicurean Etc)–it IS exactly like a seedy bar. What a great analogy. The kind where you might find ee cummings playing darts with Hemingway, and the prize is a piece of Dorothy Parker. Verne, Poe, Wells and Shelley are playing strip poker. Ellison is hitting on everything in a skirt. Maya Angelou is holding forth with a movie critic, and Jane Austin is dancing topless on a table…way too early in the evening. Oh, I’m there too. They looked at my talents and ascribed the appropriate task: the bathroom attendant.

I’m on it.

Wow. Lots of posts already.

Here’s mine.

Young’uns
http://marlanesque.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/yunguns/

A good one this time, Chuck, thank you. Enjoyed writing it.

http://warnerkirby.blogs.com/clintonaut/2011/07/amos.html

Please keep ‘em going. Great reading what other folks are writing…

BJK

i love this prompt!
here is my version, i’m sure it’s tamer than the rest… i will read amd see!

http://taratylertalks.blogspot.com/2011/07/mistification.html

[...] For Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge: An Uncharted Apocalypse: [...]

I give you “The Whimper”:

http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2011/07/18/flash-fiction-the-whimper/

First time caller here. Wrote this while stuck on a traffic jam on a bus:

http://wilamory.blogspot.com/2011/07/photo-finish.html

[...] has their favorite, right? To see more and to check out the other entries, go shopping here: Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge: An uncharted Apocalypse And this is a first for me–a double entry. I already put in one story, but it was one that I [...]

I know I already have an entry, but I hadda, hadda, hadda write another story. Is that cheating? Who wants to bet me that I can’t write another one before the week is over? Who’s going to take that bet?

Your Call May Be Monitored

My offering: http://lesannberry.blogspot.com/2011/07/unforeseen-end.html

[...] an entry for Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge this week. The theme is ‘An Uncharted [...]

This is the first time I’ve entered one of these flash fiction challenges, but I just coudn’t resist this theme.

Bite Me

Thanks for the feedback you guys!
As for the tumblr comments… Man, that’s a good question. I’ll poke around my more code-savvy friends and see if there’s a way.

This is my offering. Entitled “A dusty office”. Looking forward to people’s thoughts!

http://www.michaelstuarttrimmer.co.uk/a_dusty_office.html

An early-stage end of the world, posted for your reading pleasure. “Tax Not Included.”

http://jamespatrickschmidt.com/blog/short-story-tax-not-included/

Started with a horrific concept, it turned into a way to torture my thesaurus.
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The End of the World was the En of the Worl

Zachariah was ten when the world ended.
Apocalypses don’t respect youth, even strange ones like this.
Something was excising concepts from the world.
Whole chunks of reality would go missing, and you couldn’t quite put your finger on what was lost.
Leaving nothing but a void.
Unsure of the best course of action, his parents took them all up to the hills.
Together, he and his siblings looked at the nothing rolling in.
A deep silence fell.
‘I’m alone’. Really alone; hills all abandoned.
A quill poked his shoe.
He looked at a hedgehog.
‘Po’ hedgehog’, shaking his head.
On he goed.
‘None for a hide.’
A blank, and behind a hedge.
Leaf, falling.
He: I be! I be!
Be! Be!
Aaaaaaaaa.

My Slowpocalypse

I have no idea if this is an apocalypse or not. But it is none the less an earnest attempt at this challenge.

http://jackslack.tumblr.com/post/7838270330/flash-fiction-challenge-shard-of-heaven

[...] a few months back; however, Chuck Wendig over at terribleminds.com has issued this week’s Flash Fiction Challenge: An Uncharted Apocalypse. Follow the link to read the variety of submitted tales of the [...]

Eat your vegetables!
http://sittingindarkness.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/all-the-way-around-the-world/

This is my first time, so I hope you’ll still respect me in the morning.

Every blue-staters nightmare: Self-inflicted apocalypse by a democratically-supported Jesus freak – Proposition 132

My entry will be going live on Geekcentricity at about 4pm today (Wednesday, July 20th). Here is the link:

http://geekcentricity.com/2011/07/world-of-earth.html

And here I go again:

http://defconwhiskey.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/desolation-with-strange-camels/

[...] Fiction: World of Earth The following is a piece of flash fiction I wrote for this week’s Flash Fiction Challenge over at Chuck Wendig’s Terrible Minds.  The challenge is to create a new take on the apocalypse in 1,000 words or less.   [...]

Oh hell, just because…
http://sittingindarkness.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/dummies-nuclear-test-site-nevada-1953/

If Wishes Were Butterflies

http://amytupper.net/2011/07/20/if-wishes-were-butterflies

There are quite a few great stories here. Here is mine.
Please enjoy. I thank you for the opportunity.

http://yoursuppository.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/becoming-the-void/

[...] on July 21, 2011 by VeronicaThePajamaThief Апокалипсис Chuck Wendig, over at http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/07/15/flash-fiction-challenge-an-uncharted-apocalypse/ has another flash challenge up and running.  Prompt:  Flash fiction set in a very unconventional, [...]

Be gentle… I’m a virgin….

(At writing sci-fi, that is… *wink*)

Here is my attempt at ending the world… don’t know how well this will play in Peoria, but all my friends liked it! ;=)

http://veronicathepajamathief.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/339/

IT IS DONE.

http://briandbuckley.com/2011/07/21/flash-fiction-scissors-with-running/

I’ve had this one sitting around a couple of years I think it fits your criteria. it was actually the first piece of fiction I tried. Hope it suits:
http://www.katabatikos.com/2009/07/scene-opens.html

[...] this week's flash fiction challenge from Chuck Wendig was to come up with a new spin on the apocalypse, something that's never been [...]

Salt of the Earth

http://unsanityfiles.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/salt-of-the-earth/

Let’s try this again
http://www.katabatikos.com/2011/07/post-apocalypse.html

Here’s mine for your reading pleasure.

http://janjepriestess.blogspot.com/2011/07/end-of-world-for-terriblemindscom.html

Here’s a story about looking on the bright side.

http://www.unflinching.org/silver_linings.htm

I used to write almost exclusively apocalypse stories, but after a while people kind of knew what to expect.

http://robynettely.blogspot.com/2011/07/flash-fiction-challenge-art-of-swimming.html

[...] week’s challenge — “An Uncharted Apocalypse” — had some amazing stories, so you should go check ‘em out. I’m going to [...]

[...] to Chuck Wendig for this flash fiction challenge!       What the heck is a nanobot?!       Do you think trying to reach outer space aliens [...]

Adamstrumpets be damned! I bow to no trumptation!

http://cmstewartwrite.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/grey-goo-flash-fiction-plus-science-fact/

Story is PG.

And yes, it’s Grey Goo, but no, it’s not your typical Grey Goo.

Please enjoy:

http://www.anypocalypse.com/2011/07/flash-fiction-twinkle-twinkle.html

http://hellfirewriters.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/grand-slam/

Here you go — enjoy!

Just a head’s up, peeps — I’ll be reading all the stragglers over the weekend and will make a pick by Monday.

You are all some talented mofos.

– c.

FYI: still working my way through this. 60+ entries is like reading a small novel in a couple days. Great stuff, will post here when I’ve got my surefire five.

– c.

how’s the reading?

EDIT:

Okay. Jinkies. I finally got through all the stories.

And I’ve picked my five.

It was difficult. I had about ten I really liked, but had to really carve ‘em up.

Here, then, are the five –

Samantha J. Mathis

http://samanthajmathis.tumblr.com/post/7670809842/candy-coated-chaos

Brian Buckley

http://briandbuckley.com/2011/07/21/flash-fiction-scissors-with-running/

C.M. Stewart

http://cmstewartwrite.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/grey-goo-flash-fiction-plus-science-fact/

Albert Berg

http://unsanityfiles.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/salt-of-the-earth/

And Sean Riley!

http://jackslack.tumblr.com/post/7838270330/flash-fiction-challenge-shard-of-heaven

You guys, bounce me a message at terribleminds [at] gmail [dot] com or use the contact form here at the site and I’ll get you “250 Things You Should Know About Writing.”

Congrats to all the winners! There were a LOT of good stories in the running.

What Mister Loomis says is true. Including his own, which was certainly a contender.

– c.

Congratulations everyone! There were some great stories in this week’s challenge. I’m still reading through them.

Congrats, great choices, I liked Samantha’s best.

I liked Samantha’s as well.

Brian’s was also highly amusing. More people should reference the Ottaman Empire

Late (only 6 months or so!), but finally finished. I’m going through all my old unfinished stuff, and completing it. Imagozen http://snellopy.blogspot.com/2012/01/imagozen.html