Flash Fiction Challenge: The Sub-Genre Tango, Part II
This past week’s Frankie Bill-themed challenge — “Must Love Guns” — is ready for your perusing.
It’s time again to smash a bunch of genres together and see what we get. Had fun last time. Will have fun this time. If I’m not having fun this time, I’m going to disintegrate one of you with my orbital laser.
Oh, stop. I don’t really own an orbital laser.
I lease it from a bunch of high-tech Somali pirates.
Anyway.
You will pick two genres from this list of sub-genres I give you. You will mash up those two genres into a piece of flash fiction, ~1000 words long. Easy like Sunday morning.
Here, then, is the list:
Southern Gothic
Cyberpunk
Sword & Sorcery
Femslash
Black Comedy
Picaresque
So, will we see Picaresque Femslash? Southern Gothic Cyberpunk? A Black Comedy S&S tale?
Mix and match, kids.
I’ll offer a prize yet again — I will do a critique and edit of up to 3000 words of your work. A slice of a novel, a short story, whatever. I’ll give it a look-see and add my comments.
That’s what’s on the table.
You’ve got a week. Friday the 26th by noon EST.
You know the drill.
Start dancing that tango.
Amber J Gardner
August 26, 2011 at 12:00 PM //
Here here here!!!!
http://wp.me/p1vufx-3S
Snellopy
August 26, 2011 at 11:33 PM //
A bit late, but here it goes: Swords and Sorcery and Cyberpunk.
Swords and Cybery.
http://snellopy.blogspot.com/2011/08/swords-and-cybery.html
oldestgenxer
August 28, 2011 at 3:30 PM //
is there a winner yet? Even if it’s not me, I’d like to know who it was.
terribleminds
August 29, 2011 at 6:01 AM //
@oldestgenxer —
It’ll take me a bit of time to read through these. (Plus, was just saddled with a hurricane which killed our power.)
Gimme a week. 🙂
— c.
oldestgenxer
August 29, 2011 at 2:48 PM //
Oh, that’s totally cool.
But I can’t believe you’re using the hurricane as an excuse. The dog ate my homework. There was a hole in the condom. We had a hurricane–