Last week’s challenge — “The Paint Color Title Scheme.”
Okay.
That is a random sentence generator.
You will get a random sentence and you will use it as either the first or the last sentence of your up-to-1000-word flash fiction entry in this week’s challenge. For instance, I got the sentence: “The textual silence swallows against the geometry.” I have no idea what the fuck that means, but it’s great.
Write in any genre.
You have one week. Due by June 1st, noon EST (Friday).
IN ADDITION, I’ll buy a random participant a copy of BLACKBIRDS — mass market paperback or Kindle (your choice). EDIT: Courtesy of the fine cyborgs at Angry Robot Books, this contest is extended to all international participants and shipping handled no matter where you live. Except the moon. We won’t ship to the moon because that shit gets expensive.
Go and write!
86 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: One Random Sentence”
My sentence for this assignment was: “The guns swamp triumphs over the mediaeval alien.”
I’ll admit, it was challenging, but I like the way it turned out.
Link: http://promptedink.blogspot.com/2012/05/flash-fiction-final-moments.html
http://innocentsaccidentshints.blogspot.com/2012/05/terrible-minds-challenge-toast-shouts.html
“A toast shouts.”
Poetic form… of a sort.
http://darlinblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/terribleminds-challenge/
When I got the sentence, “over the corporate editor bicycles a miscellaneous stray” I thought I was going to go somewhere completely different with it. Luckily, many things intervened between Friday and now, and the sentence attracted random bits and pieces until the result arrived. http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
This didn’t wind up where I thought it was going to, with a sentence like “over the corporate editor bicycles a miscellaneous stray”. Here it is, just the same:
http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
I got “An increased pain hums under a rich mark.” LOVE THIS.
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“The actor biases an applicable troop.”
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/05/29/flash-fiction-one-random-sentence/
Sorry for the double post – the computer said the first one didn’t go through, and it hadn’t shown up after a few hours. Thought I was safe. Apologies.
Ok, so I decided I liked my two sentences so much that I’d just write two stories. The first one starts with a random sentence and the second one ends with a random sentence.
Its a flash fiction double shot!
Those sentences again were:
A malicious cosmology lusts in the electorate.
Another fountain fears!
http://www.jeffxilon.com/flash-fiction-double-shot-random-sentences/
My sentence
The hospital consumed the silence.
http://kerry-mutterings.blogspot.com/2012/05/hospital-consumed-silence.html
While I’m trying to get this challenge under my belt (no, look up here)…I nominated you for this, because, well, you illuminate my world constantly and I told ’em so. Pho, included. (Photos to go up later today, if traffic is kind).
http://foodstoriesblog.com/illuminating-blogger-award/
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How are those REAL sentences???
Okay, here’s mine:
http://viewsfromnature.com/2012/05/29/one-crazy-night/
http://authorsarahohara.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/terribleminds-flash-fiction-challenge_30.html
I don’t think it’s as good as last week’s entry, but I had fun with the sentence generator. 🙂
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“The gentleman exceeds a diet associate.”
I’ve got 2 days. Here we go…
My sentence: A violence shines into the silent disregard.
http://soasnottobedead.tumblr.com/post/24077788488/flash-fiction-challenge-one-random-sentence
Got “The stranger achieves the bonus” and I have to say I had a lot of fun with it.
http://ayearforimprovement.tumblr.com/post/24098774199/flash-fiction-challenge
The sentence I got was “Will the company suffer the lovely hypocrite?” I hope you enjoy my story.
http://geekonablog.blogspot.com/2012/05/story-lovely-hypocrite.html
Cranking up the random story generator.
“Why does the exhaust strike?”
http://www.tianawarner.com/2012/05/innocent-bystander.html
I love this sentence; it screams ‘dystopia’.
Okay, I finally finished my story. My sentence again was: The alive nerve thirsts.
http://redvaughn.blogspot.com/2012/05/nerve-flash-fiction-challenge.html
http://questionableexclamationpoints.blogspot.com/2012/05/throwbacks.html
I got, “The candidate dictates?”
“A Naked Slot Resides.”
And a big thank you for getting me out of a bit of a writing funk.
http://www.casondrabrewster.com/?p=621
“The right rabbit lurks.” Please enjoy Sunshine and Bunnies.
http://ilonatherose.wordpress.com/sunshine-and-bunnies/
For funs, I started and ended with the sentence, although I also like my story without the coda. Works both ways. A shorty short short from me this week: under 400 words.
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Under 500 words and a completely different tone from my usual pieces. This was grand fun!
http://morningjuiceandserials.blogspot.com/2012/06/flash-fiction-challenge-from-chuck.html
Hi Chuck.
Love your blog. Have been lurking around for months, reading all the great flash fiction and working up the gumption to play along. It’s been a while since I’ve written fiction and those muscles are mighty creaky.
This was a great prompt. So much so that inspired me to start writing a novel that I’ve had in the back of my mind forever. This story would be chapter 2. Alas, it’s not finished. But it will be! And I’ll try this week’s challenge, promise.
My sentence?
The school stares!
See you all next Friday,
Angela Eloise
Wow – lots of stories this week! Love these challenges.
I got several interestingly cryptic sentences, so put several in a story, It’s sort of a sequel to one of my earlier ones.
http://www.ravensview.ca/ravens/2012/06/lost-in-translation.html
Didn’t manage to finish anything I thought worth putting up.
I’ll still try again next time though.
Shiri Sondheimer —
“The pink engineer elaborates under the gun.”
You just nabbed a copy of BLACKBIRDS!
Do me a favor and email me your info? To terribleminds at gmail dot com. 🙂
— c.
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