Flash Fiction Challenge: One Random Sentence
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!
Beth L.
May 28, 2012 at 4:24 PM //
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/
Beth L.
May 28, 2012 at 8:25 PM //
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/
Juana
May 28, 2012 at 11:20 PM //
I got “An increased pain hums under a rich mark.” LOVE THIS.
Josh Loomis
May 29, 2012 at 7:41 AM //
“The actor biases an applicable troop.”
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/05/29/flash-fiction-one-random-sentence/
Beth L.
May 29, 2012 at 9:41 AM //
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.
Jeff Xilon
May 29, 2012 at 11:58 AM //
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/
BJ Kerry
May 29, 2012 at 2:12 PM //
My sentence
The hospital consumed the silence.
http://kerry-mutterings.blogspot.com/2012/05/hospital-consumed-silence.html
Casz Brewster
May 29, 2012 at 2:12 PM //
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/
Carrie
May 29, 2012 at 10:57 PM //
How are those REAL sentences???
Okay, here’s mine:
http://viewsfromnature.com/2012/05/29/one-crazy-night/
Sarah
May 30, 2012 at 5:54 AM //
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.
Josh M.
May 30, 2012 at 1:33 PM //
“The gentleman exceeds a diet associate.”
I’ve got 2 days. Here we go…
S.R. Murdoch
May 30, 2012 at 5:44 PM //
My sentence: A violence shines into the silent disregard.
http://soasnottobedead.tumblr.com/post/24077788488/flash-fiction-challenge-one-random-sentence
JeffreyAustinEllis
May 30, 2012 at 8:58 PM //
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
Erik Mason
May 30, 2012 at 10:41 PM //
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
Dane Zeller
May 31, 2012 at 11:30 AM //
Cranking up the random story generator.
Tiana Warner
May 31, 2012 at 4:11 PM //
“Why does the exhaust strike?”
http://www.tianawarner.com/2012/05/innocent-bystander.html
I love this sentence; it screams ‘dystopia’.
Edward Vaughn
May 31, 2012 at 8:02 PM //
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
Volanta Peng
May 31, 2012 at 9:35 PM //
http://questionableexclamationpoints.blogspot.com/2012/05/throwbacks.html
I got, “The candidate dictates?”
Casz Brewster
May 31, 2012 at 11:48 PM //
“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
Ilona
June 1, 2012 at 6:25 AM //
“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.
Erika Napier
June 1, 2012 at 11:41 AM //
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
Angela Eloise
June 1, 2012 at 11:45 AM //
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
Mike
June 1, 2012 at 11:58 AM //
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
Elijah Kaine
June 1, 2012 at 12:48 PM //
Didn’t manage to finish anything I thought worth putting up.
I’ll still try again next time though.
terribleminds
June 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM //
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.