Flash Fiction Challenge: Five Titles Make A Challenge
Last week’s challenge — “The Epic Game Of Aspects Redux” — is there for your eyeballs.
Here’s how this week’s challenge works.
I’m going to give you five titles.
You will either:
a) Choose one of these titles for a new piece of flash fiction.
or
b) Remix the titles (adding no new words of your own) to create a new title which, well, duh, you will then use to compose a new piece of flash fiction.
Get it? Got it? GOBBA GOOBA.
The five titles are:
“The Monkey’s Pageant.”
“Dead-Clock’s Revenge.”
“The Black Lighthouse.”
“Bright Stars Gone To Black.”
“Plastic Dreams & Doll Desires.”
You’ve got one week. Due by Friday the 12th, noon EST.
You have up to 1000 words.
Any genre will do.
Post at your space. Link back here.
Now. Grab a title off the table and go.
David Blackstone (@DavidWriting)
October 5, 2012 at 1:51 AM //
Here’s mine: “Bright Stars Gone To Black”
http://www.agincourtdb.com/2012/10/bright-stars-gone-to-black.html
Jim Franklin
October 5, 2012 at 7:42 AM //
I took the words ‘Dead’ and ‘Desire’ and come up with this. In retrospect that is one damn creepy title and I probably should have thought of a better one, one that’s not going to put me on an FBI list. Oh well, the damage is done now.
Here is Dead Desire: http://www.thezombiechimp.com/2012/10/05/flash-fiction-dead-desires/
Hope you like it.
Phil Norris
October 5, 2012 at 9:53 AM //
I’ve combined words from three different titles and come up with The Black Monkey’s Revenge.
http://philnorris63.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/the-black-monkeys-revenge-short-story/
Jon
October 5, 2012 at 11:14 AM //
I have no idea what “Black-Clock Dreams” is, but I’ll be writing it.
Laura Libricz
October 5, 2012 at 12:19 PM //
So, I wanted to try and keep this as short as I could. 465 words.
The Monkey’s Plastic Dreams
http://lauralibricz.blogspot.de/2012/10/just-shy-of-500-words.html
Lindsay Mawson
October 5, 2012 at 1:08 PM //
K, I started one, the stars one, but the idea wasn’t going far, so I made up my own title, “The Plastic Dead”… Enjoy.
http://lindsaymawson.blogspot.ca/2012/10/flash-fiction-challenge-48-five-titles.html
Jamie Wyman
October 5, 2012 at 4:28 PM //
Switched around a few. Here’s “The Dead Doll Dreams”. Not what I was expecting, but here ’tis. http://jamiewyman.blogspot.com/2012/10/friday-flash-dead-doll-dreams.html
Gary Weller
October 6, 2012 at 2:25 AM //
Okay Chuck, I accept your challenge!
After scrambling the titles I present to you:
Black Dreams & Black Desires.
AB Singer
October 6, 2012 at 5:36 AM //
I’m going for the laugh track to the Divine Comedy, as it’s an election year, combining The Monkey’s Pageant and Dead-Clock’s Revenge.
Hoo-ee! I’m gonna eat Mastadon tonight.
AB Singer
October 6, 2012 at 5:38 AM //
And here’s the link.
Muppet.
http://ultravioletandinfrared.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/clocks-pageant-dead-monkeys-revenge.html
Derek McCullough
October 6, 2012 at 1:33 PM //
Here’s mine:
Black Dreams and Dead Pageants
http://ideallyrealistic.com/2012/10/06/black-dreams-and-dead-pageants/
I love the imagery created by the your flash fiction challenges.
Shiri Sondheimer
October 6, 2012 at 3:18 PM //
Death-Clock’s Revenge …
http://swsondheimer.wordpress.com/this-just-in/death-clocks-revenge/
Frederik
October 7, 2012 at 9:30 AM //
I wrote “Black-Clock Dreams” – But i’m not sure if it actually makes much sense
Jeremiah
October 7, 2012 at 10:39 PM //
I went with Dead-Clock’s Revenge. It was the title that leaped out at me from the list. I knew what it would be about right away, I just had to figure out a format. I’m pretty happy with how it came out.
http://www.jqpdx.com/2012/10/08/dead-clocks-revenge/
Eric Chase
October 8, 2012 at 2:43 AM //
At first I was inspired by the idea of The Black Lighthouse, but combining that with Dead-Clock to get Dead-Clock’s Lighthouse was just too timey-wimey for me not to try.
http://gogogadgetcounterpoint.tumblr.com/post/33147500479/dead-clocks-lighthouse
Josh Loomis
October 8, 2012 at 7:51 AM //
Mixing titles, adding no words, I bring you “The Black Dreams Pageant”.
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/10/08/flash-fiction-the-black-dreams-pageant/
Jed Thomas
October 8, 2012 at 2:41 PM //
The Black Lighthouse [970 words]
http://seedsofentropy.com/2012/10/08/the-black-lighthouse/
Jamie McCoard (@Tevyn)
October 9, 2012 at 10:20 AM //
http://www.mccoard.net/post/2012/10/09/FF-Plastic-Doll-Pageant.aspx
Plastic Doll Pageant [991 words]
* A sci-fi short of how far a human girl will go for happiness.
Cory Cone
October 9, 2012 at 1:39 PM //
The Black Pageant
http://www.corycone.com/?p=87
Jeff Ellis
October 9, 2012 at 2:41 PM //
Wow, I had too much fun writing this week’s flash fiction. You can find “Black Desires Revenge” (905 words) right here:
http://firstwordproblems.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/black-desires-revenge/
Raphealite
October 9, 2012 at 6:58 PM //
I picked The Black Lighthouse and made it a ghost story about Blackbeard the pirate. 1000 words exactly.
http://adaydreamerswish.blogspot.com/
C.M. Simpson
October 9, 2012 at 7:28 PM //
And much fun was had by all
http://cmsimpson.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/bright-stars-gone-to-black-response-to.html
Logan Riley
October 9, 2012 at 11:10 PM //
Bright Stars Gone to Black.
A study in magic, tarot, and finding ones way through the void.
http://literarybandit.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/bright-stars-gone-to-black/
David Grigg
October 10, 2012 at 12:32 AM //
Another struggle this week. I ended up doing a slight remix of titles, as Chuck suggested, and my story is titled “Dark Lighthouse”.
As so often, Chuck’s prompt set me off into writing a fully-fledged story, which got to about 1,580 words. And took me days to write. Flash fiction it ain’t.
Here it is: http://narratorium.com/2012/10/10/dark-lighthouse/
Hirsa
October 10, 2012 at 7:41 AM //
Okay, so I promised myself I would start participating in these Flash Fiction Challenges, thinking it would be a good way to exercise my thinking muscles. Turns out it was harder than I expected.
Here is the result:
http://wordvortex.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/bright_stars/
I apologise if it has mistakes, doesn’t make sense or is a piece of crap.
Genevieve Williams
October 10, 2012 at 2:11 PM //
Hey! This is my first one of these. Here you go:
http://welltemperedwriter.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/the-monkeys-pageant/
Ben K.
October 10, 2012 at 10:45 PM //
It’s been a little while, but I’m back.
Hope you enjoy. And thanks for the opportunity, Chuck. I’ve missed doing these.
The Black Lighthouse:
http://warnerkirby.blogs.com/clintonaut/2012/10/the-black-lighthouse.html
Beth L.
October 10, 2012 at 10:58 PM //
Bright Stars Gone to Black
This instantly reminded me of the nursery rhyme “Star light, star bright”, so a good fracturing and here’s the tale:
http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
Jo Eberhardt
October 11, 2012 at 7:39 AM //
Bright Dreams and Clock’s Revenge
Because it’s what happens between the ticks that counts.
Stephanie Belser
October 11, 2012 at 4:25 PM //
It has been a long time since I last participated.
I give you The Monkey’s Star.
Richard
October 11, 2012 at 7:47 PM //
Here is Bright Plastic Desires, because why the hell not.
http://byrichardlake.blogspot.com/2012/10/bright-plastic-desires.html
Alexa
October 11, 2012 at 11:09 PM //
Took the title “Plastic Dreams & Doll Desires.” Where the rest came from I’m not entirely sure.
http://foreignhigh.tumblr.com/post/33408776518/plastic-dreams-and-doll-desires
Jon
October 11, 2012 at 11:26 PM //
Of the stories I’ve written, this is one of my favorites. Chuck just gave me the starting point, but I’m grateful for where it led. Thanks, Chuck!
Black-Clock Dreams
Johann Pollard
October 12, 2012 at 2:32 AM //
My very first flash fiction. Ever.
http://wordlapa.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-black-lighthouse.html
Kenneth
October 12, 2012 at 8:58 AM //
Bright Lighthouse Gone To Black
http://ktagher.blogspot.com/#!/2012/10/bright-lighthouse-gone-to-black-flash.html
Mike
October 12, 2012 at 11:30 AM //
Some good starting points.
I had a few plot ideas, but my favourite was The Black Lighthouse
http://www.ravensview.ca/ravens/2012/10/the-black-lighthouse.html
Jon
October 12, 2012 at 12:31 PM //
@Frederik, where IS your version of Black-Clock Dreams? As we both munged up the same title, I’m eager to see yours.
Chelsea
October 12, 2012 at 1:48 PM //
Dead Clock’s Revenge:
http://chelsearthompson.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/dead-clocks-revenge/
Sarah O'Hara
November 2, 2012 at 11:59 AM //
The Black Lighthouse
http://authorsarahohara.blogspot.com/2012/11/terribleminds-flash-fiction-challenge.html