Flash Fiction Challenge: Game Of Aspects (Halloweenie Edition)
Last week’s challenge, “Five Ingredients Make A Story,” is right here.
First, a little bit of housekeeping — time to announce the winner of the last two winnable challenges!
The Game of Aspects: Shiri Sondheimer! Won for her story: MEAL.
For the “Scary Story In Three Sentences,” I declare Joe Hart the winner for this one:
“I’ll see you in little bits!” Allen called over his shoulder as he made his way to the entry of the house.
“What?” his wife asked over the hum of her hairdryer.
“You heard me,” Allen said nodding to the man with the fire axe as they passed each other in the hall.
Congrats! Both of you should email me at terribleminds at gmail dot com.
Now, let’s jump into this week’s challenge.
Get your d10s or your random number generator, word-cobblers.
It’s time for another game of aspects.
Three categories — this time, a mix of Horror Subgenre, Conflict, Setting and Must Feature Ingredient.
You know the drill:
Choose one from each category. I’ll offer the variant rule that you may ignore one category if you see fit.
The way you choose one from each category is either a) you just fucking pick one because you are the master of your own destiny b) you roll a 10-sided die or c) you use a number generator like this one right here.
Write a piece of flash fiction up to 1000 words.
Post at your online space.
Link back here.
Due by noon on October 31st, which is not Friday, but rather, Wednesday.
And it’s Halloween, so.
Let’s rock.
Horror Subgenre
Ghost Story
Splatterpunk
Aliens
Erotic Horror
Vampire Fiction
Southern Gothic
Weird Tales
Psychological Horror
Lovecraftian
Horror-Comedy
Conflict
Nature Attacks!
Man Versus His Own Waning Sanity!
Trapped!
Besieged By The Enemy!
Broken Home!
Revenge!
Apocalypse!
Lost!
Love Gone Wrong!
Evil Awakens!
Setting
Insane Asylum
Small Town, America
Abandoned Space Station
Old Silver Mine
Carnival
High School
The Jungle
Strip Club
An Airplane Mid-Flight
Beneath The Sea
Must Feature Ingredient
Parasite
Scarecrow
Succubus / Incubus
Sentient Fungus
Blood Magic
Creature From The Moon
An Ancient Curse
Stage Magic
Cannibals
An Evil Doctor
October 26, 2012 @ 1:24 AM
Aliens/Love Gone Wrong!/Airplane mid-flight/Parasite
Well, gosh, Jed, it just writes itself… 😉 back tomorrow with my results.
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October 26, 2012 @ 4:36 AM
For anyone wanting a randomized set of parameters:
http://stephenemm.co.uk/flash-fiction/halloween-flash-fiction-challenge.php
October 26, 2012 @ 8:39 AM
So, I decide to do this finally, just to get my thoughts kicking before I get going for the day. And what do I get?
Erotic Horror/Nature Attacks!/Carnival/Cannibals.
Seriously, when do I write something that doesn’t involve those things?
October 26, 2012 @ 9:37 AM
Very cool, Stephen — thanks!
— c.
October 26, 2012 @ 9:57 AM
Lovecraftian high-school succubus revenge.
Sounds like my first girlfriend. And a race-horse… “Coming round the last bend, It’s ATAVISTIC by a nose from LOVECRAFTIAN HIGH-SCHOOL SUCCUBUS REVENGE, CHOLMONDELEY and PAUL NEWMAN’S HAIRY SPUTUM, then DÚN LAOGHAIRE LASS…
October 26, 2012 @ 11:13 AM
Horror-comedy, revenge!/apocalypse! small-town jungle (forrest), evil doctor with fake scalpel, way too long for your contest.
Sorry for stretching things, including the word count which is stretched too: Just under 5k words
It’s worth a click if nothing else but to check out the cover I got from Fiverr.com for 5 bucks,delivered in 24 hours. A neat little site for slugs like me.
October 26, 2012 @ 12:42 PM
Used a random generator and got Vampire Fiction, Revenge!, Under the Sea, and Evil Doctor. Veeeddy interesting! Will post back with results.
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October 26, 2012 @ 1:35 PM
Aliens / Trapped / Old Silver Mine / Evil Doctor
“Thor Slaymaster’s Dark Secret”
http://www.curtisedmonds.com/thor-slaymasters-dark-secret/
Thanks for the writing prompt! These are always fun.
October 26, 2012 @ 1:36 PM
Vampire Fiction / Love Gone Wrong! / An Airplane Mid-Flight / Parasite
Alrighty then.
October 26, 2012 @ 1:59 PM
The randomizer threw up: Weird Tales, Broken Home, Insane Asylum, An Ancient Curse
Ooh! I had an idea about some old friends of ours, forty years on for Halloween…All together now: Naah! Naah naa naaa!
http://ultravioletandinfrared.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/daughter-outlaw.html
October 26, 2012 @ 2:50 PM
Thanks to Curtis for leading me to this awesome post.
Southern Gothic / Nature Attacks! / Strip Club / Succubus
RNG is AWESOME. I can see the setting in my head. Sort of a From-Dusk-Til-Dawn-meets-New-Orleans/Rural Louisiana type of vibe to it. Too bad I have very little creative capacity for actually writing a story.
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October 26, 2012 @ 3:14 PM
Kick a Ginger:
http://darlene.underdahl.net/?p=189
October 26, 2012 @ 5:38 PM
My entry is a tale of aliens, revenge and an abused scarecrow set in Small Town, America.
http://rambledmind.com/2012/10/26/flash-fiction-friday/
October 26, 2012 @ 6:14 PM
I dont have a website but here the start of a: horror-comedy/love gone wrong/small town America/cannibal story :0)
“I fucking hate you!” Ilsa screamed at her rotten bitch girlfriend Kate who was running off behind the cheesey house of mirrors at the traveling carnival currently polluting their boring little town with tweakers, convicts, serial killers, cannibalistic clowns and who knows what else. As she stood there waiting for Kate to realize she wasn’t going to follow her into the piss-mud, dirty needles, garbage dump that the carnival folk had turned old man Wilks’ field into, she heard a sharp scream from the general direction Kate had run…..”Fuck my life and here we go again” she thought.
October 26, 2012 @ 9:10 PM
@ stephen: That was super cool. Also, I could give my husband his dice back, which made him quite happy. Apparently, it was disconcerting to have them in the hands of another, even his wife…
October 26, 2012 @ 9:21 PM
Here’s mine. Aliens/Love Gone Wrong!/Airplane mid-flight/Parasite
http://www.agincourtdb.com/2012/10/invasion.html
October 27, 2012 @ 12:08 AM
Southern Gothic/Lost!/Strip Club/Parasite + DC/Rocky Horror crossover cast + Grimm =
http://stephenemm.co.uk/flash-fiction/halloween-flash-fiction-challenge.php
October 27, 2012 @ 12:10 AM
Shoot. Sorry @ Chuck and @ Stephen. Also @ everyone else. I had just linked to the random generator doo dad in my blog and I botched the paste.
Lets try this again.
Southern Gothic/Lost!/Strip Club/Parasite + DC/Rock Horror cross over cast + Grimm = http://swsondheimer.wordpress.com/this-just-in/parasite/
*pshew*
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October 27, 2012 @ 5:53 AM
Weird tales, Evil Awakens!, the jungle, an ancient curse.
The Testimony of Morton Anderson (1942)
http://maniac-scrapbook.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-testimony-of-morton-anderson-1942.html
October 27, 2012 @ 11:08 AM
Southern Gothic, Evil Awakens! Succubus.
This was an interesting challenge, considering I’ve never written anything remotely close to this. Ever. Thanks!
http://oliviakellyauthor.weebly.com/blog.html
October 27, 2012 @ 3:15 PM
Hmm. I think your website swallowed my first entry. Okkkkay. I’m going to try again…
Southern Gothic, Evil Awakens and Succubus. I’m skipping
Setting.
http://oliviakellyauthor.weebly.com/blog.html
October 28, 2012 @ 12:33 PM
It’s been some weeks but I’ve finally been able to write something for a challenge. It doesn’t have a name yet but you can find it here: http://www.jeffxilon.com/flash-fiction-challenge-game-of-aspects-halloween-edition/
October 29, 2012 @ 1:01 PM
Two more days til NaNo! Here’s A Wierd Tale
http://lauralibricz.blogspot.de/2012/10/game-of-aspects.html
I used the cool random thing from Stephen Emm co uk
Wierd Tale, Nature Attacks, Carnival, Scarecrow!
October 29, 2012 @ 10:28 PM
Splatterpunk + Revenge! + Carnival + Stage magic = That Old Trick
http://biblemodernizationproject.tumblr.com/post/34612822682/thatoldtrick
PS – you might not want to look at any other posts if you’re even slightly religious.
October 29, 2012 @ 11:09 PM
I got Lovecraftian/Evil Awakens/High School/Stage Magic. This was FUN!
I give you, “Arkham High’s Last Talent Show”: http://devinharnois.com/2012/10/29/halloween-flash-fiction-challenge/
October 30, 2012 @ 3:00 AM
http://strangetorpedo.blogspot.jp/2012/10/the-statement-of-r-carter-ph-d.html
Lovecraftian/Broken Home/High School/Creature From The Moon
October 30, 2012 @ 10:22 AM
Well that was a weird quartet.
I tossed this together and I think it came out pretty well.
Horror-Comedy
Apocalypse!
Insane Asylum
Sentient Fungus
http://www.jqpdx.com/2012/10/30/shrooms/
October 30, 2012 @ 12:55 PM
Well, gee, I used Stephen’s, “patented wordpress plugin designed just for these shenanigans,” and got: Weird Tales/Man Versus His Own Waning Sanity!/Abandoned Space Station/Cannibals
Let’s see if I can knock this out in 23 hours. Given the parameters, it should write itself.
October 30, 2012 @ 10:50 PM
http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
Lovecraft in an old silver mine with a man and his waning sanity. And maybe a curse.
October 31, 2012 @ 2:36 AM
Vampires, Trapped!, Under the Sea, Evil Doctor
The Flying Deutschman
http://chelsearthompson.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/flash-fiction-4-flying-deutschman/
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Weird Tales/Man Versus His Own Waning Sanity!/Abandoned Space Station/Cannibals
“In the Shadow of Lakshmi Vi”
800 words.
http://szwrites.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/flash-fiction-in-the-shadow-of-lakshmi-vi/
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I went with Aliens, Apocalypse, High School, Creature From the Moon. My result, the lazily titled They Came From the Moon, can be found below.
http://firstwordproblems.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/they-came-from-the-moon/
October 31, 2012 @ 10:26 AM
Happy Halloween —
This one uses: Southern Gothic; Revenge; Strip Club; Succubus.
The Sweet Dolly Fordham Cat House Curse
http://warnerkirby.blogs.com/clintonaut/2012/10/the-sweet-dolly-fordham-cat-house-curse.html
Thanks.
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October 31, 2012 @ 11:33 AM
Getting in just under the wire. d10 of Destiny dictated: Southern Gothic; Evil Awakens!; Strip Club; Stage Magic.
Hoo boy.
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/10/31/flash-fiction-stellas-corner-hitching-post/
Happy Halloween, everyone!
October 31, 2012 @ 11:56 AM
I realize I’m sliding in under the wire with this one (it’s 8:55 AM PST as I write this), but it was well worth the squeezing in. I ended up with Lost, Beneath the Sea, and Sentient Fungus. This story, “Somewhere, Beneath the Sea,” was the result:
http://www.humming-rain.com/2012/10/31/halloween-flash-fiction-somewhere-beneath-the-sea/
I hope you all enjoy it and happy Halloween to everyone!
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October 31, 2012 @ 4:17 PM
A little late, but I wanted to share anyway! I got Weird Tales, Besieged by the enemy!, Beneath the Sea, An Ancient Curse. Enjoy!
http://candicerobinson.ca/red-sea-at-noon/
October 31, 2012 @ 11:08 PM
I know mine is late, but i wanted to post it anyways. First flashfiction I’ve written, so much fun.
I ended up with Aliens, Trapped, Strip Club, Stage Magic.
Lucy’s Last Dance is what resulted.
http://myjorgenson.com/wordpress/?page_id=536
Happy Halloween Everyone!
November 1, 2012 @ 7:03 PM
Oops – caught up in start of NaNoWriMo and missed this. Will try to get it done anyway, I like the choices I got of
HORROR SUBGENRE Ghost Story
CONFLICT Evil Awakens!
SETTING High School
MUST FEATURE Stage Magic
November 2, 2012 @ 6:31 AM
http://authorsarahohara.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/terribleminds-flash-fiction-challenge_29.html
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