Last week’s challenge: “Five Random Sentences“
Below is a list of 20 subgenres.
I want you to roll a d20 twice — or click a random number generator twice between 1 and 20 — and that will give you two subgenres. (Sure, you can choose them instead, but that means YOU HATE FUN.)
Smash those two subgenres into one story.
Write that story. Around 1000 words. Post at your online space. Link back here through the comments. Due by next Friday, May 17th, at noon EST.
Here’s the list of subgenres.
- Men’s Adventure
- Splatterpunk
- Fairy Tale
- New Weird
- Space Opera
- Southern Gothic
- BDSM Erotica
- Superhero
- Sword & Sorcery
- Noir
- Dystopia
- Sci-Fi Humor or Satire
- Lovecraftian
- Haunted House
- Cyberpunk
- Steampunk
- Detective
- Post-Apocalyptic
- Weird West
- Technothriller
153 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: Smashing Sub-Genres”
Post-Apocalyptic Steampunk. Behold: One Dart. http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2013/05/13/flash-fiction-one-dart/
Very cool setting, and well executed on both genres. One of my favorites for this challenge.
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Had fun writing my Southern Gothic – Steampunk mash-up–although it is more skewed towards the Southern Gothic. Feel free to check it out!
http://secondstaronther.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/the-fall-of-the-house-of-hawkins/
Rather well done. I could hear the drawl as I read it.
Thanks for reading!
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Dystopia sci-fi satire, here we go: Earth’s Top Super Model
http://candleinsunshine.com/asthemoonclimbs/flash-fic/earths-top-super-model/
Very well-written story! I loved the dry, satirical tone of it. I did notice you typed “…change to face…” rather than “…chance to face…” – I do that aaaall the time when I’m speed-typing. 🙂 The comments about hair/makeup really made me chuckle… celebrity-superhero-supermodel deathmatch at its finest.
It also doesn’t help when you’re typing on a phone… Thanks! 🙂
Southern Gothic Detective…let the games begin!
Hrm, well a Lovecraftian Men’s Adventure it is… I think.
In any case:
http://www.jqpdx.com/2013/05/14/welcome-to-the-jungle/
Great piece of story-telling, I could see everything so clearly, and the language used was very fitting. The tension and the terror were palpable, leaving me wanting to know more about what happened to the Lt. before and during his disappearance.
I liked this! Creepy yet real.
Thanks. It’s not really my cup of tea, er cup of blood, er whatever. But I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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I got New Weird and Superhero…
Alright. Here is my flash fiction. http://vgaubersoldat72.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/flash-fiction-challenge/
I thinks I need to rework it…sigh.
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Here is a link to my Sword and Sorcery Haunted House http://deadwoodstories.blogspot.com/2013/05/song-and-engine.html
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My Southern Gothic Detective Flash Fiction Entry:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9291543/1/The-San-Antonio-Murders
Splatterpunk & Superheroes feature in Think Fast!
http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
Well, now you’ve done it – inspiring me to begin working on a men’s adventure, steampunk serial: The River of Crawling Death (and it’s a choose-your-own-adventure (well, a choose-the-protagonist’s-adventure, anyway.)) Tune in for ADVENTURE, and remember, foreign women make the best lovers.
My latest attempt is posted. This is actually the fourth, and is in the same “universe” as the Secret Door story.
http://paranthropologist.blogspot.com/
Oh, Laaaa. Here. New Weird/Southern Gothic — bad die rolls, baby.
http://wp.me/p2hVIN-27
Dystopia meets Weird West: The town that’s always watching you.
https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.h.keith/posts/10102031685707458
Men’s Adventure & Space Opera
http://mireles-musings.blogspot.com/2013/05/space-opera-mens-adventure.html
charlypriest.wordpress.com. The title of the post is “Days of Glory” published May 16.
charlypriest.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/days-of-glory/
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I rolled Weird Western and Haunted House (I feel like I got lucky!)
https://iamwritingwhileblack.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/flash-fiction-challenge-blue-echoes-through-the-blood-998-words/
I got noir/dystopia, which is right up my alley … the only problem is, this is begging to be a much longer story. Cut it down as best I could. This Town Is Dead – http://andreaspeed.com/2013/flash-fic-this-town-is-dead/
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I got Steampunk and Dystopian, which for me was a challenge, because I’ve always found Steampunk to be a very visual aesthetic, and I’m not a very visual writer — but Dystopian is completely my thing, so I hope it balanced out. http://weltschmerzcollection.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/from-the-ashes-flash-fiction-challenge/
Eric kicks in Chuck’s front door waving a two page manuscript entitled “The Nightly Caller”, does a white guy dance down the hallway, and bursts into the kitchen singing. “Whoomp, here it is! Whoomp, here it is!”
The all powerful random number generator gave me Haunted House and Technothriller. The short story i ended up writing was light on technothriller, sorry.
The end result is called, “The Nightly Caller”. And can be found right here: http://ericsourwine.blogspot.com/
Hope you enjoy!
P.S. Despite the name this story has nothing to do with male prostitution.
Cyberpunk Fairy Tale: http://jmboverthinking.blogspot.com/2013/05/flash-fiction-challenge-smashing-sub.html
My d20 gave me Space Opera & BDSM Erotica. Both things I’ve dabbled in writing but never really focused on much. . .
Here’s my story: Interrogation.
Comment screwed up, link here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/806188
Here we go – Post-Apocalyptic Southern Gothic
http://mattbillock.blogspot.com/2013/05/flash-fiction-challenge-post.html
Southern Gothic & Superhero. Allrighty then…
http://veronikalazabal.com/
Fairy Tale and Splatterpunk. Awesome!
Hope I’m not too late.
http://dirtymercsbarandgrill.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/flash-fiction-challenge.html
Here you go, New Weird and Post-Apocalyptic: http://afteroldjoe.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/the-day-the-monkeys-took-over/
I got New Weird and Southern Gothic, read the descriptions of both, and rejected Southern Gothic, which got me Superhero. Still a big challenge, but let me introduce Johnson and Alice… http://jemimapett.com/2013/05/17/johnson-and-alice/
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Noir Sword & Sorcery. Much of my knowledge of noir comes from Calvin and Hobbes comics, so there are lots of dames in trench coats
http://bragbitchblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/flash-fiction-challenge-noir-sword-sorcery-thanks-chuck-wendig/
999 words (eek) of post-apocalyptic noir: Hunting Love – http://blog.icarusmortis.co.uk/2013/05/17/hunting_love/
I thank you. *Collapses in heap.* X_x *Twitches.*
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I first got Spatterpunk and BDSM Erotica, which was about the combo most impossible to do on my kid-friendly blog. So I rolled a second time and got Distopian SF Comedy. That’s harder than I first thought!
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2013/05/flash-fiction-friday.html
Great job! Really interesting to see this done from a kid-friendly angle.
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http://daigler.tumblr.com/post/50727021693/nsfw-flash-fiction-writing-prompt-smashing-subgenres
I know it’s late, but I didn’t want to not put this out there after working on it. Very NSFW, since I got the wonderful combination of New Weird / BDSM Erotica.
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I’m a day late on this, but I rolled “steampunk” and “splatterpunk”, and came up with “The Brothers”:
http://nickegelhoff.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/a-day-late/
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