Flash Fiction Challenge: Smashing Sub-Genres
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
Greg
May 14, 2013 at 11:42 AM //
Here is a link to my Sword and Sorcery Haunted House http://deadwoodstories.blogspot.com/2013/05/song-and-engine.html
Linda Rose French
May 14, 2013 at 6:06 PM //
My Southern Gothic Detective Flash Fiction Entry:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9291543/1/The-San-Antonio-Murders
Beth L.
May 14, 2013 at 9:17 PM //
Splatterpunk & Superheroes feature in Think Fast!
http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
chriswhitewrites
May 14, 2013 at 10:25 PM //
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.
Ben Wintersteen
May 15, 2013 at 9:26 AM //
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/
Sherri @badgerangyl
May 15, 2013 at 9:50 AM //
Oh, Laaaa. Here. New Weird/Southern Gothic — bad die rolls, baby.
http://wp.me/p2hVIN-27
Johnny
May 15, 2013 at 2:16 PM //
Dystopia meets Weird West: The town that’s always watching you.
https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.h.keith/posts/10102031685707458
Kristin Mireles
May 15, 2013 at 7:00 PM //
Men’s Adventure & Space Opera
http://mireles-musings.blogspot.com/2013/05/space-opera-mens-adventure.html
charlypriest
May 16, 2013 at 8:06 AM //
charlypriest.wordpress.com. The title of the post is “Days of Glory” published May 16.
charlypriest
May 16, 2013 at 9:39 AM //
charlypriest.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/days-of-glory/
K.C. Wise
May 16, 2013 at 1:49 PM //
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/
andreaspeed
May 16, 2013 at 6:29 PM //
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/
H. Ken Abell
May 16, 2013 at 8:22 PM //
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 Sourwine
May 16, 2013 at 10:32 PM //
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.
Jeanne B.
May 16, 2013 at 10:46 PM //
Cyberpunk Fairy Tale: http://jmboverthinking.blogspot.com/2013/05/flash-fiction-challenge-smashing-sub.html
Serena Saint-Marceaux
May 16, 2013 at 10:59 PM //
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.
Serena Saint-Marceaux
May 16, 2013 at 11:00 PM //
Comment screwed up, link here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/806188
Matt Billock
May 17, 2013 at 12:35 AM //
Here we go – Post-Apocalyptic Southern Gothic
http://mattbillock.blogspot.com/2013/05/flash-fiction-challenge-post.html
vlazabal6981
May 17, 2013 at 4:26 AM //
Southern Gothic & Superhero. Allrighty then…
http://veronikalazabal.com/
Jim
May 17, 2013 at 4:49 AM //
Fairy Tale and Splatterpunk. Awesome!
Hope I’m not too late.
http://dirtymercsbarandgrill.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/flash-fiction-challenge.html
afteroldjoe
May 17, 2013 at 4:51 AM //
Here you go, New Weird and Post-Apocalyptic: http://afteroldjoe.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/the-day-the-monkeys-took-over/
Jemima Pett
May 17, 2013 at 5:19 AM //
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/
alexlaisser
May 17, 2013 at 7:44 AM //
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/
Icarus Mortis
May 17, 2013 at 9:58 AM //
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.*
rebeccadouglass
May 17, 2013 at 10:25 AM //
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
Jasmine Stanford
May 17, 2013 at 8:14 PM //
Great job! Really interesting to see this done from a kid-friendly angle.
bigrickcook
May 18, 2013 at 9:42 AM //
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.
crow365
May 18, 2013 at 10:09 AM //
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/