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
May 13, 2013 @ 10:52 AM
Post-Apocalyptic Steampunk. Behold: One Dart. http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2013/05/13/flash-fiction-one-dart/
May 16, 2013 @ 7:49 PM
Very cool setting, and well executed on both genres. One of my favorites for this challenge.
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May 13, 2013 @ 10:53 AM
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May 13, 2013 @ 10:54 AM
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/
May 13, 2013 @ 2:42 PM
Rather well done. I could hear the drawl as I read it.
May 13, 2013 @ 2:45 PM
Thanks for reading!
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May 13, 2013 @ 3:24 PM
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May 13, 2013 @ 3:39 PM
Dystopia sci-fi satire, here we go: Earth’s Top Super Model
http://candleinsunshine.com/asthemoonclimbs/flash-fic/earths-top-super-model/
May 14, 2013 @ 1:41 PM
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.
May 14, 2013 @ 1:54 PM
It also doesn’t help when you’re typing on a phone… Thanks! 🙂
May 13, 2013 @ 8:03 PM
Southern Gothic Detective…let the games begin!
May 13, 2013 @ 8:28 PM
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/
May 14, 2013 @ 1:47 PM
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.
May 14, 2013 @ 2:27 PM
I liked this! Creepy yet real.
May 16, 2013 @ 7:44 PM
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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May 14, 2013 @ 12:38 AM
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May 14, 2013 @ 4:35 AM
I got New Weird and Superhero…
May 14, 2013 @ 5:30 AM
Alright. Here is my flash fiction. http://vgaubersoldat72.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/flash-fiction-challenge/
May 14, 2013 @ 5:39 AM
I thinks I need to rework it…sigh.
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May 14, 2013 @ 5:01 AM
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May 14, 2013 @ 11:42 AM
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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May 14, 2013 @ 1:53 PM
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May 14, 2013 @ 6:06 PM
My Southern Gothic Detective Flash Fiction Entry:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9291543/1/The-San-Antonio-Murders
May 14, 2013 @ 9:17 PM
Splatterpunk & Superheroes feature in Think Fast!
http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
May 14, 2013 @ 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.
May 15, 2013 @ 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/
May 15, 2013 @ 9:50 AM
Oh, Laaaa. Here. New Weird/Southern Gothic — bad die rolls, baby.
http://wp.me/p2hVIN-27
May 15, 2013 @ 2:16 PM
Dystopia meets Weird West: The town that’s always watching you.
https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.h.keith/posts/10102031685707458
May 15, 2013 @ 7:00 PM
Men’s Adventure & Space Opera
http://mireles-musings.blogspot.com/2013/05/space-opera-mens-adventure.html
May 16, 2013 @ 8:06 AM
charlypriest.wordpress.com. The title of the post is “Days of Glory” published May 16.
May 16, 2013 @ 9:39 AM
charlypriest.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/days-of-glory/
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May 16, 2013 @ 1:48 PM
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May 16, 2013 @ 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/
May 16, 2013 @ 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/
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May 16, 2013 @ 8:05 PM
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May 16, 2013 @ 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/
May 16, 2013 @ 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.
May 16, 2013 @ 10:46 PM
Cyberpunk Fairy Tale: http://jmboverthinking.blogspot.com/2013/05/flash-fiction-challenge-smashing-sub.html
May 16, 2013 @ 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.
May 16, 2013 @ 11:00 PM
Comment screwed up, link here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/806188
May 17, 2013 @ 12:35 AM
Here we go – Post-Apocalyptic Southern Gothic
http://mattbillock.blogspot.com/2013/05/flash-fiction-challenge-post.html
May 17, 2013 @ 4:26 AM
Southern Gothic & Superhero. Allrighty then…
http://veronikalazabal.com/
May 17, 2013 @ 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
May 17, 2013 @ 4:51 AM
Here you go, New Weird and Post-Apocalyptic: http://afteroldjoe.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/the-day-the-monkeys-took-over/
May 17, 2013 @ 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/
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May 17, 2013 @ 6:37 AM
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May 17, 2013 @ 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/
May 17, 2013 @ 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.*
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May 17, 2013 @ 10:03 AM
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May 17, 2013 @ 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
May 17, 2013 @ 8:14 PM
Great job! Really interesting to see this done from a kid-friendly angle.
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May 17, 2013 @ 3:41 PM
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May 18, 2013 @ 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.
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May 18, 2013 @ 10:04 AM
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May 18, 2013 @ 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/
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