Last week’s challenge: “Somethingpunk.”
First up, a bit of administrative — I picked three random participants from last week’s challenge to get signed hardcovers of my cornpocalypse cornpunk agridystopia, Under the Empyrean Sky, and those folks are, drum roll please:
S.W. Sondheimer!
D.W. Coventry!
Tia Kalla!
You crazy kids, email me at terribleminds at gmail dot com. I’ll need your mailing addresses.
NOW, this week’s challenge:
It will allow you to randomize five story titles.
You’ll pick one title out of the five selected and, duh, you’ll write yourself a nice little ~1000-word bit of flash fiction using that very title. Easy-peasy, hug-and-squeezy.
Due by next Friday (8/16), noon EST.
156 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: Random Story Title Generator”
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My first attempt. :/
http://jijibug.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/the-madman-that-should-not-ride/
This is the first time I’ve actually followed through with any kind of writing challenge. So, I’m just going to put on my big-girl pants, forgo all the apologizing and pleading for kindness to a novice and other such foolishness that’s bouncing through my head and share the darned thing. I sincerely hope someone enjoys it.
Oh, and Chuck? Thanks.
http://dharbg.blogspot.com/2013/08/flash-fiction-challenge-from.html
Yeah, the link. I thought it would magically appear.
Kinda new here and this is my first one of these… I got “A Grace of Dawn”
http://jcooleac.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/a-grace-of-dawn
With a title like “Prey in the Cemetery” I really couldn’t refuse. Wherein a falconer’s goshawk brings about the apocalypse, just like some of us always thought….
http://corsairharbour.blogspot.com/2013/08/prey-in-cemetery-terribleminds-flash.html
Couldn’t stop generating titles; I have fifteen that intrigue me and am still deciding. Here are the top five:
1. The Silver Manuscript of Sorcery
2. The Asylum of Fallen Abbey
3. A Mistletoe of Glory
4. Glass in the Ghostlands
5. The Muddy Black Nothing
What a gold mine!
The Paradox That Killed The Affair
http://oddsignal.tumblr.com/post/58161549694/the-paradox-that-killed-the-affair
Haunted in the Waters:
http://authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/2013/08/haunted-in-waters.html
Actual goosebumps happening right now. So good with the dialogue.
Thank you so much! ๐
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Dust’s Cape:
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2013/08/14/flash-fiction-dusts-cape/
Fun read! Who doesn’t like a superhero story? I loved the imagery of a little pile of brown sugar in a hotel hallway sneaking under the door by itself.
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The Fish’s Revolt
http://dankelleywrites.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/flash-fiction-the-fishs-revolt-565-words/
The Dragon of the Gothic Orchard
http://www.writerscarnival.ca/dragon-of-the-gothic-orchard/
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Weird one, that I just had to write a super-fast story for. Is it a weird follow up to A Suicide of Glass? Could be. Thematically, it might fit. The Hand the Snake Laughed – http://andreaspeed.com/2013/yep-another-flash-fic/
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Out of the Yellow Cotswold
http://ireallyshouldbewriting.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/out-of-the-yellow-cotswold-flash-fiction-challenge/
I picked the first one after looking up “cotswold,” which is (for anyone else who didn’t know) a sheep of a breed with fine wool, often used to produce crossbred lambs. It gave me a strange twist to work on a short story for an idea I’ve been developing since a large theme of the story is that from two like beings can come a being of an entirely different “breed,” so to speak.
Hello Chuck,
I follow your blog and thought I would participate in your latest challenge. I chose a weird one and decided to run with it anyway.
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Changing Tartarus – A hitman is offered a means to commute his 1000 year prison sentence: http://wp.me/p1UgIB-De
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Just found your blog this week and think it’s really cool, so I decided to the challenge. Anyways, here is my first ever fast fiction to the title of “Chained in Darkness.”
http://www.wattpad.com/23356585-chained-in-darkness
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After getting my five titles and letting them marinate in the syrupy goo that is the organ formerly known as my brain, I wrote “The Express and the Blackwell” for everyone’s edification and enjoyment, weighing in at a trim 971 words. As always, comments and constructive criticisms are welcome.
http://wp.me/p3tdUw-g4
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Gosh, five titles that made some sort of sense to me… too much choice!!
I give you: The Uncommon Cinderella. Not my normal story ๐ http://jemimapett.com/2013/08/16/friday-flash-fiction-the-uncommon-cinderella/
Okay, this was some kind of awesome. First time writing FF and among my titles I get “The Women Vials.” (Decided not to take “Cthulhu and Toad”. Couldn’t get these guys out of my head: http://bit.ly/16gcypV)
During the day I write middle grade fantasy; for this title, I had to pull on my man suit and try out some bleak SF.
http://rotetinte.tumblr.com/post/58399296639/the-women-vials
“Spare Options”
http://doubletofuburger.blogspot.com/2013/08/spare-options.html
Alright, I have completed the challenge.
For your reading pleasure: The Hell that Could Not Embrace Earth
http://goodtoknowbyjade.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/dystopian/
What can I say, I got inspired. I give you: Punch & Boy
Yes, with the title it is exactly 1,000 words, and yes, I intentionally left the story unresolved.
http://nesbolin.tumblr.com/post/58406883317/flash-fiction
1000 words on the dot. The Bookkeeper of the Grim, Hideous Ticket
First time submitting, so I hope I cut the mustard!
http://nitromidget.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/the-bookkeeper-of-the-grim-hideous-ticket/
The Beast’s Scientist
http://benjaminryant.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/flash-fiction-thursday-random-story-title-generator/
So I got ‘The Door of Savage Abbey’, which was just too interesting to pass up. Hope you enjoy it! ๐
http://lanigerbi.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/fiction-door-of-savage-abbey.html
Barely in under the wire.
http://ironsoap.com/2013/08/the-new-dark-bookkeeper/
I’m not too happy with it, considering the potential suggested by the title, but I wanted to get something posted.
My other options were:
Queen of Hearts
Houdini Earth
The Jewels of Moonlit Salvage
The Mozart that Shall Not Kill Heist Job
If I’d had more time I might have abandoned this and tried one of the others. The Jewels of Moonlit Salvage sounds like it also has some potential.
Here I am, always one of the last. Had a little fun with a character I invented a couple of weeks ago.
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2013/08/flash-fiction-friday-iron-desert.html
Not even close to the last. ๐
Ha! I have gained the coveted last-but-not-actually-late title.
Angelo For Corrupt Time, a lean, svelte 601 words:
http://billionmonkeys.blogspot.com/p/angelo-for-corrupt-time.html
Kind of a weird one for me. Decided to write it as a business memo–first time I’ve done a non-standard story format like that. Fun, though.
My network is bouncing up and down, so hope this gets in on time. I blended last week’s something punk challenge with this week’s random title.
http://www.ravensview.ca/ravens/2013/08/a-couple-of-challenges.html
Hey Guys, here’s my second attempt at the flash fiction challenge.
http://nickolaskusen.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/flash-fiction-challenge-random-story-title-generator/
I got the five titles:
1.) Constantine, See
2.) The Weirds of the Consuming Will
3.) The Amulet that Would Not Laugh
4.) Caverns Laughed
5.) Woods Beyond Poisoned Guns
And I decided to go with the Fourth one, “Caverns Laughed”
Enjoy!
Whoops, saw the whole story didn’t post, just the summary. The page has been updated.
Thanks!
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This was fun. My title is “Revolution’s Metronome.” I’ve put the file here:
http://wodaski.com/wp-content/uploads/rw/Revolution-s-Metronome.pdf
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Late to the party, but I will have to write The Gentleman In The Weaving Dragons tonight or there will be no sleep.
My apologies for the late entry, but this story just wouldn’t behave. Finally had to put it down like a rabid dog. At any rate, this was originally going to be a sort-of Triffids vs. Guy Richie sort of story and just ended up being more of a Guy Richie kind of story but without the gratuitous violence.
The title of this piece is “Dragging the Plant” and, yeah, it’s way over the 1000-word mark, but I had a blast writing it.
http://jeremiahboydstun.com/2013/08/17/dragging-the-plant/
I wrote this the day it was announced, but like always, I forgot to post it cause I always want to wait til Friday for my blog. Well, if anyone is still interested, here it is: The Heist Job of Death
http://angelacavanaugh.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/flash-fiction-friday-belated-the-heist-job/
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So I’m way way late, but my story was about Mata Hari – I had to write something!!!
http://alreadynotpublished.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/what-if-mata-hari-lived/
I like it, and it’s less than 700 words ๐
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Also a bit (ok really) late, but here is my story, Atlantis Brothers:
http://fountainoflore.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/atlantis-brothers/
Just noticed this, but thanks for featuring my goofy little title generator.
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