Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds

Flash Fiction Challenge: Random Story Title Generator

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:

Click this link.

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.

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  3. 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.

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  6. 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!

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  18. 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.

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  19. 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

    ‪#‎scifi‬ ‪#‎amwriting‬ ‪#‎VR‬

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  23. 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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  33. 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.

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  42. 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/

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