Last week’s challenge: Subgenre Frankenstein.
I’m going to give you ten words. Your job is to work all ten of these words into a flash fiction story, ~1000 words in length. That’s it. End of mandate.
The story’s due in a week: Friday, August 30th, noon EST.
Post at your online space.
Link back here.
The ten random words are as follows:
141 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: Another Ten Words”
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The Birth of a Hero:
http://uriemram.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/the-birth-of-a-hero/
It is a bit shorter than usual (less than 500 words), and it is definitely a weird take on storytelling. Given the nature of the format (pure dialogue, no speech tags, no outside context, just flowing dialogue), I don’t think I should try to stretch this one.
Tell me what you think.
That was fun. I’d pay a dollar to see the comic they came up with.
I’m glad you liked it. Unfortunately, some comics are just too awesome to exist 😉
Very excited…this is my first foray into “Flash Fiction”…unique short story using the 6…no…10 words. Enjoy and thank you for the challenge…it is a needed kick in the butt. The short story is entitled, “Making An Impression”.
I didn’t leave a link for the story…sorry…I’m new. Please read and enjoy “Making An Impression”…my first flash fiction challenge.
http://taylormaderandomwrites.blogspot.com/2013/08/making-impression.html
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Remembering Bub: http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2013/08/27/flash-fiction-remembering-bub/
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“A New Leaf”: http://nickegelhoff.com/2013/08/27/flash-fiction-challenge-another-ten-words/
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I had a lot of fun with this challenge! Here’s my story, I’m calling it: My Father’s Unusual Death.
http://paigewilliamswriter.blogspot.com/2013/08/chuck-wendigs-flash-fiction-challenge.html
Greetings! I tried to make myself focus on my essay but gave it up as a bad job to write this… I figured it would be better in the long run to get this done quickly so I could concentrate on actual work… Thus, I present a rather silly and hopefully entertaining response to this challenge. Hope you enjoy! 😀
http://lanigerbi.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/fiction-eagleside.html
Oh yeah. Title. Eagleside. Blurby-thing. Eagleside Cemetary: home of the dead, the undead, and things that don’t actually have the capacity to be dead.
These things would be helpful, wouldn’t they? Wow I’m good at this… 😛
Apocalypse, deranged golems and hot air balloons.
The Golem at World’s End.
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Used this to add to some serial fiction I’m writing. http://www.scottroche.com/thoughts/2013/08/the-harvest-yuppies/
Nice challenge. I might be using parts of this in my new novel:
http://eli-and-the-lake.cherrystalk.com/
P.S. – cherrystalk is a really nice way to post fiction online.
My blog is under repairs now, but I still wanted to give it a try, so i shared a gdoc…It’s raw and unrevised, so maybe there’re some mistakes; my apologies in advance. (I’m spanish, and part of the reason I do this is to get used to write in english better)
A fake death, and a woman that means trouble…
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rrkfif0FcJDZNIZ6YKCBwTIQ4WdETMUt-4ZP8qbVQ-Q/pub
I used an old story of scant 600 words written a while ago, added 10 words, cut, rearranged, deleted then added 300 some odd more for a grand total of 983 words. Amen.
Whatever happens, I had a good time.
http://preziosofrye.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/sea-biscuit-and-me/
Just under 900 words.
http://amgray.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/a-most-unusual-house.html
excellent story! very fun reading. =)
I love these “use the words” challenges. I got ’em all into the first 2 paragraphs in about 5 minutes, then spent hours and hours figuring out what the heck to do with it from there. I kinda like how it came out.
Here’s “Tethered”
http://jdparadise.blogspot.com/2013/08/tethered-adult-content.html
Meant to add the first paragraph to my post, but clicked Submit prematurely. Here ’tis:
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The idea of atomic funerals has always captivated Willow-in-Clay. There’s the reek of brimstone about them, the feel of a dark and disfigured god laughing at Man’s latest doomed attempt to avoid the Plague’s spread. She prayed her way through her share of gravesites, back before she came to realize that it was all for nothing. The bomb is just the next evolution.
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Wrote one this week, a story about hunting monsters, Softly Into the Gloaming: http://chriswhitewrites.com/2013/08/30/softly_into_the_gloaming/
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My contribution to the 10 word (well, 9 word) flash fiction challenge. Fun way to try to get back into the habit of writing fiction after a break.
http://keithjcollier.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/the-funeral-new-storywriting-exercise/
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I am just barely sneaking this one in.
Mister Giggles Makes a Friend
http://www.sgbarnett.com/2013/08/mister-giggles-makes-a-friend/
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Gorg the Troll is back!
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2013/08/flash-fiction-friday-in-valley-of.html
Yay! Go, Gorg! Clever wielded ‘atomic’ there lol
“Memorial”, a short one this week, it just felt right that way. As always, I hope you enjoy it and I welcome comments and constructive criticisms.
http://wp.me/p3tdUw-ip
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Burden’s Salvation
http://mrdorough.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/burdens-salvation/
A little bit of back story for my character, Willow, from The Traveler in Black and White. http://jemimapett.com/2013/08/30/friday-flash-fiction-willows-day-off/
Brimstone Canyon. The story of a sister coming to terms with the death of her brother and the life he had to suffer when she finds herself the only person at his funeral.
http://angelacavanaugh.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/flash-fiction-friday-brimstone-canyon/
I tried to post this last night, but I think the internet gremlins ate it.
Mister Giggles Makes a Friend
wp.me/p2ZsXX-9D
And then of course, link fail on my part.
http://wp.me/p2ZsXX-9D
I actually wasn’t going to do this one, but then I had an idea for how to make it work and I had to try.
Canyon of Bones: http://ironsoap.com/2013/08/canyon-of-bones/
I thought it was a bit underhand to squeeze in most of the words in the way you did – but it’s a brilliant story, so who cares!! Glad you did it 🙂
Underhand? Underhand!? Why I…
Yeah, okay. It was a cheat. If it helps, it didn’t make it any easier (quite the opposite I think). 🙂
Thanks for reading, I’m glad you liked it.
Clever, though 😉
I can see how using the words the way you did would make it more difficult since you had to find a book title -and- incorporate them into the letter.
I thought it was a pretty clever little story though.
Thanks, I did kind of force double-duty a bit. And in retrospect I think I might have been better off composing the letter first and then looking for titles that fit as opposed to the other way around, but I’ll take what I can get from a couple hours’ work.
This is my first time posting a story (and whipping up a little googlesite for the occasion)….so thanks for reading!
“Deceit”
https://sites.google.com/site/aparadeofhorribles/
excellent story, I really enjoyed that!
Thanks for reading it:)
Thanks for your comments on “Dead to Rights,” curiouskermit. Really appreciate the insight.
Thanks for the challenge and reading!
Finding Home at: http://kathleenmagner.wordpress.com/finding-home/
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Atomic Brimstone, the Story of a Daughter’s Revenge: http://margitsage.com/blog/2013/08/30/atomic-brimstone-fridayflash/ I know I’m late. (Computer issues.) I had a lot of fun with this! =)
weird… my original comment is still listed as waiting moderation? not sure why
never mind… here is my attempt
http://amgray.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/a-most-unusual-house.html
Late to class again. And I’ve gone over the word count. Again.
Had a hard time with this one. Originally started out as something more along the lines of No Country for Old Men and somehow ended up as something more along the lines of Sandman Slim. It’s got heaven, hell, zombies, guns, cursing . . . everything a growing imagination needs to grow up healthy and strong.
At any rate, I know no one’s going to read it at this point, but I had fun writing it. Still need to plug up some holes in the narrative and finish the ending.
This is called “Dead to Rights”
http://jeremiahboydstun.com/2013/09/01/dead-to-rights/
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