Last week’s challenge: Ten Little Chapters
I have chosen ten random words.
Your goal: to choose five of these and incorporate them into a single piece of flash fiction.
The words:
Whalebone
Foxglove
Djinn
Orphan
Lollipop
Casket
Hermit
Hound
Acid
Topaz
There’s your list.
Choose five.
Write 1000-word short story.
Post at your blog or online space.
Give us a link to the story in the comments below.
Any genre will do.
Due by April 4th, noon, EST.
Jon Jefferson says:
I ended up following a bizarro tangent with this one.
http://www.10thdaypublishing.com/hound-hill/
March 31, 2014 — 8:38 PM
Matthew X. Gomez says:
Alright, here’s mine. The Whalebone Cane
http://mxgomez.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/the-whalebone-cane/
March 31, 2014 — 9:54 PM
fadedglories says:
I think that’s a great little story.
April 3, 2014 — 12:05 PM
Emmerson Saunders says:
I wrote mine with the words Foxglove, Casket, Orphan, Topaz, and Hermit.
Greek Mythology just kinda happened when I didn’t expect it to, but yeah.
I call it “Pandora’s Envelope”
http://schediophilia.blogspot.com/2014/03/pandoras-envelope.html
April 1, 2014 — 12:18 AM
russellallen77 says:
Here’s mine:
http://russwriting.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/wendigs-flash-fiction-challenge-five-random-words/
April 1, 2014 — 1:01 AM
fadedglories says:
Really enjoyed your deceased character.
April 3, 2014 — 11:59 AM
russellallen77 says:
Thanks!
April 3, 2014 — 4:52 PM
robinlmartinez says:
Here’s my attempt. Pretty rough, but I had fun writing it 🙂 http://robinlmartinez.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/topaz-burke-answer-to-chuck-wendig-flash-fiction-challenge/
April 1, 2014 — 1:22 PM
Trine Toft Schmidt says:
I picked Whalebone, Foxglove, Acid, Orphan and Topaz. And here’s my story. The Heist.
http://www.trinetoftschmidt.com/2014/04/chuck-challenge-five-random-words/
April 1, 2014 — 3:49 PM
cfjeanjean says:
We picked the same words and yet our stories are so different! Enjoyed your version – are you going to do anything more with it?
April 1, 2014 — 7:50 PM
Trine Toft Schmidt says:
Thank you CF. I don’t know, this story popped into my head almost fully formed, but I like Kyouki and would like to see what is up with the ring and the Hidden Man, so I guess it is not out of the question.
April 1, 2014 — 11:16 PM
Emmerson Saunders says:
That was really neat! I want to know who, or what, the heck was in the cane now!
April 1, 2014 — 10:56 PM
Matt Gomez says:
Hey there Emmerson, was that comment directed at me?
April 2, 2014 — 11:11 AM
Emmerson Saunders says:
Yes I’m sorry haha
April 3, 2014 — 6:09 PM
Josh Loomis says:
Hound. Hermit. Orphan. Topaz. Foxglove.
Granny needs some small things.
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2014/04/02/flash-fiction-some-small-things/
April 2, 2014 — 8:10 AM
Erin says:
Love the ending. Very sweet.
(I used the same assortment of words.)
April 2, 2014 — 11:08 AM
Benjamin J. Kirby says:
The Hermit. Curses aren’t always black and white.
Here are the words:
Casket
Hermit
Hound
Acid
Topaz
http://warnerkirby.blogs.com/clintonaut/2014/04/the-hermit.html
April 2, 2014 — 10:33 PM
fadedglories says:
Over on http://nanowrimoroman.blogspot.co.uk/ is my offering. ‘Another tale from the Han’
words used:
Casket, Hermit, Djinn, Hound, Topaz.
Thanks Chuck for the prompt. It’s made me write my first short story in several years!!!
April 3, 2014 — 9:26 AM
Tony Taylor says:
I’m up for this one. I’ve been away a long time, so the “writing muscle” may be weak, but the mindset is strong. Good to be back.
http://taylormaderandomwrites.blogspot.com/2014/04/resolve-5-word-flash-fiction-challenge.html
April 3, 2014 — 10:55 AM
AE Smith says:
Apologies for an egregious violation of the word limit. Meet Hamm: http://gigantocellularis.tumblr.com/post/81606676890/flash-fiction-hamm
April 3, 2014 — 3:25 PM
fadedglories says:
This is good stuff, never mind the word limit. I think you should write more about Hamm.
April 3, 2014 — 5:04 PM
murgatroid98 says:
I actually finished, sort of, a story for this one. It may be more of a beginning than a finished story. The link is: http://murgatroid-98.livejournal.com/3486.html
It’s called Djinn and Tonic. I hope y’all like it.
April 3, 2014 — 7:13 PM
Georgia says:
I finally finished it! It’s called The Reveur. Any feedback/ critique would be more than welcome 🙂
http://georgiasummersbooks.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-reveur.html
April 3, 2014 — 9:52 PM
kamackinnon says:
I chose the words whalebone, djinn, orphan, hermit and topaz. I overshot the word limit somewhat, but I’m quite proud of what I came up with. Here is the link:
http://kamackinnon.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/parlour-tricks/
If nothing else this challenge has been a success in that I wrote something every night this week, and I finished what I started. Hurray! I haven’t read any of the other responses because I wanted to get my story out first, but I’m looking forward to digging in this weekend.
April 3, 2014 — 11:52 PM
murgatroid98 says:
So many of these stories leave me wanting more. This is one of them.
April 5, 2014 — 7:30 AM
Rebecca Douglass says:
Mine goes live in a couple of hours. More from Gorg the Troll, because it just seemed like the right thing to do.
/2014/04/d-is-for-friday-flash-fiction.html
April 4, 2014 — 12:06 AM
Jemima Pett says:
That’ll be http://ninjalibrarian/2014/04/d-is-for-friday-flash-fiction.html
April 4, 2014 — 2:04 AM
Jemima Pett says:
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2014/04/d-is-for-friday-flash-fiction.html
ok, it’s early here.
April 4, 2014 — 2:09 AM
Rebecca Douglass says:
Well, and obviously it was late here when I posted mine! Thanks for fixing that!
April 4, 2014 — 10:38 AM
momdude says:
This was a fun one. “Whalebone,” “casket,” “topaz,” “orphan,” and “acid.”
http://pauljwillett.com/2014/04/03/flash-fiction-the-museum-job/
April 4, 2014 — 1:18 AM
fadedglories says:
Loved the twist at the end
April 4, 2014 — 2:54 AM
momdude says:
Thanks!
April 4, 2014 — 6:21 PM
Smoph says:
I’m going to second that. Loved the last line.
April 4, 2014 — 9:22 PM
kamackinnon says:
Nice job! I really enjoyed that. Your protagonist had a great voice. Lots of fun.
April 5, 2014 — 10:11 PM
momdude says:
Thank you!
April 6, 2014 — 2:02 AM
Jemima Pett says:
Apologies if this is a duplicate – it seems to have disappeared :O
Topaz, Casket, Djinn, Acid and Hound have to meet D for Delta in my A to Z Challenge – I give you “The Legend of the Delta Topaz”
http://jemimapett.com/blog/2014/04/04/d-for-delta-and-some-flash-fiction-on-friday/
April 4, 2014 — 2:15 AM
Jesse says:
Got it done! just in time. My words were ‘Whalebone, topaz, orphan, casket, djinn’
http://fav.me/d7czmv8
April 4, 2014 — 10:09 AM
Rebecca Douglass says:
I was going to leave the comment on your blog, but I guess you have to have a Deviant Arts account to do that? Anyway, just wanted to say it’s an interesting story. Clearly there’s a lot more going on than is in this story!
April 4, 2014 — 10:50 AM
swordsoftheancients says:
I picked topaz, orphan, foxglove, casket, and hermit. Here’s “The Casket.”
http://swordsoftheancients.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/the-casket/
April 4, 2014 — 11:57 AM
Smoph says:
That’s sweet. I like the message.
April 4, 2014 — 9:32 PM
R.T. Wilder says:
http://rtwilder.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/eclipse/
April 4, 2014 — 11:59 AM
R.T. Wilder says:
I should probably mention that this is a horror story, and that the words I used were Whalebone, Foxglove, Lollipop, Hermit, Hound, and Topaz. Wait, that’s six words…
April 4, 2014 — 12:01 PM
Smoph says:
Interesting idea. Without giving too much away, the first couple of paragraphs seemed extraneous for me, but everything after that I really liked.
April 4, 2014 — 9:29 PM
Smoph says:
A bit late to it today. I wrote a little tale called ‘Finding Foxglove’ using djinn, foxglove, orphan, topaz and whalebone. http://prose.smoph.org/
I hope you all enjoy it.
April 4, 2014 — 4:22 PM
Smoph says:
Unfortunately, it seems like linking to the post is broken, but you can see it on the home page. Weird.
April 4, 2014 — 4:24 PM
murgatroid98 says:
Excellent. Thank you for sharing.
April 5, 2014 — 7:43 AM
fadedglories says:
I liked it very much
April 6, 2014 — 4:24 AM
Smoph says:
Thans you both very much.
April 7, 2014 — 2:09 PM
Rick Cook Jr says:
So I’m very late to this party, but I thought I’d throw this up here anyway:
The Recluse, the Rott, and the Runaway – A novella in six parts. Click for part one.
http://panningforclouds.com/2014/04/05/recluse-rott-runaway-part-one/
I used the five random words I got from this prompt and sorta ran away with them. The words were:
Hermit, Hound, Orphan, Foxglove, Lollipop
April 17, 2014 — 10:35 AM
Carla -- Republic, WA says:
April is a long time ago … anything new?
August 4, 2014 — 10:27 PM