Flash Fiction Challenge: The Cocktail Is Your Title
Last week’s challenge: “Rise of the Phoenix.”
This week?
Below you’ll find a list of 20 cocktails.
I love cocktails because they have great names. Evocative in their own fun way. So, you’ll choose a random cocktail from the table and use that as the title of your story. Use a d20 or a random number generator or, if none of those are really fizzing your gin, go ahead and use one that’s not on the list.
You’ve got 1500 words this time.
Due by June 20th, noon EST.
Post at your online space. Link to it in the comments below.
(Feel free to add “the” to any of the below titles.)
The Cocktail List
- Rusty Nail
- Pisco Sour
- Bee’s Knees
- Corpse-Reviver
- French 75
- Monkey Gland
- Boulevardier
- Twelve-Mile Limit
- Bird of Paradise
- White Lady
- Dirty Martini
- Rum Punch
- Mary Pickford
- Tuxedo No. 2
- Gin Rickey
- Paloma
- Blind Abbot
- Buttery Nipple
- Moscow Mule
- Screaming Orgasm
momdude
June 20, 2014 at 2:45 AM //
I got #6, “Monkey Gland.” I didn’t have a clue what to do, but started freely associating (“Is this a good idea?”) and went from there. Did the whole thing as dialogue, but I’m seriously sleep deprived and jet lagged after getting home yesterday, so this may be either incoherent or “Kafka-eque.”
Either way, I’m under the word count. As always, comments and constructive criticism is appreciated.
http://pauljwillett.com/2014/06/19/flash-fiction-monkey-gland/
mikes75
June 20, 2014 at 11:34 AM //
Slipping this one in under the wire, here’s my take on French 75
http://untitledunited.com/2014/06/20/flash-fiction-the-cocktail-is-your-title-french-75/
Nicole Lowe
June 20, 2014 at 11:46 AM //
Tuxedo No. 2 http://ultrarunningmom.com/2014/06/20/flash-fiction-friday-tuxedo-no-2/
boydstun215
June 20, 2014 at 11:39 PM //
A little late, and a little over the 1000-word mark, but this was a lot of fun. This is entitled “Dirty Martini: A Hitman’s Monologue”
http://jeremiahboydstun.com/2014/06/21/dirty-martini-a-hitmans-monologue/
dangerdean
June 21, 2014 at 2:38 AM //
I’ve missed a bunch of challenges, but I finished this one the day it was expected, so I’ll post it 12 hours late.
http://dangerdean.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/moscow-mule/
Good to be back stretching the writing muscles.