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
Flash Fiction: Monkey Gland | We Love The Stars Too Fondly
June 20, 2014 @ 2:37 AM
[…] week’s Flash Fiction Challenge is alcohol based. In particular, the title of our piece will be derived from some of the more odd […]
June 20, 2014 @ 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/
Flash Fiction: The Cocktail is your Title – French ’75 | Untitled*United
June 20, 2014 @ 11:32 AM
[…] done a flash fiction challenge in a while, but this one was too fun to pass up. Over at Terribleminds, the challenge was to pick a cocktail from a list of twenty, and use that as the title for your […]
June 20, 2014 @ 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/
June 20, 2014 @ 11:46 AM
Tuxedo No. 2 http://ultrarunningmom.com/2014/06/20/flash-fiction-friday-tuxedo-no-2/
Flash Fiction Challenge: Doing The Subgenre Twist, Once Again « terribleminds: chuck wendig
June 20, 2014 @ 12:13 PM
[…] Last week’s challenge: “The Cocktail Is Your Title“ […]
June 20, 2014 @ 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/
Moscow Mule | Punk-ass Book Pusher
June 21, 2014 @ 2:36 AM
[…] weekly Flash Fiction challenge again. This past week (I’m posting half a day late) the challenge was to pick, randomly or otherwise, a cocktail from a list, and make that the title of your story. […]
June 21, 2014 @ 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.
“Rum Punch” – Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge: The Cocktail Is Your Title | Woegman's World of Witty Wonder
June 26, 2014 @ 12:27 PM
[…] week from the terrible mind of Chuck Wendig comes a challenge to use the name of a randomly generated cocktail as the title of a […]
Finally – putting genius to use! | Wayward Words
May 13, 2015 @ 10:11 AM
[…] So, I’ve agreed (was chosen) to write a short story for an anthology that a writing group I’m in wants to put together. At first, I had no idea what to write. But then, there was this little post-it note reminder on my desk thanks to writer Chuck Wendig and his blog post, “The Cocktail is Your Title.” […]