Last week: horror as spam.
This week:
The country’s in EBOLA PANIC, going so far as to elect an Ebola Czar. (Did you know that vending machines kill 13 people a year? I look forward to our new Vending Machine Czar to address this grave concern.) Disease of course freaks people out. And next Friday? Halloween. The time of horror!
Which means it’s time for you to freak people out with disease.
Write 1000 words of flash fiction.
It should be horror.
It should feature disease as an axis of that horror.
That’s it. That’s the mission.
Write it at your blog or online space.
Link back here.
Due by Halloween, noon, EST.
momdude says:
This might not have turned out as well as I wanted — too serious to be slapstick, trying too hard for a punchline to be horror. But the dozen political calls a day and hundreds of TV ads every day may be having an effect on my brain.
http://pauljwillett.com/2014/10/30/flash-fiction-the-peoples-plague/
October 31, 2014 — 2:43 AM
colinjkeats says:
Coming in late, and I will have to read other entries later and comment – busy work /life schedule – but here is my entry, it is over the word limit, but I didn’t want to pare it down for some reason … Computer Virus http://colinjkeats.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/computer-virus/
October 31, 2014 — 5:47 AM
magicant2000 says:
Okay. A lot of firsts here, including my first time posting here, my first attempt at flash fiction and honestly, the first fiction I’ve written in about 25 years. Well, that I’ve finished, anyway. I have a feeling I’m going to have that “first workout muscle pain” when I wake up.
http://theblogwon.blogspot.com/2014/10/restraint.html
October 31, 2014 — 7:33 AM
Alex says:
I don’t think I’ve ever written horror before (which is probably why it still ended up being set on a different planet), but here goes:
http://justafeverdream.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/immunity/
October 31, 2014 — 9:32 AM
Bob Bois says:
Interregnum: 144 words of disease and horror. Happy Halloween everyone!
http://sittingindarkness.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/interregnum-2/
October 31, 2014 — 10:58 AM
Dave says:
It’s really only the beginning of a story…
http://www.unfoldingepic.com/writing/flash-fiction-diseased-horror/
October 31, 2014 — 11:43 AM
underastarlitsky says:
Better late than sorry, or whatever that phrase is…here’s my take on diseased horror (with a lot less horror, actually, but …meh. Hey, I got it done, okay?! stop breathing down my neck! jeez…
http://underastarlitsky.wordpress.com
October 31, 2014 — 8:08 PM
Trey Taylor says:
Here we go:
https://moonlightronin.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/flash-fiction-classified-by-tre-taylor/
November 1, 2014 — 5:41 PM