Flash Fiction Challenge: We Need Only A Title
Your task this week is woefully simple. Go to the comments, and deposit into these comments a title for a short story — not the story itself, and nothing in fact beyond the title.
Then, next week, I’ll pick a handful of the best, and we’ll use those as springboards for the next round of stories. Dig it? Good.
You.
Comments section.
A title.
GO.
Due by next Friday, April 29th, noon EST.
[EDIT: Only ONE title per person, please.]
April 22, 2016 @ 2:51 PM
The Thing in the USB Socket.
April 23, 2016 @ 3:12 PM
A confessional?
April 25, 2016 @ 8:46 AM
Hahahahahaha! What gets put in the USB socket stays in the USB socket.
April 22, 2016 @ 2:51 PM
Red Rubber Boots in Flood Season.
April 22, 2016 @ 2:53 PM
All the Children
April 22, 2016 @ 2:53 PM
How to eat Hagus like a Boss
April 22, 2016 @ 3:49 PM
Do you mean ‘haggis’ or is hagus something I never heard of?
April 23, 2016 @ 3:14 PM
Maybe it’s Hagar, as in the Viking cartoon character? Not very palatable, the horned helmet tends to get stuck in the throat.
April 22, 2016 @ 2:55 PM
Dead Falls the Sky
April 22, 2016 @ 2:57 PM
Death Waits
April 22, 2016 @ 2:57 PM
The Merry-Go-Round
April 22, 2016 @ 2:57 PM
The Wooing of Benjamin Crumpetpants.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:03 PM
Even if Chuck doesn’t pick this one, I might use it anyway.
April 23, 2016 @ 3:06 AM
Loving this one
April 23, 2016 @ 4:00 AM
Not to get too erotic but this wooing – would it by chance involve any combination of maple syrup, honey, icing sugar or whipped cream?
Verb-wise are we talking drizzle, lick, dribble, spray, lather, drip and possibly smother?
And is the setting for Ben’s seduction more likely to be a beach, medieval castle, back alley of a nightclub named TECHNOIR, (alright, that’s from THE TERMINATOR) the lower deck of a cruise ship or 30 000 feet in the air?
Don’t tell me you haven’t got this far in your outlining yet?
April 23, 2016 @ 3:19 PM
I vote for melted butter. I just love the way it oozes through the holes n the crumpet. Mmmm – butter and holes.
April 22, 2016 @ 2:59 PM
Loose Tiger Paws
April 22, 2016 @ 3:01 PM
I’M IN LOVE WITH A ZOMBIE BUT HE DOESN’T KNOW I’M ALIVE
April 22, 2016 @ 8:50 PM
LMAO
April 23, 2016 @ 3:19 PM
Like it!
April 23, 2016 @ 8:22 PM
All the yes on this one!!!
April 24, 2016 @ 9:54 AM
Didn’t I read this in the National Enquirer yesterday?
April 24, 2016 @ 6:31 PM
Page 3 half way down left hand side.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:02 PM
Splintered
April 22, 2016 @ 3:02 PM
A Keeper of the Lost
April 22, 2016 @ 3:02 PM
Over the Cliff and into the Ether
April 22, 2016 @ 3:03 PM
The Orchid that blinked
April 22, 2016 @ 3:03 PM
Fire in the Sty
April 22, 2016 @ 3:05 PM
Dragon Poop for Sale
April 22, 2016 @ 3:11 PM
I love this one!
April 23, 2016 @ 3:20 PM
Good for the roses, I hear.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:07 PM
Bad Alien
April 22, 2016 @ 3:09 PM
Worse Than That
April 22, 2016 @ 3:13 PM
Whoops! I didn’t see the edit! *backs away slowly*
April 22, 2016 @ 3:09 PM
The Prematurely Plucked Pumpkin
April 22, 2016 @ 3:10 PM
A Day Off from Dying
April 23, 2016 @ 3:21 PM
I see potential in this one.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:12 PM
Happy Birthday, by the way
April 22, 2016 @ 3:12 PM
The All-Star Wendigo Band Meets the Phantom of Malachite Park
April 23, 2016 @ 3:23 PM
Bet it’s a better film than ‘Kiss meets the phantom of the park.’
April 23, 2016 @ 5:51 PM
Now now. KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK (1978) may not have had the directorial finesse of a Michael Mann masterwork, but it did get a cinema release at the time over here in Australia and it holds fond( though admittedly quaint) memories for many people of a certain generation. Plus it was way better then the Gene Simmons vehicle RUNAWAY! (1984)
April 23, 2016 @ 6:00 PM
Aww, I quite liked runaway. Gene Simmons reverted to type. Just a shame he took his eye off the ball and neglected what he does best – stride the wastelands as a blood-spitting, fire-breathing demon Lord of thunder.
April 23, 2016 @ 7:39 PM
To be fair, I haven’t watched KMTPOTP all the way through. I’ve read about it through Paul, Gene and Ace’s biographies and none of them speak highly of the experience, but maybe I ought to judge for myself (goes looking frantically on e-bay for a vintage copy of the flick and … wtf, you can get a Kiss coffin? I wonder if I offered to pay $2 million, whether Gene would allow himself to be buried with me? Now there’s a premise for a short story.)
April 23, 2016 @ 10:51 PM
In Australia the movie actually went by the title KISS & THE ATTACK OF THE PHANTOMS
(released 1979).
It was included in Volume 2 of the KISSOLOGY DVD set. I’m aware it’s got a reputation as a less than quality production and also that the band members don’t speak highly of it but to be honest, I enjoyed it both as a Kiss zealot and a movie buff.
http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Kissology-II-1978-1991-KISS/dp/B000SAAPG6
April 24, 2016 @ 11:12 AM
Nice to talk with a fellow Kiss fan. Do you follow Ralph Vierra’s ‘Almost human’ video-blogs/facebook group?
April 24, 2016 @ 6:49 PM
I’ve been calling myself a Kiss canonist for all these years and I’ve never heard of this guy?
Huge, huge thanks.
Viewing now.
April 23, 2016 @ 5:52 PM
I’m just happy someone got the reference. 🙂
April 23, 2016 @ 6:19 PM
Of that you can be confident. Kiss fans are legion and believe me, there would be hundreds if not thousands who understood the reference.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:13 PM
If One Day I Fail to Wake.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:15 PM
A Bottle of White, a Dagger run Red
April 22, 2016 @ 3:16 PM
The Despair Gallery
April 22, 2016 @ 6:51 PM
Love this! I can picture the cover image, too.
April 25, 2016 @ 10:01 AM
Many thanks. Love to know what you’d do with the cover.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:16 PM
The Night Before
April 22, 2016 @ 4:15 PM
I’ve already got one by this title! Will be published soon in Forever Hungry Anthology.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:18 PM
Wiping Away the Stains
April 22, 2016 @ 3:20 PM
They Sat Outside Eating Cake
April 22, 2016 @ 3:21 PM
No More Taco Tuesday
April 23, 2016 @ 3:58 PM
Never!
April 22, 2016 @ 3:23 PM
A fist full of weasels
April 22, 2016 @ 3:23 PM
The Memory-Smith’s Widow
April 23, 2016 @ 3:58 PM
I dig this one.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:24 PM
Golfing with the Devil
April 23, 2016 @ 3:24 PM
A memoir by Alice Cooper?
April 22, 2016 @ 3:30 PM
A Visa for Planet Zog
April 22, 2016 @ 3:37 PM
Sorry, missed the edit. Ignore this one I can’t figure out how to delete it. I might write it myself.
April 23, 2016 @ 3:25 PM
Easier to get than a visa for Australia.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:31 PM
The Rule of the Perfect Fish
April 22, 2016 @ 3:32 PM
Acid Reign
April 22, 2016 @ 3:34 PM
One Thousand Flowers
April 22, 2016 @ 3:34 PM
Last Dance at the Sphincter of Oddi
April 23, 2016 @ 3:26 PM
How I remember those halcyon days.
April 24, 2016 @ 9:57 AM
I took a right instead of a left that day and ended at the Sphincter of Odie. There was no dance there.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:34 PM
The Moon and His Minions
April 22, 2016 @ 3:34 PM
Genuflecting Gerbils and snakes
April 22, 2016 @ 3:36 PM
The Rest of the Four-Letter Words
April 22, 2016 @ 3:37 PM
Peristaltic Panopoly
April 23, 2016 @ 3:28 PM
An all-seeing digestive tract? George Orwell only got it half right.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:39 PM
The Rune of Bad Hints
April 22, 2016 @ 4:15 PM
I really like this!
April 22, 2016 @ 3:42 PM
Still life with Weasel Cake
April 22, 2016 @ 3:45 PM
Good Morning! I See the Assassins Have Failed!
April 22, 2016 @ 3:45 PM
Axe Me Another, Or Heads! You Lose!
April 22, 2016 @ 9:12 PM
Bless.
April 22, 2016 @ 3:49 PM
From Hell To Breakfast
April 22, 2016 @ 3:53 PM
Vultures in the Morning
April 23, 2016 @ 3:29 PM
I would have settled for pistols at dawn, but if you insist – it was your choice of weapons after all.
April 24, 2016 @ 9:59 AM
I know my vulture is strapped to a stick of dynamite and stuffed in a howitzer but to be fair the instructions weren’t very clear about all this.
April 25, 2016 @ 3:20 PM
Lol
April 22, 2016 @ 3:54 PM
I’m going to jump on the weasel bandwagon with: Weasel Bandwagon
April 22, 2016 @ 4:02 PM
ha! 🙂
April 22, 2016 @ 3:57 PM
In The Wake of Her Veils
April 22, 2016 @ 4:04 PM
Louisa Tests the Infinite Monkey Theorem
April 23, 2016 @ 3:32 PM
Excellent – the complete works of Shakespeare every two hundred million years.