Flash Fiction Challenge: X Versus Z, Redux
Another classic challenge, of which I am a fan.
Way this works is, below you will find two tables — X and Y! — and you will pick (or randomly draw) from those tables. That will leave you with a set of X versus Y — and from there, you will write a piece of flash fiction based on that parameter set. You can even use the match up (SKELETONS VS. SCIENTISTS!) as the title to the work, or come up with a new title.
Length: ~2000 words
Due by: 5/26, Friday, noon EST
Post at your online space, link back here so all can read.
X
- Robots
- Vampires
- Monkeys
- Demons
- Pirates
- Kaiju
- Goblins
- Dragons
- Ghosts
- Gods
- Time Travelers
- Cops
- Librarians
- Bards
- Skeletons
- Interdimensional Floating Jellyfish Creatures
- Aliens
- Cats
- Werewolves
- Musicians
Y
- Zombies
- Monks
- Spiders
- Heroes
- Fairies
- Robots
- Assassins
- Mutants
- Cannibals
- Mermaids
- Scientists
- Evil
- Serial Killers
- Cultists
- George Washington
- Superheroes
- Artificial Intelligence
- Swamp Monsters
- Cheerleaders
- Elves
yellehughes
May 19, 2017 at 11:26 AM //
Ok, now I know I’m not following instructions. I have a great excuse. I’ve already written a god/zombie fic and still currently working on it’s next chapters. It’s fanfiction for The Walking Dead and I have combined Greek Mythology with the TV show’s characters Rick and Michonne as Ares and Nike, but it also includes the rest of the family. It’s more than 2000 words and I hope it entertains you.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12284594/1/The-TWD-Chronicles
joshuamneff
May 19, 2017 at 11:31 AM //
I just randomly got “librarians vs. evil.” I think I’ll roll again. I’m not in the mood to write an autobiographical piece.
Terry elliott
May 19, 2017 at 11:44 AM //
I put your call on my site, hope you don’t mind. http://impedagogy.com/wp/blog/2017/05/19/flash-fiction-challenge-x-versus-z-redux/
Carly
May 19, 2017 at 12:06 PM //
I got “cops vs. heroes” which just feels WAY too real
AA Payson
May 19, 2017 at 12:26 PM //
^ Has no idea what he’s doing. Rolls…
Librarians vs. Mermaids
…..I LOVE IT! LET’S ROLL WITH IT!
Rebecca Douglass
May 19, 2017 at 1:23 PM //
Oh, the gods favored me: Librarians vs. Robots. And I see the librarians are showing up a lot. Weighted dice?
Rebecca Douglass
May 25, 2017 at 2:35 PM //
And here they are!
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2017/05/librarians-vs-robots-flash-fiction.html
Anna Nyms
May 19, 2017 at 2:28 PM //
I can’t decide between Cats vs Fairies or Jellyfish Creatures vs Cheerleaders (mean girls) Or … So much to choose from. This is gonna be fun.
joshuamneff
May 19, 2017 at 2:36 PM //
“Sting It On”?
SchwarzTKD
May 19, 2017 at 5:31 PM //
YES!!!!! LOL!
Allison Maruska
May 19, 2017 at 6:03 PM //
Ha! Yep, that. Do that.
Matthew Marchitto (@ThewTheSlightly)
May 19, 2017 at 4:54 PM //
I got Kaiju vs monks, and I guarantee a beastie is going to get punched into the sun.
Allison Maruska
May 19, 2017 at 6:00 PM //
Telling you what I randomly selected will ruin the ending, so you’ll just have to read to find out what I rolled. 😉
Also, I combined with another challenge that has a 99-word limit so I’m WAY under 2K.
https://allisonmaruska.com/2017/05/19/flash-fiction-the-battle/
john5cole
May 19, 2017 at 6:20 PM //
I got Musicians V Superheroes. Just 500 words b/c didn’t have time to write more. Enjoy the flash:
http://thecolemind.com/flash-fiction-musicians-v-superheroes/
dingdong
May 19, 2017 at 9:36 PM //
Hey Chuck! Now I know you don’t control the price of your books and that you don’t control Amazon, but what are your thoughts on the price of your books on Amazon?
terribleminds
May 22, 2017 at 7:31 AM //
I appreciate you having a sense of humor, ding dong.
(That said, this is still not a post about my books or about book prices.)
But I’ll say that the prices of my books on Amazon are generally fine, though sometimes a publisher charges too much for an e-book, OR Amazon discounts the physical book in order to make the e-book price too high.
Ashlee Jade
May 20, 2017 at 12:11 AM //
Demons vs Robots. This is going to be very interesting.
Beth Turnage
May 20, 2017 at 8:26 AM //
Chuck Wendig’s #FlashFiction Challenge: Demons vs. Assassins
http://bethturnage.com/?p=1136
Mozette
May 20, 2017 at 10:30 PM //
Librarians and Heroes… they come in all shapes and sizes and forms. 😀
enjoy.
http://youcantgoback-andotherimpossibilities.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/the-librarians.html
Beth Turnage
May 22, 2017 at 11:07 AM //
I like your description of the demon. Fun story.
Mozette
May 22, 2017 at 8:03 PM //
thanks. I kinda took a little of the story from ‘Angel’… been watching a lot of that lately… Lorn has been rubbing off on me lately. He was my favourite character out of that show. 😀 Such a pity Andy Hallet passed away.
Eva Therese
May 24, 2017 at 1:35 AM //
As an actual librarian I can confirm that this is 100% accurate. We really don’t die, we just hibernate. 😀
Beth Turnage
May 24, 2017 at 4:27 PM //
Lol. With book in hand, no doubt. 🙂
Mozette
May 24, 2017 at 8:37 PM //
So glad I was right on the money with this story. 😛 And seeing I’ve known librarians all throughout my life (yes, as a 4 year old, I lived in my local library and as a teenager, I also lived in my primary and high school libraries too), and they’re the best people around. I’ve seen them retire from being librarians, but never die. They just seem to fade away from the public eye… hibernate. 🙂
Shana L. Horn
May 22, 2017 at 4:49 PM //
DRAGON VS MERMAID! http://slwhshorts.blogspot.com/2017/05/tidepool-dragon-vs-mermaid.html
Eva Therese
May 23, 2017 at 4:13 PM //
Demons vs fairies. I wanted to write something funny, but it didn’t turn out that way. https://evathereseebert.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/x-vs-z-redux/
Nick Menz
May 23, 2017 at 5:25 PM //
I got Cats V. Swamp Monsters. It worked out a lot better than I thought.
https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3307110/1/
Sam Brady
May 24, 2017 at 9:54 AM //
I got Goblins vs, Elves. At first I thought it was Goblins vs. Elvis and it struck me as so funny, I decided to go with that instead. Please to enjoy!
https://sambrady.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/chuck-wendig-the-end-of-lonely-street/
prodisonhetgal
May 24, 2017 at 3:49 PM //
Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenge: The other side
https://prodisonhetgal.com/2017/05/24/the-other-side/
Sertysh
May 25, 2017 at 4:26 PM //
I tried a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style story, so depending on how you read my Librarians vs Cannibals entry, I either smashed the 2000 word limit, or you’ll have a very short story indeed.
https://hikelylads.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/flash-fiction-challenge-x-versus-y-redux/
Vicente L Ruiz
May 25, 2017 at 8:04 PM //
Its 2am here and I’m almost late. I got Ghosts vs Scientists. And I cheated shamelessly: it’s 1700 words, not 2000. The story ends with a small cliffhanger. And there’s only one ghost (so far).
But I had lots of fun writing this Teslapunk story starring the nominal Nikola Tesla and Harry Houdini as ghostbusters. Plus a few other known people. Here’s “The Adventure Begins”.
https://medium.com/@VicenteLRuiz/the-adventure-starts-here-a0f8de084fad
dougkzeigler
May 25, 2017 at 9:09 PM //
Demons vs EVIL! Wishes of the Thrones. Feedback welcome, please! https://scotchfullyyours.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/wishes-of-the-thrones/
unknownoddities
May 25, 2017 at 9:39 PM //
Jelly Fish vs Demons. An Unknown Fee.
https://unknownoddities.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/an-unknown-fee/
About 800 words.
dougkzeigler
May 26, 2017 at 11:02 AM //
Excellently done!
Dana Alyce-Schwarz
May 25, 2017 at 10:39 PM //
Almost didn’t make the cut-off. http://contrastsolution.blogspot.com/2017/05/flash-fiction-cheerleaders-vs-dragons.html
aimeethere
May 25, 2017 at 11:26 PM //
Gods vs Cultists. Sort of. I’m a little over at 2,111, but as I just saw this this morning, I’m not going to worry about it.
https://aimeethere.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/on-the-seventh-day/
Jemima Pett
May 26, 2017 at 5:22 AM //
I hope you don’t mind, but I’m all over the place at the moment, and this is the story for the previous week’s sub-genre mashup: ‘Historical Fantasy’ and ‘Heist/Caper’ . Then again – it could be Time Travellers meets Serial Killers…. It features one of my favourite recurring characters.
Woebegonnie and Clyde: http://jemimapett.com/blog/2017/05/26/fridayflash-fiction-woebegonnie-clyde/
kim blades, writer
May 26, 2017 at 7:11 AM //
My dragons and elves are working together in https://wordpress.com/post/kim153.wordpress.com/4821
Maurice
May 26, 2017 at 10:02 AM //
So, I’ll start by saying there’s no minute quite like that last one when it comes to a writing prompt. I banged out this weeks assignment in under twenty-four hours (thanks to my very, very patient girlfriend).
You can check out the story here:
http://ossua.com/another-terribleminds-joint-swat/
And no – you have to read to find out what it is. 🙂
Okay, the spoiler is at the end of the link above. Cheater.
Sugar and Mice
May 27, 2017 at 12:26 AM //
I only saw this yesterday so I wrote a shorter story. I got cats vs SPOILER:
https://sugarandmice.wordpress.com/
I hope you enjoy it!
Skye
May 29, 2017 at 1:04 AM //
This is hella late, so I don’t blame Chuck for not approving it, but at least I finished it. Here ya go: http://runnerskye.ca/flash-fiction-assassins-versus-vampires/