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
47 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: X Versus Z, Redux”
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
I just randomly got “librarians vs. evil.” I think I’ll roll again. I’m not in the mood to write an autobiographical piece.
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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/
I got “cops vs. heroes” which just feels WAY too real
^ Has no idea what he’s doing. Rolls…
Librarians vs. Mermaids
…..I LOVE IT! LET’S ROLL WITH IT!
Oh, the gods favored me: Librarians vs. Robots. And I see the librarians are showing up a lot. Weighted dice?
And here they are!
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2017/05/librarians-vs-robots-flash-fiction.html
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.
“Sting It On”?
YES!!!!! LOL!
Ha! Yep, that. Do that.
I got Kaiju vs monks, and I guarantee a beastie is going to get punched into the sun.
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/
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/
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?
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.
Demons vs Robots. This is going to be very interesting.
Chuck Wendig’s #FlashFiction Challenge: Demons vs. Assassins
http://bethturnage.com/?p=1136
Librarians and Heroes… they come in all shapes and sizes and forms. 😀
enjoy.
http://youcantgoback-andotherimpossibilities.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/the-librarians.html
I like your description of the demon. Fun story.
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.
As an actual librarian I can confirm that this is 100% accurate. We really don’t die, we just hibernate. 😀
Lol. With book in hand, no doubt. 🙂
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. 🙂
DRAGON VS MERMAID! http://slwhshorts.blogspot.com/2017/05/tidepool-dragon-vs-mermaid.html
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/
I got Cats V. Swamp Monsters. It worked out a lot better than I thought.
https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3307110/1/
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/
Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenge: The other side
https://prodisonhetgal.com/2017/05/24/the-other-side/
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/
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
Demons vs EVIL! Wishes of the Thrones. Feedback welcome, please! https://scotchfullyyours.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/wishes-of-the-thrones/
Jelly Fish vs Demons. An Unknown Fee.
https://unknownoddities.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/an-unknown-fee/
About 800 words.
Excellently done!
Almost didn’t make the cut-off. http://contrastsolution.blogspot.com/2017/05/flash-fiction-cheerleaders-vs-dragons.html
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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/
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/
My dragons and elves are working together in https://wordpress.com/post/kim153.wordpress.com/4821
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.
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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!
[…] Last week’s challenge was to pick a one group of people from one table, pick another from another table and pit them together. It was due last Friday, so it’s hella late but I’m going to post it anyway. This is the first writing I’ve done in about 3 months, and I could tell. The characters aren’t very complex, and the story reads more like a scene in an action movie, but I had a lot of fun writing it. Also used the term “assassin” pretty loosely. Anyway, hope you like it. […]
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/
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