Flash Fiction Challenge: Behold The Magic Realism Bot
Someone suggested this one to me this week, and I sadly forget who (apologies!) — but there is a Twitter account called MAGICAL REALISM BOT. I don’t know if it’s really a bot or someone is actually creating or curating it, but it doesn’t matter.
Because it is brilliant.
Especially as fodder for flash fiction.
So, go look at it.
Pick a tweet.
Write a short story based on that tweet.
That’s it.
Go do it.
Length: ~1500 words
Due by: Friday, August 11th, noon EST
Post online.
Give us a link in the comments.
The end.
August 4, 2017 @ 12:31 PM
First one when I looked: “A woman finds a pair of spectacles which allow her to see every library on earth.” Given my obsession with libraries (especially magical ones), you’d think the bot made it just for me.
August 10, 2017 @ 11:52 PM
And here at last is the story:
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2017/08/friday-flash-fiction-library-eyes.html
Dreams of Death | DCXLI Writing
August 4, 2017 @ 8:34 PM
[…] Flash Fiction Challenge from the blog of Chuck Wendig. The prompt: “A necromancer believes it is her destiny to poison […]
August 4, 2017 @ 8:37 PM
The tweet is: “A necromancer believes it is her destiny to poison dreaming”
The story is: Dreams of Death, found at https://dcxli.wordpress.com/2017/08/04/dreams-of-death/
August 5, 2017 @ 12:43 AM
https://youcantgoback-andotherimpossibilities.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/the-hypnotising-watermelon.html
This was a good one! I search the list… but found I kept coming back to this one.
enjoy.
August 6, 2017 @ 9:59 AM
First attempt at a Flash Fiction Challenge.
My prompt: “A carpenter draws a map which shows the location of every crossword puzzle in Mecca”
https://roninwriting.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-watchers-mission.html
The Watcher’s Mission – Flight of Mind
August 6, 2017 @ 12:36 PM
[…] This is a Flash Fiction Challenge from the blog of Chuck Wendig. […]
August 8, 2017 @ 5:51 PM
I finally got around to doing one of your challenges after weeks of forgetting/putting it off!
The tweet: “A watermelon starts talking to you. It says: “Look for the sign of the silver owl.”
Title: Blessings From a Watermelon
http://elegantpiplup.tumblr.com/post/163920578855/blessings-from-a-watermelon
Chuck Wendig: The Wind That Wasn’t | Writing The Egg 2.0
August 8, 2017 @ 7:05 PM
[…] Chuck Wendig Flash Fiction Challenge for this week is Behold The Magic Realism Bot. The instructions are simple: go to Twitter and check out @MagicRealismBot. Pick a tweet from […]
August 8, 2017 @ 7:07 PM
Here is my effort from the prompt: “A drunk army major has a rare gift: He can understand the language of pine trees.” Please to enjoy!
sambrady.wordpress.com/2017/08/08/chuck-wendig-the-wind-that-wasnt/
August 8, 2017 @ 7:33 PM
not sure what happened to my https. Here’s a clickable version.
https://sambrady.wordpress.com/2017/08/08/chuck-wendig-the-wind-that-wasnt/
August 10, 2017 @ 1:37 AM
This (https://twitter.com/MagicRealismBot/status/893490173320675328) was my prompt.
Here’s the result:
https://incognitoscribblings.tumblr.com/post/164012731995/glasses
#FlashFiction: After the Rain | nv rivera
August 10, 2017 @ 4:06 AM
[…] story was written in response to a Flash Fiction prompt presented by Chuck Wendig on his blog terribleminds. This week Chuck challenged us to check out the Twitter account @MagicRealismBot and to pick a […]
August 10, 2017 @ 4:09 AM
My tweet of choice: “Rainbows and ears. That is all.”
Here’s what came of it: https://nvrivera.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/flashfiction-after-the-rain/
August 10, 2017 @ 1:40 PM
I chose this tweet: https://twitter.com/MagicRealismBot/status/891194980496285696
The text it has is this: “Solve this mystery: A circus performer is found dead in a staircase. Beside him is a ball gown and a peach.”
And here’s the story I wrote: The Death of Adrián Cienfuegos: https://medium.com/@VicenteLRuiz/the-death-of-adri%C3%A1n-cienfuegos-f06c9a590aa5
#FridayFlash Fiction | Sir Woebegone and the Unicorn ~ Jemima Pett
August 10, 2017 @ 7:32 PM
[…] quote is from the Magic Realism Bot – something someone found and sent to Chuck Wendig, and he sent it to us. It’s weird, but a useful prompt. I’m not sure how this story […]
The Watchmaker Wound | aimee there
August 11, 2017 @ 12:05 AM
[…] The challenge, courtesy of Chuck Wendig’s blog, was to use a tweet from the magic realism bot to inspire the story. Details here. […]
August 11, 2017 @ 12:09 AM
Some dark fantasy, anyone? Apparently I was working through something while writing this. I went with:
“A watchmaker is reading a clockwork opal in Bangkok.”
https://aimeethere.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/the-watchmaker-wound/
August 11, 2017 @ 1:08 AM
I liked the spectacles, here’s mine. Thanks!
https://pamtanzey.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/shes-got-a-pair-of-spectacles-a-bit-of-flash-fiction/
August 11, 2017 @ 4:35 AM
A unicorn from the future appears at the marriage of a Scottish queen. It says: “I am here to talk to you.”
Strangely, it turned into something…historical, with time travel.
http://jemimapett.com/blog/2017/08/11/fridayflash-fiction-sir-woebegone-unicorn/
August 11, 2017 @ 11:24 AM
A King sentences a glacier to death. A very striking tweet, that inspired a mostly allegorical story, rare from me. https://theportlandpanda.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/the-execution/
December 2, 2017 @ 3:11 PM
Just slowly catching up with the rest of you. And these deadlines…sheesh…I feel like I’m back at school….
Tweet: A butler counts to ten. In that time, he lives twelve years as a 16th Century novelist.
Well, at least it was something everybody’d already done and I could just plagiarize. Wasn’t this that TV show from that one network?
https://teaguedelaplaine.com/2017/12/02/the-butler-and-the-novelist/