This is a classic, and it’s always a blast — roll a d20 or use a random number generator, once for each of the two tables below. Then, take each of the results and mash them together in a flash fiction story.
Note: the goal is not to tell a literal fan-fic story set in those pop culture storyworlds — though, I guess if you wanna do that, hey, YOU DO YOU. The goal is to take the spirit of those two properties and find a story that embodies the weird mashup. (The origins of this particular challenge come from that old Hollywood conceit of pitching your original story to executives as X meets Y — “It’s The Big Bang Theory meets Westworld ha ha ha right? Hand me money.”)
Length: You have, mmm, let’s say 2000 words for this one.
Due by: next Friday, 7/19, noon EST.
Post the story at your online space.
Give us a linky-poo so we can follow it back.
Now, the two tables —
TABLE X
- The Incredibles
- The Last Starfighter
- Adventure Time
- Gravity Falls
- Nightmare on Elm Street
- Gilmore Girls
- The Thing
- Saving Private Ryan
- Goodfellas
- The Hobbit
- Dune
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- The Jetsons
- Batman
- Stephen King’s The Stand
- Get Out
- The Matrix
- Watership Down
- The Hunger Games
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
TABLE Y
- DuckTales
- Hamilton
- Avatar the Last Airbender
- The Princess Bride
- When Harry Met Sally
- The Shape of Water
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Se7en
- Neuromancer
- Spirited Away
- Indiana Jones
- The Fast & The Furious
- James Bond
- Alice in Wonderland
- Transformers
- GI Joe
- The Cat In The Hat
- Parks and Recreation
- Twin Peaks
- The Bible