This week, the paperback of Invasive landed. Presently, I am in a shed that has once again, in a timely fashion, become a staging ground for gigantic carpenter ants. I have two above my head right now. I had three above my head five minutes ago, but one literally dropped down onto my hand as I was typing an […]
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Go to this tweet. That begins a series of Choose Your Own Adventure-style tweets (currently at this point, posted yesterday). I’ve been doing it since before the new year, though some of the early ones didn’t thread, but these do, so you should be able to look through the whole thing on a single web- […]
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 […]
AND WE’RE BACK. And we return with an old favorite. We shall make subgenres dance together for our whims. I will give you 20 subgenres. You will pick two from the list either using a d20 or random number generator (or use monkey knuckles or coffee grounds or whatever), then you will write a short story that mashes up those two […]
That title sounds like I’m shuttering the flash fiction challenges forever, but I promise, that’s not the case — no, instead, I want you to use that idea as this week’s prompt. What I mean is this: I want you to write the end of a long journey. That can mean whatever it needs to […]
I’m going to give you ten one-word titles. You will pick one, either by choice or by random generator, to be the title of a piece of flash fiction for this week’s flash fiction challenge. You’ve got ~1000 words, due by Friday, April 7th, noon EST. Post the story online. Link back here. Here are the […]
