Last week’s challenge — “The Paint Color Title Scheme.”
Okay.
That is a random sentence generator.
You will get a random sentence and you will use it as either the first or the last sentence of your up-to-1000-word flash fiction entry in this week’s challenge. For instance, I got the sentence: “The textual silence swallows against the geometry.” I have no idea what the fuck that means, but it’s great.
Write in any genre.
You have one week. Due by June 1st, noon EST (Friday).
IN ADDITION, I’ll buy a random participant a copy of BLACKBIRDS — mass market paperback or Kindle (your choice). EDIT: Courtesy of the fine cyborgs at Angry Robot Books, this contest is extended to all international participants and shipping handled no matter where you live. Except the moon. We won’t ship to the moon because that shit gets expensive.
Go and write!
Bryan Mitchell says:
My sentence for this assignment was: “The guns swamp triumphs over the mediaeval alien.”
I’ll admit, it was challenging, but I like the way it turned out.
Link: http://promptedink.blogspot.com/2012/05/flash-fiction-final-moments.html
May 28, 2012 — 2:07 PM
Michael says:
http://innocentsaccidentshints.blogspot.com/2012/05/terrible-minds-challenge-toast-shouts.html
“A toast shouts.”
May 28, 2012 — 3:01 PM
Kathy Boles-Turner says:
Poetic form… of a sort.
http://darlinblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/terribleminds-challenge/
May 28, 2012 — 3:28 PM
Beth L. says:
When I got the sentence, “over the corporate editor bicycles a miscellaneous stray” I thought I was going to go somewhere completely different with it. Luckily, many things intervened between Friday and now, and the sentence attracted random bits and pieces until the result arrived. http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
May 28, 2012 — 4:24 PM
Beth L. says:
This didn’t wind up where I thought it was going to, with a sentence like “over the corporate editor bicycles a miscellaneous stray”. Here it is, just the same:
http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
May 28, 2012 — 8:25 PM
Juana says:
I got “An increased pain hums under a rich mark.” LOVE THIS.
May 28, 2012 — 11:20 PM
Josh Loomis says:
“The actor biases an applicable troop.”
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/05/29/flash-fiction-one-random-sentence/
May 29, 2012 — 7:41 AM
Beth L. says:
Sorry for the double post – the computer said the first one didn’t go through, and it hadn’t shown up after a few hours. Thought I was safe. Apologies.
May 29, 2012 — 9:41 AM
Jeff Xilon says:
Ok, so I decided I liked my two sentences so much that I’d just write two stories. The first one starts with a random sentence and the second one ends with a random sentence.
Its a flash fiction double shot!
Those sentences again were:
A malicious cosmology lusts in the electorate.
Another fountain fears!
http://www.jeffxilon.com/flash-fiction-double-shot-random-sentences/
May 29, 2012 — 11:58 AM
BJ Kerry says:
My sentence
The hospital consumed the silence.
http://kerry-mutterings.blogspot.com/2012/05/hospital-consumed-silence.html
May 29, 2012 — 2:12 PM
Casz Brewster says:
While I’m trying to get this challenge under my belt (no, look up here)…I nominated you for this, because, well, you illuminate my world constantly and I told ’em so. Pho, included. (Photos to go up later today, if traffic is kind).
http://foodstoriesblog.com/illuminating-blogger-award/
May 29, 2012 — 2:12 PM
Carrie says:
How are those REAL sentences???
Okay, here’s mine:
http://viewsfromnature.com/2012/05/29/one-crazy-night/
May 29, 2012 — 10:57 PM
Sarah says:
http://authorsarahohara.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/terribleminds-flash-fiction-challenge_30.html
I don’t think it’s as good as last week’s entry, but I had fun with the sentence generator. 🙂
May 30, 2012 — 5:54 AM
Josh M. says:
“The gentleman exceeds a diet associate.”
I’ve got 2 days. Here we go…
May 30, 2012 — 1:33 PM
S.R. Murdoch says:
My sentence: A violence shines into the silent disregard.
http://soasnottobedead.tumblr.com/post/24077788488/flash-fiction-challenge-one-random-sentence
May 30, 2012 — 5:44 PM
JeffreyAustinEllis says:
Got “The stranger achieves the bonus” and I have to say I had a lot of fun with it.
http://ayearforimprovement.tumblr.com/post/24098774199/flash-fiction-challenge
May 30, 2012 — 8:58 PM
Erik Mason says:
The sentence I got was “Will the company suffer the lovely hypocrite?” I hope you enjoy my story.
http://geekonablog.blogspot.com/2012/05/story-lovely-hypocrite.html
May 30, 2012 — 10:41 PM
Dane Zeller says:
Cranking up the random story generator.
May 31, 2012 — 11:30 AM
Tiana Warner says:
“Why does the exhaust strike?”
http://www.tianawarner.com/2012/05/innocent-bystander.html
I love this sentence; it screams ‘dystopia’.
May 31, 2012 — 4:11 PM
Edward Vaughn says:
Okay, I finally finished my story. My sentence again was: The alive nerve thirsts.
http://redvaughn.blogspot.com/2012/05/nerve-flash-fiction-challenge.html
May 31, 2012 — 8:02 PM
Volanta Peng says:
http://questionableexclamationpoints.blogspot.com/2012/05/throwbacks.html
I got, “The candidate dictates?”
May 31, 2012 — 9:35 PM
Casz Brewster says:
“A Naked Slot Resides.”
And a big thank you for getting me out of a bit of a writing funk.
http://www.casondrabrewster.com/?p=621
May 31, 2012 — 11:48 PM
Ilona says:
“The right rabbit lurks.” Please enjoy Sunshine and Bunnies.
http://ilonatherose.wordpress.com/sunshine-and-bunnies/
For funs, I started and ended with the sentence, although I also like my story without the coda. Works both ways. A shorty short short from me this week: under 400 words.
June 1, 2012 — 6:25 AM
Erika Napier says:
Under 500 words and a completely different tone from my usual pieces. This was grand fun!
http://morningjuiceandserials.blogspot.com/2012/06/flash-fiction-challenge-from-chuck.html
June 1, 2012 — 11:41 AM
Angela Eloise says:
Hi Chuck.
Love your blog. Have been lurking around for months, reading all the great flash fiction and working up the gumption to play along. It’s been a while since I’ve written fiction and those muscles are mighty creaky.
This was a great prompt. So much so that inspired me to start writing a novel that I’ve had in the back of my mind forever. This story would be chapter 2. Alas, it’s not finished. But it will be! And I’ll try this week’s challenge, promise.
My sentence?
The school stares!
See you all next Friday,
Angela Eloise
June 1, 2012 — 11:45 AM
Mike says:
Wow – lots of stories this week! Love these challenges.
I got several interestingly cryptic sentences, so put several in a story, It’s sort of a sequel to one of my earlier ones.
http://www.ravensview.ca/ravens/2012/06/lost-in-translation.html
June 1, 2012 — 11:58 AM
Elijah Kaine says:
Didn’t manage to finish anything I thought worth putting up.
I’ll still try again next time though.
June 1, 2012 — 12:48 PM
terribleminds says:
Shiri Sondheimer —
“The pink engineer elaborates under the gun.”
You just nabbed a copy of BLACKBIRDS!
Do me a favor and email me your info? To terribleminds at gmail dot com. 🙂
— c.
June 1, 2012 — 2:30 PM