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!
elvisisbatman says:
Ok everyone, step away from the blog. I have scanned this whole area and it is littered with procrastination mines.
A buddy of mine started writing about a fuchsia kiss last week and has never been heard from since.
Oh look, an innocent post about baby books, at least that can’t be BOOOMMM…,,
May 25, 2012 — 12:12 AM
M. Chapman says:
Rabbid Puppy dogs eat Koalas at midnight over overly convaluted mexican.
I think I just got mindfucked!
May 25, 2012 — 12:58 AM
M. Chapman says:
Rabbid Puppy dogs eat Koalas at midnight over overly convaluted mexicans.
I think I just got mindfucked!
May 25, 2012 — 12:59 AM
M. Chapman says:
^ sorry for the repeated comment, my computer derped
May 25, 2012 — 1:01 AM
A.M. Schultz says:
Dang, I was almost first….
“The amy trips the predicted rat.”
Had some fun with this one. Fun prompt.
http://www.amschultz.com/2/post/2012/05/laconic-flash-fiction-challenge-42-via-terriblemindscom.html
-A.M.
http://amschultz.com
May 25, 2012 — 1:22 AM
alreadynotpublished says:
Oh you devious, deviant. Posting sentence here so not tempted to cheat.
‘A glory stumbles underneath the thinking component.’
Heck.
May 25, 2012 — 2:28 AM
David Grigg says:
I got something very short and not too difficult (I was just lucky!) :
“Should this glory nest?”
May 25, 2012 — 3:10 AM
Jeff Xilon says:
“Its average negates the member in the alert landlord.”
Uh…yeah. Ok. This might take some time. This week you seem to have decided to emphasize the “challenge” part of “Flash Fiction Challenge”
May 25, 2012 — 3:31 AM
terribleminds says:
I am fine if you want to click that link multiple times to get an interesting sentence. I got a few that were so downright nonsensical I don’t even know that they were proper sentences.
But then I got:
“Every insect leaks!”
Which is brilliantly weird.
— c.
May 25, 2012 — 6:14 AM
Pia Newman says:
“The bog coasts past my stagger.”
I might actually be able to work with that…
Awesome idea for a challenge!
May 25, 2012 — 5:43 AM
shiri sondheimer says:
A pink engineer elaborates under the gun.
Huh.
May 25, 2012 — 6:31 AM
Jeff Xilon says:
Ok, with permission then I’m shoving aside that first sentence and instead will be using one of these:
Another fountain fears!
or
A malicious cosmology lusts in the electorate.
May 25, 2012 — 7:14 AM
terribleminds says:
@Jeff:
Both of those sentences are freaking delightful.
— c.
May 25, 2012 — 7:15 AM
Jim Franklin says:
My sentence was – “Why won’t a story collapse across another confidential paint”
I bring you ‘Translation’. Hope you like it.
http://www.thezombiechimp.com/2012/05/25/flash-fiction-translation/
May 25, 2012 — 7:18 AM
CJ says:
I got:
“The daytime injustice wears a horse.”
Sounds like an allegorical crime dramedy in the works…
May 25, 2012 — 9:19 AM
Erika Napier says:
The anxious confidence originates.
Should be amusing.
May 25, 2012 — 9:21 AM
Jim spry says:
“A device heaps his profound season. ”
Dig in, laugh it up.
http://dirtymercsbarandgrill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/so-over-at-chuck-wendigs-terrible-minds.html
May 25, 2012 — 10:20 AM
Danzier says:
“Inside our desert spins my sword.”
Story half-done. Not quite half-baked. 😀
May 25, 2012 — 10:28 AM
Stephen G. Zoldi says:
My sentence was:
The damned boils above a beloved.
May 25, 2012 — 10:40 AM
Stephen G. Zoldi says:
Sorry, forgot the link!
http://stephengzoldi.wordpress.com/
My sentence was:
The damned boils above a beloved.
May 25, 2012 — 10:43 AM
AmandaKay says:
“The foul philosopher explodes.”
Ahh–I fear I won’t get it written in time. I have edits and a rewrite due. Actually, the sentence is probably a flash fiction story all in itself.
May 25, 2012 — 11:18 AM
Mark Matthews says:
“The chaos returns next to a contentious priest.” Flash fiction to come time and space permitting.
May 25, 2012 — 11:34 AM
AmandaKay says:
Agrr, stupid sentence stuck in my head. I wrote something. I’m not happy with it. And I was inspired by my kid’s last week of school.
http://amandagrein.com/12101.html
[back to edits and rewrite for real this time]
May 25, 2012 — 11:41 AM
Dahnya Och says:
Oh, it’s on.
May 25, 2012 — 11:58 AM
Michelle says:
Yesssssssssss….
The champagne gasps inside the spy!
May 25, 2012 — 12:02 PM
AB Singer says:
Whine.
Mine was the impossible-seeming the valley gossips without a cold offender
.
May 25, 2012 — 1:04 PM
Danzierlea says:
http://danzierleawalkthrough.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/we-interrupt-this-blog/
The story is “Our Place”.
The sentence is “Inside our desert spins my sword.”
I hope you like it. Actually, I hope it kind of creeps you out. But in a good way. 🙂
May 25, 2012 — 1:26 PM
Auntie Em says:
“Another virgin communicates a worry.”
Let’s see what comes of that!
May 25, 2012 — 2:09 PM
Lindsay Mawson says:
“The owner dines next to the observer”
http://lindsaymawson.blogspot.ca/2012/05/flash-fiction-challenge-42-one-random.html
This one hurt my brain a bit. Maybe it’s the humidity…
May 25, 2012 — 2:43 PM
Fred Hicks says:
Man, I wish I had it in me to do this, because I got the sentence “A lady objects to the arrested herd.”
May 25, 2012 — 3:57 PM
Timothy John Whitcher says:
OMG (Ogre Mead Grog)
Here we go again! I chose to use the random sentence generator to generate both the first and last line of my story:
“An atomic poison rattles underneath the sea thrust,” and “”In the rope dines a hypothesis.”
http://helveticasindiehorrorstories.blogspot.com/2012/05/in-rope-dines-hypothesis.html
May 25, 2012 — 5:36 PM
Elijah Kaine says:
I got “An innocence objects.”
It seems like a great sentence. Hope I can come up with something good to match.
May 25, 2012 — 6:15 PM
Jocelyn Lindsay says:
A pleased giant couples a named horse.
Or
Inside a psychologist vanishes an exhausted potato.
Wow.
May 25, 2012 — 6:53 PM
Mitch Marty says:
Finally decided I would step up and complete one of these. Today, there was no room for excuses. And there never should be.
“The scattering blank pinches the radar into the thinking age.”
http://wp.me/p2tcdH-7
May 25, 2012 — 9:50 PM
Edward Vaughn says:
I got: The Alive Nerve Thirsts. My wheels are turning already. This should be fun.
May 25, 2012 — 9:55 PM
AM Gray says:
http://amgray.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/another-week-another-challenge-from.html
I got ‘Every linear antique marries the voter.’ Oooh fun… done and posted.
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/AMGray
May 26, 2012 — 4:10 AM
Kathy Boles-Turner says:
The machinery underlines the cathedral skin.
… nuh.
May 26, 2012 — 7:06 AM
A.M. Schultz says:
Long after this challenge, I have a feeling I will be returning to this prompt for unpredictable chaos and mindfunkery.
Looking forward to seeing what kind of debauched stories everyone managed to come up with.
-A.M.
http://amschultz.com
May 26, 2012 — 11:49 AM
Shiri Sondheimer says:
My sentence: The pink engineer elaborates under the gun.
Lack of sleep and a cartoon reposted on facebook led to this:
http://swsondheimer.wordpress.com/flash-fiction/red-shirt-revenge/
It is short and very goofy. And written with all the Trekkie love in my heart.
Here is the cartoon:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=460365110659614&set=a.223098324386295.105971.205344452828349&type=1&theater
May 26, 2012 — 4:14 PM
Sam says:
My sentence: “Will the skeleton cage the discrete bandwagon?”
My story: http://notanautomechanic.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the horrendous case of procrastination, Chuck Wendig!
May 26, 2012 — 11:06 PM
Patti Crow says:
I got “The vicar points to my deranged expenditure.”
I just pointed to the deranged vicar. This was fun!
www ‘dot’ PJPerryman ‘dot’ com
May 26, 2012 — 11:19 PM
Robert Austin Wells says:
Simple question: what’s the preferred format for our submissions?
May 27, 2012 — 12:25 AM
Grim says:
The first quote was my random word-set and lead to a story about radical bats, musical cities and fascist voles.
http://talesofgrim.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/flash-fiction-challenge-random-sentence/
May 27, 2012 — 1:14 PM
Kathy O says:
My sentence was “The officer doubts the pinched cyclist within an interference.” Of course, it became a story about a cool grandma who drinks, swears, flirts outrageously, and doesn’t wear her hearing aid.
http://katherineowens.blogspot.com/2012/05/keeping-up.html
May 27, 2012 — 5:23 PM
Gaea says:
This is my first time trying this. How do you send in your story?
May 27, 2012 — 9:01 PM
terribleminds says:
Just post your story at your online space (blog, G+, Facebook) and drop a link in the comments!
— c.
May 27, 2012 — 9:57 PM
Gaea says:
Here we go.
http://gaeagwendolynn.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/flash-fiction-challenge-random-sentence/
May 27, 2012 — 11:28 PM
Jeff James says:
I got the coolest sentence!
“The day riots.”
Here you go:
http://unsquare.com/dance/2012/05/28/the-day-riots/
May 28, 2012 — 1:20 PM
Tiny says:
“See Spot…flit.”
May 28, 2012 — 1:32 PM
Laura W says:
“How does a paragraph wait?”
It waits on me to write it, because I feel like I’m going to spend a lot more time playing with this random sentence generator than actually writing anything.
May 28, 2012 — 1:49 PM