Last week’s challenge: “Eight Random Words.”
It’s time again to choose the setting for this week’s flash fiction challenge! I’ve cobbled together a list — you will pick one from the list and use it as the setting in your story. I’m just making these up — so, for instance, the “Bone Cathedral” is not a thing that has any particular definition to it. You interpret these as you see fit.
The settings are:
“The Bone Cathedral”
“Aisle Nine In The Grocery Store”
“The Venom Club”
“The Tower of Babel”
“Suburban Meth Lab”
“Tiny’s Taco Hut”
Choose one.
Write about it.
You’ve got up to 1000 words.
Post at your online space, then link back here.
Done by June 15th (Friday), noon EST.
58 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: Choose Your Setting”
I must take “Aisle 9”. All sorts of crazy shenanigans go on in the grocery store!
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Had to pick Tiny’s Taco Hut. Because everyone comes to Tiny’s.
http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2012/06/08/flash-fiction-everyone-comes-to-tinys/
Was going to go for “bone cathedral” but, as I’m trying to branch out a little more (and that one would definitely have led me back the way I’ve come), went for “The Venom Club.” Fluffy and silly. In a manner of speaking…
http://swsondheimer.wordpress.com/flash-fiction/the-venom-club/
Here we go: http://catachresis.shoelesspetegames.com/surreal-entertainment/
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My version of Aisle Nine in the Grocery Store:
http://darlene.underdahl.net/?p=161
http://talesofgrim.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/flash-fiction-challenge-choose-your-setting/
My Venom Club is a dangerous place to be.
“I need a coroner in aisle 9”
http://eds-pen-is-stuck.blogspot.com/2012/06/chuck-wendig-is-hosting-another-flash.html
http://innocentsaccidentshints.blogspot.com/2012/06/terrible-minds-challenge-purple.html
Here you go.
This delayed my dinner, damn you!
http://helveticasindiehorrorstories.blogspot.com/2012/06/isle-nine.html
Here you go! My first ever flash fiction effort.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3911112/Stories/Aisle%209.pdf
“I am the real Black Widow!”
http://lauralibricz.blogspot.de/2012/06/tms-flash-fiction-challenge.html
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According to Gin Jim, the street’s resident homeless drunk, the Venom Club has another side that few people ever witness, but how much is there to the alcohol fuelled ramblings?
Find out in my entry! 😀
http://samuelhulett.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/the-venom-club/
[…] following is a work of fiction, created as part of a Flash Fiction Challenge set by american author Chuck Wendig. The title “The Bone Cathedral” is one of six given […]
Well, well. I failed. 1.111 words. Still: Here it is. http://misoskop.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/flash-fiction-the-bone-cathedral/
OK, no cheating this time, completely new story. I picked “The Tower of Babel” as my setting.
The story is called “Babble” and it’s here:
http://narratorium.com/2012/06/10/babble/
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I’m guessing he’ll get us down to a single word or piece of punctuation next week, but this week I plumped for The Bone Cathedral.a>
This is my first submission too! It even convinced me to start a blog where I can keep all of these stories an an online portfolio. I hope people like it!
http://anoutline.blogspot.com/2012/06/babel.html
Aisle 9
http://dirtymercsbarandgrill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/toast.html
my story
http://kerry-mutterings.blogspot.ie/2012/06/aisle-nine-at-grocery-store.html
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This challenge (I chose ‘Aisle Nine’) and my upcoming novella Cold Iron: two great tastes that taste great together.
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/06/11/flash-fiction-aisle-nine/
[…] so I was damn sure I was going to find the time for it this week. His instructions for this weeks challenge were to choose one of the below locations, as a setting for a 1000 word piece of flash […]
After a weeks break, I’m back and kicking bottom. I chose Aisle 9 as my setting, I bring you the interpretive tale… ‘Aisle 9’.
http://www.thezombiechimp.com/2012/06/11/flash-fiction-aisle-9/
Thanks
Damn man, everyone be choosing aisle 9 this time. People like their grocery stores.
The Mythical/Magical Toxicology Control Center for the Tri State Area, or The Venom Club to its friends.
Boner Cathedral?! Dude. Been there; not a big story.
Ohhh. BONE. Sure, sure. I’ll do that one. Got a post-apocalyptic fantapunk world I’ve been itching to give to the web.
K
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Welcome to The Venom Club:
http://catemorgan.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/youve-been-flashed/
First-timer. Use your teeth to strain the pulp.
When Nick discovers his attorney, Springer, in an uncomfortable party situation, he knows he must help his lawyer and friend. But when they’re interrupted, Springer is reminded of his client’s true motivation in life.
Attorney-Client Privilege:
http://awesomeleatherwristband.tumblr.com/post/25001531142/flash-fiction-attorney-client-privilege
Another first-timer here, another bone cathedral, all dialogue, 279 words:
http://sleepyangelcat.blogspot.com/2012/06/flash-fiction-challenge-bone-cathedral.html
…1500 words, a full scene that actually fits my current WiP, and yet another bone cathedral. And rough as fresh-cut pine. I will have to edit it before posting, but it’s on its way. 😀
http://danzierlea.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/purpose/
There it is, sanded and polished. Or at least cut to shape. Reader beware, it involves an axe murder. 990 words including the title. 😀
http://authorsarahohara.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/terribleminds-flash-fiction-challenge.html
[…] on this site so far, this was written for one of Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction challenges. This one, where he gives us 6 settings to choose from. I chose The Venom […]
The Venom Club : http://kaimicheals.com/wp/?p=56
He twisted her arm across the table and slammed the brass cartridge into her flesh. Poor form.
She jabbed her own cartridge into the vein running on the inside…..
Lots of ideas, finally picked the grocery store.
http://www.ravensview.ca/ravens/2012/06/aisle-nine-in-the-grocery-store.html
This one fit too perfectly with a story I’m trying to worldbuild right now. I had to join in.
Very sci-fi!
http://www.tamiveldura.com/2012/06/gaia-connection.html?zx=bfc51df1f6d3b7c4
I’m so ridiculously wordy that this was a good challenge just to write something vaguely coherent in 1000 words or less.
1000 words on the dot, according to Google docs.
‘RL Meetup at Tiny’s Taco Hut’ at http://relvani.com/?p=31
First Flash Fiction for me. It really got my juices flowing but I was WAY over word count. A great exercise in editing though.
http://torching.catscradle.us/?p=112
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“Not as Good as Bricks” A story that is more of a beginning. Thanks, Chuck, for finally providing the amber to stick these flies into. They’ve been buzzing in my head for months.
http://keithkarabin.com/2012/06/15/friday-flash-fiction-done/
And now for the real fun…to read y’all’s. I got my weekend covered.
K
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It’s been too long since I came to play here!
Sleepless night spontaneousstream-of-consciousness story, very lightly edited. I think it took well under an hour, including resting time….
http://shanjeniah.com/2012/06/15/the-venom-club-terrible-minds-flash-fiction-challenge/
[…] a Wendig flash fiction challenge. I have been reading a lot of Borges recently, which might have influenced this piece somewhat. As […]
‘The Tower of Babel’ – a slightly Borges-ian tale of the hubris of humanity… in space!
http://endlessimmensity.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/the-tower-of-babel/