Last week’s challenge exhorted you to “Choose Your Setting.” Check out the stories.
I took that image above.
It’s a snapshot of a crooked tree in some fog (a tree that is, so you should know, no longer present — it broke and is gone). It’s maybe one of my favorite images — I’m a woefully amateurish photographer and when I take a shot that looks like something more than my intent for it rather than less, I’m always pleased.
And I think this photo has a lot of story potential.
What kind of potential? Well, that’s on you.
Horror, fantasy, literary, whatever.
You have up to 1000 words.
Post at your online domicile, link back here.
You’ve got till Friday, June 22nd, at noon (EST).
Tell us about that crooked tree, won’t you?
56 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: The Crooked Tree”
I ask because you have it listed as copyright on Flickr…may we include the picture alongside our stories?
While my peers are busy molesting what’s left of Friday night in my part of the world, I’ve just completed my first ever Chuck Wendig Flash Fiction challenge.
And now comes the literary pain in the ass : Editing.
Here’s my story: Crooked Tree
http://geekonablog.blogspot.com/2012/06/story-crooked-tree.html
I hope you all like it!
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Things change, trees included.
http://talesofgrim.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/flash-fiction-challenge-the-crooked-tree/
That is an amazing shot. Going to have to come up with something really good to do justice to the challenge it poses!
I’m not sure I can do this one. I’ve been watching “Darkwing Duck” with my daughter, and I keep coming up with script ideas.
For a show that’s off-air AND owned by Disney.
Well, I’ll give it a couple more days. Maybe I’ll come up with something that doesn’t infringe on the copyrights of one of the biggest companies on the planet… Wish me luck.
Nothing to do with challenge but wanted to say. FINISHED FIRST DRAFT!!!
(of first novel). Mainly due to Chucks writing advice; mainly keep writing and finish your shit.
Lifelong achievement milestone. Non writers don’t understand unless they can see a published book in their hand but wanted to tell someone.
OK, onwards to second draft.
Ok, this time I’m taking part.
Writing it here so you can hold me to it.
p.s. First few pages of Blackbirds read pretty good.
http://hconstan.tumblr.com/post/25244704004/the-tree-in-the-fog
2nd attempt…hope this goes through. Maybe i’m filling out this form the wrong way.
This is a thing.
http://downwritefierce.tumblr.com/post/25258334766/ff-the-crooked-tree-md
[…] This is a story written for Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge. […]
Here is my entry: Bend, Don’t Break.
http://jthorsson.com/2012/06/17/crooked-chucks-challenge/
(If you object to me using the photo, please let me know and I will take it down)
Beautiful image!
My offering: The Crooked Tree
http://swsondheimer.wordpress.com/flash-fiction/the-crooked-tree/
Stunning photo and very evocative! Here is my story:
http://coganbooks.blogspot.com/p/flash.html
The Crooked Tree
447 words.
http://helveticasindiehorrorstories.blogspot.com/2012/06/crooked-tree.html
My take on the crooked tree.
http://writinword.blogspot.com/2012/06/terrible-minds-flash-fiction-challenge.html
my story concerning the crooked tree.
http://zillyninja.blogspot.com/
Ever read The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein? A bit like that, only not so much. Thanks for the challenge, sir!
http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
[…] more I’m delving into that realm of Flash Fiction, following a prompt from Chuck Wendig’s blog challenge called “The Crooked Tree”. So here it […]
Gave this one a shot, entitled “Whiskey, Trees and Mist.” Enjoy!
http://wisdomlivesinsilence.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/flash-fiction-whiskey-trees-and-mist/
[…] The challenge this week is to write about the tree above. […]
Something something kids and trees.
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/06/18/flash-fiction-the-crooked-tree/
[…] On his blog, he occasionally challenges his readers with flash fiction prompts, like this one here. Flash fiction is a story under 1,000 words long, for the most part. And clocking in at 888 words, […]
Here’s mine! http://thespidereen.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/flash-fiction-gnarled-roots/
Well, this one inspired me to
go a little further with something inspired by a previous FF Challenge.
Swim, swim for your lives
I failed to complete last week’s challenge 🙁 I may just go ahead and post something late, though. Love this foggy image that you’ve captured, by the way. Gorgeous, and definitely inspiring!
That is such a beautiful haunting image, it inspired memories of my father, I hope you don’t mind that I used it on my blog.
http://kerry-mutterings.blogspot.ie/2012/06/crooked-tree.html
Just a rough draft but aww what the hell. I would fancy some feedback fellow TerribleMinders. http://theworldwithoutspencer.blogspot.com/
Great way to motivate writers. I used it to help me shape my characters and setting for my upcoming novella.
http://christopherkobar.com/post/25432792283/the-crooked-tree
Patience pays off! Well, sort of. I’ve got 745 words of autobiography out of this. Unfortunately, due to my internet connection going all hinky, I can’t post it. (I’ll link back after the repairmen come, though.) But proof of having written is: In which I compare myself to the tree and the fog to the first thing that ever scared my dad–chlorine gas.
Here you go: http://catachresis.shoelesspetegames.com/the-hangin-tree/
Haven’t done one in a little while, but the image was quite compelling. Thanks, Chuck.
Here we go:
http://warnerkirby.blogs.com/clintonaut/2012/06/crooked-tree.html
[…] Chuck put up a picture of a tree, and told us to write a story about it. I wasn’t–I hadn’t been formally introduced to the tree, so it was hard for me to get in his head. Nonetheless, I’m all about making assumptions. To see the tree in question and read other stories about it, swing on a vine over to here: Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge: The Crooked Tree […]
This one is short–less than 500 words. As it turns out, trees don’t have a lot to say.
Lovers Know
[…] for the weekly Wendig challenge, this week a story written about the excellent picture below, taken by Mr Wendig himself. This one […]
Remember that big old oak tree in the forest you cut down the other day? Should really have thought twice about that. ‘Alissa’ will explain why.
http://endlessimmensity.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/alissa/
My take on it. Ended up going off on a tangent, but I think the scene could work in context, so that’s all good.
http://eileen-alphabet.livejournal.com/20370.html
I guess it would be labeled under horror if you had to pick. The idea came to me at two o’clock in the morning, and I wrote it in one sitting. Hope you think it’s good. By the way, great photo. Here is the link to the review itself.
http://eventualpsychotic.blogspot.com/2012/06/crooked-tree-short-story.html
http://highlightonwords.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/the-crooked-tree/
Sorry I have no idea if foxes and beavers even live in the same country. Whatever.
My submission, which might also show up as a trackback — sorry if there’s repetition.
http://ayehli.com/blog/archives/577
Also, Chuck, I quite like your macro photography. I wouldn’t call it amateurish.
Cheers.
An unusual family dilemma.
http://writingmusclememory.blogspot.com/2012/06/piece-for-chuck-wendigs-weekly-flash.html
I ended up writing a poem…
http://authorsarahohara.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/terribleminds-flash-fiction-challenge_20.html
A Death In The Family
Sci Fi/Steampunk
http://www.tamiveldura.com/2012/06/approaching-lightspeed-death-in-family.html?zx=b5b65624e6517313
[…] wrote this one for Chuck Wendig’s The Crooked Tree flash fiction […]
It’s very, very late here right now, when I just finished writing this.
http://crayonyellow.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/no-returns-and-warnings/
Beth L. — I enjoyed your story!
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That Crooked Tree – Fridaycat13’s version
http://www.fridaycat13.blogspot.com/2012/06/that-crooked-tree.html