Last week’s challenge? “The Fairy Tale Upgrade.”
A few weeks back I was playing with that random sentence generator used in another flash fiction challenge, and I got what was, for me, a truly fascinating story-inspiring sentence.
That sentence:
“The noticed android walks past a wondering chamber.”
I don’t know what the fuck that means, but I like it.
So, your flash fiction challenge should utilize this sentence.
In fact, it should be your opening sentence.
After that, you’ve got up to 1000 words to tell the story, whatever that story may be.
Post online at your space, then drop a link here so we can all see it.
Due by Friday July 20th at noon EST.
57 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: The Android And The Wondering Chamber”
I had a baby 12 days ago. My brain is not fully functional. I can’t promise this will make sense. Then again, I’ve done some of my best work in a fuge state because I don’t have the capacity to question myself too closely 🙂
http://swsondheimer.wordpress.com/flash-fiction/the-android-and-the-wondering-chamber/
Can I use the excuse that I have a baby due in 6 weeks and MY brain’s not fully functional right now, either?? 😀
Before I procrastinated into NOT doing another challenge, I thought I’d take the hour I was given this morning and spin a web of B.S.
Please, enjoy.
http://lindsaymawson.blogspot.ca/2012/07/flash-fiction-challenge-43-android-and.html
@ Lindsay: not my blog, but if it means anything, I think that’s fair 🙂 Good luck with everything!
Cannot believe I have only just found you all.. I shall be back to read the rules and get involved…
Can I say that my baby daughter is turning 20 and is going on her first vacation alone with a girlfriend and I’ll be gritting my teeth until she gets back? Just wait, you guys. Enjoy them when they are little becasue it just gets realer 😀
http://lauralibricz.blogspot.de/2012/07/flash-friday.html My Unshaped Form
Had a great idea in my head for what a wandering chamber would be, until I reread the sentence. So here’s my stab, a story called The Wondering Chamber.
http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2012/07/13/flash-fiction-the-wondering-chamber/
That was really fun. Thanks for this one, Chuck. Here’s mine, “You are in the Wondering Chamber.”
http://49shadesofme.blogspot.com/2012/07/you-are-in-wondering-chamber.html
[link]http://vanessahopfe.deviantart.com/art/The-Inherent-Value-of-Consciousness-314461165[/link]
The Inherent Value of Consciousness
Chuck! Why are all these women having babies… shame on you.
Actually, too many distractions and I couldn’t get the android thing going. Better luck next week. Good writing, all.
I’m Zero weeks pregnant, can that be my excuse? Am actually surprised how quickly I wrote this one this morning…
We All Wanna Change the World
http://chriswhitewrites.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/we-all-wanna-change-the-world/
I have no idea what happened. I blame the heat.
http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
First time doing this. Was alot of fun.
Wait, heres the link.
http://cinaphile.blogspot.com/2012/07/android-and-chamber-short-story.html
Okay, I decided to get this done earlier than last time. Enjoy my story, which I’ve ingeniously decided to call “The Wondering Chamber.” Clever, right? Right? Shut up.
http://whirlingnerdish.blogspot.com/2012/07/flash-fiction-challenge-android-and.html
This is a somewhat silly one. I just decided to let whatever popped into my head become the story, so here we go:
http://www.jeffxilon.com/flash-fiction-the-android-and-the-wondering-chamber/
I took this one in a fairly literal direction, with a bit of batshit-crazy tossed in for good measure. 😉
http://www.wanderingzebra.com/2012/07/noticed-android.html
[…] inimitable Chuck Wendig has ordered us to write another piece of flash fiction. As I want to get better at flash, I joined […]
What is my brain? Why do I nearly always go for the sad and horrible?
I called it rescue, for reasons that will be quite clear, and I took the ‘noticed’ thing in a slightly less obvious direction. Tell me if it works, or if it doesn’r.
http://ifuckinglovebooks.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/rescue-weekly-flash-fiction-challenge/
Sound like an exciting concept! I should start checking out those entries…
[…] I must say this one owes as much to The Protomen as it does to Chuck Wendig. […]
I was listening to The Protomen as I wrote this. I am not sorry.
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/07/16/flash-fiction-the-android-and-the-wondering-chamber/
take two – my first posting last week seems to have been eaten by a grue. Is a gdoc share acceptable?
PLCM
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-DO25F-9O8oL7G94REqkug4YgNB79DhhdOKh-juRkxg/edit
My story
http://kerry-mutterings.blogspot.ie/2012/07/who-can-you-trust.html
My entry to the flash fiction challenge is up. My brand new site has gone live. I say this to excuse preemptively the size of the site and lack of detail and fleshed out pages. More to come as I write and fill it up!
Entry titled “The Pinnacle of Imagination”
http://www.harmfultrack.com
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First time doing a flash fiction. It was a lot of fun.
http://mlkinnard.com/?p=8
I submit for your enjoyment the story Random().
http://joshuadevans.com/free-fiction/random/
[…] a book. Yikes! But I finally got back onto the flash-fiction challenge. This week at terribleminds the challenge is to start a story with the sentence ”The noticed android walks past a […]
It has been a little while since I participated in one of these challenges! I finally did, however, and here are the results: http://suziehunt.co.uk/let-us-talk-of-androids-and-wondering-chambers
Maybe this is cheating (yet again) but at least I fulfilled the letter of the challenge, if not the spirit. And met the word length. This is 770 words.
Bit of lightweight humor, I hope. It’s called “On the Stairs”.
http://narratorium.com/2012/07/17/on-the-stairs/
[…] on a photo by Piddleville on Flickr. This is a response to another of Chuck Wendig’s weekly flash fiction challenges, this time to start a story with the random sentence which he gave us. Not sure I didn’t […]
[…] http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2012/07/13/flash-fiction-challenge-the-android-and-the-wondering-cha… […]
Haven’t done one of these in a few weeks. a strange but interesting challenge.
http://apocryptica.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/the-wondering-chamber/
Chuck:
Thanks for the kick in the weekly word count.
Exclusion Zone: http://www.casondrabrewster.com/?p=740
I somehow missed the point of making it the opening sentence. Sorry. But I normally don’t write on Saturdays — that’s editing day or nothing day. So, the fact that I wrote is a good thing.
My first time writing flash fiction. Here’s what I came up with: http://www.mibba.com/Stories/Read/476015/The-Price-Of-Curiosity/
http://nategryczka.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/the-little-noticed-android/
[…] For this challenge…I don’t know. The first sentence? That’s the challenge. Make that the first sentence. Geez, I hope I didn’t have to make it the title, also. To see more of these stories, roll your R2-D2 ass over here: Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge: The Android and the Wondering Chamber […]
Originally I was going to skip over this challenge, because, quite frankly, it seemed a little silly.
But then I had an idea, completely separate from this challenge, and I wondered if it was enough to build into a full story–maybe a short, or a novella. Maybe it is. The whole reason I wrote this for the challenge is so I wouldn’t forget it, so it was serendipitous that it actually ties in quite well with the challenge. Is it random? Is it luck?
The Reverse Turing Test
Not sure if I’m doing this thing thing-a-ma-blog stuff right, but here’s my entry: http://nategryczka.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/the-little-noticed-android/
This is the first time I’ve done one of these challenges, not to mention the first time I’ve written fiction in a loooong time.
http://www.loganprime.com/?p=144
[…] was written for Chuck Wendig’s most recent Flash Fiction Challenge and is possibly the most depressing thing I’ve ever […]
[…] This piece was inspired–if that’s right the word–by a flash fiction challenge from Chuck Wendig over at Terribleminds.com. My approach is a bit of a double Kobayashi Maru, but that’s how I roll, as they say. (“Who SAYS that??”) The first sentence is the challenge. Anyway, if you want the details they’re over here. […]
This is a bit of a double Kobayashi Maru, but so it goes. Thanks for the challenge, it was fun, and I also thought it was time I put something in the hat.
Two travelers get punk’d by an ancient inscription. It’s called “Fuck Harry Potter.” Here it is: http://nathanzalman.com/?p=635
Oh, and by the way… Mister Crankypants says “Thanks, great answer!”
Hi everyone. This is my first time here and I was a bit nonplussed by that line as an opening sentence.
But hey ho.. just free wrote and this is what came out..x
http://rosiesmith-nazilliwrites.blogspot.com/2012/07/terrible-minds.html
I posted before but it seems to have vanished.. First time out here…
http://rosiesmith-nazilliwrites.blogspot.com/2012/07/terrible-minds.html
[…] flash fiction challenge at TerribleMinds this week was a tricky one. A really tricky one. Mr Wendig gave us the opening line of the story […]
This one was really, really challenging. I struggled for quite a while before I found a way to work it into a story. (Hopefully it’s not too much of a cop-out!)
It Takes Two
Here’s my entry. This is the first time I’ve done flash fiction in a while, but I really enjoyed it.
http://dredginganemptysea.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/flash-fiction-challenge-entry-the-android-and-the-forbidden-chamber/#more-32
pardon the blurb at the beginning, it’s there for the benefit of my small number of readers.
Hi, this is my first ever flash fiction attempt. Here is the link:
http://lisatwilton.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/flash-fiction-challenge-6/