Last week’s challenge — “The Epic Game Of Aspects Redux” — is there for your eyeballs.
Here’s how this week’s challenge works.
I’m going to give you five titles.
You will either:
a) Choose one of these titles for a new piece of flash fiction.
or
b) Remix the titles (adding no new words of your own) to create a new title which, well, duh, you will then use to compose a new piece of flash fiction.
Get it? Got it? GOBBA GOOBA.
The five titles are:
“The Monkey’s Pageant.”
“Dead-Clock’s Revenge.”
“The Black Lighthouse.”
“Bright Stars Gone To Black.”
“Plastic Dreams & Doll Desires.”
You’ve got one week. Due by Friday the 12th, noon EST.
You have up to 1000 words.
Any genre will do.
Post at your space. Link back here.
Now. Grab a title off the table and go.
David Blackstone (@DavidWriting) says:
Here’s mine: “Bright Stars Gone To Black”
http://www.agincourtdb.com/2012/10/bright-stars-gone-to-black.html
October 5, 2012 — 1:51 AM
Jim Franklin says:
I took the words ‘Dead’ and ‘Desire’ and come up with this. In retrospect that is one damn creepy title and I probably should have thought of a better one, one that’s not going to put me on an FBI list. Oh well, the damage is done now.
Here is Dead Desire: http://www.thezombiechimp.com/2012/10/05/flash-fiction-dead-desires/
Hope you like it.
October 5, 2012 — 7:42 AM
Phil Norris says:
I’ve combined words from three different titles and come up with The Black Monkey’s Revenge.
http://philnorris63.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/the-black-monkeys-revenge-short-story/
October 5, 2012 — 9:53 AM
Jon says:
I have no idea what “Black-Clock Dreams” is, but I’ll be writing it.
October 5, 2012 — 11:14 AM
Laura Libricz says:
So, I wanted to try and keep this as short as I could. 465 words.
The Monkey’s Plastic Dreams
http://lauralibricz.blogspot.de/2012/10/just-shy-of-500-words.html
October 5, 2012 — 12:19 PM
Lindsay Mawson says:
K, I started one, the stars one, but the idea wasn’t going far, so I made up my own title, “The Plastic Dead”… Enjoy.
http://lindsaymawson.blogspot.ca/2012/10/flash-fiction-challenge-48-five-titles.html
October 5, 2012 — 1:08 PM
Jamie Wyman says:
Switched around a few. Here’s “The Dead Doll Dreams”. Not what I was expecting, but here ’tis. http://jamiewyman.blogspot.com/2012/10/friday-flash-dead-doll-dreams.html
October 5, 2012 — 4:28 PM
Gary Weller says:
Okay Chuck, I accept your challenge!
After scrambling the titles I present to you:
Black Dreams & Black Desires.
October 6, 2012 — 2:25 AM
AB Singer says:
I’m going for the laugh track to the Divine Comedy, as it’s an election year, combining The Monkey’s Pageant and Dead-Clock’s Revenge.
Hoo-ee! I’m gonna eat Mastadon tonight.
October 6, 2012 — 5:36 AM
AB Singer says:
And here’s the link.
Muppet.
http://ultravioletandinfrared.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/clocks-pageant-dead-monkeys-revenge.html
October 6, 2012 — 5:38 AM
Derek McCullough says:
Here’s mine:
Black Dreams and Dead Pageants
http://ideallyrealistic.com/2012/10/06/black-dreams-and-dead-pageants/
I love the imagery created by the your flash fiction challenges.
October 6, 2012 — 1:33 PM
Shiri Sondheimer says:
Death-Clock’s Revenge …
http://swsondheimer.wordpress.com/this-just-in/death-clocks-revenge/
October 6, 2012 — 3:18 PM
Frederik says:
I wrote “Black-Clock Dreams” – But i’m not sure if it actually makes much sense 😛
October 7, 2012 — 9:30 AM
Jeremiah says:
I went with Dead-Clock’s Revenge. It was the title that leaped out at me from the list. I knew what it would be about right away, I just had to figure out a format. I’m pretty happy with how it came out.
http://www.jqpdx.com/2012/10/08/dead-clocks-revenge/
October 7, 2012 — 10:39 PM
Eric Chase says:
At first I was inspired by the idea of The Black Lighthouse, but combining that with Dead-Clock to get Dead-Clock’s Lighthouse was just too timey-wimey for me not to try.
http://gogogadgetcounterpoint.tumblr.com/post/33147500479/dead-clocks-lighthouse
October 8, 2012 — 2:43 AM
Josh Loomis says:
Mixing titles, adding no words, I bring you “The Black Dreams Pageant”.
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/10/08/flash-fiction-the-black-dreams-pageant/
October 8, 2012 — 7:51 AM
Jed Thomas says:
The Black Lighthouse [970 words]
http://seedsofentropy.com/2012/10/08/the-black-lighthouse/
October 8, 2012 — 2:41 PM
Jamie McCoard (@Tevyn) says:
http://www.mccoard.net/post/2012/10/09/FF-Plastic-Doll-Pageant.aspx
Plastic Doll Pageant [991 words]
* A sci-fi short of how far a human girl will go for happiness.
October 9, 2012 — 10:20 AM
Cory Cone says:
The Black Pageant
http://www.corycone.com/?p=87
October 9, 2012 — 1:39 PM
Jeff Ellis says:
Wow, I had too much fun writing this week’s flash fiction. You can find “Black Desires Revenge” (905 words) right here:
http://firstwordproblems.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/black-desires-revenge/
October 9, 2012 — 2:41 PM
Raphealite says:
I picked The Black Lighthouse and made it a ghost story about Blackbeard the pirate. 1000 words exactly.
http://adaydreamerswish.blogspot.com/
October 9, 2012 — 6:58 PM
C.M. Simpson says:
And much fun was had by all 🙂
http://cmsimpson.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/bright-stars-gone-to-black-response-to.html
October 9, 2012 — 7:28 PM
Logan Riley says:
Bright Stars Gone to Black.
A study in magic, tarot, and finding ones way through the void.
http://literarybandit.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/bright-stars-gone-to-black/
October 9, 2012 — 11:10 PM
David Grigg says:
Another struggle this week. I ended up doing a slight remix of titles, as Chuck suggested, and my story is titled “Dark Lighthouse”.
As so often, Chuck’s prompt set me off into writing a fully-fledged story, which got to about 1,580 words. And took me days to write. Flash fiction it ain’t.
Here it is: http://narratorium.com/2012/10/10/dark-lighthouse/
October 10, 2012 — 12:32 AM
Hirsa says:
Okay, so I promised myself I would start participating in these Flash Fiction Challenges, thinking it would be a good way to exercise my thinking muscles. Turns out it was harder than I expected.
Here is the result:
http://wordvortex.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/bright_stars/
I apologise if it has mistakes, doesn’t make sense or is a piece of crap.
October 10, 2012 — 7:41 AM
Genevieve Williams says:
Hey! This is my first one of these. Here you go:
http://welltemperedwriter.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/the-monkeys-pageant/
October 10, 2012 — 2:11 PM
Ben K. says:
It’s been a little while, but I’m back.
Hope you enjoy. And thanks for the opportunity, Chuck. I’ve missed doing these.
The Black Lighthouse:
http://warnerkirby.blogs.com/clintonaut/2012/10/the-black-lighthouse.html
October 10, 2012 — 10:45 PM
Beth L. says:
Bright Stars Gone to Black
This instantly reminded me of the nursery rhyme “Star light, star bright”, so a good fracturing and here’s the tale:
http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
October 10, 2012 — 10:58 PM
Jo Eberhardt says:
Bright Dreams and Clock’s Revenge
Because it’s what happens between the ticks that counts.
October 11, 2012 — 7:39 AM
Stephanie Belser says:
It has been a long time since I last participated.
I give you The Monkey’s Star.
October 11, 2012 — 4:25 PM
Richard says:
Here is Bright Plastic Desires, because why the hell not.
http://byrichardlake.blogspot.com/2012/10/bright-plastic-desires.html
October 11, 2012 — 7:47 PM
Alexa says:
Took the title “Plastic Dreams & Doll Desires.” Where the rest came from I’m not entirely sure.
http://foreignhigh.tumblr.com/post/33408776518/plastic-dreams-and-doll-desires
October 11, 2012 — 11:09 PM
Jon says:
Of the stories I’ve written, this is one of my favorites. Chuck just gave me the starting point, but I’m grateful for where it led. Thanks, Chuck!
Black-Clock Dreams
October 11, 2012 — 11:26 PM
Johann Pollard says:
My very first flash fiction. Ever.
http://wordlapa.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-black-lighthouse.html
October 12, 2012 — 2:32 AM
Kenneth says:
Bright Lighthouse Gone To Black
http://ktagher.blogspot.com/#!/2012/10/bright-lighthouse-gone-to-black-flash.html
October 12, 2012 — 8:58 AM
Mike says:
Some good starting points.
I had a few plot ideas, but my favourite was The Black Lighthouse
http://www.ravensview.ca/ravens/2012/10/the-black-lighthouse.html
October 12, 2012 — 11:30 AM
Jon says:
@Frederik, where IS your version of Black-Clock Dreams? As we both munged up the same title, I’m eager to see yours.
October 12, 2012 — 12:31 PM
Chelsea says:
Dead Clock’s Revenge:
http://chelsearthompson.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/dead-clocks-revenge/
October 12, 2012 — 1:48 PM
Sarah O'Hara says:
The Black Lighthouse
http://authorsarahohara.blogspot.com/2012/11/terribleminds-flash-fiction-challenge.html
November 2, 2012 — 11:59 AM