Last week’s challenge: “Five Random Sentences“
Below is a list of 20 subgenres.
I want you to roll a d20 twice — or click a random number generator twice between 1 and 20 — and that will give you two subgenres. (Sure, you can choose them instead, but that means YOU HATE FUN.)
Smash those two subgenres into one story.
Write that story. Around 1000 words. Post at your online space. Link back here through the comments. Due by next Friday, May 17th, at noon EST.
Here’s the list of subgenres.
- Men’s Adventure
- Splatterpunk
- Fairy Tale
- New Weird
- Space Opera
- Southern Gothic
- BDSM Erotica
- Superhero
- Sword & Sorcery
- Noir
- Dystopia
- Sci-Fi Humor or Satire
- Lovecraftian
- Haunted House
- Cyberpunk
- Steampunk
- Detective
- Post-Apocalyptic
- Weird West
- Technothriller
Josh Loomis says:
Post-Apocalyptic Steampunk. Behold: One Dart. http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2013/05/13/flash-fiction-one-dart/
May 13, 2013 — 10:52 AM
jreinmiller says:
Very cool setting, and well executed on both genres. One of my favorites for this challenge.
May 16, 2013 — 7:49 PM
Wanderer says:
Had fun writing my Southern Gothic – Steampunk mash-up–although it is more skewed towards the Southern Gothic. Feel free to check it out!
http://secondstaronther.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/the-fall-of-the-house-of-hawkins/
May 13, 2013 — 10:54 AM
Matt Gomez says:
Rather well done. I could hear the drawl as I read it.
May 13, 2013 — 2:42 PM
Wanderer says:
Thanks for reading!
May 13, 2013 — 2:45 PM
Valerie Valdes (@valerievaldes) says:
Dystopia sci-fi satire, here we go: Earth’s Top Super Model
http://candleinsunshine.com/asthemoonclimbs/flash-fic/earths-top-super-model/
May 13, 2013 — 3:39 PM
Mr Urban Spaceman says:
Very well-written story! I loved the dry, satirical tone of it. I did notice you typed “…change to face…” rather than “…chance to face…” – I do that aaaall the time when I’m speed-typing. 🙂 The comments about hair/makeup really made me chuckle… celebrity-superhero-supermodel deathmatch at its finest.
May 14, 2013 — 1:41 PM
Valerie Valdes (@valerievaldes) says:
It also doesn’t help when you’re typing on a phone… Thanks! 🙂
May 14, 2013 — 1:54 PM
Linda Rose French says:
Southern Gothic Detective…let the games begin!
May 13, 2013 — 8:03 PM
jreinmiller says:
Hrm, well a Lovecraftian Men’s Adventure it is… I think.
In any case:
http://www.jqpdx.com/2013/05/14/welcome-to-the-jungle/
May 13, 2013 — 8:28 PM
Mr Urban Spaceman says:
Great piece of story-telling, I could see everything so clearly, and the language used was very fitting. The tension and the terror were palpable, leaving me wanting to know more about what happened to the Lt. before and during his disappearance.
May 14, 2013 — 1:47 PM
Amy says:
I liked this! Creepy yet real.
May 14, 2013 — 2:27 PM
jreinmiller says:
Thanks. It’s not really my cup of tea, er cup of blood, er whatever. But I’m glad you enjoyed it.
May 16, 2013 — 7:44 PM
John says:
I got New Weird and Superhero…
May 14, 2013 — 4:35 AM
John says:
Alright. Here is my flash fiction. http://vgaubersoldat72.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/flash-fiction-challenge/
May 14, 2013 — 5:30 AM
John says:
I thinks I need to rework it…sigh.
May 14, 2013 — 5:39 AM
Greg says:
Here is a link to my Sword and Sorcery Haunted House http://deadwoodstories.blogspot.com/2013/05/song-and-engine.html
May 14, 2013 — 11:42 AM
Linda Rose French says:
My Southern Gothic Detective Flash Fiction Entry:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9291543/1/The-San-Antonio-Murders
May 14, 2013 — 6:06 PM
Beth L. says:
Splatterpunk & Superheroes feature in Think Fast!
http://knotachance.tumblr.com/
May 14, 2013 — 9:17 PM
chriswhitewrites says:
Well, now you’ve done it – inspiring me to begin working on a men’s adventure, steampunk serial: The River of Crawling Death (and it’s a choose-your-own-adventure (well, a choose-the-protagonist’s-adventure, anyway.)) Tune in for ADVENTURE, and remember, foreign women make the best lovers.
May 14, 2013 — 10:25 PM
Ben Wintersteen says:
My latest attempt is posted. This is actually the fourth, and is in the same “universe” as the Secret Door story.
http://paranthropologist.blogspot.com/
May 15, 2013 — 9:26 AM
Sherri @badgerangyl says:
Oh, Laaaa. Here. New Weird/Southern Gothic — bad die rolls, baby.
http://wp.me/p2hVIN-27
May 15, 2013 — 9:50 AM
Johnny says:
Dystopia meets Weird West: The town that’s always watching you.
https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.h.keith/posts/10102031685707458
May 15, 2013 — 2:16 PM
Kristin Mireles says:
Men’s Adventure & Space Opera
http://mireles-musings.blogspot.com/2013/05/space-opera-mens-adventure.html
May 15, 2013 — 7:00 PM
charlypriest says:
charlypriest.wordpress.com. The title of the post is “Days of Glory” published May 16.
May 16, 2013 — 8:06 AM
charlypriest says:
charlypriest.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/days-of-glory/
May 16, 2013 — 9:39 AM
K.C. Wise says:
I rolled Weird Western and Haunted House (I feel like I got lucky!)
https://iamwritingwhileblack.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/flash-fiction-challenge-blue-echoes-through-the-blood-998-words/
May 16, 2013 — 1:49 PM
andreaspeed says:
I got noir/dystopia, which is right up my alley … the only problem is, this is begging to be a much longer story. Cut it down as best I could. This Town Is Dead – http://andreaspeed.com/2013/flash-fic-this-town-is-dead/
May 16, 2013 — 6:29 PM
H. Ken Abell says:
I got Steampunk and Dystopian, which for me was a challenge, because I’ve always found Steampunk to be a very visual aesthetic, and I’m not a very visual writer — but Dystopian is completely my thing, so I hope it balanced out. http://weltschmerzcollection.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/from-the-ashes-flash-fiction-challenge/
May 16, 2013 — 8:22 PM
Eric Sourwine says:
Eric kicks in Chuck’s front door waving a two page manuscript entitled “The Nightly Caller”, does a white guy dance down the hallway, and bursts into the kitchen singing. “Whoomp, here it is! Whoomp, here it is!”
The all powerful random number generator gave me Haunted House and Technothriller. The short story i ended up writing was light on technothriller, sorry.
The end result is called, “The Nightly Caller”. And can be found right here: http://ericsourwine.blogspot.com/
Hope you enjoy!
P.S. Despite the name this story has nothing to do with male prostitution.
May 16, 2013 — 10:32 PM
Jeanne B. says:
Cyberpunk Fairy Tale: http://jmboverthinking.blogspot.com/2013/05/flash-fiction-challenge-smashing-sub.html
May 16, 2013 — 10:46 PM
Serena Saint-Marceaux says:
My d20 gave me Space Opera & BDSM Erotica. Both things I’ve dabbled in writing but never really focused on much. . .
Here’s my story: Interrogation.
May 16, 2013 — 10:59 PM
Serena Saint-Marceaux says:
Comment screwed up, link here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/806188
May 16, 2013 — 11:00 PM
Matt Billock says:
Here we go – Post-Apocalyptic Southern Gothic
http://mattbillock.blogspot.com/2013/05/flash-fiction-challenge-post.html
May 17, 2013 — 12:35 AM
vlazabal6981 says:
Southern Gothic & Superhero. Allrighty then…
http://veronikalazabal.com/
May 17, 2013 — 4:26 AM
Jim says:
Fairy Tale and Splatterpunk. Awesome!
Hope I’m not too late.
http://dirtymercsbarandgrill.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/flash-fiction-challenge.html
May 17, 2013 — 4:49 AM
afteroldjoe says:
Here you go, New Weird and Post-Apocalyptic: http://afteroldjoe.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/the-day-the-monkeys-took-over/
May 17, 2013 — 4:51 AM
Jemima Pett says:
I got New Weird and Southern Gothic, read the descriptions of both, and rejected Southern Gothic, which got me Superhero. Still a big challenge, but let me introduce Johnson and Alice… http://jemimapett.com/2013/05/17/johnson-and-alice/
May 17, 2013 — 5:19 AM
alexlaisser says:
Noir Sword & Sorcery. Much of my knowledge of noir comes from Calvin and Hobbes comics, so there are lots of dames in trench coats
http://bragbitchblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/flash-fiction-challenge-noir-sword-sorcery-thanks-chuck-wendig/
May 17, 2013 — 7:44 AM
Icarus Mortis says:
999 words (eek) of post-apocalyptic noir: Hunting Love – http://blog.icarusmortis.co.uk/2013/05/17/hunting_love/
I thank you. *Collapses in heap.* X_x *Twitches.*
May 17, 2013 — 9:58 AM
rebeccadouglass says:
I first got Spatterpunk and BDSM Erotica, which was about the combo most impossible to do on my kid-friendly blog. So I rolled a second time and got Distopian SF Comedy. That’s harder than I first thought!
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2013/05/flash-fiction-friday.html
May 17, 2013 — 10:25 AM
Jasmine Stanford says:
Great job! Really interesting to see this done from a kid-friendly angle.
May 17, 2013 — 8:14 PM
bigrickcook says:
http://daigler.tumblr.com/post/50727021693/nsfw-flash-fiction-writing-prompt-smashing-subgenres
I know it’s late, but I didn’t want to not put this out there after working on it. Very NSFW, since I got the wonderful combination of New Weird / BDSM Erotica.
May 18, 2013 — 9:42 AM
crow365 says:
I’m a day late on this, but I rolled “steampunk” and “splatterpunk”, and came up with “The Brothers”:
http://nickegelhoff.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/a-day-late/
May 18, 2013 — 10:09 AM