Flash Fiction Challenge: It’s ABC Meets XYZ!

Last week’s challenge: “Choose Your Random Words“

So, this week’s challenge is going to be awesome.

SHUT UP IT WILL TOO.

Here’s what’s going to happen.

I’m going to list 20 different pop culture properties — books, movies, comics.

You’re going to randomly choose two and mash them up into a piece of ~1000-word flash fiction.

Here’s why — because whenever I read reviews of my books or whenever you pitch a film to somebody you always mash up two wildly different properties to give a feel for what it is. (As I’ve noted elsewhere, Blue Blazes often gets called Goodfellas meets Lovecraft meets The D&D Monster Manual.) It’s a fun way to envision a story, so boom, that’s what we’re doing here.

Note: the result should be thematic and stylistic, not actual mash-up fanfiction. (Again, envision you take your story into a pitch meeting and to pitch it, you combine two seemingly unlike pop culture properties. It’s like that.)

Story due by Friday, June 14th, noon EST.

Post at your online space. Link back here.

Here’s the list. Choose two or pick ’em randomly with a d20 or random number generator.

1. Casablanca
2. Die Hard
3. Breaking Bad
4. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. Terminator
7. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
8. Star Wars
9. Game of Thrones
10. The Handmaid’s Tale
11. Batman
12. The Stand
13. Neverwhere
14. The Godfather
15. Planet of the Apes
16. Rosemary’s Baby
17. Arrested Development
18. The Walking Dead
19. Reservoir Dogs
20. Pride & Prejudice