This week’s challenge is not one of subject, theme, or other detail — the challenge is simply one of length. Because normally? You get 1000 words. Today? You get only 100. (I think this is technically called a “drabble.” You can call it “Bobo” for all I like.)
So:
Go to your online space.
Post 100 words (no more!) of fiction.
Link back here so we can all see it.
Due by next Friday, 3/27.
That’s it.
I double dog dare you to do it.
(edit: I also double dog my friend, Erin Lynn Jeffreys Hodges, to try it, too.)
395 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: 100 Words Only”
I’m using this challenge to revisit a character from a flash fiction story I wrote last week..
http://tastyniblets.co/2015/03/23/100-word-flash-fiction-jenkins-strikes-back/
I enjoyed this… It left me wanting to know more!! Good work!
Here’s my 100, an idea I have for a short story: https://penzu.com/p/6a541c97
Can’t read your story without having to download the app. Is there any other way?
Here’s my 100 words, this was good fun!
http://goo.gl/j5UP9X
Interesting and unexpected. 🙂
And here’s mine – I’ll read other people’s tonight because my lunch break is over – http://simonbjones.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/drabble-writing-task-100-words.html
I like it! The twist was great. 🙂
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It’s good to be back.
Here’s The Wreck.
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2015/03/23/flash-fiction-the-wreck/
Thought provoking.
https://pznb.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/the-sacrifice/
Yeah for short flash fiction!
I love these. A drabble can be as tight and balanced as a sonnet. Here’s mine. http://www.maggie-secara.com/2015/03/100-words-princes-of-serendip.html
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100 words exactly and I used last weeks cocktail name
Norse Goddesses and Screaming Viking
http://aliceekeyes.blogspot.com/p/norse-goddesses-and-screaming-viking.html
Also 100 words exactly!! http://wp.me/s3LwDZ-unlocked
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading most of the other submissions so far. They actually gave me the courage to try it myself!
Quite a challenge: https://boozoojack.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/liminal-space-voyage
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Thought I’d finally jump in:
http://www.gardenofdeadsouls.com/blog/?p=35
Here you go: http://lifeinmetropolis.com/terribleminds-flash-fiction-challenge-100-words-only/
Eeeww! And by that I mean, nicely done.
That was gruesome! Nice work, I enjoyed it
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http://www.wattpad.com/113422400-creatures-on-the-riverside Guh, I’d like to actually write a longer story on this…I hate you for the 100 word limit. I really do.
thanks for the laugh
100 words, with a punchline from a conversation earlier today.
http://fistfulofwits.com/2015/03/23/flash-fiction-almost-a-cantina/
enjoyable
Quite a challenge. Here’s mine, 100 on the nose.
http://www.greensphinx.22slides.com/wendig
Let’s go, indeed
2nd try. Sorry if it double posts.
http://www.gardenofdeadsouls.com/blog/2015/03/look-ma-no-hands-100-word-flash-fiction-challenge/
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This challenge has been haunting me since Friday. I present “The Manipulative Phantom.”
http://www.herravendomain.com/the-manipulative-phantom/
I like this one — I can picture the postcard curling and bubbling and turning to filmy ash.
I’m gonna take the plunge.
Please be gentle.
http://shadoworgan.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/flash-fiction-challenge-100-words-only.html
Very good. A chilling glimpse at a potential future reality.
Thanks, i wish it was more than 100 words, i want to do more with this.
Then you should. Why not? Treat it as a prompt and write on!
Yeah, i was thinking about writing more about the universe this short story takes place in.
Woohoo! My first shot at this.
https://creativelingering.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/flash-fiction-100-words/
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A bit of humor… http://lkunion.com/fiction-bits/
“The Fall” at 100-ish words.
http://unashamedwriting.com/the-fall-super-short-flash-fiction-or-drabble-if-you-will/
I love temptation — this was nicely done. I bet, if you tried, you could do it 100 words. I’ve got a spare word counter, if you need.
I don’t have a blog… is it against the rules to post here? If so, please do delete, with my apologies.
100 words exactly…
You say that I should leave, so I begin to pack.
“Should I take this with me?” I ask about a souvenir we bought together.
“That’s fine,” you respond.
My touch lingers on the red ribbon wrapped around our letters and notes. “I should just throw these away, then?”
“That’s fine.”
I gather up every photograph in which I appear beside you, and every item I ever touched, and every breath that called your name. “I guess I’ll be going.”
“That’s fine,” you say.
So, I leave.
And now I exist only so that you can be fine without me.
Love the inner dialogue and that last sentence really captures this side of a harsh break-up.
On the topic of blogs, you can easily start one, then even if you don’t use it as your journal, you’ll have it to post things such as this drabble and other writing challenges.
See this link for a list of blog hosting sites – with descriptions: http://www.dearblogger.org/blogger-or-wordpress-better
Search a list of how to articles: http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
I have a WordPress blog, but I’m no authority… learning as I go. I Google questions when I have them and most of the time the answers are out there. You should give it a try!
Thank you so much for the feedback! I rarely write at all, actually, so I doubt I have the need for a blog. I just lurk here for the perspective and humor of Chuck and his commenters. But, something about the short and sweet nature of this challenge inspired me. I will certainly keep these resources in mind, though, just in case. Thanks again!
I had never flown before this, I looked out the window and saw the city being swallowed by clouds. It was beautiful yet frightening. My hands were sweaty and my leg trembling, I just wanted to scream. It wasn’t because it was my first flight, it was the men waving their guns.
Please give constructive criticism, it is one of my first pieces.
I think what catches my eye first and foremost is that you’ve only got one leg. Whether that was on purpose or a typo, it’s definitely thought-provoking.
Next, the sudden twist of ‘aw, nervous about flying?’ to NOPE. GUNS. Cue the record scratch!
I like it, and I wonder where it could go — but I also think you could’ve done more, because you barely used half your word limit.
One? Hah, I have twenty seven. http://nineoverfive.blogspot.com/p/a-rabble-of-drabbles.html
“Chocolate Box Romance” is one of my favorites. Makes me laugh out loud. 😀 😀 😀
Swear to god I’m not creepy.
No worries; I laughed too. But then again, I’m fucked up in the head.
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Here’s my stab. http://jcmckenna.com/?p=411
Three sentences was easier than 100 words.
Nicely done! All love to our glorious Teddies! 😀
Poor teddy.
Here’s my piece. http://www.andrlik.org/fiction/flash/midnight-stroll/
Oh — I like this one! It’s hard to do a twist in 100 words, but yours was lovely.
Thanks!
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Here we go:
https://catastrophejones.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/chuck-wendigterrible-minds-flash-fiction-challenge-drabble-dialogue/
Fun read. I imagined British voices reading the dialogue. Does stoat felchin’ mean what I think it means?
It likely does, considering we’re both fucked up in the head. Also, yes, British voices, definitely.
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100 word flash fiction challenge? Sign me up! 🙂
http://www.colindsmith.com/blog/2015/03/25/chuck-wendigs-flash-fiction-challenge/
Ow, ow ow ow. I fucking well hate Hemingway, but this reminded me of him. In a good way. Superb.
https://katethesape.wordpress.com/read-my-stuff/ Here’s mine, clocking in at exactly 100 words (sans title). It’s called “RAWR!”
Ha! Cracked me up. I love it.
Thanks! 😀
Made me smile.
Aw, yay!
Being a SciFi/Fantasy con goer, and a Fur (which includes scalies like dragons) I just had to comment and say that this was an absolutely DELIGHTFUL romp through only 100 words!
That’s awesome!!! I’ve been going to DragonCon the last few years – LOVE IT. Part of this was from my experience at the Yule Ball. 😀
Wanted to get as close to the 100 as I could. http://smallwrittenkingdoms.tumblr.com/post/114592746735/when-the-queen-is-well-said-master-hixis-the
Ooh! Nicely done — makes me want to give the narrator a high five!
Nice! Take that!
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You can find my contribution at https://diedrablack.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/a-hulk-a-picard-and-a-longshot/.
Here’s mine. 94 words. The Pianist: http://www.wattpad.com/114080153-short-stuff-the-pianist
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I’m having a hard time thinking up a title for this piece, but it comes in just under the limit at 97 words. http://wp.me/p1Tyuy-bF
Without the title it it 98 Words. Forgive my blog site its fairly new and under construction lol https://www.tumblr.com/blog/timeandspacekid
Here’s mine – The Blue Thing – http://tonij.net/2015/03/the-blue-thing/
I wonder if the girl is safe?
Don’t know if the other one posted. It’s my first try comments and criticisms are welcome lol http://timeandspacekid.tumblr.com/
lol — Puffin-Stuff. It’s adorable and macabre all at once.
I enjoyed writing the drabble I posted earlier in the week so much, I thought I’d have another go. I present: We are not alone
https://spoonfedbyaliens.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/flash-fiction-100-word-drabble-we-are-not-alone/
Ooh. I definitely like it. Ominous.
Chilling! Loved it.
love it.
Ending the world in under a hundred words. Which is very hard. http://andreaspeed.com/2015/everybody-hates-monday-a-microfic/
Ha! Reminds me of Cabin in the Woods.
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