Your task this week is woefully simple. Go to the comments, and deposit into these comments a title for a short story — not the story itself, and nothing in fact beyond the title.
Then, next week, I’ll pick a handful of the best, and we’ll use those as springboards for the next round of stories. Dig it? Good.
You.
Comments section.
A title.
GO.
Due by next Friday, April 29th, noon EST.
[EDIT: Only ONE title per person, please.]
335 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: We Need Only A Title”
A Room With A Phew.
Well done, sir. Well done.
With Grave and Terrible Purpose
Jeremy Pocket and the See-through Wall.
Bite Me: A Love Story
If you remember nothing else I told you, remember this: Never shower up close and personal with a porcupine
The Glass Boot
The Silk Road Spice Merchant
Malwhere
A Day of Truth and Mirrors
Nice!
One Sad Monkey
Kiss the Winter Moon
The Lemon Man
Simple, evocative – I love this.
I think Robert Plant had this covered on Led Zeppelin 2.
Thursday Murder Crew
They provide an inferior service – only collect every fortnight.
Morning After Kill
Vivian Velociraptor: Dinosaur Detective
Stargazer
Why The Fire Ate The Stick
Has ‘Bestseller’ written all over it.
Tracing the bloom
Cantankerous Soar
The Great Heart Implosion
The last encore
Sounds like quite an act.
The Almost But Not Entirely Unbelievable Tale of the Grasshopper and the Pomegranate
or…just to really shake it up a bit:
The Almost But Not Entirely Unbelievable Tale of the Grasshopper and the Pomegranate, Volume 2
The Fernald Contradiction
Darwin’s Fuck-bot
Innovative but I think we’re talking niche market.
He was a mind ahead of his time. Shame he never got to write this paper up. It would have trumped Origin of Species.
Because He Lied
The Day I Sabotaged the Selfie Vats
“…and the band played on.”
Jerry Got a Job
An Imaginary Line Crossed
When I Whisky After Midnight
The Devil, The Elf, and the Lost Soul
Why Carl Smoked the Devil
Puff, puff, pass. In Hell!
The Butterfly Effect
THE IMAGINARY ADVENTURES OF SIR TEN OF LITTLEDOUBT
(For readers aged 7-11 years)
Behind the Front Man
The Unfortunate Adventures of Hashtag, Yolo and Swag
Snow White and the Seven Witch Hunters
The Unlucky Lesbian and How She Got Pregnant
The tune in the fork
And the sequel?
THE TUNE IN THE FORK IN THE ROAD
Brilliant sir
… and there’s a third volume in the series – the fork in the tuna.
Two to Get Ready, but Only One May Go
Double Slit
Redeye
A Fistful of Daggers
So many of these woulld be great band names. Meta-moooooo-rphisis
Death’s Doorman
You Can’t Buy My Love with Peanut Butter
… but you can borrow my libido for a jar of jello.
Your Onion Breath Was Destiny
And the sequel..
GARLIC VOWS
The Crimson Door
A,B,C,D, Eggnog
The Misfortune of Crooked Boy’s Treasure