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”
The Thirteen Factories
The Torso In The Trunk Was Drunk
Aportis and the Grand Feast
Squeezing the mirror, a true story
Bettie Page Ghosts
A Pretentious Title For a Pretentious Story
Too pretentious.
Christie Hynde’s failed first incarnation.
Too title-y.
From Russia With Gloves
Companion film to ‘Goldmember.’
After the Dust Settled
Confessions of a vacuum cleaner salesman?
A Quarter to Midnight.
And then it went Quiet
Bridget,
Is this before or after AND THEN THERE WERE NONE?
Personally I liked the Family Guy’s 2010 spoof episode of this – AND THEN THERE WERE FEWER
http://www.agathachristie.com/stories/and-then-there-were-none
A Spring Tide’s Ballast and Measure
Cleveland Stew
A Dearth of the Dying
This one might give that one a run for its money .. how about –
SKYE OVERALL
Upper Echelons of the Ice Cream Sundae
Let me guess – this is but volume one in the planned CHERRY ON TOP CHRONICLES?
Can’t wait to get to the creamy caramel center of this one!
Are you suggesting a breakaway series JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE CREAMY CARAMEL ?
Lorenzo Von Matterhorn The Second
Black Beetroot Pudding.
Self-saucing no less?
Canon Fodder
I see what you did there. Bravo.
Oxytocin, Caffeine and Chainsaws
I like your idea, really.
I’d write some story like “Clonidine,Oxytocin and Cheesecake”. The idea of such a presentation is suggestive and literary, bravo.
Dirge Under a Strawberry Sky
Hangnails and Moonlight
Stuffed Aubergine
(Sorry about that. Just got into my head and I couldn’t shake it off.)
Alice in Blunderland
The Old Man and the Seesaw
Midnight’s Children’s Nannies
The Handmaid’s Tail
Hairy Pot Ear and the Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Hound of the Busker Girls (a mystery)
Lady Chatterbox’s Lover
I Sexbot
And of course, in (dis?) honour of his birthday: The Merchant of Venus (probably by Bacon or Marlowe so Don’t worry)
Waiting
A Taste for Earth
Been rolling a story around in my head for this one 😀
The Hierophant’s Defenestration
A chief priest without windows – what’s not to like?
Cult Defect
Vicodin Wednesdays
The fourth daughter
The Blind Tattooist
Written by Pierce Torgan.
I screamed
Under the Onyx Moonlight
The Great Emu War of 1932
Is it Murder to Kill a Blackmailer?
Daughter of Blood and Despair
The Birds Bar
The Beast of Both Worlds
I like this title – in fact, I chose it last time it was posted and wrote a story round it. Thanks for the inspiration.
The Beauty of Smoke
The feat
Second sleep
The Black Paladin Chronicles
On the Roller Coaster In Red
Omnivore’s Delight
Funeral for a Harlequin
Hope this one gets chosen – I really like it.
The Next Jen Is On Me.
Hell is a Subway at 3 AM
I love this title!
The Mercenaries Petticoat
“We May not Be Married, but I Want a Divorce”
The Battleship Bookshop
The Unsigned Writ
The Tale of the Ledge Dancer
It’s Mandibles are in my Cupholder