This week’s challenge:
Gods and goddesses.
Genre doesn’t matter, but I want you to write a story dealing with the divine. A deity! A demi-god! Whatever. Made-up or real, doesn’t matter. From the POV of the deity or from someone having to deal with said deity. Or maybe you wanna talk about a whole damn pantheon.
Entirely up to you.
Length: ~2000 words
Due Date: 3/24/17, that Friday, noon EST.
Write at your online space.
Link back here.
Go forth and confront the divine.
62 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: To Behold The Divine”
Sounds like fun! 😀
I look forward to reading your story about the God of Coffee. 😛
LOL. Did I miss something or did we have a pre-arranged agreement about this God of Coffee? Will you be writing about the Goddess of Tea, then? :p
Maybe I’ll spoof it one day! 😉
I’m cheating slightly but I already have a short story on my blog that I think fits the theme nicely. It’s called The Morningstar Plays The Devastation in D-Minor. Enjoy!
https://penultimateuniverse.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/the-morningstar-plays-the-devastation-suite-in-d-minor/
I’m just gonna be lazy and post this short story I wrote almost a year back 😀
https://medium.com/blank-canvas/kālachakra-30cd7b4d7ad0
THE ARTISAN: A divine craftsman must defend his Last Creation from his greatest living Works of Art.
https://medium.com/@ebonstorm/the-artisan-4feb955efbad#.gxfc4uqvh
I call this one, “Electric Sleep” which is totally not a play on anything else. I mixed sci-fi and a god-figure, no cheating at all!
https://theurbanspaceman.net/2017/03/17/electric-sleep-flash-fiction/
Creepy as hell! Love it! 😀
Thanks! 🙂
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Behold Hiccupia: https://cadmiumdiamond.wordpress.com/2017/03/17/hiccupia/
Happened to write this a couple of months ago and it fills the prompt.
http://backshiftwriter.com/2017/01/16/flash-fiction-you-are-like-winter/
Austerity of the Gods
https://cheesywriterblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/austerity-of-the-gods/
I think I liked writing this? I’m not entirely sure…
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My Athena-inspired origin story: https://jademwong.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/flash-fiction-wisdom-and-war/
I may or may not have written this last year, but art is timeless, right? 😉
Looks like so far we’re all bringing up past works. So I’ll join in! This is from my eternal WIP, “House of the Black Dog.” One of my characters, Sya, as she takes to task two of the Powers for not helping their Champion, my MC, Ari Dillon. Here’s the link:
https://warjna.wordpress.com/
I’ve never done flash fiction before. This seems like a fun one to start with.
http://youcantgoback-andotherimpossibilities.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/a-letter-of-disappointment.html
The Almighty God has written a letter to us… and he’s pissed!
enjoy!
Daaaaaaaaamn. “Pissed” is an understatement! But, uh, he *is* right on so much of that…
Nice work! This isn’t a format I had considered before.
Thanks Mel… I thought it over of who would be good to write about. And being a person who used to attend church on a regular basis (and was ostracised because my beliefs changed over time and the pastor didn’t like what I was thinking) I knew a letter from God would be very interesting to write about. 🙂
Yup, I’m definitely the wrath. If I was a believer I’d be quaking in my slippers. 😛
After all those episodes of ‘Supernatural’, I wondered how God would react to us treated his Paradise like we do… and how Lucifer would really treat Earth – after all, he almost did take if over in the Bible. 😛
I went a little over, but I love how it turned out. Enjoy! (Comments welcomed and returned).
https://atcrump.com/2017/03/19/bobbys-inferno/
Well…I didn’t expect the direction I went in, but here it is.
https://lifeinmyshoesandsometimesout.wordpress.com/2017/03/19/gordals-seed-ff-challenge/
I LOVE the premise for this story!
Thank you!
Cool, so… I’m gonna need a full-blown novel regarding this on my desk. That’d be greaaaaaat. (Seriously though, this is awesome!)
Wow, Thank you! I just wrote what popped in my head. Maybe one day I’ll do something with it.
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I also am joining the “I wrote this before” club. I wrote it originally for NaNoWriMo 2015. It’s the first chapter of an abandoned idea about an atheist who has a dream about God and decides he wants to preach the gospel. Please to enjoy the 1,998 words of “Salvation”.
https://sambrady.wordpress.com/2017/03/19/chuck-wendig-salvation-chapter-one/
Oddly enough, I just finished this one.
https://remnantauthor.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/the-raven-the-bear-and-the-sun/
I like this quite a lot. The diction, pacing, and plotting were all nicely done. It has a sort of Neil Gaiman quality about it. I could see it as a side-story told in a Sandman comic.
Thanks, Cameron! I’m glad you enjoyed it – high praise indeed!
My entry is well short of the 2000 word count but better than the nothing I wrote for last week’s challenge.
https://kim153.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/hellgod
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https://melodyklink.com/2017/03/20/flash-fiction-springs-flourish-autumns-chill/
This is a challenge right up my alley! Ahhhhh, love mythology. Hope you guys enjoy this one, and enjoy the Spring/Fall Equinox, my northern and southern hemisphere people!
I’ve always enjoyed the Persephone myth. Bonus points for FFA mentioning!
Thanks! ^_^ And I *had* to mention FFA- when I changed schools in middle school, I suddenly had a gorgeous garden area curated by our FFA students, and I was blown away. I had never heard of it before then.
Secret Goddess. NSFW!! (I’m not kidding.) http://boldsoulcoaching.com/secret-goddess/
Another prompt, another Moonrise chapter: https://article94.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/moonrise-ch45-neon-camouflage/
Will this do? http://itinerantlibrul.blogspot.com/ I like writing this kind of stuff. Let’s do some more.
It did very well!
http://slwhshorts.blogspot.com/2017/03/flight-timed-out.html granted it is a Pathfinder FanFiction.
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Excuse for me to bring out Liam the Black. https://mxgomez.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/forsaken-a-chuck-wendig-challenge/
[…] This week’s challenge was to write a story dealing with a deity. The Simulation Hypothesis has been on my mind the last few days (I’d blame Black Mirror, but I think it’s more likely my current Teaching Company lecture about the mysteries of time that really started this recent train of thought rolling.) I think that’s fairly obvious like two lines into this story. […]
Weird black comedy back-and-forth dialogue.
https://cameronamount.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/do-you-want-the-sun-to-rise-tomorrow-wendig-challenge/
I’m bending the rules a little bit here, since it’s not quite a piece that is written for this challenge – but if I had to write it now, this is what I would write and since I surprised myself writing it, learned a great deal about my voice and my style in the process and it fits the theme so perfectly, I’ll just leave this here:
https://mangacat201.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/chaos-divinum/
Hunting Heathens
https://dcxli.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/hunting-heathens/
“The Eternal Spring” is my 1340 word story inspired by The Book of Rhino. https://curioushart.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/the-eternal-spring/
When God showed up in this story, He wasn’t at all what I expected. http://thoughtitwasgood.blogspot.com/2017/03/flash-fiction-challenge-from.html
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Mine’s here (after the intro in French) and it’s a draft I’m not happy with (publishing it anyway is an answer to a challenge I gave myself). I understood two things writing it, one of which is I miss Terry Pratchett badly. Maybe I should re-read my bookshelves full of his opus. Sigh. http://www.campagnonades.com/fiction-en-brouillon/
“The Deal”
2,054 Words
https://jakashadows.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/flash-fiction-the-deal/
Found where a new god was needed, and he appeared.
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2017/03/flash-fiction-friday.html
This week I just couldn’t get a good idea to work with. In the end I decided to at least write a shorter piece rather than skipping the challenge completely.
At around 750 words, here’s “Beginnings and Ends”: https://medium.com/@VicenteLRuiz/beginnings-and-ends-38008ffb8afd#.ur01fp2aq
Mine turned into a myths & legends/noir mash-up. If you’d set that I bet it wouldn’t have been so much fun!
The Apple of Hesperides
http://jemimapett.com/blog/2017/03/24/fridayflash-fiction-apple-hesperides/
Netflix and Devi. Word count 1215.
I had a lot of fun playing with this. So much so I’m probably going to make this into something bigger. Hope ya’ll enjoy it. 🙂
http://racheldpanda.tumblr.com/post/158779433993/netflix-and-devi
Here’s my entry, just under the wire!! http://runnerskye.ca/flash-fiction-challenge-angels/
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