Another classic challenge, of which I am a fan.
Way this works is, below you will find two tables — X and Y! — and you will pick (or randomly draw) from those tables. That will leave you with a set of X versus Y — and from there, you will write a piece of flash fiction based on that parameter set. You can even use the match up (SKELETONS VS. SCIENTISTS!) as the title to the work, or come up with a new title.
Length: ~2000 words
Due by: 5/26, Friday, noon EST
Post at your online space, link back here so all can read.
X
- Robots
- Vampires
- Monkeys
- Demons
- Pirates
- Kaiju
- Goblins
- Dragons
- Ghosts
- Gods
- Time Travelers
- Cops
- Librarians
- Bards
- Skeletons
- Interdimensional Floating Jellyfish Creatures
- Aliens
- Cats
- Werewolves
- Musicians
Y
- Zombies
- Monks
- Spiders
- Heroes
- Fairies
- Robots
- Assassins
- Mutants
- Cannibals
- Mermaids
- Scientists
- Evil
- Serial Killers
- Cultists
- George Washington
- Superheroes
- Artificial Intelligence
- Swamp Monsters
- Cheerleaders
- Elves
yellehughes says:
Ok, now I know I’m not following instructions. I have a great excuse. I’ve already written a god/zombie fic and still currently working on it’s next chapters. It’s fanfiction for The Walking Dead and I have combined Greek Mythology with the TV show’s characters Rick and Michonne as Ares and Nike, but it also includes the rest of the family. It’s more than 2000 words and I hope it entertains you.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12284594/1/The-TWD-Chronicles
May 19, 2017 — 11:26 AM
joshuamneff says:
I just randomly got “librarians vs. evil.” I think I’ll roll again. I’m not in the mood to write an autobiographical piece.
May 19, 2017 — 11:31 AM
Terry elliott says:
I put your call on my site, hope you don’t mind. http://impedagogy.com/wp/blog/2017/05/19/flash-fiction-challenge-x-versus-z-redux/
May 19, 2017 — 11:44 AM
Carly says:
I got “cops vs. heroes” which just feels WAY too real
May 19, 2017 — 12:06 PM
AA Payson says:
^ Has no idea what he’s doing. Rolls…
Librarians vs. Mermaids
…..I LOVE IT! LET’S ROLL WITH IT!
May 19, 2017 — 12:26 PM
Rebecca Douglass says:
Oh, the gods favored me: Librarians vs. Robots. And I see the librarians are showing up a lot. Weighted dice?
May 19, 2017 — 1:23 PM
Rebecca Douglass says:
And here they are!
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2017/05/librarians-vs-robots-flash-fiction.html
May 25, 2017 — 2:35 PM
Anna Nyms says:
I can’t decide between Cats vs Fairies or Jellyfish Creatures vs Cheerleaders (mean girls) Or … So much to choose from. This is gonna be fun.
May 19, 2017 — 2:28 PM
joshuamneff says:
“Sting It On”?
May 19, 2017 — 2:36 PM
SchwarzTKD says:
YES!!!!! LOL!
May 19, 2017 — 5:31 PM
Allison Maruska says:
Ha! Yep, that. Do that.
May 19, 2017 — 6:03 PM
Matthew Marchitto (@ThewTheSlightly) says:
I got Kaiju vs monks, and I guarantee a beastie is going to get punched into the sun.
May 19, 2017 — 4:54 PM
Allison Maruska says:
Telling you what I randomly selected will ruin the ending, so you’ll just have to read to find out what I rolled. 😉
Also, I combined with another challenge that has a 99-word limit so I’m WAY under 2K.
https://allisonmaruska.com/2017/05/19/flash-fiction-the-battle/
May 19, 2017 — 6:00 PM
john5cole says:
I got Musicians V Superheroes. Just 500 words b/c didn’t have time to write more. Enjoy the flash:
http://thecolemind.com/flash-fiction-musicians-v-superheroes/
May 19, 2017 — 6:20 PM
dingdong says:
Hey Chuck! Now I know you don’t control the price of your books and that you don’t control Amazon, but what are your thoughts on the price of your books on Amazon?
May 19, 2017 — 9:36 PM
terribleminds says:
I appreciate you having a sense of humor, ding dong.
(That said, this is still not a post about my books or about book prices.)
But I’ll say that the prices of my books on Amazon are generally fine, though sometimes a publisher charges too much for an e-book, OR Amazon discounts the physical book in order to make the e-book price too high.
May 22, 2017 — 7:31 AM
Ashlee Jade says:
Demons vs Robots. This is going to be very interesting.
May 20, 2017 — 12:11 AM
Beth Turnage says:
Chuck Wendig’s #FlashFiction Challenge: Demons vs. Assassins
http://bethturnage.com/?p=1136
May 20, 2017 — 8:26 AM
Mozette says:
Librarians and Heroes… they come in all shapes and sizes and forms. 😀
enjoy.
http://youcantgoback-andotherimpossibilities.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/the-librarians.html
May 20, 2017 — 10:30 PM
Beth Turnage says:
I like your description of the demon. Fun story.
May 22, 2017 — 11:07 AM
Mozette says:
thanks. I kinda took a little of the story from ‘Angel’… been watching a lot of that lately… Lorn has been rubbing off on me lately. He was my favourite character out of that show. 😀 Such a pity Andy Hallet passed away.
May 22, 2017 — 8:03 PM
Eva Therese says:
As an actual librarian I can confirm that this is 100% accurate. We really don’t die, we just hibernate. 😀
May 24, 2017 — 1:35 AM
Beth Turnage says:
Lol. With book in hand, no doubt. 🙂
May 24, 2017 — 4:27 PM
Mozette says:
So glad I was right on the money with this story. 😛 And seeing I’ve known librarians all throughout my life (yes, as a 4 year old, I lived in my local library and as a teenager, I also lived in my primary and high school libraries too), and they’re the best people around. I’ve seen them retire from being librarians, but never die. They just seem to fade away from the public eye… hibernate. 🙂
May 24, 2017 — 8:37 PM
Shana L. Horn says:
DRAGON VS MERMAID! http://slwhshorts.blogspot.com/2017/05/tidepool-dragon-vs-mermaid.html
May 22, 2017 — 4:49 PM
Eva Therese says:
Demons vs fairies. I wanted to write something funny, but it didn’t turn out that way. https://evathereseebert.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/x-vs-z-redux/
May 23, 2017 — 4:13 PM
Nick Menz says:
I got Cats V. Swamp Monsters. It worked out a lot better than I thought.
https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3307110/1/
May 23, 2017 — 5:25 PM
Sam Brady says:
I got Goblins vs, Elves. At first I thought it was Goblins vs. Elvis and it struck me as so funny, I decided to go with that instead. Please to enjoy!
https://sambrady.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/chuck-wendig-the-end-of-lonely-street/
May 24, 2017 — 9:54 AM
prodisonhetgal says:
Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenge: The other side
https://prodisonhetgal.com/2017/05/24/the-other-side/
May 24, 2017 — 3:49 PM
Sertysh says:
I tried a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style story, so depending on how you read my Librarians vs Cannibals entry, I either smashed the 2000 word limit, or you’ll have a very short story indeed.
https://hikelylads.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/flash-fiction-challenge-x-versus-y-redux/
May 25, 2017 — 4:26 PM
Vicente L Ruiz says:
Its 2am here and I’m almost late. I got Ghosts vs Scientists. And I cheated shamelessly: it’s 1700 words, not 2000. The story ends with a small cliffhanger. And there’s only one ghost (so far).
But I had lots of fun writing this Teslapunk story starring the nominal Nikola Tesla and Harry Houdini as ghostbusters. Plus a few other known people. Here’s “The Adventure Begins”.
https://medium.com/@VicenteLRuiz/the-adventure-starts-here-a0f8de084fad
May 25, 2017 — 8:04 PM
dougkzeigler says:
Demons vs EVIL! Wishes of the Thrones. Feedback welcome, please! https://scotchfullyyours.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/wishes-of-the-thrones/
May 25, 2017 — 9:09 PM
unknownoddities says:
Jelly Fish vs Demons. An Unknown Fee.
https://unknownoddities.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/an-unknown-fee/
About 800 words.
May 25, 2017 — 9:39 PM
dougkzeigler says:
Excellently done!
May 26, 2017 — 11:02 AM
Dana Alyce-Schwarz says:
Almost didn’t make the cut-off. http://contrastsolution.blogspot.com/2017/05/flash-fiction-cheerleaders-vs-dragons.html
May 25, 2017 — 10:39 PM
aimeethere says:
Gods vs Cultists. Sort of. I’m a little over at 2,111, but as I just saw this this morning, I’m not going to worry about it.
https://aimeethere.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/on-the-seventh-day/
May 25, 2017 — 11:26 PM
Jemima Pett says:
I hope you don’t mind, but I’m all over the place at the moment, and this is the story for the previous week’s sub-genre mashup: ‘Historical Fantasy’ and ‘Heist/Caper’ . Then again – it could be Time Travellers meets Serial Killers…. It features one of my favourite recurring characters.
Woebegonnie and Clyde: http://jemimapett.com/blog/2017/05/26/fridayflash-fiction-woebegonnie-clyde/
May 26, 2017 — 5:22 AM
kim blades, writer says:
My dragons and elves are working together in https://wordpress.com/post/kim153.wordpress.com/4821
May 26, 2017 — 7:11 AM
Maurice says:
So, I’ll start by saying there’s no minute quite like that last one when it comes to a writing prompt. I banged out this weeks assignment in under twenty-four hours (thanks to my very, very patient girlfriend).
You can check out the story here:
http://ossua.com/another-terribleminds-joint-swat/
And no – you have to read to find out what it is. 🙂
Okay, the spoiler is at the end of the link above. Cheater.
May 26, 2017 — 10:02 AM
Sugar and Mice says:
I only saw this yesterday so I wrote a shorter story. I got cats vs SPOILER:
https://sugarandmice.wordpress.com/
I hope you enjoy it!
May 27, 2017 — 12:26 AM
Skye says:
This is hella late, so I don’t blame Chuck for not approving it, but at least I finished it. Here ya go: http://runnerskye.ca/flash-fiction-assassins-versus-vampires/
May 29, 2017 — 1:04 AM