The results of last week’s challenge are live.
This week, the art robot has given us FIVE DOORWAYS.
You can choose one of these and write about them. Or, perhaps, what waits behind these doors. Or about who put them in, or why there is a door there at all. These doorways are strange, and there must be a story about them.
From there, you can and should write ~1000 words of fiction based on that prompt.
Do not post your fiction in the comments.
Deadline is one week, next Friday, the 26th.
Post it at your requisite online space, and drop us a link to that online space in the comment section below so others can read it.
Any genre is acceptable.
Let us know what prompt inspired the flash fiction you wrote.
Let’s do it!
29 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: The Art Robot Wants Us To Open Some Doorways”
I wrote something. https://barbwritesstuff.tumblr.com/post/693095930764967936/so-chunk-wendig-posted-a-flash-fiction
OK that is awesome. I love your take on it. Now I have to write one 🙂
That. Was. Amazing! Thanks for the laugh… I enjoyed that SO much!
I was interested to see what someone else’s take on pic 1 was (It’s the one I chose too.) Love the dark humour in this story.
here’s my entry…I chose door #4. https://medium.com/inkslinger-magazine/beautiful-choices-1647c7583232
Ok I’m not sure if my comment went through earlier or not because it hasn’t appeared. Does it take awhile?! Anyway apologies if this is a repeat entry but here’s mine. I chose door #4
https://link.medium.com/V2hrm4Z1Esb
I really like your writing style, Caitlin! You do an amazing job of describing your world so that it felt like I was there experiencing your story, not just reading it.
Thank you so much!
Some vivid descriptions in this story, Caitlin. Well done.
Thanks! Appreciate it
A door that looks like it’s covered in blood? Knock, knock. This is “A Bloody Mess”.
http://grahamwrites.com/
Well that was a bloody fun story! …see what I did there? 😉
Yikes! Great story. Creepy AF!
I picked Door #1!
https://stevemeddaugh.com/tax-day/
That’s dark Steve real dark. Great story.
Echoes of Shirley Jackson’s ‘Lottery’ here but with en entirely different take. The open-ended conclusion was a nice touch.
Loved this. I’m a fan of open endings myself. Like someone said, reminds me of The Lottery, and also of another Chuck Wendig challenge story I wrote years ago (2015, but recently put on Medium)… if you’re interested you can check it out here https://link.medium.com/EBzrYXIcQsb
And I did it. Door number 2… enjoy!
https://digislothgaming.com/?p=9023
Very original. I like the way you left the reader with questions to speculate on at the end.
Here is my short-story. I chose #1 / The Red Door: https://chawner.net/ralph-whitewashes-his-nightmare/ .
Must admit I didn’t stick to the 1k limit this time, but it’s still less than 1.5k. I used the first image: https://mosquitoinyourwhisky.wordpress.com/2022/08/25/red/
Door #3 and the Muse ignored the “~1,000 words” thing and gave me the first scene of the first chapter of a 150,000 word first novel in at least a trilogy, complete with notes on all of the plot twists for the next million words. I managed to find an end point and whittle away until there was an ending. Sort of.
I hope you enjoy it!
https://pauljwillett.com/2022/08/25/flash-fiction-doors/
My story, Red, can be found at https://mosquitoinyourwhisky.wordpress.com/2022/08/25/red/ – I used the first image.
Great story. Very unique! And the right amount of tension and creepiness
Wow, there are a lot of responses this time.
Here is my story: https://www.prmarsh.com/fiction
I chose picture # 2
Hopefully the story is not a #2
Nice to read a good ‘ol fantasy story here! (Seems like most write mostly straight horror, which is fine too but I like fantasy once in awhile! Thanks for the great read 🙂
I used the first image for this story. It took me all week to write, but I like how it turned out, so here we go.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lxPeGZ208lNyoigXuJWIN0PS6R04-h40WlaapEwkWoM/edit?usp=sharing
I’ve been fighting my browser trying to post this since the middle of last week, so hopefully this one works! I chose all the doors. All of them! Because I am indecisive and greedy 🙂
https://emroberts.blog/2022/08/24/a-delayed-flash-fiction-friday-impossible-choices/
I am super late, but here’s my entry. I used Prompt #2:
https://www.amquinnwriting.com/blog/2022/09/04/the-door-flash-fiction-challenge/