THE CHOICES HAVE BEEN CHOSEN. Last week I said, hey, gimme a three-word title, and a lot of you complied. I randomly chose ten, and here are those ten (in parentheses is the creator of the title). All Flags Fall (lbstribling) The Gallows Girls (travishall) Discount Skin Ticket (boydstun215) The Last American (mags) Guppy Must Die […]
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This week, it’s pretty easy. The burden is light — all I want you to do is drop into the comments below and create the title to a story. I’ll add in an extra restriction in that the title must be three words — not one, not four, not two. Three words specifically. Next week, […]
Today’s challenge: Write about rebellion. That can mean whatever you need it to mean for the context of the story. Any genre is doable. As personal or as impersonal as one cares to make it. You’ve got the standard 1000 words. It shall be due by noon EST, on Friday, February 3rd. Post at your […]
Today’s challenge is as apt as you want it to be — the theme of your as-yet-unwritten story must be, we need hope in the face of of hopelessness. It’s a bit dramatic-sounding, but themes are rarely served by a soft touch. So, that’s your task. Tackle a short piece of flash fiction that deals with […]
This week, I want you to write about something that scares you. This can be something overt and obvious (CHAINSAW CLOWNS) to something deeper (“I am afraid of losing my mind to Alzheimer’s”) — but I want you to take aim at it and lay it bare on the page and construct a story around […]
AND WE’RE BACK. It’s time to revivify these challenges, I think, and this time around, let’s lean hard into our current geopolitical poopshow and ponder THE APOCALYPSE. Except, here’s the deal. I don’t want you to write THE USUAL APOCALYPSE. I want you to make one up you have not seen before. A rare, strange, […]
