Tag: fiction (page 4 of 17)

That, there, is LeAnna the Literary Lush — aka TRIPLE L — of Books, Booze, and Reviews. She’s a wonderful human, by which I mean she’s a wonderful human online — in person you’ll find her a dangerous inebriated psychotic who cavorts with hobos and practices a region-specific breed of necromancy so that she can raise a cabal of dead Los Angeles hipsters who serve her by, y’know, mixing her drinks.

In other words, she’s my kinda peoples.

Anyway, here she’s (drunkenly) reviewing Blackbirds, a book by some dipshit with an ego-blog.

She has written a non-drunk review here, but I can’t fathom why you’d prefer a booze-free review.

You can procure Blackbirds from Mysterious Galaxy –> at this link.

Triple-L drunkenly reviews I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga here.

And here she reviews (also drunkenly) City of the Lost by Stephen Blackmoore.

You can follow her at the Twittertubes — @skellykitten.

Last week’s challenge: One Random Sentence (winner will be picked later this afternoon).

On a bit of a random kick, so let’s go with that, again.

This time, I give you eight random words:

Saw

Milkshake

Bath

Flowerpot

Wheelchair

Bully

Zoo

Heretic

And you must choose four of these and incorporate them into a piece of flash fiction no more than 1000 words long, posted at your blog or online space by Friday, June 8th, at noon.

Post links here so we can all read.

Get to writing.

Last week’s challenge — “The Paint Color Title Scheme.”

Okay.

Click here right now.

That is a random sentence generator.

You will get a random sentence and you will use it as either the first or the last sentence of your up-to-1000-word flash fiction entry in this week’s challenge. For instance, I got the sentence: “The textual silence swallows against the geometry.” I have no idea what the fuck that means, but it’s great.

Write in any genre.

You have one week. Due by June 1st, noon EST (Friday).

IN ADDITION, I’ll buy a random participant a copy of BLACKBIRDS — mass market paperback or Kindle (your choice). EDIT: Courtesy of the fine cyborgs at Angry Robot Books, this contest is extended to all international participants and shipping handled no matter where you live. Except the moon. We won’t ship to the moon because that shit gets expensive.

Go and write!

Last week’s challenge: “Over The Top Pulp Fiction Insanity“

I love shopping for paint because the paint colors are so bizarrely and uniquely named.

And I thought, hey, a challenge based on some of those colors would be kinda rad.

So, here’s the deal.

I’m going to list ten paint colors. Choose one. This chosen paint color forms the title to your story.

Bonus challenge: try to make color a big part of the story. In imagery, plot, character, whatever.

Here, then, are the colors:

Grasshopper Wing

Bone China

Timeless Lilac

Pageant Song

Burnt Tile

Fuchsia Kiss

Flamingo Dream

Glorious Gold

Mermaid Song

Flint Smoke

You, as usual, have one thousand words and one week to complete.

Due by Friday, the 25th, at noon.

Post at your blog. Link here. Now go color.

Last week’s challenge: “Must Love Dinosaurs.”

So, Dinocalypse Now is out and so too is the e-novella sequel to Double Dead (called Bad Blood, featuring the continuing adventures of Coburn the vampire in a zombiepocalypse), I feel like I want to stick in the realm of “over the top pulp” — between the two books I throw at the audience everything from jet-packs to kilted gorilla professors to Ketamine cults to zombie-hunting orphans to shark-men to… well, the list goes on. That further calls to mind those images online where a robot Abe Lincoln is shooting fire out of his eyes at a giant city-destroying brain-in-a-jar, and the sky is filled with F-16s fighting pterodactyls and…

Well, you get the point.

Crazy pulp shiznit.

Because it’s awesome.

So!

Your task this week is to go apeshit.

To go moonbat.

To go cuh-razy with the over-the-top pulp weirdness.

Whatever that means to you — “pulp insanity” — just run with it. For up to 1000 words. You know the drill: post at your space, link back here so we can all see it. You’ve got a week. Due by noon, Friday, May 18th.

Last week’s challenge: “Random Title Generation.”

Didja see? Didja see?

DINOCALYPSE NOW is ready to be downloaded into your eye-pads and Kindlemaschines and Nookies or whatever the hell you use in this crazy e-reader future. (And you can pre-order print!)

But, hey, I’d like to give a copy away. An e-copy, to be clear.

To get it, you gotta dance for your dinner. Or, rather, your dinosaurs.

This week’s flash fiction challenge?

Whatever you write must feature dinosaurs.

You have 1000-words.

You have one week. Due by noon EST on May 11th.

I’ll pick my favorite a week or so after the deadline and I’ll announce here at this post.

Again:

Must.

Feature.

Dinosaur(s).

RAAAAAAR.

Now go write.

EDIT:

DELIGHTFULLY NERDED by these stories. So much love.

I have chosen a winner.

Hostile Crayon’s RAWR THE PLUSH VELOCIRAPTOR.

http://hostilecrayon.dreamwidth.org/150863.html

Contact me! terribleminds at gmail dot com.