{"id":10866,"date":"2011-09-16T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T04:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=10866"},"modified":"2011-09-26T09:34:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T13:34:51","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-numbers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/09\/16\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-numbers-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: “The Numbers Game”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Torch<\/a><\/strong><\/span> — last week’s challenge — is large and in charge and demands your eyeballs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a number’s game for you.<\/p>\n

I’m going to give you five<\/em> words.<\/p>\n

You must choose three<\/em> of these words and incorporate them into a story.<\/p>\n

That story may not be more than 100<\/em> words long. I didn’t say 1000. Rather: one hundred.<\/p>\n

The five words, chosen by Random Word Generator:<\/p>\n

Enzyme.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ivy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bishop. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Blister.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lollipop.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, you have 100 words only.<\/p>\n

You may post your story directly in the comments if you so choose. Alternately, feel free to deposit them in your own post and drop a link <\/em>to said post in the comments. Your call, Cochise.<\/p>\n

You have until next Friday, September 23rd, at noon EST.<\/p>\n

I will pick three of my favorites. Those three will get my short story collection IRREGULAR CREATURES<\/strong> (with thirty-nine 4- and 5-star reviews at Amazon<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) in either Kindle or PDF format.<\/p>\n

Choose your three words. Spin them into 100. BTFO, emmereffers.<\/p>\n

EDIT — WINNERS:<\/p>\n

I can’t do it.<\/p>\n

I can’t choose just three.<\/p>\n

Thus, I pick… er, five.<\/p>\n

Shut up.<\/p>\n

The winners:<\/p>\n

SUE ANN JAFFARIAN<\/p>\n

BRIAN LINDENMUTH<\/p>\n

CHRIS MACKEY<\/p>\n

YOJIMBOJAPAN<\/p>\n

JO EBERHARDT<\/p>\n

You all need to contact me at terribleminds [at] gmail [dot] com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It\u2019s that time of the week. Friday rolls around, you know what that brings with it, don\u2019t you? A Friday flash fiction extravabonanza. This week\u2019s topic is: choose three of the following five words (enzyme, ivy, bishop, blister, lollipop) and give us a 100-word flash fiction story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71],"class_list":{"0":"post-10866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-fiction","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2Pg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10866"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10995,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions\/10995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}