{"id":10925,"date":"2011-09-23T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=10925"},"modified":"2011-09-28T12:31:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:31:43","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-another-three-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/09\/23\/flash-fiction-challenge-another-three-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Another Three Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“The Numbers Game<\/strong><\/span><\/a>” — last week’s challenge — demands your eyeballs and appreciation.<\/em><\/p>\n

At some point this week, I crossed 6000 followers on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Which means: I’m going to send out some more terribleminds<\/strong> postcards, each with a piece of writing advice just for you. Penned by me. In the heartsblood of a magical white bull.<\/p>\n

Okay, maybe not that last part.<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal: I’m going to send out three postcards.<\/p>\n

I will send them anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

In addition, the three winners will also receive one of my e-books in PDF format. (Winner’s choice.)<\/p>\n

But you gotta work for it.<\/p>\n

Last week’s challenge was brief — 100 words! — and this week’s is going to continue down Ole Brevity Lane and ask you to write a piece of flash fiction that is, drum roll please:<\/p>\n

Three sentences long.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This can be in any genre. Any subject. No limitations beyond size.<\/p>\n

Three. Sentences. Long.<\/p>\n

Post directly in the comments<\/em> below.<\/p>\n

You have until Monday — yes, Monday, <\/em>as in September 26th — <\/em>at noon EST.<\/p>\n

Then I shall pick.<\/p>\n

EDIT:<\/p>\n

I HAVE CHOSEN THE FIVE. I know, I said three. I\u2019m saying five, because again you did way too many good ones.<\/p>\n

I will send five postcards. One to:<\/p>\n

Matthew McBride<\/p>\n

Thomas Pluck<\/p>\n

Shecky<\/p>\n

Julian Finn<\/p>\n

Amy Tupper<\/p>\n

Folks: I need your addresses. Email me at terribleminds at gmail dot com. (I\u2019ll also need to know what e-book you want.)<\/p>\n

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Ding. I hit 6000 Twitter followers, so, to ape Twitter’s joyful brevity, this week’s flash fiction challenge seeks to do the same. Give me a story in three sentences. Three winners — aka, my favorites — will get postcards and an e-book from yours truly. BTFO.<\/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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2Qd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925","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=10925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10928,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions\/10928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}