{"id":11119,"date":"2011-10-07T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T04:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=11119"},"modified":"2011-10-07T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T13:58:03","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-brand-new-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/10\/07\/flash-fiction-challenge-brand-new-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: “Brand New Monster”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you missed it, last week’s brand new worldbuilding challenge — “Blackbloom<\/strong><\/span><\/a>” — is still going strong at 100+ entries. Come, define a new world. I’ll pick the best of the bunch on the last Friday of this month (and all worldbuilding challenges will fall to the last Friday of every month).<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s October.<\/p>\n

Time of pumpkins, devils, and the flesh of the innocent stitched into a double-breasted tuxedo.<\/p>\n

It’s a month of horror.<\/p>\n

And so I feel like the first flash challenge (and maybe all of ’em, who knows) should focus on horror. Right? Right. Or, at least, monsters<\/em>. Here, then, is your task: I want to see a brand new monster. Something you’ve never seen before. Not a vampire. Fuck the zombies. No werewolves or ghouls or ghosts or demons or witches or Snookis. I want you to the best of your ability write a story featuring a Brand New Monster of your own creation.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t actually have to be a horror story. Monsters can feature in all manner of story, after all.<\/p>\n

Maybe the story is from the perspective of the victims. Maybe it’s from the POV of the monster.<\/p>\n

I trust you to handle it with aplomb and awesomeness.<\/p>\n

You have 1000 words or less.<\/p>\n

You should complete your fiction by next Friday, October 14th, at noon EST.<\/p>\n

Post at your blog or online somewhere. Link back here so we can see it.<\/p>\n

I’ll pick a random participant to receive —<\/p>\n

Well, I don’t really know what you’ll receive.<\/p>\n

It’ll be a surprise to you. And to me, apparently.<\/p>\n

Go forth, Doctor Penmonkeystein.<\/p>\n

Conjure a new creature for us all to gaze upon.<\/p>\n

In wonderment.<\/p>\n

And in horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here, then, is your task: I want to see a brand new monster. Something you\u2019ve never seen before. Not a vampire. Fuck the zombies. No werewolves or ghouls or ghosts or demons or witches or Snookis. I want you to the best of your ability write a story featuring a Brand New Monster of your own creation.<\/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-11119","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-2Tl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119","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=11119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11124,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119\/revisions\/11124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}