{"id":11197,"date":"2011-10-14T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T04:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=11197"},"modified":"2011-10-13T21:51:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T01:51:14","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-five-words-plus-one-vampire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/10\/14\/flash-fiction-challenge-five-words-plus-one-vampire\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: &#8220;Five Words, Plus One Vampire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3494\/3244377386_a6c7c275c4.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3494\/3244377386_a6c7c275c4.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Last week, you came up with a &#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/10\/07\/flash-fiction-challenge-brand-new-monster\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/10\/07\/flash-fiction-challenge-brand-new-monster\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Brand New Monster<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&#8221; Check out the horrifying results, won&#8217;t you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Man, if I don&#8217;t just love the &#8220;five random word&#8221; challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Once again I present you with five random words chosen out of a random word generator.<\/p>\n<p>The words are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>COCKROACH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>FOUNTAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>TAX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>BOTTLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>BOX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You must choose <em>three<\/em> of these and incorporate them into a flash fiction piece, 1000 words long.<\/p>\n<p>Except, here&#8217;s one more element:<\/p>\n<p>You need to incorporate a vampire. <em>Somehow<\/em>. Last week was about new monsters, this week is about an old standby. Maybe it&#8217;s a character. An antagonist. A reference. An allusion. Something. Anything.<\/p>\n<p>Three out of five words.<\/p>\n<p>And one vampire.<\/p>\n<p>Post the fiction at your blog or on the web somewhere so we can see it, and then link back here. You&#8217;ve got one week, as usual: till Friday, October 21st, at noon EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words are: COCKROACH FOUNTAIN TAX BOTTLE BOX. You must choose three of these and incorporate them into a flash fiction piece, 1000 words long. Except, here&#8217;s one more element: You need to incorporate a vampire. Last week was about new monsters, this week is about an old standby.<\/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-11197","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-2UB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197","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=11197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11201,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197\/revisions\/11201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}