{"id":11861,"date":"2011-12-02T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T05:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=11861"},"modified":"2011-12-17T13:09:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T18:09:28","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-an-affliction-of-alliteration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/12\/02\/flash-fiction-challenge-an-affliction-of-alliteration\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: “An Affliction Of Alliteration”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First and foremost, I still have to award my favorite 100-word story from the last challenge (“Frog Powder Seagull Tower Scissors<\/strong><\/span><\/a>“).<\/p>\n

I’ve chosen three, actually, because I had too many good ones from which to choose!<\/p>\n

My favorites:<\/p>\n

yojimbojapan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul Tevis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Albert Berg<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I loved all three because they took me places I did not expect to go, and did so with great brevity, weirdness, and feeling. Kudos, you three. Contact me at terribleminds at gmail dot com. I’ll get you your e-books!<\/p>\n

Now, onto today’s challenge —<\/p>\n

And, let’s put this upfront, you’re playing for a signed copy of DOUBLE DEAD<\/strong> in paperback, by yours truly. I will pay for shipping if<\/em> you’re in the United States. If not, you’ll either have to pay for shipping or be happy instead with an e-book version gifted from Amazon. Diggit? Diggit.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I want:<\/p>\n

I don’t want stories about vampires. That’d be too easy.<\/p>\n

I instead want to play off the title — Double Dead — and have some fun with alliteration.<\/p>\n

Alliteration is, of course, the repetition of a singular sound at the beginning of two or more connected words: “Tiny Trees,” or “Ten Tin Typewriters” or “Fez-Fuckers From Fort Frances.”<\/p>\n

I want you to come up with a title that uses alliteration. Two or more words.<\/p>\n

Then write a story — no more than 1,000 words — to go along with that title.<\/p>\n

Seriously, now: no stories about vampires. None. Bzzt. Don’t do it. Otherwise: any genre is a-okay.<\/p>\n

Write your stories online somewhere — your own blog, perhaps, or Tumblr, or G+ — and link back here so we can all see it. Feel free to link back to here from that post, too.<\/p>\n

You have one week.<\/p>\n

December 10th.<\/p>\n

Noon EST.<\/p>\n

Get writing. One of you gets the tales of Coburn the vampire.<\/p>\n

EDIT:<\/p>\n

I had to go with: Because Baby, Everything\u2019s Exercise.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/veryeasychoices.com\/2011\/12\/06\/because-baby-everythings-exercise\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris Stonebender went apeshit with language and, given the challenge being one *about* language, well, I went with it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a twisted tale of \u2014 well, I don\u2019t even know what to call it.<\/p>\n

Chris \u2013<\/p>\n

contact me at terribleminds at gmail and we\u2019ll get you set up with a copy of DOUBLE DEAD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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