{"id":13819,"date":"2012-05-04T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T04:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=13819"},"modified":"2012-05-24T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:53:52","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-must-love-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/05\/04\/flash-fiction-challenge-must-love-dinosaurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Must Love Dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadlyfredly.com\/2012\/05\/dinocalypse-now-general-preorder-ebook\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ksr\/projects\/85628\/photo-full.jpg?resize=560%2C420\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Last week&#8217;s challenge: &#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/04\/27\/flash-fiction-challenge-random-title-generation\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/04\/27\/flash-fiction-challenge-random-title-generation\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Random Title Generation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Didja see? <em>Didja see<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>DINOCALYPSE NOW is ready to be downloaded into your <a title=\"http:\/\/rpg.drivethrustuff.com\/product\/101808\/Spirit-of-the-Century-Presents%3A-Dinocalypse-Now\" href=\"http:\/\/rpg.drivethrustuff.com\/product\/101808\/Spirit-of-the-Century-Presents%3A-Dinocalypse-Now\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eye-pads<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <a title=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dinocalypse-Spirit-Century-Presents-ebook\/dp\/B007ZRSCHO\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1336086905&amp;sr=8-1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dinocalypse-Spirit-Century-Presents-ebook\/dp\/B007ZRSCHO\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1336086905&amp;sr=8-1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Kindlemaschines<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <a title=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/dinocalypse-now-chuck-wendig\/1110490152?ean=2940014468916&amp;format=nook-book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/dinocalypse-now-chuck-wendig\/1110490152?ean=2940014468916&amp;format=nook-book\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nookies<\/strong><\/span><\/a> or whatever the hell you use in this crazy e-reader future. (And you can <a title=\"http:\/\/www.deadlyfredly.com\/2012\/05\/dinocalypse-now-general-preorder-ebook\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadlyfredly.com\/2012\/05\/dinocalypse-now-general-preorder-ebook\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>pre-order print<\/strong><\/span><\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, I&#8217;d like to give a copy away. An e-copy, to be clear.<\/p>\n<p>To get it, you gotta dance for your dinner. Or, rather, your dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s flash fiction challenge?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you write <em>must feature dinosaurs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You have 1000-words.<\/p>\n<p>You have one week. Due by noon EST on May 11th.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll pick my favorite a week or so after the deadline and I&#8217;ll announce here at this post.<\/p>\n<p>Again:<\/p>\n<p>Must.<\/p>\n<p>Feature.<\/p>\n<p>Dinosaur(s).<\/p>\n<p>RAAAAAAR.<\/p>\n<p>Now go write.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT:<\/p>\n<p>DELIGHTFULLY NERDED by these stories. So much love.<\/p>\n<p>I have chosen a winner.<\/p>\n<p>Hostile Crayon&#8217;s RAWR THE PLUSH VELOCIRAPTOR.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/hostilecrayon.dreamwidth.org\/150863.html<\/p>\n<p>Contact me! terribleminds at gmail dot com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didja see? Didja see? DINOCALYPSE NOW is ready to be downloaded into your eye-pads and Kindlemaschines and Nookies or whatever the hell you use in this crazy e-reader future. (And you can pre-order print!) But, hey, I&#8217;d like to give a copy away. An e-copy, to be clear. To get it, you gotta dance for your dinosaurs.<\/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-13819","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-3AT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13819","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=13819"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13830,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13819\/revisions\/13830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}