{"id":15823,"date":"2012-10-26T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T04:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=15823"},"modified":"2012-10-25T21:36:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T01:36:42","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-game-of-aspects-halloweenie-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/10\/26\/flash-fiction-challenge-game-of-aspects-halloweenie-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Game Of Aspects (Halloweenie Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge, “Five Ingredients Make A Story,” is right here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n

First, a little bit of housekeeping — time to announce the winner of the last two winnable challenges!<\/p>\n

The Game of Aspects: Shiri Sondheimer! Won for her story: MEAL<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

For the “Scary Story In Three Sentences,” I declare Joe Hart the winner for this one:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll see you in little bits!\u201d Allen called over his shoulder as he made his way to the entry of the house.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?\u201d his wife asked over the hum of her hairdryer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou heard me,\u201d Allen said nodding to the man with the fire axe as they passed each other in the hall.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congrats! Both of you should email me at terribleminds at gmail dot com.<\/p>\n

Now, let’s jump into this week’s challenge.<\/p>\n

Get your d10s or your random number generator, word-cobblers.<\/p>\n

It’s time for another game of aspects.<\/p>\n

Three categories — this time, a mix of Horror Subgenre, Conflict, Setting and Must Feature Ingredient.<\/p>\n

You know the drill:<\/p>\n

Choose one from each category. I’ll offer the variant rule that you may ignore one<\/em> category if you see fit.<\/p>\n

The way you choose one from each category is either a) you just fucking pick one because you are the master of your own destiny b) you roll a 10-sided die or c) you use a number generator like this one right here.<\/p>\n

Write a piece of flash fiction up to 1000 words.<\/p>\n

Post at your online space.<\/p>\n

Link back here.<\/p>\n

Due by noon on October 31st, which is not<\/em> Friday, but rather, Wednesday.<\/p>\n

And it’s Halloween, so.<\/p>\n

Let’s rock.<\/p>\n

Horror Subgenre<\/h3>\n

Ghost Story<\/p>\n

Splatterpunk<\/p>\n

Aliens<\/p>\n

Erotic Horror<\/p>\n

Vampire Fiction<\/p>\n

Southern Gothic<\/p>\n

Weird Tales<\/p>\n

Psychological Horror<\/p>\n

Lovecraftian<\/p>\n

Horror-Comedy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Conflict<\/h3>\n

Nature Attacks!<\/p>\n

Man Versus His Own Waning Sanity!<\/p>\n

Trapped!<\/p>\n

Besieged By The Enemy!<\/p>\n

Broken Home!<\/p>\n

Revenge!<\/p>\n

Apocalypse!<\/p>\n

Lost!<\/p>\n

Love Gone Wrong!<\/p>\n

Evil Awakens!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Setting<\/h3>\n

Insane Asylum<\/p>\n

Small Town, America<\/p>\n

Abandoned Space Station<\/p>\n

Old Silver Mine<\/p>\n

Carnival<\/p>\n

High School<\/p>\n

The Jungle<\/p>\n

Strip Club<\/p>\n

An Airplane Mid-Flight<\/p>\n

Beneath The Sea<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Must Feature Ingredient<\/h3>\n

Parasite<\/p>\n

Scarecrow<\/p>\n

Succubus \/ Incubus<\/p>\n

Sentient Fungus<\/p>\n

Blood Magic<\/p>\n

Creature From The Moon<\/p>\n

An Ancient Curse<\/p>\n

Stage Magic<\/p>\n

Cannibals<\/p>\n

An Evil Doctor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge, “Five Ingredients Make A Story,” is right here. First, a little bit of housekeeping — time to announce the winner of the last two winnable challenges! The Game of Aspects: Shiri Sondheimer! Won for her story: MEAL. For the “Scary Story In Three Sentences,” I declare Joe Hart the winner for this […]<\/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-15823","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-47d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15823","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=15823"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15829,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15823\/revisions\/15829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}