{"id":15928,"date":"2012-11-09T06:45:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=15928"},"modified":"2012-11-09T06:45:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T11:45:03","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-sub-genre-mash-up-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/11\/09\/flash-fiction-challenge-sub-genre-mash-up-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Sub-Genre Mash-Up, With A Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge — “The Body<\/a><\/strong><\/span>” — exists for your ocular and psychic pleasure.<\/p>\n

I love the sub-genre mash-up challenges. Which, if you’re not familiar with them, is when I hand you a list of sub-genres and you take two<\/em> of those sub-genres and smoosh them together like two different colored blobs of Play-Do, and from the monstrosity you create, a story of 1000 words or less is born.<\/p>\n

Moo hoo ha ha.<\/p>\n

Ah, but this time, there’s a little twist.<\/p>\n

I’m going to give you a theme.<\/p>\n

Just one theme. You cannot choose another.<\/p>\n

This theme must apply to the story that you write.<\/p>\n

(Not familiar with theme? Let me direct you to: 25 Things You Should Know About Theme<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.)<\/p>\n

That theme is:<\/p>\n

Love demands sacrifice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mmkay? Love demands sacrifice<\/em>. There you go.<\/p>\n

Story must be under 1000 words.<\/p>\n

Due by noon EST on Friday, 11\/16.<\/p>\n

Write at your space. Post a link here.<\/p>\n

Now, for your sub-genre mash-up, take two of the following and call me in the m… I mean, and mash them together. Or, if you want to randomly choose, roll a d10 twice or use a random number generator. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

Political Satire<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dieselpunk<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alien Invasion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Urban Fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Space Opera<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hardboiled<\/strong><\/p>\n

BDSM Erotica<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ghost Story \/ Haunted House<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wuxia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spy Fiction<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge — “The Body” — exists for your ocular and psychic pleasure. I love the sub-genre mash-up challenges. Which, if you’re not familiar with them, is when I hand you a list of sub-genres and you take two of those sub-genres and smoosh them together like two different colored blobs of Play-Do, and […]<\/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":[75],"class_list":{"0":"post-15928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-fridayflash","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-48U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928","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=15928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15931,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928\/revisions\/15931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}