{"id":19540,"date":"2013-07-12T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=19540"},"modified":"2013-07-12T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:33:58","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-last-lines-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/07\/12\/flash-fiction-challenge-last-lines-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Last Lines First"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: “The Last Line Of A Story<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Holy crap, people. Over three-hundred entries in last week’s challenge.<\/p>\n

This is going to be a hard one.<\/p>\n

Some of you are out of the running — if you enter multiple times, I mostly discount your entries because you put me into a kind of choice paralysis. Plus, you get lots of the\u00a0dead bodies, bullets, revenge<\/em> variety — some of this stuff starts to feel very samey-samey. (Oh, and more than a few of you have a very liberal interpretation of a “last line” of a story.)<\/p>\n

That being said, still,\u00a0so many good options<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So, this is the five I’ve picked:<\/p>\n

m3nace: “If it wasn\u2019t for the inflation the devil could have bribed them.”<\/p>\n

Lani Gerbi: “And then, being mindful not to spill my tea, I eased into the tartan embrace of Endolyn Muirden\u2019s least offensive armchair, and settled back to watch him die.”<\/p>\n

Ben Dodge: “The old man lying in the hold died three minutes later.”<\/p>\n

Marlanesque: “She closed the book and watched as it turned to dust.”<\/p>\n

Ryan Viergutz: “Cristobal climbed the ladder of arteries to the first universe that looked like it held more wonders and mysteries than the last.”<\/p>\n

Squishy: “That plan didn\u2019t fly, superhero, and now we\u2019re short a bazooka.”<\/p>\n

Josh Roby: “Once upon a time, there was a story so short, it was only a single line.”<\/p>\n

lverawrites: “Life was easier before killing all the rabbits.”<\/p>\n

David: “They never did find the orangutan.”<\/p>\n

Damien Kelly: “Truth be told, I\u2019m not sure any of them are actually dead.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You’ll note that I’ve chosen ten there.<\/p>\n

If you’re one of the lines picked, email me at: terribleminds at gmail dot com.<\/p>\n

You will receive some manner of\u00a0digital goodies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

NOW, for this week’s challenge —<\/p>\n

You think it’s going to be, “Pick one of these last lines and using it\u00a0as<\/em> a last line in your story.”<\/p>\n

BZZT.<\/p>\n

Nope.<\/p>\n

I want you to pick one of these last lines and use it as the\u00a0first<\/em> opening line in your story.<\/p>\n

You’ve got up to 1000 words.<\/p>\n

Write your tale. Post at your online space. Link back here.<\/p>\n

Due by next Friday. July 19th. Noon EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: “The Last Line Of A Story” Holy crap, people. Over three-hundred entries in last week’s challenge. This is going to be a hard one. Some of you are out of the running — if you enter multiple times, I mostly discount your entries because you put me into a kind of choice […]<\/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-19540","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-55a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19540","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=19540"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19546,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19540\/revisions\/19546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}