{"id":22955,"date":"2014-04-04T07:03:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T11:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=22955"},"modified":"2014-04-04T07:03:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T11:03:29","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-life-is-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/04\/04\/flash-fiction-challenge-life-is-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Life Is Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: Five Random Words.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This week’s challenge is as straightforward or as oblique as you care to make it:<\/p>\n

I want you to write a story about Hell.<\/p>\n

Now, this can be a literal Hell.<\/p>\n

It can be a literal Hell from actual religion.<\/p>\n

It can be a Hell of your own design and desire.<\/p>\n

It can be a metaphorical or figurative Hell.<\/p>\n

The story needn’t take place in<\/em> Hell — but it needs to touch on the idea or the metaphor in some way or fashion. Feel free to get creative with the idea — don’t feel constrained by precise definitions (though you can be, if you choose to be).<\/p>\n

I put up this challenge as a bit of a nod to the fact that my own Hell-book, The Blue Blazes<\/strong>, is today a Kindle Daily Deal<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. (And here I’m shamelessly elbowing you to see if you care to check it out.) Plus, I’m writing the sequel, now, so I too will be writing about Hell this morning!<\/p>\n

You’ve got 1000 words. Due in a week — in by noon EST on Friday, 4\/11. Post the story at your online space, then drop a link back to that story in the comments below.<\/p>\n

Welcome to Hell.<\/p>\n

We have such sights to show you<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: Five Random Words. This week’s challenge is as straightforward or as oblique as you care to make it: I want you to write a story about Hell. Now, this can be a literal Hell. It can be a literal Hell from actual religion. It can be a Hell of your own design […]<\/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-22955","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-5Yf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22955","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=22955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22958,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22955\/revisions\/22958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}