{"id":24039,"date":"2014-07-11T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=24039"},"modified":"2014-07-11T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:43:14","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-youarecarrying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/07\/11\/flash-fiction-challenge-youarecarrying\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: @YouAreCarrying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Last challenge: &#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/06\/27\/flash-fiction-challenge-bad-parents\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/06\/27\/flash-fiction-challenge-bad-parents\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bad Parents<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AND WE&#8217;RE BACK.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry &#8212; little holiday interruption last week.<\/p>\n<p>This week, a bit of a quirky one.<\/p>\n<p>You ever play those old-school Infocomm text adventures?<\/p>\n<p>(Zork: &#8220;You are eaten by a grue.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I was a huge fan.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there&#8217;s a Twitter account \/ bot that, if you tweet the word &#8220;inventory&#8221; to this particular Twitter bot &#8212; <a title=\"@YouAreCarrying\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouAreCarrying\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>@YouAreCarrying<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212; it will tweet back at you a randomized list of inventory items, taken, I believe, from old Infocomm games.<\/p>\n<p>(Example:)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\">@ChuckWendig<\/a> a chair, a broken clockwork canary, a green eyed rock, a veil, a skeleton key, a ransom note, a pretzel, a manhole cover.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YOU ARE CARRYING: (@YouAreCarrying) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouAreCarrying\/statuses\/487683018367467520\">July 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><br \/>\nSo, I want you to do that.<\/p>\n<p>(Or, if you don&#8217;t have a Twitter account, go pluck a tweet from the YouAreCarrying page.)<\/p>\n<p>Take all the items listed in the response tweet (your &#8220;inventory&#8221;) and use them all &#8212; in some way, oblique, abstract or overt &#8212; in a flash fiction. We&#8217;ll up the word count to 2000 words for this one. Due by next Friday (7\/18), noon EST. Post at your online space; drop a link below so folks can follow it back. And that&#8217;s it. Go forth. Get your inventory. Write a story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last challenge: &#8220;Bad Parents&#8220; AND WE&#8217;RE BACK. Sorry &#8212; little holiday interruption last week. This week, a bit of a quirky one. You ever play those old-school Infocomm text adventures? (Zork: &#8220;You are eaten by a grue.&#8221;) I was a huge fan. 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