{"id":25960,"date":"2015-01-23T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=25960"},"modified":"2015-01-23T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T17:12:32","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-must-contain-three-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/01\/23\/flash-fiction-challenge-must-contain-three-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Must Contain Three Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge:<\/strong> It’s X Meets Y<\/a>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This week is easy enough:<\/p>\n

Roll randomly on the three tables below, and you will select three things that must be contained within your story. A story that will be 1000 words long, posted at your online space, and linked back here by next Friday, noon, EST.<\/p>\n

That’s it. Easy.<\/p>\n

Use a die or a random number generator for the tables.<\/p>\n

Now, get to writing!<\/p>\n

Table 1<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. A spider<\/li>\n
  2. A pocketwatch<\/li>\n
  3. Betrayal<\/li>\n
  4. A murder<\/li>\n
  5. A journal<\/li>\n
  6. Poison<\/li>\n
  7. A strange bird<\/li>\n
  8. A talisman<\/li>\n
  9. A library<\/li>\n
  10. A sword<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Table 2<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. An assassin<\/li>\n
    2. A lost comic book<\/li>\n
    3. A found\u00a0dog<\/li>\n
    4. True love<\/li>\n
    5. The end of the world<\/li>\n
    6. Survival<\/li>\n
    7. A divorce<\/li>\n
    8. A shopping mall<\/li>\n
    9. Public drunkenness<\/li>\n
    10. A vampire<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Table 3<\/h2>\n
        \n
      1. War<\/li>\n
      2. A magician<\/li>\n
      3. A bomb<\/li>\n
      4. A horse<\/li>\n
      5. Resurrection<\/li>\n
      6. A cave<\/li>\n
      7. A forbidden tryst<\/li>\n
      8. A gateway<\/li>\n
      9. A shoebox full of photographs<\/li>\n
      10. A prison<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Last week’s challenge: It’s X Meets Y! This week is easy enough: Roll randomly on the three tables below, and you will select three things that must be contained within your story. A story that will be 1000 words long, posted at your online space, and linked back here by next Friday, noon, EST. That’s […]<\/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-25960","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-6KI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960","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=25960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25961,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960\/revisions\/25961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}